Someone requested more of the “Vince” strips. I did get sort of distracted after I began this story arc. After beginning it, I was reminded looking through the old stuff that Vince was something of a recurring character in the spring of 1993, a sounding board for Janis. All the arcs are similar in nature, so I have abandoned chronological order and for the rest of the week will offer what I call “The Best of Vince.”
Male Bonding Does Not Involve Duct Tape
By Jimmy Johnson
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293 responses to “Male Bonding Does Not Involve Duct Tape”
At this point in the season only two numbers matter,11 and 0. If we flub up we put some duct tape on the ball and try it again.
emb needs enlightening. I presume it’s about sports in a league of some sort, but why 11 and 0. I know there are 11 men / team on a football field, and 0 is no score in most games. If a game is called / weather, does an 11 pt. spread become a win? I thought if a baseball game is called, > so many innings completed = a win. Anyway, tell me.
I say he should lose 1 game salary.
@MikePereira: My thoughts on Jameis Winston pushing the official today…http://goo.gl/uncXh2
RE Thanksgiving: I wanted to spend the holiday with my SO. My daughter is coming to join us. We will be having dinner at Cracker Barrel (!), but with his daughter and family and her in-laws. I think there will be about 12 of us. So it should be festive!
I am hoping our daughters will bond. They know each other. But, since there is 100+ miles between them, there isn’t much opportunity for them to get to know each other well. I am looking forward to this extended family time together.
Dear Galliglo, my very best wishes for a friendly and successful dinner. I hope the daughters will get better acquainted and enjoy the sociability. Our family has gone to a restaurant several times in the past few years, an inexpensive but large family oriented place, and I’ve been impressed with how pleasant and efficient the staff is. They have to work on a day they’d prefer to be home with their own families, I dare say; they could be a bit grouchy, but they’re smiling and joking.
Jackie, I’ve tried twice to put in a link I found. Name was given as J. Wallace Cardwell, here is the content of the post.
Looking for family of J. Wallace Cardwell who died in Tensas Parish, LA, in 1924. He had managed a plantation near New Light for my grandfather. The night before he was to have gone to Sumner, MS, to visit family and friends ar Christmas time, he died of a heart attack, or of an attack combined with falling into an open fire.
Any contacts appreciated.
Gordon Smith
This was on genforum.genealogy.com.
EMB, my guess is 11 wins and zero losses. That would likely put a team into the championship playoff.
As a side note, Arkansas’ obliteration of Ole Miss today makes the entire SEC West division bowl eligible. I think that is a record. The Razorbacks are showing substantial improvement with two wins over ranked SEC opponents. Another regular season win and a bowl win would be a very respectable season. Wooooo pig soouie!
Jackie, here’s the Google newspaper archives: http://news.google.com/newspapers
The Library of Congress has The Tensas Gazette online, but stops in 1922.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87090131/
Mark I have bookmarked/saved both sites. You are a fantastic researcher and that is the right Cardwell! Do you do this stuff professionally? You should, you are so good.
That is indeed my ghost who haunts our old family home!
Like Cinderella, I scrubbed a lot of floors in that old house and they are thick cypress and pine, just laid tight together. The place his body burned was on the living room floor until 1970’s, burned deep into the wood. My mom forgets I cleaned and scrubbed and painted or vanished those floors.
Anyway, the paint would not stick on that part of floor no matter how you put it on, so finally they took out fireplaces and covered the floor in square tiles over plywood.
The heart attack and falling into fire was a cover up obviously, as all the cash disappeared as well.
You should become a professional genealogy researcher!
Love you, Jackie
You are very welcome, Jackie. Done for the fun of the chase, not as a profession. I’ve had a gift for finding things over the years, from lost keys to the best grocery prices, and the internet has simplified a lot of the looking. A lot of the time it just pays to be doggedly persistent. That body outline would not have been something I would be comfortable living with, brr.
would not, not would.
No one would sleep in that room or even stay for long. And we sure would have trouble keeping “help” as they were afraid, even if we hadn’t been too poor to hire any!
This is ghost I met in about 1961 standing in door way in dark suit, tie, white shirt, looked very “old fashioned”. I was sitting in room three rooms away reading, looked up to see him standing there. Being polite Southern girl I greeted him and asked if he were there to see my grandmother? Asked if I could help him?
Vanished just like that! Through a pack of a dozen deer hounds sleeping on porch.
Now I know who I saw. Thank you, Mark.
Love, Jackie
Jackie, I wonder if this is him? http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10876048
Date of death matches with what is shown in the earlier post, where it says he died around Christmastime. Also, the cemetery is in Mississippi, where the questioner said he was going to see family and friends.
You might try this website if you are looking for other relatives, etc. It helped me find a lot about my paternal grandfather and his children.
Good morning Villagers….
Ruth Anne…that’s me!!!! 🙂 Looking forward to the quotes. Also beside my computer, is a little book I presented to my husband when we first married…”Life’s Little Treasure Book On Love”. Like this one: “Never give an anniversary gift that has to be plugged in!”
Maybe later I’ll post the whole “Important List”, if anyone is interested.
Off today….probably be a couch potato….too much family drama unfolded the past couple of days…..on the husband’s side…his nephew (who also works at the hen houses) broke up with Kyler’s mother…sent her packing. She called me last night. I’m pretty upset, because of the break-up, and because Andrew is bipolar, does not take meds, and he’ll likely not show up for work tomorrow…..and mostly because I won’t see Kyler and even Brooklynne Rose.
I’m glad it’s going to rain today…fits my mood.
GR 😉 you’ve been MIA…is your Mother OK?
Oh…husband is fixing Thanksgiving dinner….Ian and I will be working, hens don’t stop laying because it’s a holiday!
All three kids will be home for Thanksgiving this year, plus my sister, Husband’s nephew and two friends of our younger daughter, so we will be nine for dinner. We have had 25 for dinner, so this is an easy year. Still, I am thankful they will all be home. Today and tomorrow will be finalizing the menu, which never changes much from turkey, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, and cranberry sauce. Tuesday will be shopping, and Wednesday will be making pumpkin pies and pecan pies, and brining the turkey. Thursday will be all-out chaos, and Friday will be the bliss of leftover turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce!
Speaking of pecan pies, I ran across a recipe the other day that substitutes the Karo syrup with half honey and half Lyle’s Golden Syrup. Has anybody else (Ghost, Jackie, Debbe?) seen this? I haven’t tried it, but I confess to being curious.
For those of you who are sick, no matter how serious, or have relatives who are ailing, I hope you are all well and healthy soon!
Debbe, while you’re being a couch potato today you might enjoy this-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHisd9P2M-Y
Jean…that’s sounds like a better substitute…never made pecan pies….but my sister makes a wicked chocolate pecan pie…..which I do intend to have her make me one…she owes me, took her two trays of eggs….that’s sixty doubles my baby sister got!!
Ok, I don’t know why the link isn’t working. Maybe because it’s raining here today. Anyhow, go to YouTube and type in Dancing At The Movies. It’s the first video in the queue. Highly entertaining!
Oh, and Ghost Sweetie, you may not have been snagged by a decent (or indecent) woman, but I’ll bet my egg money any number of them have set their caps at you over the years. 😉
Jean….copied and pasted your link w/o the hyphen….I reconigized so many movies…even the Seven Brides for the Seven Brother…if I’m correct.
I loved dancing….when I lived in Corpus, every night clubbing was an event. They were fiiliming the moviie with Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon named “Target. Any-whoo, one Wednesday evening we hit this club and it so happened some of the cast producers/workers were there. I had one lady from the movie cres approach me and ask if I had ever considered dancing professionally. Said no, and thanked her….she said I moved with the music….yes, I miss my dancing, can’t do it like I use too.
Jean’sl link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHisd9P2M-Y
not “movie cres” “movie crew”….
Gal…are you and your SO meeting the kids at the restaurant? Maybe (just talking out loud here…) you misunderstand and the two of you end up at another Cracker Barrel? OOps! Oh well, why not everyone just stay where they are, eat and we’ll get together later. Maybe. 🙂
The girls would have to talk to each other and you could still enjoy your date.
Granny Carol….indeed the article on hazel eyes was interesting…who else has hazel eye color here in the village??
This is the only future I am allowed. What am I missing in Jimmy’s Sunday wisdom?