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Posted: Nov 21st, 2006 10:47 pm |
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Holy mack'al! Shoulda bought some Google stock! From $85 to over $500 a share! Why didn't y'all tell me it was gonna go that high?
Pappy's gonna do a Google serach fer a good stock deal!
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Posted: Nov 21st, 2006 10:47 pm |
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Skiddles wrote:
I hope it isn't TV dinner night Steve-o?
At my house, it's called FYO (Fix Your Own).
Actually I have a date, my faithful companion sits at my side in my recliner. She doesn't drive a convertible like Skiddles dawg does, but is equally as happy.
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 12:12 am |
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Skiddles wrote: Okay, you asked for it... Here's the CHORUS
(Well, not quite)
An Ode To Skiddles
Rainin' rainin' rainin'
Storm drains are complaining
All 'bout the weather outside
T'was supposed to be a' snowin
But an ill wind was blowin'
And blew up quite the tide
So Skiddles don't befuddle
With us a wet puddle
But please please please le'e us inside
The fire it is a roarin'
Perhaps Pappy's snoring
So don't go tempting more of my scribe
I know what you're thinking
My poetry is stinkin'
'Tis what happens when you mention 'Rawhide'
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Jim Flynt
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 12:18 am |
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Steve Adkins wrote: Skiddles,
Why do I get the impression you don't have a date tonight??
It's OK, I don't have one either.
Obviously, neither do I.
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 01:27 am |
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Well, Amigos, I will be off line most of Wednesday, going to get pain blocker shots in my back once again, will be sleeping off the legal high a good chunk of the day. Gotta take care of these "bad backs", so they don't become "excuses". (Ahem)
So I will be dreaming about all of you, dreaming about Pappy ridin' his steed behind Fedex planes, about Skiddles dancin' to rawhide, about Jimbo sitting under a big tree writin' poetry, about Macca bubblin' hearts out, about CJ shovelin' leaves thinkin' they're snow, about SMSandra filing a FOIA request for all the background of MAAN I (boy that would take awhile to fill), and ScubaJ walking into a TC meeting with her yellow flippers on. Just going to be a great day dreamin'.
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 01:44 am |
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FatPappy wrote: This here is good forum weather.
Correction Pappy.... It is good SLEEPIN' weather! I had me a nap before dinner and now I'll be up until Christmas! I just caught a chill this afternoon and was tryin' to get warm and that was all she wrote!
Sorry I missed all the singin'. Skiddles and Jim oughta consider singin' those songs in a round... might be purty.
SMS, sorry about your back troubles. The foxes will be on duty guarding the hen house tomorrow while you sleep it off. Don't you worry 'bout a thing!
Still no macca??? 
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 10:24 am |
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Happy Day before T'day. Jim, Walt Whitman is quaking in his boots I know.
It is very windy out today. Hope my chickens don't blow away. Cold too but maybe the rain is mostly over. I expect we are going to have to worry about trees falling on us today.
Everybody have a good day.
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 11:34 am |
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You know, it was 43 years ago today, that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. It was a signal event in American History and a story that continues to fascinate those looking for clearer answers to what really happened. Perrsonally, I have wondered how America might have been different had President Kennedy lived and could some of the tragic events which happened later have been averted?
For those old enough to remember, no one can or could or ever will forget where they were and what they were doing when they first heard the terrible shocking news.
I could not tell you what I was doing 44 years ago or 42 years ago today, nor even what I was doing 10 years ago or even a year ago today, but the events and feelings of 43 years ago today, will forever be enshrined in my mind, as I am sure it is and will continue to be for others alive at the time.
I was 13 years old at the time, and remember being in Mrs. Juanita Wallace's 7th grade class at Stokesdale School when the principal, Jesse Joyce, came on the school intercom to announce the news to the school that the President had been shot. We all sat in stunned shock and silence. Minutes later, Mr. Joyce returned to sharing on the intercom the even more tragic news that President Kennedy was dead. My recollection is that a prayer was offered and the few short remaining minutes of time before school was dismissed were spent with classmates sharing their thoughts of President Kennedy.
I remember my Dad stopping by a gas station to get some gas and pick up some bread and milk on the way home from school, and one of the local farmers saying in reaction to the news: "I'm glad the SOB is dead." I could not believe the callousness and disregard for human life of that statement then and while it has stayed with me all these many years, I do not understand it now. Though I did and do feel sorry for the ignorance of the speaker.
Since I had the paper route for the Greensboro Daily News in those days for Stokesdale, I remember calling the newspaper when I got home to tell them to send me 100 extra copies of the next day's newspaper and to this day, I still have the copies which were not sold. From time to time, it has been interesting to go back and read not only that news of the day, but to read the other stories and ads which place everything in a larger cultural context of the times in which we lived.
On several occasions over the years, I have visited President Kennedy's grave in Arlington National Cemetery as well as visit Dealey Plaza in Dallas (which is so much smaller than it appears on television). Both sites retain a deeper almost spiritual connection for so many. Both sites are almost mystical.
I think President Kennedy had such an impact on me as well as many of my generation as his inauguration was the first we watched live on television and we remember being taught in school to put our heads under our desks during the Cuban Missle Crisis should America be attacked. He also presided over our new space program at the time, and we all watched as well when Alan Shepherd guided his Mercury 7 into space on our TV screens. Those were the heady days of what we all came to know as Camelot.
For the remainder of the weekend, my family and I sat glued to the television with the exception of going to church on Sunday, where immediately after church, the minister's son came running from the parsonage to tell everyone that Oswald had been shot. We all went home to return to being glued to the television for the funeral weekend events in what was likely the first national and international television news event in real time.
Perhaps some of you would like to share your recollections of that day and weekend so long ago and far away and the events which I firmly believe took away our national innocence.
Where were you and what were you doing when you first heard the news?
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 12:01 pm |
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Clark and I were dating that year. we came to his home for lunch that Sunday and I turned on the TV just as Jack Ruby walked through the group of cops and shot Lee Harvey Oswald, live on TV. I wonder how different things would have been if Oswald had lived to tell the story. I have always believed we Americans were lied to about who did it.
Remember Jackie Kennedy getting off the plane in her pink suit splattered with her husbands blood. The music. 3 days of beautiful funeral dirges. Not sure beautiful is the right word but so appropriate. Dan Rather standing on the corner as the riderless horse went by, openly crying for and trying to describe what was happening. The whole country seemed to stop breathing that week end and move together to bury this charismatic leader of our country. It certainly was the end of Camelot.
Would he have continued to be the leader of Camelot I think probably not but gosh it was so exciting and wonderful while it lasted. Remember the campaign. He was the first maybe only Catholic ever elected to office. That caused a great deal of concern in Greensboro as to the Pope taking over and all that.
Thanks Jim for reminding us. Still brings tears to my eyes and a sadness to my heart.
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 12:12 pm |
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Mornin' everyone!
Wow Jim, that was great. I can't say that I remember when Kennedy was shot (cause I'm only 29 ya know....  ) but I do remember Jesse Joyce (great man!) and Juanita Wallace! 
I've often wondered if Kennedy would have been quite the icon/hero that he is had he survived. Hopefullly he would have.
That's so cool that you have the newspapers too! What a treasure! You take good care of those!!!
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 01:41 pm |
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Jim Flynt wrote: An Ode To Skiddles
What a nice way to start the morning... thanks Jim.
Morning Everyone!
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 02:19 pm |
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Jim, yep I remember... I can feel my Mom's gentle arms around my body today as we watched all of the happenings together, the news breaks, the funeral, Jack Ruby. She cried a lot. She would say, now everyone, talking to the children, come sit down and watch this on TV it is your history and you should always remember these days. I was fixed for days, cross legged on the floor watching, watching, and more watching. She even brought my lunch to me sometimes so I didn't have to get up and sit at the table. I couldn't move, I was watching. I had to follow everything that was happening. I was interested, deeply saddened, and moved. I also saw Jack Ruby walk through that group of cops and shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. Mom was great, she would explain things and answer questions that I had, we talked the whole time... for days. I remember clearly.
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 02:44 pm |
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Mucho thanks fer that excellent reminder, Mr Jim. Fer security reasons, Pappy cain't reveal his whereabouts on that day, but I do remember it vividly.
Pappy likes thinkin' on them Camelot days before the fall. They was some grand an' epic times when anythang seemed possible and we were all good guys. The plot lines back then were easier to follow, the cast of characters had defined an' understandable roles an' the hero was as easy to spot as the white hat on a singin' cowboy (who didn't need karate.)
We know now it was never that simple. Not entirely, but I believe the idealism of the sixties was real because we believed it was real. We need ideals to believe in an' steer toward. An America that stands fer the ideal of freedom an' goodness still exists an' heroes like Atticus Finch are still worthy of emulatin', even if he was allegedly fictional.
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 07:16 pm |
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What an interesting discussion to wake up to.
I was in 2nd grade when we were told of the shooting, in much the same manner as Jim describes above. Sitting in front row, 2nd row from the right, just finished a spelling test.......waiting for recess.
I can vividly remember all TV stations (2, 5, 7, 9, and sometimes 11 if it came in) being totally devoted to John Kennedy's life for several days.
My mother also repeatedly told us to keep watching TV, it was history in the making. Remember watching Jack Ruby shoot Lee Oswald..........and what seemed like a full week of sadness everywhere we went.
Jim, glad to hear you kept those newspapers, would be neat to see one sometime.
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Posted: Nov 22nd, 2006 08:30 pm |
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Steve Adkins wrote: My mother also repeatedly told us to keep watching TV, it was history in the making. Remember watching Jack Ruby shoot Lee Oswald..........and what seemed like a full week of sadness everywhere we went.
I remember telling my kids the same thing when Princess Diana died. The oldest, who was a little tyke back then, was captivated by the whole thing and even made us all dress up in our Sunday clothes to watch the funeral.
Of course, you didn't hear that from me.
Steve, how's the back today? You gonna be fit to eat Turkey???
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