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02/12/09 01:06 PM #161     John Luebchow Rick, Having attended elementry school up north, I can't say I remember getting any fireman's hat. All I remember is the nuns smacking me with a ruler! But the Catholic girls......... So, are those stories about the Mineral Springs girls true?

02/12/09 05:34 PM #162     Pam Griffin (Guyer) John, What stories about the Mineral Springs girls? I went to Mineral Springs. I'd like to know.

02/12/09 05:35 PM #163     Rick Hardy John, You'll have to ask someone like David Wilson. I went to Northwest where all the girls were pillars of virtue. Congrats to the Heels...giving credit where due...and looking forward to a beat down in Carter-Finley at the end of November.

02/12/09 06:35 PM #164     Dennis Weatherman Still waiting to hear from the Deac fans. 'crickets chirping'

02/12/09 10:20 PM #165     Valerie Dotson (Westmoreland) Uh...nothing much to say. Freshmen mistakes and inconsistent play? Who knows, but it does put to rest the chat board rumors of some players going pro early - I would think.

02/13/09 08:57 AM #166     John Luebchow "They got a name for the winners in the world (UNC) I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues" Steely Dan 1977

02/13/09 02:29 PM #167     Rick Hardy "Far across the Durham ditches There's a place called hell Where 30,000 sons of ***ches Go to Chapel Hill. Rah rah Carowhina whina Rah rah Carowhina whina" Rick Hardy 2009

02/13/09 04:00 PM #168     Dennis Weatherman Hi Valerie, Just doing a little smack talk. No harm meant. Us Wolfpack fans haven't been able to do much of that lately during basketball season. I wanted to share with the Wake fans that one of my co-workers and friends is the Uncle of James Johnson the Wake Forest basketball player. I have met James several times when he has visited his Uncle here in Richmond and he is a first class person. Very well spoken, respectful and has a great sense of humor. Wake can be very proud of this young man. The bad news for Wake fans is that if James is projected to be drafted by the NBA this year, then he is gone.

02/13/09 04:14 PM #169     Valerie Dotson (Westmoreland) Hey - no offense taken. When they play well, they are obviously unstoppable - right Duke and UNC fans?! Ha! But when they play poorly, they can't expect to win. Not my alma mater anyway - but my son's. (Salem doesn't have a basketball team - I don't think!) We have been longtime fans, though, and have relatives who are grads and some who teach there now. I would rather State beat them than anyone else in the ACC. I would like to see State's sports programs turn around. I was a big Jimmy V fan many years ago!

02/13/09 04:28 PM #170     John Luebchow Oh Rick, you're such a kidder! Personally, I like seeing the big 4 do well. UNC, Dook, Wake, and Davidson!

02/13/09 08:11 PM #171     Dennis Weatherman Hey John The way Butch is padding the football schedule with patsies, you guys will probably be playing Davidson in football soon.

02/13/09 08:32 PM #172     Dennis Weatherman Hardy, If you are going to talk Smack, then get it right! In the ditches west of Raleigh Is a place called Hell 30,000 Sons of B****es Call it Chapel Hill They'll be B*****ds born They'll be B*****ds bred And when they die They'll be B*****ds dead! So P*** on Carolina... lina! P*** on Carolina.. lina! P*** on Carolina..lina! Eat **** Duke! My apologies to everyone not a UNC fan.

02/15/09 02:34 AM #173     David Wilson Dennis, I don't have much to say about Wake (chirp, chirp) except.....GO DEACS! Nice blowout win against FSU, the same FSU team that the heels nearly bowed to. Wake needs to figure out a way to win those road games. It is difficult sometimes being a Wake fan.......but..... I'd rather be a Wake fan than any blue or red team fan, even when we lose, although it make me scratch my head sometimes when we play like a Mineral Springs 7th grade team. And speaking of Mineral Springs, no offense to ANY Northwest or Mt. Tabor gal, those MSJH girls were to dream of. But let me also say that contrary to Mr. Hardy's inference that I might be some kind of an expert on the Mineral Springs women, I only had 2 different girlfriends at Mineral Springs. So what if if we broke up and made up 10 or 12 times during those 3 years. Still only counts as 2, Rico dude. And thanks Pam Guyer for the old photos you sent me. Diane said I looked happy. I'm sure I was, standing there with you on my arm. You were my first......girlfriend, that is. Always a pillar of virtue in my eyes. Hmmmm, so I set you up with Mark Guyer....what was I thinking?????

02/15/09 02:33 PM #174     Pam Griffin (Guyer) David...I posted the picture of us in my profile so everybody could see just how cute we were. Those were the days.

02/16/09 09:29 AM #175     John Luebchow David, the picture of you and airline Barbie is priceless!

02/16/09 09:31 AM #176     John Luebchow Dennis, you are right about our football schedule for next season. We play a 1-AA school the first and last game!

02/16/09 02:08 PM #177     Donna Canter (Goforth) Pam - you really need to fix your profile to receive comments. I am sure that picture is going to get a few.

02/16/09 05:15 PM #178     Rick Hardy Pam, On several levels that is a great shot of you and Dave...thanks for posting it! The only troublesome thing to me was to learn the Tiny Vikings had banquets...apparently with dates and everything. Even though it was a LONG time ago, I don't remember us Tiny Falcons having anything at all like that. At best it was probably some Hill's BBQ (with a hint of sterno) eaten outside on the cold ground at Speas Elementary. If I had taken a date it probably would've been someone like Corky Grimes or Mike Westmoreland...I would've been way too shy to ask a girl. Anyway...it was a great pic.

02/16/09 08:21 PM #179     Dennis Weatherman Pam, Great picture of you and David.

02/16/09 08:22 PM #180     Dennis Weatherman John, 41-10.

02/17/09 06:50 PM #181     David Wilson ...rick and corky sittin' in a tree.....

02/17/09 07:02 PM #182     David Wilson Rick, I think mine and Pam's mothers, maybe mostly Pam's mother, made sure we went places together....for me personally, I couldn't have been happier if I'd tried. Yeah we had banquets, we just struggled to have a winning season although we did alright on the Midgets team (and I don't mean Albanian midgets, either). You can ask Mark Guyer about this, but I remember that ONE game, junior peewees (4th grade), we scored one touchdown all year, in the very last game, which we lost by a zillion to six (I think the ref felt sorry for us and blew the start whistle while the other team was on the sideline), and after the game our coach loaded us up in his pickup truck (you could get away with hauling 20+ kids in the back of a truck way back then, and he took us to Dymotts there at the corner of Motor Road and Old Rural Hall Road, and he bought us all milk shakes, and we sat and drank those shakes, still in our uniforms, and life was wonderful. Too bad we all had to grow up.

02/18/09 12:18 AM #183     Rick Hardy Yes, Sir Dave - too bad we had to grow up. Those were the days of Dine In Car hot dogs and afternoons at the pool...days when a ball glove was a prized possession and getting a new baseball was the best thing ever...and the unsurpassed joy of kicking off the Sunday shoes after church. The first guitar, the next Paul Revere and the Raiders album, the first kiss...and the next one. But look at all we would've missed by not growing up. Lots of good stuff there, too. And the cool thing is I can close my eyes and hear Johnny Hanes' band down the street playing House of the Rising Sun, smell bacon cooking on a Coleman stove beside the Parkway...and I can almost hear and feel the snow crunch when it was just right, and remember how it stuck to the black boots with the impossible to keep closed metal clips. I'm thankful for the memories (even the icky stuff the barber put on my crew cut), but even more thankful to still be making them!

02/18/09 01:18 AM #184     David Wilson Rico you old sentimental fool. If we were drinking, we'd be crying in our booze by now. That pink stuff in the short glass jar, butch wax, right? Yeah I had some of that too. Wish I still needed it. ......walking up Arita Circle way before all the houses were built.... picking up chunks (big chunks) of mica on the red dirt banks.... finding and picking Maypops (that's what we called them anyway) and then slamming them on the road.... shimmying up our antenna pole to retrieve the wind-driven Frisbee from the rooftop, then jumping off the house and feeling my feet sting for 15 minutes..... watching Greg Moffit jump into Creeson's lake (fishing rod still in his hands) when Carl's dog Cyclone came charging..... bouncing on Brian Brooks' huge airplane inner tube, hell we even scrunched into the ring and rolled down the bank and out into the street..... playing roller-bat with Pam and Mike and Brian (and half the neighborhood)..... boxing matches with Ken Frye (Wilbur Christmas was the only one on the street that ever beat him)..... me and Mark and Tim and Pam Tuttle hauling the gear to Skate City and playing for those teenie-boppers for $25 on Friday nights and $35 on Saturday nights......pushing the circuit breaker button on my Heathkit guitar amp so I could finish playing a song (I hated that).....Mark Williams and I pointing our guitar amps at each others house and playing them wide open through the 500 yards of woods and a few neighbors houses..... someone (a-hem) backing down my driveway in his dad's pickup and hitting the telephone pole which somehow caused my neighbor's TV set to blow up..... Paul Gardner teaching me bar chords one day and forever changing the way I played (improved I hope)..... playing war in the woods..... watching and smelling those suntan-lotioned and scantily clad Mineral Springs babes at the pool every summer..... David Stroud doing triple gainers off the high dive..... Johnny's Fish House with the band, Earnhardt and Reavis..... dragging the dew off the Wedgewood greens with Steve Choplin..... me and Dennis Stoltz and Don Addington picking up beer from Porter's Market then heading out to Lake Hills to drink it..... sneaking in the Flamingo Drive-in..... 25 cents per gallon gas....the Flying Dutchman on the radio.....Deaconlight in the morning and Renaissance at night (WFDD), one opened with CS&N Carry On and the other opened with some Chicago song I think (you remember the song with the flute opening?).....Peggy's pan fried chicken.....Jo-Jo and Pete, the Wilson dogs.....hauling amps up and down Peggy's basement steps......that first blast through the Peavey PA system (Bad Company)..... again, why did we have to grow up?

02/18/09 08:45 AM #185     Rick Hardy Well, gee Wally...uh, I mean Dave. You must be like a songwriter or something. Ok, I'll try to contribute to Why Did We Have To Throw Up? Ok, that should be Grow Up. I remember: Charles Chips, sneaking into the Flamingo with Rick Bowman, sitting on my twin beds with Corky and Ricky Jones playing guitars, being afraid to jump (forget dive) off the 21' platform at Crystal Lake, belly busters and cannon balls, Mom's fried chicken and blackberry cobbler, Fizzies, being able to ride my bike down the middle of Shattalon Drive all the way to what used to be a traffic circle in front of Old Town School (which would get you killed in 2 seconds if you tried it now), Tru-Ades, playing basketball after school at Kenny Shore's house, snot flying out of my nose at the lunch table at Northwest because someone said something funny and being mortified that Joni Windsor saw it (and what guy at Northwest didn't have a crush on her?), sledding on Omar Drive (I think) with Teresa/Gleaves/Allen and the rest of the Hallmark Drive crew, listening to some sales clerk at Dixie Music telling me Black Diamond strings were the best, watching planes take off and land, catching lightning bugs, LMAO at Mark Williams doing Jonathan Winters, the Pizza Inn on Reynolda...whew, that's enough! And the bit about "someone" backing his dad's pickup into the utility pole beside your driveway and blowing out your neighbor's TV...well, that's just an urban myth I'm sure. Hauling amps and that Leslie 910 up and down your mom's basement steps...that's no myth!

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