Bill Kilpatrick

It's the 21st Century but people are still coming to Florida, and getting eaten by alligators. How does that keep happening? Comedian Bill Kilpatrick explores this issue, giving it all the reverence it deserves. Bill also discusses why it's happening and what to do if you end up with your arm in a gator's mouth. This is not a book for church ladies or lizard people. Bill doesn't want to hear from you if you offend easily or if you're smarter and better educated. He gets both reactions at home from his wife. This book is for people like Bill, who just want to laugh a little at life's folly, people who have a sense of humor, people who can afford to buy this book.This book is not a textbook. It is not required in any class. It does, surprisingly, contain actual facts, statistics, arguments, suggestions and other high-minded features that would make it the perfect book for that friend or loved-one who doesn't have a stick up their butt but appreciates a friendly, educational word-to-the-wise about how to avoid getting eaten by a gator.This book is not for animal trainers, animal rights' advocates or animals. While parts of the book are genuinely educational (if you squint) most of it is for entertainment. If you read it and don't like it, it probably means you suck.It's the 21st Century. We're all reasonably educated people. But somehow, some of us are getting eaten by alligators. It's enough to make you avoid the state of Florida during mating season - or at least alligator mating season. How can you, personally, avoid having this happen to you, or someone you love, or someone your wife doesn't know you love? How can you not end up at the bottom of a Florida lake, bloated like you were when you got off the Keto diet, and treated like a gator's special stash? Read this book right now. Read it as fast as you can. Your life may depend on it and, frankly, I need the sale.

In the midst of the Reagan 80s, a new convert gets sent on a Mormon mission but instead of seeing the world, he gets sent to Utah. There he discovers a world very different from anything he had imagined. Knock is the true story of Comedian Bill Kilpatrick's journey from faith to doubt to something in-between. Along the way, Bill meets the many faces of Mormonism amidst the many Mormon faces that end up on your doorstep. At times irreverent, at times poignant, Knock is the story of one man's search for meaning within the crowded airport terminal of organized religion. It's a challenge to those within the faith to be honest about life. It's also a challenge to those outside the faith to see the humanity engaged within a system that may not be your cup of tea - in a religion at war with tea. Read it on your Kindle, at your local Starbucks. Pull up a stool at your local bar. Sneak a peak of it from behind a pew (Sit behind the tall people). Knock isn't about religion. It's about people who inhabit a religious world. It's not about whether they're right or wrong. It's about what happens regardless, particularly if you thought you were going to France or Russia or South America - anywhere but Utah.

Chess is Child's Play is a book written by parents, for parents. It iswritten for YOU Chess is one of the oldest strategy games known to man. Studies show that children who learn chess at an early age gain such valuable life skills as: Problem-solving ability Improved patience and focusEnhanced imaginationGreater self-confidence.Chess educators Laura Sherman and Bill Kilpatrick have created an easy, step-by-step method for teaching chess that parents of all skill levels can use to teach children of any age. You don't have to know how to play chess in order to use the system. This book will teach you the game, while showing you how to teach your child to play. You will learn together. Chess makes children smarter. Give your child an advantage in life and teach him or her to play today

A hundred years or so ago, kids growing up in St. Andrews, Scotland, kids like Bill Kilpatrick's father, took to golf as naturally as to breathing. Accordingly, the prevailing opinion was that any layabout could play golf, whereas a greenkeeper was someone to be reckoned with. And a greenkeeper (a term much preferred to "golf course superintendent") was what Kilpatrick's father became. Kilpatrick's memoir of growing up on golf courses is at once a window on another time—when golf was played mainly with balata balls, hickory shafts, and handmade spoons, mashies, and cleeks—and a ground-level view of what maintaining a golf course meant when artisanship, instinct, and experience carried the day. A charming narrative of a boy's relationship with his adored, occasionally impatient, and always forgiving father, Brassies, Mashies, and Bootleg Scotch takes us to some of the most notable golf clubs in America and introduces us to a delightful cast of characters, from giants of golf history to behind-the-scenes eccentrics to walk-on stars like New York Giants pitcher Hal Schumacher. Readers get a rare glimpse of a vanished world through Kilpatrick's recollections of the daily routines of his father as a dedicated greenkeeper and of his own experiences as a caddy on the courses that were his family's way of life.