Duh!

NRO Online ^ | January 30, 2004 | Florence King

[null and void]

What part of the country did you grow up in?

The south. Beautiful Beaufort by the sea, twenty miles from Yamasee.

I'll be 51 in March...

[AnAmericanMother]

"FORGET THE DOG. BEWARE OF OWNER."

[ChefKeith]

No I need glasses, I thought it said "foil"

Nevermind < /Emilly Latilla voice >

[AnAmericanMother]

My parents are living not far from Beaufort, in Darien GA.

They moved there when dad retired.

My DH will be 51 in July.

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL! Enlarge the type face on your screen!

(I'm finally beginning to have to use reading glasses for threading a needle and reading in bad light. Oh well.)

[ChefKeith]

If I increase font size any more then I have to slide the page left and right.

[edwin hubble]

Florence King is the author of the brilliant, and outrageously funny 1978 book "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen".

One of the funniest books I've ever read.

[FreedomPoster]

Oh, thank you! I can't wait to dump that on the Libs in a neutral forum I'm on. I think I'll save it for Monday at lunch time, when both coasts are up, and it'll get maximum exposure.

[FreedomPoster]

>>We tended to have "SEE ROCK CITY" signs instead.

When I started at Georgia Tech in Fall '77, "home" was where Dad had retired from the Army, in Elizabethtown, near Fort Knox. I had a roommate from another town in Kentucky, so we'd regularly beat the trail between Atlanta and central Kentucky, going home to visit parents.

We once counted "See Rock City" signs starting in Nashville, all the way to Chattanooga, and I think we were in the 120-130 range, or around 1 a mile, which is pretty impressive over that long of a distance.

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh dear me, yes. That book is a riot, and every word of it is true! It's back in print in a new paperback edition.

I have myself pegged. I'm a "That Child."

My husband is from Richmond, and ever since we read that book we talk about the "Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field."

[AnAmericanMother]

My husband is Tech '73 (Chem not Chem E). '77 was the year I graduated college "up North."

[Inspectorette]

Wow - I'm amazed it's still going! (BTW - I'm the biggest DUH around: I posted a bad link to National Review Online - my bad and DUH-Dumb!)

[gitmo]

That reminds me of a time when my wife worked at Target. Their registers were supposed to be calculating 10% off everything in the store, but that function wasn't working. They gave calculators to each cashier, yet they were still unable to figure out how to take 10% off the totals. Not one cashier was up to the job.

[FreedomPoster]

Here's a good link.

http://www.nationalreview.com/king/king200401300954.asp

[FreedomPoster]

Innumeracy is every bit as big a problem as functional illiteracy in this country. Perhaps bigger.

[gitmo]

Now My first thought is if they can't read how are they going to READ the sign!?

That's like the NO ANIMALS ALLOWED EXCEPT SEEING EYE DOGS signs.

[null and void]

My DH will be 51 in July.

So does he remember Burma Shave signs? If so, it looks like a divider between 49 and 50 year olds...

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

ping...

[ChefKeith]

But the dogs can read and then bark out morse code to the owner telling them what the sign says???

[RosieCotton]

I'm convinced that they put these people on the drive thru because it's the only safe place for them. You cant put them on fries because they start playing Bobbing for Fries.

LOL! Yep, that's about it. Sometimes that works in your favor, though. Last time I went through a drive through, we ordered two small chocolate shakes and one medium vanilla. They gave us three mediums. I thought about complaining, but decided it probably wasn't worth it. Bonus!