The Spurious Nib

Volume 11

Spurious Nib #87

The Tan Negev Tortoise is the only one of its genus to birth it's young through a hatch on the top of its shell. However, the Tan Negev Tortoise is not a marsupial as the hatch-lings do not return a pouch.

Spurious Nib #5

Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf, 'symphonic fairy tale for children’” started off on a more serious tone, “Peter and the grouchy, no good neighbor dude.” Fortunately for us his wife saw the first draft!

Heroic Sandusky Ohio man celebrates ten years making shoes.

Editor’s note: We sat down with local hero and business man, Mr. Billy Buskey.

Mr. Buskey, what spurred you into the shoe business? 

Shoe business, there’s nothing like it! I have always been fascinated with footwear...But it wasn’t until I was in the Army that I realized how good footwear could help humanity move forward. I made my mission to not allow America to become calloused to our poor bipedal condition.

It was eleven years ago last week when one of the most irritating things happened to me. I was on my eighth floor apartment balcony, sipping a Toddy and shining my brand new spats. I had just polished off the right one, set it on the ledge. Suddenly I could not find my right shoe. I peered over the ledge to see a suspicious man lunging for my lone, shiny, spit spat. But the darkened figure seemed to have second thoughts (Perhaps he heard my utterance about his own unkempt footwear?) about absconding with my shoe and stumbled away. I quickly made my way down to the sidewalk but the shoe was gone. No one was in sight, and boy oh boy was I mad!

Spurious Nib #78

Little known fact: The Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company hired a giant named Lum Glowerman for their 1933 “Lifting Luxury to New Heights!” ad campaign. 

Buskey Shoes

The Buskey Shoe Company, Sandusky, 

Ohio.-Missing a shoe or maybe a two? 

Don’t be ‘de-feet-ed’. 

Try the Buskey Shoes Company!

Spurious Nib #3

Shoebox Phil, famed hobo and magician, 

once pulled an entire peanut butter sandwich 

from a fellow hobo’s ear.