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YAY! Finally! A great way to close a great Thanksgiving weekend, 'Dawgs!

11/29/09 04:58 PM

#1010

I love UGA VIII. What a face! They call him Russ, but I vote we keep him.

Glory, Glory to old Georgia!

11/29/09 09:47 PM

#1011

Connie Morgan (White)

Liked the poem Don.
Glad to see you can watch those Dawgs even in Ohio Diane and Dick. Go GA. Bulldogs!!!

I'm working tomorrow, then heading to the world of Mickey and Minnie & friends with one of my sons and his family. Especially looking forward to the joy of being with my 4 and 5 year old grandchildren as they experience the "magic"!

I hope everyone has a good week!

11/30/09 03:26 PM

#1012

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend. We still have turkey leftovers. That was a great football game Saturday night! It's hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner.

Connie... have a GREAT trip to the land of Mickey and Minnie (and don't forget Donald!) We went to all the DisneyWorld Parks back in the 80's, and have been to all except for the Animal Kingdom. I don't think Liz's back could handle a full day like that now. The last time we went to the Magic Kingdom was 1990 when Liz and I took one of my little nieces. She loved it. And I did too... I'm just a big kid! I'll bet things have changed a lot since then. We've never been during the holidays. Disney does everything so first class. We were just watching a special program last night on HGTV on "Disney Holidays"... It is amazing what goes on behind the scenes to have all those lights and landscaping and gingerbread ready for Christmas. If you and your family go at nighttime... you are in for a real treat! Hope you and your family have a great time!

12/01/09 01:58 PM

#1013

Greeting from the very cool Classic City and Happy Tuesday. Just a wonderful Fall day out there - and time for another cup of coffee to warm my - whatever. Sounds like all respondents had a good Thanksgiving! Its tough getting back in the groove after a week off - but I guess I'll manage - by Thursday or Friday!! You know its amazing the number of lawyer jokes that are out there. Here's a pretty good one to brighten your day. Maybe you hunters should remember it - just in case. Hope you all have a blessed week. Later.

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A big city lawyer went duck hunting in Newfoundland. He shot and dropped a bird, but it fell into a farmer’s field on the other side of a fence.

As the lawyer climbed over the fence, an elderly farmer drove up on his tractor and asked him what he was doing. The litigator responded, ‘I shot a duck and it fell in this field, and now I’m going to retrieve it.’

The old farmer Garge replied, ‘This is my property, and you are not coming over here.’
The indignant lawyer said, ‘I am one of the best trial lawyers in Toronto and, if you don’t let me get that duck, I’ll sue you and take everything you own.’

The old farmer smiled and said, ‘Apparently, you don’t know how we settle disputes in Newfoundland . We settle small disagreements like this with the ‘Three Kick Rule.’

The lawyer asked, ‘What is the ‘Tree Kick Rule’?’

The Farmer replied, ‘Well, because the dispute occurs on me land, I get to go first. I kick you tree times and then you kick me tree times and so on back and forth until someone gives up.’

The lawyer quickly thought about the proposed contest and decided that he could easily take the old codger. He agreed to abide by the local custom.

The old farmer slowly climbed down from the tractor and walked up to the attorney. His first kick planted the toe of his heavy steel toed work boot into the lawyer’s groin and dropped him to his knees! His second kick to the midriff sent the lawyer’s last meal gushing from his mouth. The lawyer was on all fours when the farmer’s third kick to his rear end, sent him face-first into a fresh cow pad.

Summoning every bit of his will and remaining strength the lawyer very slowly managed to get to his feet. Wiping his face with the arm of his jacket, he said, ‘Okay, you old fart. Now it’s my turn.’

The old farmer smiled and said, ‘Nah, I give up. You can have the duck.’

12/01/09 03:03 PM

#1014

Gary, Don, Connie, and Jim--I've enjoyed your last entries, and Connie, I hope you're having a wonderful time in the Magic Kingdom with your kids. That sounds blissful to me.

Just taking a break from my attempt to get all the Christmas decorations up. We have not done a thing to decorate for the past two years, other than the obligatory front door wreath. We've gone away, not had any family in, and just couldn't muster the energy to go to the trouble for just Dick and me. We're leaving this year too, on the 15th for Colorado, but I'm pulling out the tinsel before we go. It's our turn to host the neighborhood open house on the 12th, and we'll look like the Grinch family for sure if we don't look somewhat festive.

I love it when it's all done, but it seems a bigger job than it did a few years ago. Now, if I was as lucky as some of you and was looking forward to a houseful of family, I would be very eager to pull out all the stops. Instead I'm sending boxes to Colorado ahead of us, and some will be holding new ornaments for the grandkids to put on their little trees.

OK. I must fess up. I'm actually very sentimental right now. I have my favorite Christmas music playing, and some of the tunes take me back to people and times that I miss. Hanging old, memory lades ornaments on the tree while listening to "I'll Be Home for Christmas" or "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" gets me choked up every time. The memories are gifts though, more so than any shiny trinkets that anyone could ever buy me, so I'll try and smile and be thankful when I remember.

Well, back to work for me. Don, please tell Liz we're glad she's better, but we'll continue to pray for her improvement. Gary, thanks for the laugh. That's a gift, too!

12/02/09 02:51 PM

#1015

Gary… from your description of what you were doing around the house on your “week off”, it sounds like you needed to go back to work to get some rest. I liked the lawyer joke. Very good!

And Diane… we put up our tree on Friday, but I doubt we put up as many decorations as you do. And it always brings back memories to us too. So many of our favorite decorations were given to us, some hand-made, by special people in our lives, some of them no longer with us. Christmas is special! I'm still a kid at Christmas! I always love it! By the way… thanks for thinking of Liz… she’s doing better… we both plan to go to church tonight.

I took another trip down memory lane last night… via PBS. The Moody Blues, one of my favorite rock/pop groups from my younger days, were doing a Concert in England at Royal Albert Hall, recorded in 2000. Are there any other Moody Blues fans out there? I loved them and bought every album they made back in the seventies. They had a very unique sound blending rock and classical music, using the mellotron synthesizer and sometimes using complete orchestras. They are still around and sound great. In fact they are doing a concert here in Atlanta at the Fabulous Fox this coming March. The old “rock and roller” in me would love to go, but I doubt I will make it. I did get to see them in concert 30 years ago so I guess that will have to do.

Hope you are all having a great week out there. Where is Jim? Hunting or golfing? I see where his “favorite” golfer, Tiger Woods, is in the news a lot here lately… and not for playing golf. :-)

Reporting live on a Wet Wednesday… this is Don.

12/03/09 03:41 PM

#1016

Well another BEAUTIFUL day here in the Classic City. I trust everyone is doing well. Yes Don, I am resting well since I returned to work. I have discovered a balance thru the years - I come to the office to rest my body - I take off to rest my mind. I still have a lot to do to complete the kitchen, but it is usable and completion appears to be within sight.
As Christmas approaches I'm reminded of that soon to be forgotten craft of ...... ashtray making. How many ashtrays did I make thru the years? -and where are they now? What do kids make for their parents today at school? Probably a thermal nuclear reactor, but NOT an ashtray I'll bet!!!! Another tradition and talent disappears with our generation. Maybe I should share this talent with my grandkids. Nah, somethings are best lost to antiquity.
I can testify that the days are getting shorter. I can't get nearly as much done these days or maybe its because I really do have a lot to do - for a change. Any who - I guess I had better get back to work and wrap up my day. Everyone keep your eyes open out there - 'cause you would look funny walking around with them closed. Have a blessed week. Later.

12/03/09 09:08 PM

#1017

Ready or not, the Christmas season is in full swing. Tonight we are watching “The Polar Express“ again, which has become my annual must see Christmas movie. Tomorrow Liz and I are looking forward to going to downtown Atlanta to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at the Fabulous Fox. And, Cousin Diane, if you have sufficiently recovered from your surgery, we highly anticipate seeing you high kicking with the Rockettes! Could you tell us again how to pick you out of the lineup? I’m also looking for a good restaurant down near the Fox, if anyone has any suggestions, other than Mary Mac’s. I was just there a few weeks ago.

A busy weekend will follow… Sunday morning, our Annual Children’s Christmas Musical at church, one of my personal favorites. I have to take photos for it too… it’s so much fun taking pictures of the smiles on the little ones faces at Christmas! Sunday night our Sunday School class is having a Christmas Dinner. And then Monday night, I have a special invitation to take photos at our annual Senior Adult Christmas Dinner… I am far too young to attend otherwise. Gary, my friend… I may have to go back to work next week to get some rest.

Connie… hope you are having a fabulous time with your grandchildren at DisneyWorld!

Hey Jim… thanks for the Tiger Woods Christmas Card! Very funny! It seems that Tiger drives well in the fairway, but does not fare well in the driveway. Yeh… I know that’s bad!

And a note to all you other classmates out there who check in on the forum and do not post a comment… we would love to hear from you once in a while, even if you only say, “Merry Christmas!”

T’is the season everyone. Enjoy!

12/04/09 08:19 AM

#1018

GOO----D MORNING VIETNAM!!!! WAIT WAIT WAIT WRONG
DECADE!!! ANYWAY, SORRY FOLKS BEEN OUT OF POCKET
THIS PAST COUPLE WEEKS. HAD TO HAVE SOME TESTING
AT THE V.A. EVERYTHING A--O--K!!!

ANYWHO! HOPE YOU ALL GOT THE TIGER E-CARD! I
CAN'T BELEIVE ANYONE WITH A BILLION $DOLLARS$
AND A WOMAN THAT LOOKS LIKE HIS WIFE WOULD EVER
BE GRAZING IN OTHER PASTURES. WHAT-- A--- FOOL!!!!

CAN YOU GUYS BELEIVE THEY ARE CALL FOR SNOW THIS
WEEKEND. YOU KNOW I'M REPUBLICAN THRU AND THRU,
BUT SOMETHING AN'T RITE IN THE BRIAR PATCH! WE
NEVER GOT SNOW HERE UNTIL LATE JAN. OR FEB. NOW
I ASK WHAT'S UP WITH DAT!

GOT TO GO FOLKS! WORK-- WORK---WORK----!
SEE YA AFTER A-WHILE.
JIM

12/04/09 10:06 AM

#1019

Jim glad to hear all testing was ok. Now - WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?? Its snowing early because of - GLOBAL WARMING! That's what my local tree hugger says.
Drought - - GLOBAL WARMING!
Flooding - - GLOBAL WARMING!
Snow - - GLOBAL WARMING!
Heat wave - - GLOBAL WARMING!
Hurricanes - - GLOBAL WARMING!
No Hurricanes - - GLOBAL WARMING!
Athletes Foot - - GLOBAL WARMING!
Bad Breath - - GLOBAL WARMING!
Now, I ain't sayn' the climate isn't changing but come on!! And now its not called GLOBAL WARMING its CLIMATE CHANGE. ????? Then to top it off, we now learn that all of the "scientific data" was manipulated to yield the desired results. Now all of the original raw data has been "lost". Now I ain't too bright but I'm a thinkin' somethin's rotten in Denmark - literally and figuratively.
I think we could do better taking care of this old world that God created, but HE's in control - not Al Gore.
Anyone know where I can sell some unused Carbon Credits??
Later.

12/06/09 08:00 PM

#1020

Connie Morgan (White)

Hi All! Just got home a few minutes ago, and of course had to check in on our site. Great to catch up with several of you!

I had fun @ Disney World!!! Being there with a 4 & 5 year old was very fun!!
(but as I've gotten older I find I am a lot like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz - "there's no place like home"...)
fun to go and fun to get home

Diane, I have not done one bit of decorating. In fact, I still have a couple of Thanksgiving turkey decorations sitting out.

Guess I'd better hush and go get my car unloaded.

love you guys.

12/07/09 09:16 AM

#1021

Before I get out there in the snow and cold, I must pause and take care of an important matter. Happy Birthday, Jim Willis!! I know you'll be checking in here, so we want you to know that your birthday isn't getting lost among all the hooplah of the season. Hope it's very happy, and that the Christmas elves will make an early birthday stop at your house!

Also, on a serious note, I'm remembering the Dec. 7 of 1941, and the lives that were lost on that day.

12/07/09 09:30 AM

#1022

Good Morning, All.

And I too send along a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our resident golfer/hunter… Jim. Have a great day my friend. Hope Beth treats you especially well today and maybe prepares you a wonderful meal… or takes you out to dinner. Enjoy!

And welcome back home Connie. Glad you had a nice visit with the little ones at Disney World.

Now about that Saturday “snow storm”… TV stations were out in force with their live TEAM coverage, and I’m sure there was no milk or bread left on the grocery store shelves, but I didn’t see any flakes of “global warming” here in Marietta.

The Radio City Christmas Spectacular was…well…spectacular! It was a wonderful family show. And Diane blended in so well with the Rockettes that I could not pick her out of the lineup! You know… besides being very beautiful women (yes, I’m a man… and Jim and Gary are not the only ones who notice a great pair of legs… or in this case, 18 pair of legs)… those girls are really, really good dancers! Very professional with perfect timing and great choreography. They did a tap dancing routine for the “Twelve Days of Christmas” that was outstanding! And their version of the “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” is worth the price of admission. But the highlight… as it should be… was a Living Nativity at the end of the show, complete with live camels and sheep. Very well done. I’m surprised that liberals, socialist democrats and the ACLU have not protested. By the way, we ended up having dinner before the show at Gladys Knight’s Chicken & Waffels, right down the street from the Fox. You baby boomers probably remember “Midnight Train to Georgia” and some of her other big hits. But the restaurant was not a big hit, at least for me. It was good, but not great. Nothing that I would highly recommend to others.

Besides it being Jim’s birthday… today is, as Diane noted, Pearl Harbor Day… a “Day which will live in infamy.” Let us never forget. I’ve never been to Hawaii but I would love to pay respects at the Arizona Memorial if I am ever there.

Have a great week everyone. Reporting live from snow free Marietta… this is Don.

12/07/09 09:53 AM

#1023

THANKS ONE AND ALL! MAN! IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE!!!! AND
I REMEMBER THIS DAY AS WELL FOR THOSE THAT LOST THEIR
LIVES FOR US 12/07/1941 WITH DEEPEST REVERENCE!

MAN, 60 YEARS, WE GETTING ON UP THERE GUYS. AGAIN
THANKS ALL! I HOPE EACH OF YOU HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!

AFTER-A-WHILE!
JIM

12/07/09 11:07 AM

#1024

HAPPY MONDAY - and Happy Birthday Jim!!! Connie, so glad you are back and hopefully starting to recover. Grandkids are a true blessing - but create the necessity of a recovery period following a visit. We had ours (all six) on Saturday and I think I could still use another day or two to recoup. Don, didn't mean to exclude you from the pretty girls association but I think Jim and I are the only ones to earn the "dirty old men" label on this forum - so far. If you would like to be included, you must make some sexist statement for which you will be immediately chastised by the ladies. I had a friend that everytime his wife caught him "checking out" a pretty woman, he would say, "Just admiring one of God's creations." And what a magnificent job he did!!
I had to take a walk around the Classic City a moment ago and what a beautiful winter day!! Cold and cloudy. The sidewalks, busy sidewalks are dressed in holiday style as the shoppers rush home with their treasures. The traffic lights blink their bright red and green. Its Christmas time in the city..... Huh, sounds like a song ..... Maybe if we southern bound folks wish real hard, SOMEBODY in Ohio could send us some snow for Christmas!!! They can do the same thing from Colorado too. If you ever get the chance, spend a Christmas in Colorad Springs!!! (Another bucket list thing.) I think we had snow every year we were there and it seemed that EVERYONE went all out with the decorations. Seven Falls is especially beautiful. They put the lights in place before the first snow so they shine thru the snow and ice. Just beautiful!! The zoo would open at night during Christmas and all of the hand rails were wrapped in lights. Looked like you were walking in a dream. There is just so much to see there.
Well I guess I should go do some work or find something intelligent to post. Hope everyone has a blessed week!! Later.

12/07/09 11:30 AM

#1025

Okay I finally found a joke I can share, so here is your laugh for today:

**********

One day, Gramma sent her grandson Johnny down to the water hole to get some water for cooking dinner. As he was dipping the bucket in, he saw two big eyes looking back at him. He dropped the bucket and hightailed it for Gramma’s kitchen.

“Well now, where’s my bucket and where’s my water?” Gramma asked him.

“I can’t get any water from that water hole, Gramma” exclaimed Johnny. “There’s a BIG ol’ alligator down there!”

“Now don’t you mind that ol’ alligator, Johnny. He’s been there for a few years now, and he’s never hurt no one. Why, he’s probably as scared of you as you are of him!”

“Well, Gramma,” replied Johnny, “if he’s as scared of me as I am of him, then that water ain’t fit to drink!”

********

And a couple of good quotes:

Don’t ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

— Howard Thurman

Many of the things you can count, don’t count.
Many of the things you can’t count, really count.

— Albert Einstein

Later.

12/07/09 03:57 PM

#1026

Thanks for the birthday wish Gary! But I can not for
the sake of me see what's sexist about "little
black dresses"! And Lord knows there was alot
of them in the Mall this past weekend! yes yes!! That's
what I was doing Gary, just appreciating God's creations!!!
Or something like that. Gary, you think
did we fool them?!!!

Now remember it's my birthday ladies!!!

Later on,
Jim

12/07/09 08:58 PM

#1027

Aw, Jimmy and Gary, how could any of us gals get upset with y'all. And Don, I'm glad you got to see those Rockettes, even though I couldn't make the line up this year. Now, I'll get concerned when you fellas STOP noticing the pretty girls. (Just don't follow Tiger's horrible example!) Dick still notices too, and heck, I even point them out to him. His all time favorite, and the one he would have married (or tried too) had he seen her first, is Christy Brinkley. You know that movie "Vacation"? Well, he would have jumped in that cold swimming pool with her just like Chevy Chase did. If you don't remember that scene, it's hilarious.

Gary, if I could figure out how to send some snow I would. We had our first half inch this morning, and it wreaked havoc on the roads. It surprised folks right at morning rush hour and the salt trucks had not been dispatched yet. There was so much slip-slidin' around, you would have thought these folks had never driven on it before. I think it just surprised everyone. The snow is gone now, but we're due to have some later in the week. Our daughter-in-law called from CO Springs today and said they had about 9 inches of snow and it had not stopped yet. And yes, Gary, the zoo out there is the prettiest I've ever seen, and we have been there at Christmas time. It's gorgeous.

Better go. Dick is on the phone, and is ending the conversation, so I need to go chew on his ear a while. (not literally!) I just took a big old batch of gingersnaps out of the oven and threatened him severely if he stole more than one. Connie, glad you're home, but I know you must have made so many memories.

Happy Day again, Jim! And to everyone else, warm and loving wishes to you and yours.

Me

12/07/09 08:59 PM

#1028

Connie Morgan (White)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM!!!!!!!

You're 60 now??? WOW! (just kidding - I am right behind you!)

I think I am ready for summer again. Diane, how do you stand so much of this cold weather?

12/07/09 09:13 PM

#1029

Dick Moore

Jimmy!
Happy Birthday! I thought I was moving along when I passed the 59 1/2 year milestone! I hope your day was festive and filled with good memories of the past six decades. (ouch! that just sounds like a long time.)

I just got off the phone with my mother and was catching up on all the news back there. In reviewing the banter, I see that Diane has threatened to do the "Mike Tyson" thing on my ear. Luckily she went back upstairs to the world of making Christmas cookies. I survived with both lobes intact.

Here's wishing us all many more than 60 candles on that last birthday cake!

Dick

12/08/09 08:26 AM

#1030

THANKS ALL FOR YESTERDAY! IT WAS A GREAT DAY.
VISIONS OF SUGAR PLUMS, (LITTLE BLACK DRESSES),
WERE DANCING THRU MY MINE. AND ITS ALWAYS GOOD
TO HEAR FROM YOU DICK. I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BOUT
KRISTIE> NOT SURE ABOUT THE SPELLING OF HER NAME.
ANYWAY, SAW HER IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS ONCE AND
MA---MA!!!!
ANYWAY, HAVE A GREAT DAY GUYS!!!!
LATER ON,
JIM

12/09/09 01:40 PM

#1031

What happened?!?! I turn my back for one minute and I return to ear chewing and Rockettes in little black dresses!!! Did Jim start this? - Probably Don. I would like everyone to know - I have standards .... they are just real low. I have just two words for you - Loni Anderson!!! Remember her from WKRP? WOW!!! Now she did something for a little black dress. I had approval from Sherron to go out with Loni ... unfortunately she married Burt Reynolds before we had a chance to meet. Now ladies ... don't tell me you weren't a little disappointed when Burt was taken off the market. Those were the days!!!!
To bring it back to something the ladies can appreciate, how about a good love story:

Her latest relationship may have been 45 years in the making – but things are looking sweet for Loni Anderson.
The actress, 62, wed folk singer Bob Flick in California on May 17 (2008). Strikingly, it was a posed photo in 1963 that first united the two – the same photo that decorates their wedding cake.
As the story goes, the two met at a movie premiere in Minneapolis when Anderson was sent by a local newspaper for a fan photo op with Flick, whose group the Brothers Four scored a hit with their song "Greenfields." The inscription on their cake read, "When we met, 5-17-63," indicating they have indeed come full circle – to the day!

Love is a many splendored thing ....
Later.

12/09/09 02:27 PM

#1032

Actually, Gary... I think I did start all this. I plead guilty. But, hey... I blame it all on it being Jim's 60th birthday. But I assure you all, I do NOT want to be included as a "dirty old man" and be "chastised by the Ladies." Have I been naughty or nice? I still want to be on Santa's list.

12/09/09 03:09 PM

#1033