Today's News with a Twain Twist: Recent Episodes

McAvoy Layne

I figure with 33 years now of presenting Mark Twain, and 15 years of radio before that, and 21 years now as a columnist, I’ve got 69 years of interrelated experience to draw upon. So why not produce Today’s News with a Twain Twist before I pop-off…

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Wishing every success to Baobab and this new forward-looking religion…

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If you do gamble, don't split your tens...

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“Connections” combats social isolation, andovercomes social divisions. (Cymbal crash please…)

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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So what does the King of Bocce do when not coaching bocce ball?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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What would Mark Twain say?

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What would Mark Twain Say?

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“Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.”

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What Would Mark Twain Say?

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As algebra becomes biologic, algebraic statecraft becomes our answer to world peace…

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear,

and life stands explained...

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As we all know and dread, our next World War will rid the Earth of everything but cockroaches and a possible return of Beach Blanket Babylon...

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This is akin to putting a wolf in charge of watching the sheep...

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She was given the nickname, “Baby Doll.”

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"Oh Dry Up!"

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So what do we tell Russians who are in Ukraine and Israelis who are in Gaza today?

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“If a Nevada Jay can be aware of the perils that we all face, who are we to ignore this feathered friend called, Huckleberry?”

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She did cross herself when she suspected I must surely be dead on my second exodus on that gurney…

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I’m deathly afraid of bedbugs…

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I’m already feeling more cheerful, more charitable and kinder…

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Are we wise enough to prevent an escalation of firepower that might quickly spiral into an apocalyptic World War III?

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Better to retire two years too early than two minutes too late.

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If you don’t smile at this synchronicity you ain’t right…

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“Save Wild Trout.”

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It depends on how much happiness you can handle…

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“Eyes that see do not grow old.”

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She looked at me like I had just escaped from the Tahoe insane asylum…

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She let out a squeal that could be heard in Albuquerque, told me I was immature,

and would not talk to me for an hour...

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I’m making it a goal to live long enough to bear witness to that heroic return…

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Dear Presidents Putin & Zelensky

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I’m so looking forward to your greeting me on the other side…

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I could find myself on the bottom of the lake alongside some gangsters I don’t even know...

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But now the very thought of matter being sentient is somewhat unsettling to me…

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Just prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there was a movement afoot to erect a statue of Mark Twain in Odessa…

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Old Drum got his due justice along with that priceless statue in the town square…

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The Ombudsman was born here...

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Let us lift our glasses sotto voce in honor of our veterans,

those with us, and those having gone to the Great Beyond.

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If Donald Trump suffers from Mania Grandiosa, the sense of self-importance documented as a mental illness, well, he could by all rights enter an insanity plea and win his case in court…

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“A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.”

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She could talk a goldfish into coming out and taking a walk with her…

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Let us celebrate this September first as the inaugural,

“Making the Whole World Kin Day.”

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Getting chicken skin all over is part &parcel of the spine-tingling experience.

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“Sam Clemens was the most lovable scamp

and nuisance that ever blighted Nevada.”

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I would rather get cussed-out by a man I admire, than blessed by Artificial Intelligence.

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Great managers inspire, and Debra inspired a stellar staff, along with an army of volunteers,

to stage perhaps the best Mark Twain Extravaganza the world has ever seen.

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As a Chautauquan you can never fail, for it is a success to be one…

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We are going to have to start engineering our food in a lab or starve…

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Pickleball will be the saving of us…

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Talking in public ain’t easy…

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“Don’t believe me, just watch!”

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We’re the banana peel in the coal mine…

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I should have asked for her hand and kissed it…

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Let us put an end to this grotesque theater of the absurd…

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And he knows when he’s an ass, just as well as you do, maybe better...

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I’m going to ask a librarian…

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I’ve been contemplating possible new ventures to tackle when I retire…

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“Serve with a cigar you cannot afford, and a quote from Kierkegaard.”

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Nevada is a state of mind…

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They did not know me from Adam, and could not have cared a farthing about me unless maybe Eve had been standing there next to me in period costume.

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The time of weapons taboo has passed…

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You Could be Living Your Life Backwards...

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Sweet dreams of becoming a snowplow driver…

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Is there humor in the Bible?

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Merry Christmas to the squirrels that wear the dusters up on the Comstock Lode...

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Some call it Freuden Freude…

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Einstein’s Cosmological Constant could possibly save our vulnerable world…

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I realized my life, as I knew it, was over…

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But I caution you, do not, even if your best friend dares you, eat the orange. 

I did that once, and it might have killed a lesser man…

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You can't reach old age by another man's road…

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Peace, progress and human rights are three inextricably linked goals.

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Nobody could swear, I have to believe, like Mark Twain…

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Time is malleable and can be manipulated...

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We must rid ourselves of nuclear weapons, before our collective brains do it for us, in one big bang...

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Generosity will soon become the coin of the realm in the saving of our planet…

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Always has been...

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Merriment is the lubricant of goodwill, and goodwill is the lubricant of tranquility...

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It’s time to bury the hatchets and embrace collaboration…

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Merriment is the lubricant of goodwill, and goodwill is the lubricant of tranquility...

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Samuel Clemens had uncanny insight into human nature, and we could dearly use that insight in elevating our electorate to meet the exigencies of the day.

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The greatest athlete the world has ever known…

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His portrait should hang in the Nevada State Archives, framed in sagebrush...

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“Sgt. Reckless USMC – I salute you!” -Kim Harris

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Lost an evening, but gained a forever friend…

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We must vote military weapons out of the hands of the general public, and back into the hands of their rightful stewards, the dedicated men and women of our United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Airforce and Coast Guard.

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand…

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Let us include personal finance as a corps to our high school curricula across this great land of ours, and furnish our graduates a more resourceful, successful and stress-free future…

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I love our VA...

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This is my humble plea,

McAvoy Layne

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Music makes everything better...

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There’s more to a Blue Jay than we know…

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A call to action in all caps…

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Florida’s Disney World has been dubbed, “A Vatican with Ears.”

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I think Elmo must surely be the truest gentleman I have ever encountered…

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What did all of the world’s great philosophers have in common?

All were walkers…

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Adversaries in the sprint often become allies in the marathon...

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"Papashka, you are tilting at windmills."

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Mother Nature’s Gift

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With some etiquette on getting into heaven…

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Reaching across the aisle...

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Getting run over by a train and living to tell about it...

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Jimmy was blind and taught me how to see...

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A world governed by law and not by force...

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We have no permanent enemies, except testosterone...

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What do elections in Russia tell us?

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They know more than we think they know...

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De-escalation and drawdown on the Ukrainian border and beyond...

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It is time to scale-down, draw-down, and disarm...

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Last seen when a Dodo Bird was flying high over Washington...

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The Sound of Music

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Let us become the world's top doc...

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I thought she said,"Bo-Sox!"

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Christmas reminds us forgetters of the forgotten...

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Dateline Ukraine...

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Christmas reminds us Forgetters of the Forgotten...

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Them Buck-toothed Beavers...

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I figure with 33 years now of presenting Mark Twain,

and 15 years of radio before that,

and 21 years now as a columnist,

I’ve got 69 years of interrelated experience to draw upon.

So why not produce Today’s News with a Twain Twist

before I pop-off…

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I figure with 33 years now of presenting Mark Twain,

and 15 years of radio before that,

and 21 years now as a columnist,

I’ve got 69 years of interrelated experience to draw upon.

So why not produce Today’s News with a Twain Twist

before I pop-off…

McAvoy

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I figure with 33 years now of presenting Mark Twain,

and 15 years of radio before that,

and 21 years now as a columnist,

I’ve got 69 years of interrelated experience to draw upon.

So why not produce Today’s News with a Twain Twist

before I pop-off…