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I have a very good raccoon dog. He is so good after coons.
He will tree the coon the day before he went there. When he
gets him treed, if you don't go to him he will sit there and
bark until his tail takes root in the ground. This dog dearly
loved to chase rabbits. I did not want him to be using up
his energy running rabbits. So I put in to teach him how to
throw his voice. He seemed to get the idea and learned very
quickly. Now, he can sit on the door-step and chase a rabbit
all around the field
Truthly yours,
Lem Griffis
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My cell phone was
missing - again.
This is a rare occasion,
if you define "rare" as
happening once every 24
hours.
The chief suspect in this
heist, my oldest son, was
spending the night at a
friend's house, which is just
one of many reasons he was
the chief suspect.
I called him. No answer.
I called again five minutes
later. Of course, being the
father of a 16-year-old, I
immediately suspected
hijinks afoot, so I called
the house where he was
spending the night.
"Oh, yeah, he's here,"
said his friend's mother.
"He said to text him."
I reluctantly obliged, and
tried to text him to find the
whereabouts of my charger.
It took five minutes because
I had to switch keyboards
four times to type this
simple message: "Where is
my charger?" Every time I
tried to type an 'm,' I hit the
delete button. My pause in
attempting to type a ? was
also problematic.
So, in summary, an
old-school phone call with
the same simple four-
word message, including
pleasantries such as "Hello"
and "Goodbye," would have
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taken about 15 seconds, when I'm at the grocery
Just my part of the text store: "Remember to pick up
message took five minutes, some tampon sauce."
That, in a nutshell, is Huh? Tampon sauce?
why I prefer real person- Which goes back to
to-person phone calls to Reason #1 - Time. I spent
texting. 15 minutes wandering
Texting simply takes around the grocery store,
too much dang time. With looking for tampon sauce.
a 40-hour-a-week job, a "Excuse me, m'am," I
20-hour-a-week family, said to the grocery store
25-hours-a-week of Netflix lady after perusing every
viewing, 12 hours ofsleep aisle in search of this
a night, and another two- mysterious item. "Where
hour nap each day, I just do you keep your tampon
don't have a couple of hours sauce?"
a day to be wasting fiddling A simple return phone
around, punching a bunch call revealed that my wife
of buttons to communicate had typed in taco sauce,
when I can do it more and Auto Correct led to my
efficiently by grunting humiliating turn of events.
into a telephone for a few Reason #3: Confusion.
seconds. That's Reason Because it takes so long
#1. to type, text messages often
Here's two more reasons use acronyms or skip letters
why I'm going to continue to or verbs or adjectives or
be an old fuddy duddy and nouns or entire paragraphs,
refrain as much as humanly which leads to confusion,
possible from texting: assumption, the swine flu,
Reason #2: Auto and misunderstanding.
Correct. My daughters text
My wife's text to me, message to me from last
foreigh'l" years."
e
week: "U no password to
computer."
My reply: "One password
to computer? Why are you
speaking Spanish?"
Her: "I no there's 1
password, what is it."
My reply: ' Speak, or
type, English, and I'll
respond accordion."
My next message, after
catching the Auto Correct:
"I mean I'll respond
accordingly."
If history has taught us
nothing, and it has, it's that
the written word, especially
when broken down into
fragments, can lead to peril:
"You are great. One
hundred thousand pesos. To
come to Santa Poco. Put on
show. Stop the infamous E1
Guapo."
If the "Three Amigos"
had received a phone
call instead of a cryptic
telegraph, they would have
known that E1 Guapo was
an actual villain and not an
actor, and Lucky Day would
have never been shot.
Basically, that's what
text messaging is -- the
telegraph. We're reverting
back to communicating via
telegraph.
And I'm the old fuddy
duddy?
Len Robbins 2018
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"And if's good look like fhis pic+ure!"
License
Office
It takes a long time to
make a good friend. I'm
reEkP talking about the kind who
c rcscntauvcs "takey uinwheny u
v.s. Send are crying and not ask any
David Perdue (R) - 202-224-3521 questions till you are ready
Johnny Isakson (R) - e-mail: johnny ieakson@isakson.senate.gov to talk. This friend will fix
U.S. Representative yOU a Diet Coke or a glass of
1st Congressional District - Buddy Carter (R) - 202-225-5831
State Senate tonic water to sip on while
8th District yOU collect yourself. If it
Ellis Black (R) - 229-251-0303(Ceil); e-mail - blackellis@bellsouth.net looks serious enough, she
State Representative
174th District . might even bring in a jar of
John Corbett (It) -john.corbett@house.ga.gov; 404.656.0287- Offme unsalted, roasted peanuts
CHnch County Commission -' 912-487-2667 . without you even asking.
Regular meeting - first Monday of every month, 9 a.m. This kind of friend
Chairman-Roger Metts (post 3); Vice Chairman'Chad Browr~ (Post 2); Kenton
McLaine-Post 1; Debra Thomas-Post 4; Henry Moylan-Post 5.
Clinch County Board of Education - 912-487-5321
Regular meeting - Third Thursday of every month, 7 p.m.
Chairman-Stanley Thrift (Post 1); Vice Chairman-Charlie Mae Cross (Poet 4); i:)!
Laura Landrum-Post 3; John Davis-Poet 2; Charles Handley-Post 5.
already knows what kind
of pillows you like and just
how much cover you need on
your bed in order to have a
prayer of sleeping. She's al-
ready got everything from a
Homerville City Council- 912-487-2375
Regular meeting - Third Thursday of every month, 5 p.m.
Mayor Tom Kennedy; Mayor Pro Tem Willie Hardee; J.E. Witherspoon,
Elexis Williams, James McBride thin flannel sheet to a down
Fargo City Council - 912-637-5597 or 637-5520 comforter and pillows of ev-
Regular meeting - Fourth Monday every month, 7 p.m. ery degree of fluffiness and
Mayor John L. "Bappy" Griffis; Council members Johnny Grills, Landa Hart,
C ford Were, Roy Wilson. foldability. If you can't rest
Dupont City Council - 487-2630 or 287-2500 here, you aren't likely to rest
Regular meeting -" Second Tuesday of every month, 7:30 p.m.
Mayor Jimmy Rawls; Council members Catherine Register; Jane Lee, Tommy . anywhere. But she already
Davis, Brent Westmoreland. knows that and so do you or
Argyle City Council - 487-2279 you wouldn't have shown up
Regular meeting - Third Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m.
Mayor Kaye Riley; Council members Glenda Jordan, Ann Grady, Lee Rudd, at her door at some ungodly
Otis Fleming. hour.
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This kind of friend is
unashamedly and unapolo-
getically biased in your
direction, no matter what
the issue You are innocent,
even if proven guilty in some
half baked court of law.
Your children, like hers,
are either the finest sons
and daughters ever created
by God or the least grate-
ful, sorriest stinkers either
one of you has ever known
anything about. She will
feelyou out to see what side
you are coming down on and
then meet you right there.
Same with grandchildren
and in-laws. This friendship
is tight and you better know
it. Like you, she is deeply:
interested in even the tiniest
detail of a 'he-said/she-said';
and it doesn't matter how
many times she has heard
it. The two of you rest easy
knowing that ffit's your
turn to whine tonight, it will
be hers tomorrow.
You will weed out every
detail of just exactly how
much money that weezel
of a brother stole from her
plus a full description of the
hideous, designer shoes his
wife wore to the celebration
your money paid for. Law-
yers, doctors, psychiatrists
think they know about client
confidentialty but they are
the biggest blabber mouths
in town compared to this
friend.
Have you got problematic
company staying at your
house? This friend will go
over, roust the person out
of bed and take him or her
to the airport or the bus
station and have them
pointed out of town and
towards home before they
know what has gotten hold
of them. A good friend puts
your problems in a nice big
Greyhound seat headed
O.U.T. of town before the
day gets started.
She has got your back
and you've got hers. You
don't have to have alot of
friends when you have ones
that are as good as this one.
It's quality over quantity.
Today send her a flower and
just say, 'I love you," you
never know when you will
need her again but she will
be there just as you will for
her.
Thank God for God
Friends whose blood is
thicker than water and
whose ties are stronger than
steel.
