Unpredictable and Motivational in its own peculiar way
When I was teaching middle school, a student came up to me and said, “Mr. Donley, I can't do anything right.” He was living in a foster home at the time, and not only felt discouraged, but all alone.
Very few of the books in the library made him laugh. Having spent much of my childhood in a small farming community called Escalon, I had a rich repository of hilarious anecdotes in the back of my mind. Because these stories were too funny to waste, I decided to resurrect them in the form of a children's book. Not only did these stories make that boy laugh, but they also made everybody in the classroom laugh. Before I knew it, Farmer Tice had become a school-wide sensation. That boy later came up to me and said, “Mr. Donley, I don't feel that bad anymore. I like Farmer Tice.”
The sole purpose of this Farmer Tice book is for laughs. There are no other objectives. You won't find anything PC in this book. The stories evolved out of a slightly warped sense of subtle humor that's akin to genre of Mad Magazine, National Lampoon, The Simpsons, and Billy Whiskers. There are no hidden agendas nor lessons to be learned. It is just a fun book to read.
Farmer Tice was born on Friday the 13th. The year is uncertain because nobody bothered to write it down.
Farmer Tice lives with his wife, Agnes {also known as Honeybunch}, on a rickety old farm in a town called Hokum. They are what you might call "hillbillies". If all farmers were like Farmer Tice, everybody would starve. His wife isn't any better. How the two of them ever got married is explained in one of the chapters. Hint: they both were looking for matrimony at the bottom of the barrel at the same time.
Farmer Tice's first name is Jacob, but everybody calls him Jinx, a nickname coined by Mother Tice who claimed he was a bad-luck baby.
Farmer Tice's nephew is named Wessell, but everybody calls him “The Weasel”. It's the perfect name for a scheming, tricky teenager like him.
Farmer Tune is a neighbor who is always taking advantage of Farmer Tice however he can.
Bum Park is way out on the east side of Hokum and is one of Farmer Tice's favorite hangouts. The park was actually named after one of Hokum's most distinguished founders, Horatio Alger Bum II, but that was a long time ago. In recent years it became a sort of sanctuary not only for the homeless but for lazy farmers seeking sanctuary from their daily chores. Farmer Tice is there so much, some people think Bum Park was named after a bum like him.
Who exactly is Farmer Tice? Well, that's hard to say. Some say he's a mixture of Snuffy Smith and W.C. Fields. Others think he's more akin to Homer Simpson and Rodney Dangerfield. Personally speaking, I don't think Farmer Tice is like anyone you're likely to find in any comic strip. He's a mold-breaking entity of his own.
So, enjoy these stories, and remember the whole point is to make you laugh. The stories are short and sweet and bring us into a world of locals and yokels, unlike anybody you’ll ever meet.
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