My brother Bob really could write---it came so naturally---I work at it.  He wrote gobs of stuff, pubished locally and otherswise, Saturday Review of Books and had a column that went on and on for  years.  It was entitled Brugger's Boring Banter Or How Local Can A Yokel Get.   I've stollen the word Banter from my Brother Bob" really good copy.  I hope in the heavens above he's not offended.