Kathy Carter (Campbell)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,Inez. Hope it's a beautiful day spent w/those you love.

I want to say a special thanks to Connie. Love you,

Hope all of you have a great week and enjoy the blessings of God.of the showers we have received.

Gary Grice

Good night for our sports (Braves) fans.  They did us proud!  Quick day today so only time to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY INEZ and I'd like to leave you with -

A beautiful message about growing old…

Later.

Jimmy Willis

BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN!! BRAVES WIN!!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND MATES!

Gary Grice

HAPPY FRIDAY!  Hope everyone made it through the week safe and sound - no sunburns from lounging around the pool!  I've had a busy few days and looking toward an even busier weekend.  Just thought I'd pop in and leave you with a little laugh.  I'm sure none of you teachers ever had this problem.  Enjoy.  Later.

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One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of Chicken Little  to her class. She came to the part of the story where Chicken Little tried  to warn the farmer. She read, ".... and so Chicken  Little went up to the farmer and said, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!"

The teacher paused then asked the class, "And what do you think that farmer said?"

One little girl raised her hand and said, "I think he said: 'Holy Shit! A talking chicken!'"

The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.

Donald Chandler

Say mates... if any of you are looking to buy a house in the Athens area, I hear that Damon Evans, FORMER UGA AD, has his house in Bogart up for sale for $850,000... a Dawg-gone good deal.  It seems that Evans traded in his mansion for a "Doghouse"... and an expensive pair of red panties.  No word as to whether or not his "girlfriend" was wearing the complete Georgia colors and had on a short BLACK skirt to go with the RED undies... 

Tomorrow, Liz and I will be attending a birthday party for one of our senior friends who will be celebrating her 90th birthday... a sweet dear lady.  Liz will be playing the piano and I will be taking photos.  If you think about it, 60 years old seems pretty young when you compare it to 90... and 59 seems even younger (I'm a "catfish" hanging on as long as I can)...  :-)   By the way, Diane... Liz's blue tongue was real (blue icing from a birthday cake)... no photo touchup.  Liz doesn't know I posted that picture on the forum, so please don't tell.   :-)

I'll watch a lot of Braves baseball this weekend too.  And I like the Braves latest trade... Escobar out, Gonzalez in.  I might watch some of the last round of the British Open Sunday too and root for anybody but Tiger... I guess I shouldn't say that.  Looks like Phil had a bad day with the weather yesterday.  That course sure ain't Augusta National.

Have a great weekend, folks.  And try NOT to act your age.

By the way... When I was down on the farm, I do not remember any talkin' chickens.

Diane Harris (Moore)

Jimmy Willis

BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN!! BRAVES WIN!!!

BY THE WAY THANKS DIANE. I HAD A GREAT DAY ON THE GOLF

COURSE! BUT, IT WAS SURE HOT!!

LATER

JIM

Gary Grice

Just finished my lunch:

and though I'd pop in just to say HI!  If I start writing too much I'll launch into a rant about the LYING LOW DOWN TWO FACED SCUM MEDIA, that conspired to fix the last Presidential election.  But that would ruin my lunch.  I'll just ask, how can ANYBODY in this country not see the HYPOCRITICAL BIGOTED - CRAP - this administration is spewing - other than the fact that they are being LIED to by the main stream media!  (For those that may not be aware: Media here's a link.  For those that care, what is going on right now between those "elected" in November 2008 and CBS/NBC/ABC/MSNBC is exactly what transpired in Germany in the 1930's!!!  `And that's no joke.   Better wake up folks!!!  Later.

Donald Chandler

First, we have a photo of Liz with blue cake icing on her tongue... and now a video of Gary having lunch...  Speaking of eating, Liz and I plan to go out to dinner tonight at Williamson Brothers Barbecue and stop by the Farmer's Market to see what kind of fruits and vegetables we can round up.  We don't have a nice garden like Kathy does, so I hope we can find some nice juicy tomatoes!!! 

BTW, Gary... you know of course that the main stream media have been in the back pockets of the Democrats / Liberals / Socialists for years!  A regular left wing propaganda machine.  And, yes, they did kiss Obama's butt and get him elected.  Thank goodness for Fox News and Talk Radio.

To quote Jim... "BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN!".  They are really on a roll now!  And have stretched that National League East lead to 7 games!!! Woo Hoo!  Now we just have to keep it going on this next road trip.  Go Braves!

Looks like a hot weekend coming up.  Hope things are cooler up north in Ohio, Diane.  And Connie... hope you found someone to take care of that tree for you.  And just to let you know... I didn't get an invitation to Carrie Underwood's wedding either.  :-)   And Kathy, hope that you have had a nice vacation with family and friends here in Georgia.

By the way... a friend of mine said that his wife asked him, "What are you going to do today?" to which he replied, "Nothing!"  She said, "You did that yesterday!"  And he told her, "I wasn't finished."

Have a great weekend, folks... whether you are chasing the little white ball, working around the house, watching the Braves, sitting back with a big glass of ice tea... or just doing nothing!  Enjoy!

Jimmy Willis

MORNING MATES!

    IN READING GARY AND DON'S COMMENTS ON OBAMA, I'M WIDE AWAKE!

THIS THING IS GETTING OUT OF HAND AND WE NEED TO GET STARTED

NOW TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. WE CAN NOT WAIT

UNTIL HIS TERM IS UP. AND WE DO NOT NEED ROY BARNES IN OFFICE

AGAIN! LETS WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

    DON WHEN YOU SAID WILLIAMSON IS THAT THE SAME WILLIAMSON

SEAFOOD THAT WAS IN SAVANNAH YEARS AGO? IF IT IS WHERE IS

IT LOCATED?

    FOLKS THIS BRAVES TEAM IS REALLY GOOD. IF YOU LIKE

BASEBALL THIS TEAM IS ONE TO GET EXCITED ABOUT! I'M HAVING

FUN WATCHING THEM!!!

    HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND AND WATCH OUT FOR THE HEAT!!!

LATER,

JIM

Gary Grice

How high's the temperature momma?  101 and rising!!!!  One silver lining - its too hot to cut the grass!  That's okay - I've got plenty of inside jobs to do this weekend.  Probably won't have a chance on Sunday so figured I'd go ahead and say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSIE ALLEN!!"  No doubt you'll have a hot time!  Wishing you many more.  Yeah Don, the media has been on the make for years but first time they have been caught conspiring to plant false stories and attempting to deprive others of their constitutional rights.  And how about your buddy Rangle?!?!  Looks like he may get his hand slapped for violating the tax laws he writes.  DUMB!  And that WAR HERO,  Kerry and his million dollar sailboat, saving hundreds of thousands by parking it in R.I.  I park my yacht in another state also.  I mean why park it close to home when you have a private jet to haul you around, right?  Oh us commoners.  We just can't appreciate how hard the elite politicians work (at taking advantage of loop holes they create).  We DO have the best politicans money can buy!!!  More like the mob!!  Well enough of my ranting - I could go on for hours but as Sherron says, "you're just getting your blood pressure up!", so I'll sign off with a - HOPE EVERYONE HAS A BLESSED WEEKEND!  Later.

Jimmy Willis

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSE!!!! MAN I BET YOUR MAMA WAS GLAD

TO GET YOU HERE! HOW DARE YOU PUNISH THAT  LADY BY BEING

BORN IN JULY?!@#! ALL OF US FALL AND WINTER BABIES ARE THE RESULT

OF A GOOD SPRING TONICS. HIC!@#!#@^ HAVE A GOOD ONE BUDDY!!!

LATER MATES

Gary Grice

Happy HOT Monday!  Well I made it through the weekend with only minor cuts and bruses.  Remodeling can be dangerous.  Not nearly as simple as what they show on TV.

Our Domain Name - www.ochs1968.com - is about to expire.  With so few users, is it worth renewing?  Your thoughts please.  

Its been a while since we've heard from Dick, I think since Diane dug him out of that snow drift, so I thought I would try to entice him back with a really bad pun/joke.  Hope you all have a wonderful week.  Later.

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There were three medieval kingdoms on the shores of a lake. There was an island in the middle of the lake, over which the kingdoms had been fighting for years. Finally, the three kings decided that they would send their knights out to do battle, and the winner would take the island.

The night before the battle, the knights and their squires pitched camp and readied themselves for the fight. The first kingdom had 12 knights, and each knight had five squires, all of whom were busily polishing armor, brushing horses, and cooking food.

The second kingdom had twenty knights, and each knight had 10 squires. Everyone at that camp was also busy preparing for battle.

At the camp of the third kingdom, there was only one knight, with his squire. This squire took a large pot and hung it from a looped rope in a tall tree. He busied himself preparing the meal, while the knight polished his own armor.

When the hour of the battle came, the three kingdoms sent their squires out to fight (this was too trivial a matter for the knights to join in).

The battle raged, and when the dust had cleared, the only person left was the lone squire from the third kingdom, having defeated the squires from the other two kingdoms, thus proving that the squire of the high pot and noose is equal to the sum of the squires of the other two sides.

Q: What do you call a teapot of boiling water on top of Mount Everest?
A: A high-pot-in-use!

Jimmy Willis

GOOD MORNING MATES!

      I TRUST ALL YOU SIXTY-EIGHTERS HAD A WONDERFULLY BLESSED

WEEKEND. JESSE FINALLY CAUGHT US OR DID HE TURN 61?! ANYWAY,

WAS A WONDERFUL HOT WEEKEND HERE IN MIDDLE GEORGIA. WHICH

IS THE CENTER OF ALL GOD'S CREATION! ANYWAY, MY WEEKEND

STARTED OFF WITH A BANG! WE (MY BETH, KAREN MY OLDEST,

HER BOYFRIEND AND SEVERAL OTHERS MET WITH "THE WEDDING

PLANNER". AT WHICH TIME I WAS INFORMED THAT ALL I WAS

NEEDED FOR WAS TO WRITE THE CHECK. I'M SORRY FOLKS, I'D

GIVE MY CHILDREN MY LIFE BUT I REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH

MOST OF THIS FOOLISHNESS. I MEAN LOOK, "YOU COULD FEED

A TRIBE OF PIGMIES FOR A YEAR FOR WHAT THESE THINGS COST!!!

I MEAN COME ON! HELP ME PLEASE DEAR LORD!!! AND WHY

DOES THE BOYFRIEND GET TO PUT IN HIS TWO CENTS. WHICH

IS ABOUT ALL HE'S GOING TO SPEND. MAN PLEASE!@#^! I DID

SURVIVE. AFTERWARDS I FOUND 0UT THE SUN DID COME UP

SATURDAY MORNING!

    I WAS ABLE TO ENJOY A GREAT GAME BETWEEN THE BRAVES

AND THE FISH WHICH THE BRAVES WON WITH THE AID OF A

GRAND SLAM BY CONRAD, TWO IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS!

COME TO THINK ABOUT IT! I GUESS THAT'S WHAT THAT WEDDING

PLANNER DID! WONDER WHO HE'S HIGH FIVING! ANYWAY,

SUNDAY DID COME. HAD A VERY GOOD MORNING VISIT. AND

THEN HAD THE BEST AFTERNOON OF GOLF I'VE HAD IN

SEVERAL YEARS . I SHOT A SEVENTY-SIX! WHICH IS A

GREAT SCORE FOR ME. BUT, DURING THE ROUND OF GOLF

I BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND WHY THEY MADE A MOVIE BOUT

WEDDING PLANNERS!

    ALL THAT A SIDE, IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE. AND BE

ABLE TO SAY, YA'LL PLEASE ELOPE!!!

LATER

Connie Morgan (White)

Gary:   I would be very sad to see this site close down!!!   I don't write often because I don't seem to have much news ---  but I look forward to checking in everyday to see what my "old" friends are up to.   It has allowed us to be "connected" and has sure brought lots of smiles!  I will be glad to contribute to the cost of keeping it going.

I love you guys.

connie

Diane Harris (Moore)

Diane Harris (Moore)

Donald Chandler

Happy Monday, Mates!  Hope you all had a great weekend, and hope your air conditioner is working.  If you are gonna get minor cuts and bruises, I guess it is better to get them inside away from this heat.  As for me, I did venture outside long enough to trim the scrubbery on Saturday.  Too hot for that stuff!

Got some interesting mail Friday... received a letter from our auto insurance company (State Farm, Connie) stating that our policy has been "inaccurately rated" for the past three years. (???) They went on to add, "attached is a refund for $417.16 which includes interest."  A very nice surprise!...

So Liz and I went out to dinner Friday night.  To answer your question, Jim, I don’t think that Williamson Brothers Barbecue has anything to do with the Williamson Seafood in Savannah.  This one here on Roswell Road in Marietta (just down the street from the Big Chicken) is definitely a barbecue place... pork, beef, chicken and ribs.  Although they do serve catfish, salmon and tilapia.  Their website mentions nothing of the Savannah Seafood place.  But we did enjoy the barbecue and then stopped by Harry’s Farmer’s Market to get a few veggies and checked out the seafood section while we were there. They have a few things not found at the local Kroger... including fresh OCTOPUS!!!  Liz almost gagged. I enjoy trying something different now and then, and have eaten Alligator, Shark, & Swordfish, but this Octopus looked so nasty!!!  It would have to look a LOT better cooked for me to put that stuff in my mouth.  Now I don’t believe I’ve ever eaten “calamari” which is a real delicacy, but I understand that it is squid which is just a cousin of the octupus.  So I’m wondering, what is the strangest things that you mates have ever eaten?  Being a Navy man, Gary... did you ever eat anything strange?  And how about you Jim?... any wierd foods in ‘Nam?    Have any of you tried octopus?  If so, did it "tastes like chicken?"!!!  

Jim I was watching the Braves game Saturday night too.  When they came from behind to tie the Marlins 5-5 in the eighth inning with the bases still loaded and pinch hitter Brooks Conrad at bat, I was really excited!  I was yelling for Brooks to get a base hit, and Liz (who had been watching a movie) says, "No, we want a home run... think BIG!"  Next pitch... Conrad hit that GRAND SLAM HOME RUN!  LOL!!!   Braves win!

By the way... on the subject of politics, Jim mentioned Roy Barnes.  I see where he is going to conveniently be away campaigning in South Georgia when Obama comes to town.  He definitely doesn’t want to be seen with, or tied to his fellow Democrat.  I voted for Karen Handel in the Primary.  It was hard to know who to support with all the Republicans throwing mud at each other.  It is interesting... I was meeting with a client last week and he told me that he and his wife were at some big dinner and were seated at the same table with John Oxendine.  He said that Oxendine was very drunk and telling dirty jokes.  My client was very embarrassed for his wife and had to bite his tongue not to say anything.  I don’t know much about Oxendine but don’t guess we’ll have to worry about him this time anyway.

Try to keep the website going, Gary.  I guess there aren’t many of us that post regularly, but it is fun to keep in touch.  I’ve tried to get some interest going in the User Forums too but not many posts on there either.  I wish more folks would participate, but I guess Facebook and Twitter are taking over the world.  Do like I do Connie... if you don’t have anything to write, just make something up.

Have a great week folks and stay cool.  Reporting live from Marietta... this is Don.          

Connie Morgan (White)

Late happy birthday wishes Jesse Allen!!  I hope it was a fun day.

I am listening to some thunder roll to our north, and so hoping for some rain. 

I am looking forward to an upcoming trip to Blue Ridge.  I've rented a cabin for a long week-end with my kids/grandkids.  No real activities planned other than riding a train to McCaysville one day and going tubing one day.

Jimmy, this wedding will be an experience!   I'll look forward to seeing some pictures.  I'm afraid that part of me kinda agrees that much of the money spent on some weddings would be much better used for a house down-payment.  Things just seem so outrageously expensive.  As the mother of boys, I had to smile, be quiet (sometimes bite my tongue) ...   plus fork out money along the way. . .  but I know the amount of $ pales in comparison to the parents of the bride.

Don, great news about getting money back from the insurance company ---  pretty unheard of.

I enjoyed having Kathy and Rabun spend some days here while they visited with family and friends.  I'm afraid I wasn't much of a hostess - just gave them a key and they were on their own.

I want us to get together when it gets cooler.  Diane, do you and Dick have any fall trips planned to come south?

Go Braves,  get ready to go Dawgs, and Go Junior!

Gary Grice

Good morning and HAPPY TUESDAY one and all!  First let me clarify - if I can.  This web site won't go away unless we allow it to go inactive for some extended period of time.  But finding it will be much harder without the descriptive domain name.  I think us regulars have it sufficiently bookmarked that we can find it but any non-regular would be hard pressed to find it.  Thanks for  your inputs - I'll probably renew and "pass the hat" when we get together.

Food - ah one of my favorite passtimes.  Yes Don, I have eaten some interesting things - fortunately, I didn't know what many of them were.  I did have octupus tentacle once in Brazil.  The little suction cups felt funny in my mouth but was good to the best of my recollection.  At the same meal we had an unidentifiable meat that we later learned was monkey.  And yes, it did taste like chicken.  On my first deployment we spent a lot of time in Iran.  The Shah was still in power and we were very welcome there.  We went to several buffet banquets and they always served goat or sheep - the WHOLE animal.  It would be resting on all four haunches, usually with head raised - to diplay where its throat was ceremonially cut and a server would slice you a hunk of whatever portion you wanted.  I usually stuck to hips or shoulders and avoided portions in the vicinity of the head and underbelly.  Another favorite was barracuda.  Again, the WHOLE fish would be presented.  The WORST experience we had was in Portugal!  We had heard how GOOD their food was so we inquired at the local tourist site where we could find the best authentic Portuguese food.  They wrote down the address which we presented to the taxi driver.  He wound around through a residential area and came to  what appeared to be a little store front with sausages hanging outside.  Once inside we found the menu written on a chalk board.  You ordered by day rather than item.  If it was Wednesday, you could order Wednesday's fair or you might be able to order leftovers from Monday and/or Tuesday.  We finally were able to convey that we would like to try some from each of the three days available.  The waitress went over and raised the "window" to the kitchen where she had several pots sitting on the stove.  She took down several platters and with a big ladel scooped some of the contents from each giant pot onto the platters and delivered them to our table along with a couple of loaves of bread.  Thank God for bread.  I failed to mention the wine.  Yes, several bottles of wine.  There was something that looked like a ham hock about ready to be tossed to the dogs.  Not much meat and a lot of fat.  And then there were the sausages - have you ever tried blood sausage?  Not good.  Needless to say, I was not impressed with authentic Portuguese food!  Bread and wine can make a good meal but one tends to consume too much wine.  I have a lot more sea stories I could share but have to save something for later.  I suppose you all know the difference in a fairy tale and a sea story?  A fairy tale begins "Once upon a time" and a sea story begins "You're not going to believe this sh**".  I've been to a couple of wild game dinners and enjoyed frog legs and alligator to the point that I actually selected both from the buffet at the Red Minnow in Elberton. 

Yeah, Don, politics can be interesting.  I'll have to convey my encounter with Uncle Roy some day.  Yeah that scheduling conflict with PBO's visit is an upcoming election.  No doubt about it.  It certainly is tough knowing who to vote for.  I've gotten to where I don't trust or believe any of them.  It comes down to who do you think will do the least damage.  The one thing I did like about Oxendine was his idea to get rid of the state income tax.  Didn't hear that from anyone else.  He also had a good reputation as Insurance Commissioner in this (Democrat) county. 

Well my fingers are getting tired and if you've read this far - so are your eyes.  Hope you all have a great day.  Later.

Donald Chandler

Monkey???  Well, Gary... I guess that does explain a lot.  LOL!  I really did enjoy your Navy culinary tour.  Sounds like a military version of "Bizarre Foods" on the Travel Channel.  You know, growing up in the rural south, I guess we ate some things that are not the normal menu... possum and sweet potatoes, turtle mull, frog legs, barbecued goat (very tasty).... and I think I tried fried chitlins once.  Things I did not try... brains and eggs, pickled pigs feet, and I never tried Rocky Mountain Oysters, but knew someone who loved them.  For those of you not familliar with that delicacy, well... google it yourself, and have a ball.  :-)

Connie... hope you enjoy your Blue Ridge get-a-way with the kids and grandkids.  I'm lookin forward to Bulldogs Football season too... but there is a LOT of baseball yet to play!

BTW, Gary... I look forward to your "Uncle Roy" story. 

Donald Chandler

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... may I present to you the Crybaby-In-Chief of the United States...

"It's ALL George Bush's fault!"

Gary Grice

Thought this little story of the time honored Navy tradition of burial at sea might brighten someones day.  Later.

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Bubbles and Barbie, two blonde sisters had promised their Uncle, who had been a seafaring gentleman all his life, to bury him at sea when he died. Of course, in due time, he did pass away and the two blondes kept their promise. They set off from Clearwater Beach with their uncle all stitched up in a burial bag and loaded onto their rowboat.

After a while Bubbles says, ‘Do you think we’re out far enough, Barbie?” Barbie slipped over the side and finding the water only knee deep said, “Nope, not yet Bubbles.”

So they row a little farther…. Again Bubbles asks Barbie, “Do you think we’re out far enough now?”

Once again Barbie slips over the side and almost immediately says, “No, this will never do. The water is only up to my chest.”

So on they row and row and row, and finally Barbie slips over the side and disappears. Quite a bit of time goes by and poor Bubbles is really getting worried when suddenly Barbie breaks the surface, gasping for breath she says, “OK, it’s finally deep enough. Hand me the shovel.
 

Jimmy Willis

MORNING MATES!

ALL IS WELL IN CENTRAL GEORGIA! JUST NEED A BREAK FROM THIS

HEAT! THESE DOG DAYS OF SUMMER ARE GETTING TO ME!. TEMP IS

SUPPOSED TO REACH 101 TODAY WITH THE INDEX OF 110 TO 115!

THAT'S HOT PEOPLES!!! SO WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER.

STAY IN THE AIR AND  HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND MATES.

LATER

Gary Grice

Well we somehow made it to FRIDAY!!!  I'm pooped!  I need a vacation but seems everyone else in the office decided to take of this aftenoon, so guess who is stuck answering phones!  I guess I can pass the hours reading the news - no one to talk to.  For instance, I just read the new health care plan requires a free screening for obesity.  In the interest of providing this valuable information to my fellow classmates.  Here is the obesity screening test or you might be FAT if: