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NRO Online ^ | January 30, 2004 | Florence King

Posted on 01/30/2004 7:53:10 AM PST by Inspectorette

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To: AnAmericanMother
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...

61 posted on 01/30/2004 5:46:50 PM PST by null and void (Bush DID lie - He said islam is a religion of peace...)
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To: ChefKeith
"FORGET THE DOG. BEWARE OF OWNER."
62 posted on 01/30/2004 5:47:02 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother
No I need glasses, I thought it said "foil"

Nevermind < /Emilly Latilla voice >
63 posted on 01/30/2004 5:47:33 PM PST by ChefKeith (NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
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To: null and void
My parents are living not far from Beaufort, in Darien GA.

They moved there when dad retired.

My DH will be 51 in July.

64 posted on 01/30/2004 5:48:24 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
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To: ChefKeith
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.)

65 posted on 01/30/2004 5:49:31 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother
If I increase font size any more then I have to slide the page left and right.
66 posted on 01/30/2004 5:54:47 PM PST by ChefKeith (NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
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To: Inspectorette
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.
67 posted on 01/30/2004 5:58:51 PM PST by edwin hubble
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To: sweetliberty
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.
68 posted on 01/30/2004 6:04:51 PM PST by FreedomPoster (This space intentionally blank)
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To: AnAmericanMother
>>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.
69 posted on 01/30/2004 6:09:22 PM PST by FreedomPoster (This space intentionally blank)
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To: edwin hubble
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."

70 posted on 01/30/2004 6:24:38 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
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To: FreedomPoster
My husband is Tech '73 (Chem not Chem E). '77 was the year I graduated college "up North."
71 posted on 01/30/2004 6:25:26 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . sed, ut scis, quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?. . .)
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To: InvisibleChurch
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!)
72 posted on 01/30/2004 6:27:40 PM PST by Inspectorette
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To: Miss Marple
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.


gitmo
73 posted on 01/30/2004 6:32:07 PM PST by gitmo (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Inspectorette
Here's a good link.

http://www.nationalreview.com/king/king200401300954.asp
74 posted on 01/30/2004 6:34:42 PM PST by FreedomPoster (This space intentionally blank)
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To: gitmo
Innumeracy is every bit as big a problem as functional illiteracy in this country. Perhaps bigger.
75 posted on 01/30/2004 6:35:49 PM PST by FreedomPoster (This space intentionally blank)
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To: ChefKeith
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.
76 posted on 01/30/2004 6:36:13 PM PST by gitmo (Who is John Galt?)
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To: AnAmericanMother
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...

77 posted on 01/30/2004 7:20:05 PM PST by null and void (Bush DID lie - He said islam is a religion of peace...)
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To: Rose in RoseBear
ping...
78 posted on 01/30/2004 9:25:04 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (One man's lust for life brings world renown; Next guy can't get two feet off the ground)
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To: gitmo
But the dogs can read and then bark out morse code to the owner telling them what the sign says???
79 posted on 01/31/2004 8:00:35 AM PST by ChefKeith (NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
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To: CougarGA7; FourtySeven
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!

80 posted on 01/31/2004 8:04:55 AM PST by RosieCotton
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