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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in skirting some area golf courses to entertain Phyllis’s visiting golfer brother-in-law Bill, did not push his-the keeper’s plan for converting tomb-stone covered cemeteries into golf courses in the interest of updating the use of public property.
Not anxious to exhibit what may be a prejudice in favor of fishing over golf as a means of wasting time, the keeper refrained from suggesting that golfing in a graveyard would produce much more interesting bounces than those on a golf course fairway.
This would not only make golf more challenging, but even more thought provoking: having no idea where a driven golf ball would end up could easily be related to not knowing where any of the cemetery’s permanent residents ended up in the hereafter.
Some of the churches might even be interested in promoting a version of “Dead man’s golf.”
The keeper, as usual, expects no outpouring of public appreciation for this latest cultural contribution, and only adds that it is Monday and he might go fishing—in the UW library mall’s fountain.
