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Author: Sackett

Jul 12th 2010 at 7:01:49 PM

I like StubbornMule

Interesting trivia from the American West.  The Mormons once had a member of their leadership named J. Golden Kimbell, who was infamously known as ''The Swearing Apostle''.  His excuse?  As a young man he had worked as a mule driver.  "And as everyone knows, mules are twice as stubborn as any other creature on earth.  And these were Church-owned mules!  Church-owned mules are ten times as stubborn as ordinary mules.  You had to blister them with the coarsest oaths known to man for over two hours just to get them to move ten feet.  I was the best mule driver in camp, and my language showed it.  I've improved a lot since then."

"I am sorry about my swearing, but it is the only language animals understand.  Mules and horses never respond unless you swear at them."

When asked for his thoughts on mules: "There's one thing I've never been able to figure out.  How Noah got two of those sons of bitches on the ark!"

Since his voice sounded something like Dudley Do Right the effect was rather humorous, and [[http://books.google.com/books?id=Dbf2aDV_zQ8C&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=Golden Kimbell mules&source=bl&ots=Q3XR5mjrDP&sig=3Q6fT4ef3KfD0GNTKy364vX2JNw&hl=en&ei=9cI7TPKTI4XWtQOY-LDaCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false J. Golden stories]] have been passed around the Mountain West ever since.