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09/25/09 08:37 AM #884     Connie Morgan (White) Looking forward to Sunday afternoon and seeing "old" friends!! Drive carefully. Kathy, sorry you can't come. Don, hope y'all can come (but understand if you can't - hope things are going better with your house recovery) Everyone have a good week-end.

09/25/09 12:42 PM #885     Gary Grice Glad everyone enjoys the wisdom and humor posts. Sorry I can't disclose my sources - you'll have the search the internet yourself. Looking forward to seeing many Sunday. In the mean time, here's your Friday fix: A Swiss man, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus stop where two Texans are waiting. "Entschuldigen Sie mich, Sie zu tun sprechen Deutsches?" he asks. The two Texans just stare at him. "Excusez-moi pour vous faire parlent français?" The two continue to stare. "parli italiano?" No response. "¿los di usted habla español?" Still nothing. So he has a final try: "Tatakalamaani bil arabiyya?" The Swiss man drives off, extremely disgusted. The first Texan turns to the second and says, "You know Bubba, maybe we should learn a foreign language." "Why?" says the other. "That guy knew five and it didn't do him any good." Later!!!

09/25/09 12:45 PM #886     Gary Grice I just check the home page and see we have a Birthday this weekend! Happy early Birthday Ross!! Hope to see you Sunday.

09/25/09 01:57 PM #887     Jimmy Willis LOOK GUYS! I'VE COME DOWN WITH FLU/COLD SOMETHING. I JUST GOT BACK FROM DOCTOR. HE GAVE ME A SHOT AND SOME MEDS. I HOPE IT WILL CLEAR UP BY SUNDAY IF NOT, I'M NOT GOING TO COME AND INFECT YOU GUYS. SO IF I MISS YOU I'LL CATCH YOU NEXT TIME. SO HAVE FUN AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON. LATER! JIM

09/25/09 10:24 PM #888     Connie Morgan (White) Hope you are able to come Sunday Jim. Hopefully you'll feel much better after 24 hours! I was glad to get a message from Bobby Sparks asking about the Sunday gathering. I hope he will be able to come. I tried to send him some info, but could never get the message to "attach". These darn computers! (I won't blame it on my lack of knowledge and skill - ha) Everyone have a good w/e. Looking very forward to seeing those of you that can come. Safe travels!

09/27/09 09:52 AM #889     Gary Grice Well, I'm under the weather today - and that's pretty bad. Sorry I'll miss the get together. Hope everyone has a great time. Staying in trying to get better. Just read of Mr. Josey's passing. Our prayers go out to his family. Wayne Chester Josey Maxeys - Wayne Chester Josey, 92, of Maxeys, died Thursday, September 24, 2009, at Athens Regional Medical Center. Born in Lee County, S.C., he was a son of the late William Chester and Julia Scarborough Josey. He was a graduate of Coker College and a graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Lt. Colonel. He also served in the S.C. National Guard. Mr. Josey was a political science teacher in Oglethorpe and Clarke County School Systems and first taught Bible at Kingstree High School in South Carolina. The Rev. Josey was a retired Southern Baptist Minister. During his ministry, he served churches in Indiana, South Carolina and Georgia. Surviving is a daughter and son-in-law, Joyce J. and David Mickle of Camden, S.C.; three sons and two daughters-in-law, Dwayne W. Josey of Saluda, S.C., Ricky W. and Angie Josey of Canon and Michael A. and Lori McKeel of Athens; one sister, Julia "Jupie" Wendlinger of Cocoa Beach, Fla.; 15 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery in Bishopville, S.C. Memorials may be made to Boys Farm, P.O. Box 713, Newberry, SC 29108 (boysfarm.org) or to Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Fred Sandy, 1146 Manville - St. Charles Rd., Bishopville, SC 29010. Ramey Funeral Home of Saluda, S.C., is in charge of arrangements. Published in Athens Banner-Herald on September 27, 2009

09/27/09 08:59 PM #890     Connie Morgan (White) Really missed those of you who didn't come today, but sure did have fun with those that did!!! Don, I used your "welcome" banner again. It was such a pretty day to just sit outside, talk, laugh and eat. Here's who was here: Beverly Bramlett Burgess and Donnie, (PeeWee)Liz Brooks Fountain, Sheryl Burgess Bridges and Lamar, Joy Callaway Brudon, Jane Griffith Foster, Diane Harris and Dick Moore, Dennis Helmreich, Inez Nation Rogers, Judy Stewart Findley and Ed, Nancy Tucker Griffiths, Kay Wheless Smith and Mike, Ray Wheless, Linda Wheless Young and Carl, Connie Morgan White. Thanks to all who came and I hope you had safe travels home. Dick and Diane, thanks for working this afternoon into your trip plans. Hope you are having a good trip back to Ohio. I hope you all have a good week. Those of you who aren't feeling well, get well soon! With love to all, connie

09/29/09 08:22 AM #891     Gary Grice Darn!!! I hate I had to miss the get together but would not have been very much fun. Had the worst sinus infection I've had in a LONG time. Had to lay low yesterday also and get some drugs - back at work today. I know everyone had a great time. I received an email that Bobby Sparks has joined our group and responded with and invite to participate in our Forums. Looks like Happy Birthday wishes are in order for Stephanie!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Well I guess I need to go find a bit of wit or wisdom to share. Hopefully I can find something good - you've all been deprived the last couple of days I know!!! Later.

09/29/09 09:51 AM #892     Gary Grice The new school librarian decided that instead of checking out children's books by writing the names of borrowers on the book cards herself, she would have the youngsters sign their own names. She would then tell them they were signing a 'Contract' for returning the books on time. Her first customer was a third grader who looked surprised to see a new librarian. He brought three books to the desk and shoved them across to the librarian, giving her his name as he did so. The librarian pushed the books back and told him to sign them out. The boy laboriously printed his name on each book card and then handed them to her with a look of utter disgust. Before the librarian could even start her speech, he said scornfully, "The other librarian we had knew how to write."

09/30/09 07:29 AM #893     Diane Harris (Moore) It's early Wednesday, and I'm slowly getting back to my routine up here in Ohio. After being down in Georgia, having nothing but one good time after another, it takes a while to settle back down to real life. Connie, thanks again for all you did to host us Sunday afternoon. You won't admit it, but setting up tables for us, etc., so we could enjoy that wonderful breeze under the trees, was not done in five minutes. Thank you! Dick and I had such a good time seeing everyone. We missed those of you who weren't there, and if sickness was the cause of your absence, we sure hope you're feeling frisky again. I was able to have some good conversations, lots of laughs, and hugs that I wish I could have every day. It was the best way I can think of to end our time back HOME! After leaving, we drove up to Knoxville for the night. In keeping with my developing traits of the elderly, I woke up at 3:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. I tried to be quiet, but when I turned on the bright light to read, Dick woke up. (works every time!) We ended up leaving, drove through the mountains and imagined the pretty scenery we couldn't see. We got back here in time to mow the grass, and attend the 1 PM funeral of the husband of a good friend. Naturally, by 6 PM we were both like zombies. We're pretty much back to normal now, or at least what's normal for us. We came back to Fall up here. From what my sister said, as soon as we left, the state of Georgia cleared up and cooled off too. I think we got in on the beginning of that at Connie's. We are expecting our first frost tonight. I personally love this time of year, and think it's my favorite. Won't bore you any longer. Gary, so glad you are feeling better. You were missed Sunday, as were you, Jimmy and Don. If your ears were burning that afternoon, it was due to all the nice things we were saying about you. Blowing you all kisses! Diane

09/30/09 07:47 AM #894     Connie Morgan (White) Diane, so glad y'all got home safely. It was just wonderful to see you and Dick! I really appreciate you arranging your trip time to include Crawford on Sunday!! Sure hope your knee is soon better - let us know what the Dr. says.

09/30/09 08:13 AM #895     Gary Grice Diane and Dick, so glad you had a great trip. Sorry I didn't get to visit with you. I know Connie did her usual FANTASTIC hosting. I'm sorry to hear so many have been sick and hope everyone is feeling better. With all of the flu going around and being among the high risk category I've been doing some research and thought I might share with you some very interesting informatioin I have gleaned from my studies. I have discovered that there is a significant difference between the swine flu and bird flu of which you MUST all be made aware. The bird flu requires immediate tweetment, while the swine flu can be cured with an application of oinkment....... Yeah, I know, I didn't see that one coming either. Hope you all have a blessed and glorious day!! Later.

10/01/09 02:39 PM #896     Gary Grice As many of you may know, October is "Breast Cancer Awareness Month". Someone sent me this link to a unique way to raise contributions to fight breast cancer. Guys may enjoy more than Gals and may not be suitable for all office environments. Anyway, here is your daily post of Wit and Wisdom. Later.

10/02/09 08:56 AM #897     Gary Grice Well, it appears that I scared everyone away or they are still reviewing the Gallery at the Breast Cancer site I posted yesterday! Any who, here's a bit of humor before I check out for the weekend. Hope everyone has a blessed weekend and here is how Hollywood see's it. Later. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts: your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one, dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty. Honest and hard-working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments. All beds have special L-shaped sheets that reach the armpit level of a woman, but only the waist level of the man lying beside her. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications system of any invading alien society. All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French bread. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least a half-hour to escape. You’re very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they’re going to go off, but luckily you’ll always blindly choose to cut the right wire. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.

10/03/09 11:12 AM #898     Jimmy Willis What is that Gary! Sorry I've been sick, guess it effected my powers of understanding funnies. Man I didn't get any of that! Anyway, always next year for the Braves Don. Now!!!!! Go Dawgs!!! Tiger stew tonite rite out of the Bayou! See ya later! Have a great weekend everyone!

10/05/09 11:28 AM #899     Donald Chandler Hope you all had a nice weekend. We had another rainy night in Georgia, but thankfully no flood. We recovered fine from the problems we had in September, but there are a lot of folks out there that had their lives turned upside down. A real tragedy. Sorry that we missed the gathering at Connie’s house. Sounds like a good time was had by all. And I did wonder, Diane, why my ears were burning. :-) It would have been fun to be there with you instead of just having my “welcome” banner there to represent me. I do hope there will be other gatherings down the road. Friday, Liz and I spent the morning at Gwinnett Arena listening to the ministry of Joyce Meyer who was here in Atlanta for a three day conference. Are any of you familiar with her? Liz especially enjoys her, and listens to her on radio and TV all the time, and has read six or eight of her books. I enjoy her too, but I was definitely among a minority of men there on Friday. I never saw so many women in one place in my life! Joyce does have a real gift of wit and wisdom combined to reach people all over the world for the Kingdom of God. I spent the first part of Saturday with my “plumber’s” hat on. .. replacing a bathroom faucet in our master bath. Not one of my favorite things to do, but I did save a few bucks by doing it myself. I’m not the greatest handyman around, but I have replaced a few faucets before, and even replaced a toilet once upon a time. But keep me away from anything electrical. I do know my limits. But the second half of my Saturday was a lot more fun… watching the Bulldogs play LSU. I should say it was fun right up until that “celebration” penalty killed us with 1:09 left on the clock. Dawg-gone-it! I think that penalty has gotten a little ridiculous myself. There is a big difference between “celebrating” and “taunting”. That really cost us the game I thought. But I’ll be pulling for the Dawgs next week too! Well, Jim… The Braves are done for this year. I watched the last game yesterday. They really played well the last two or three months, but just couldn’t get that playoff spot. The last six games didn’t look very good, but I really think we have the pitching to win next year if they can just find a few bats to go with them and score some runs. We have one of the best rotations in baseball. But I’m not done with baseball yet… I will be watching the playoffs, and I can’t believe the first game of the World Series isn’t until October 28th. Brrr! I don’t have a favorite in the mix, but I’ll pull for anyone except the Yankees! Have great week everyone!

10/05/09 08:57 PM #900     Connie Morgan (White) Just wondering who on this site is also on Facebook? HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANCY TUCKER GRIFFITHS. Everyone have a good week.

10/06/09 05:31 AM #901     Diane Harris (Moore) It's not quite 5 AM, but I'm sleepless in Ohio, so thought I'd wish Nancy a public "Happy Birthday" lest I forget later. Nancy, I hope those men in uniform at the Navy School treat you especially well today. Not much news up here. Fall has definitely arrived, and I love it. It makes me wish for hayrides and apple cider. The cider is no problem, but the hayride might take some arranging. It also brings back memories of the Oglethorpe County Fair which used to come around this time of year. I loved going, meeting up with some of my gal pals (remember?) riding the rides, and checking out boys. Speaking of the birthday girl, Nancy, she was riding the Scrambler once, sitting between Connie and me. We were swirling crazily in and out and all around on that thing, screaming, when we noticed Nancy was holding her nose and looking desperately into our eyes. Well, the next thing we knew, Connie and I were treated to a "digestive explosion" from sweet Nancy. Nothing like being trapped on The Scrambler at a time like that. Thanks for the memory, Nancy! Hope you're feeling better. Don, I'm glad you were spared the worst of what the recent heavy rains caused down there. Like you said, it was a tragedy for many people who lost everything. Have you ever thought about what you'd save if you had only a moment to grab something in your home before impending disaster? Aside from Liz, I mean. Once, our Dayton paper asked that question, and I answered them. I think it would be my daddy's harmonica, and the old wooden dough bowl that belonged to my grandmother. I saw my mother make biscuits in it just about every day of my life. I'd also try to grab my collection of letters from way, way back. As much as I love all my photographs, I'd probably be able to replace a lot of those from other family members, but the other things could never be duplicated. Something to think about. Hopefully I'll never be tested to see how well I'd stick to this plan. Better go. It's probably after 5 by now, and the smell from my coffee pot is luring my back upstairs. Gary, thanks for all your funnies. That was so true about the TV and movie plots. It's always predictable. My love to each of you. Here's wishing you a great Tuesday!

10/06/09 09:34 AM #902     Donald Chandler I also add my best wishes to Nancy for a wonderful birthday!!! Have a great one, Nancy, but maybe stay off the Scrambler. And speaking of Fairs, the North Georgia State Fair just completed its run here in Cobb County. We didn't make it this year, but I do love Fairs. The best one I ever attended was the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville... Excellent Fair! "Excellent Fair"... I guess that is an oxymoron. I'll bet Gary can come up with another great list for us on that subject. And Diane, to answer your question about saving priceless treasures in an emergency, I may have to think about that one. The first thing that comes to mind (after Liz) is our collection of Photo/Scrapbooks. We have around 60 of them, and that doesn't count all the slides I collected back in the seventies and eighties. Some of the photos could be replaced, but many could not. Have great day everyone!

10/06/09 12:16 PM #903     Connie Morgan (White) Nancy, don't you just hate it when people remember some of our "less memorable moments"??? (but I've never seen a scrambler in all of these years that I have not thought of you!" Do y'all remember that they used to take us to the fair during school?? I remember our classes walking over there. Fun memories. Have a good Tuesday. love to all, connie

10/06/09 03:00 PM #904     Judy Stewart (Findley) Hello all, We had a super time on Sunday (27th). Thanks Connie !! All that were absent were missed !! Dick & Diane take care & watch that "frost". Happy Birthday to Nancy ! ! ! Watch out Diane, your birthday is 5 days away. Hope your leg/ankle/foot is on the mend. Life is good & we are so blessed. Pee Wee & Bobby came & visited with us @ High Falls Friday night for a little while. It was so fun. Later, Judy

10/06/09 04:31 PM #905     Kathy Carter (Campbell) Just taking time out to wish a happy birthday to Nancy! We are packing to go to Amelia Island, leave tomorrow a.m. back Sun. or Mon. I need to wish a happy birthday to Diane also, don't know whein I will have a chance again. Looking forward to the beach. Have a great week everyone.

10/07/09 12:17 AM #906     Gary Grice I'm not usually up this time of night but couldn't sleep and saw that I had emails via the class website from a couple of Larry's friends. I had tried to contact Larry last Saturday and Sunday to come over for a birthday dinner. He would have been 63 on Monday, October 5. When he didn't answer the phone and didn't return phone messages, we went to check on him Sunday afternoon and found him dead. From what he told Wesley (younger brother) as late as Friday morning he hadn't been feeling well most of the week - but never bothered to call anyone that would and could help. The coroner decided that due to his health history and no signs of foul play there was no need for an autopsy. I knew that he didn't have long to live, having watched him for the last year but you always think - later. Well, later has come and he appeared to have passed away peacefully. We didn't publish a death notice, so Diane you didn't miss it! I've got to go to the office tomorrow, or rather in a few hours so I guess I had better try to get some sleep. I'll get back in the swing of things in a few days and try to make up for lost time with some worthwhile wit and wisdom. Ya'll have a blessed remainder of the week and I'll catch you ..... Later.

10/07/09 08:39 AM #907     Connie Morgan (White) Oh Gary, I am so sorry.... Just last night I was wondering if you were sick since we had not heard from you in several days. Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. with love, connie

10/07/09 08:58 AM #908     Jimmy Willis YOU KNOW, I THINK I'LL JUST QUIT PULLING FOR ANY SPORTS TEEM! THAT WAY THEY WILL WIN AND I WANT BE DISAPPOINTED! NAW!!! I CAN'T STAND THAT. ANYWAY, TOMARROW ME AND 27 OF MY MATES ARE OFF TO THE HILLS OF NORTH GEORGIA FOR THREE DAYS OF GOLF, GOLF AND MORE GOLF! I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH LAST YEAR TO WIN SO I GET TO DEFEND MY CROWN THIS YEAR! WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 20 YEARS THIS YEAR. AND HAVE HAD GREAT TIMES. ANYWAY I WILL NOT BE INTOUCH WITH YOU GUYS UNTIL NEXT WEEK. I WISH ALL YOU GUYS I MISSED A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! AND I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT BLESSED WEEKEND!!! SEE YA LATER!

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