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Jim Bedwell

Jerry,

You wrote:

"Please be VERY mindful and observant of your surroundings no matter where you are"~j

I fastidiously minded & observed at the very first reunion at 1979 and that (plus distance) caused me to never attend another one! hahahahahaha!!! Like that saying goes,

One "aw shoot" wipes away a thousand "attaboys" (yes, "aw shoot" is a euphemism).

Russ Stovall

David :

I hope all went well with the knee surgery and the rehab is not to difficutl.    Your were a good athelte and I am sure you willl handle the rehab with flying colors.  

Steve Keene

Chief Eat Crow,

The far leftwing Democrats on the restricted to low information, media gullible website have found it unsustainable.  It mirrors the activity of the national far leftwing party.  The old guard is jumping ship and retiring knowing their cause is a foolhardy one, and all that are left are the yellow dogs who will never think for themselves, but just do what their ancestors did.  They do not have an original idea among the lot of them and plagiarize or take credit for someone else's ideas a la Biden.

Now they have stooped to the point of asking a non-original member to administrate their site, Lance our classmate, even though his political bent is not their own and his forumside manner leaves a lot to be desired.

This should result in a windfall of recruitment success. 

All I can say for the new national campaign for the Republicans is they need a new slogan.  I suggest "MAKE AMERICA RECOGNIZE CORRUPTION AGAIN."

David Cordell

Lance and Russ.

Thanks for your interest/concern. Knee replacement (Oct 15) went well. Going through physical therapy. Flexibility is improving. Extension is at zero degrees. Flexion is at 130 degrees. Have regressed a bit in the past couple of days. Probably walking too much -- 3.86 miles on Tuesday. Need to gain a lot of strength. Still feel unstable. Not very good on stairs. PT people think I'm getting along extremely well, and they know more than I do. So, I guess I'm doing as well as can be expected.

Steve Keene

Chief Eat Crow,

One more thing.  After all the complaining of Phil Huber being unresponsive and being subjected to a donation fee to sustain that website with the promise of an original copy of the Punography films.  He received a copy that was evev better than Phil's from Susan Melton.    Am I the only one that noticed that once a copy was received that none of us got our promised copies.  I guess that went for another bottle of Caymus for the old administrator.

Lowell Tuttle

David, I remember my surgeon visiting after my left knee replacement.   He said after I was sewed up, but still under, they tested the knee.   It was 100% both flexing and straightening.   Became stiff as hell when I woke.   That anasthesia wearing off made the difference.

Well, after about 4 weeks, I barely had it to 99% straightening and 90% bending.   I bike ride daily about 5-7 miles and that helped with the bending.

I am still skittish about getting down on my knees (knee) as there are no nerves in the knee and it feels weird.

It was exactly six weeks to the day from the surgery until our golf tournament at the reunion at Sherrill Park and I played.   It was my first golf...no problem.   

Of course now, six years later my cracked vertebra is causing more problems.   Pain while golfing starts in the right leg and hip after about 14 holes.   One of the things I do to ease the pain before a put is completely squatt.  I can get to about 95-97% in that left knee, but not all the way down.   Really miss not walking the course, instead golf cart only.

Once, my right leg slipped into a hole while searching for a lost ball and my left leg completely bent to a new point of flex very radically quick.  Much pain and I thought something bad happened, but it worked out ok except for muscle pain for a few days after.    They say your knee won't break, but you leg bones will instead.  Yikes.  

They put me on that bending machine apparatus during PT to get that full bend/flex.   Had to hold it 20-30 seconds. 

Keep up the good PT.   Do you only have to do one knee?

David Cordell

Lowell,

I'm sorry that you have had such troubling issues. About feeling pain at the 14th hole, that's about the time I start asking myself why I keep pretending that I can play the game.

I have been making pretend-swings without a club, but I think I will actually pull out a club tonight and swing it a bit. I think I'm OK to play. Maybe I'll go to a pitch-and-putt course not too far from my house. About 120 yards max.

I need to work on improving my ability to climb and descend stairs.

Lowell Tuttle

David, I just remembered they didn't want me to drive for a while...I remember the first day.  I opened the door and proceeded to get into the car one leg at a time...right then....uh oh...left wouldn't bend down or support weight.   I revised my getting into and getting out of driver seat by sitting from outside and then swining my legs into the driver leg pit.

I can do it righ tnow, but conveying that in light of this knee-speak...

Jim Bedwell

Chief No Stache,

OK, but I can't help but wonder just a little if you're jealous that YOU weren't invited to be the other forum's administrator.

Chief Bedpost

By the way, hahahhaahhahahha!!!!

Jim Bedwell

Chief No Stache,

So you're saying that the bottle of Caymas was the latter-day, microcosmic version of NONE of the Nazi subjects' EVER getting their new VW bugs they paid for (only party members & military got the few produced)? Velly, velly intelesting!

Chief Bedpost

Steve Keene

Lance,

My name was originally proposed, but I equated that with being offered the prestigious job of safety officer and part time lookout on the Titanic. 
 

Maybe that's a little cold.  I think it would be more like the job of Fire Marshal on the Hindenberg.

Wayne Gary

I just heard this old exchange from The Jack Benny Show:

Boy: Mr Benny I also play the violin

Jack Benny: Do you play like me?

Boy: I used to.

David Cordell

Lowell,

My surgery was on the right leg, and I didn't drive for three weeks. Actually, I didn't feel any knee issues while driving, even at the three-week mark.

David Cordell

So, just after Pelosi rammed through the Build Back Better bill, Biden went to the hospital for a colonoscopy. Seems somehow fitting that, after the nation took it in the a_s, the President did, too.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Thank goodness the jurists in the Rittenhouse trial were able to discern and weigh the FACTS of the case, coming to the conclusion that the babyfaced guy was acting in self defense toward those anarchists chasing him, rather than succumbing to the 'rush-to-judgment' conclusion of him by the press.  The Mainstream Press called Rittenhouse a racist, a White Supremacist idiot, looking forward to offing some degenerate Black folks, during a night of wild mayhem and mass hysteria, caused by a Black man having been shot by a White policeman, even though the Black man was resisting the policeman's order to surrender, while holding a knife.

Our judicial system still works, especially when the jurors listen intently to the facts, ignoring all the hype that they hear from the irresponsible press.

Hallelujah and Amen for justice in America!

Still, Rittenhouse was incorrect about choosing to go to the area, even though he felt he could be of help to property owners, and he should not have elected to take a weapon with him.  Taking the gun only made him appear to be one of the bad dudes, but ultimately saved his life from fools who were looking to have blood from white people, especially the white people they think are White Supremecists, in the streets.  And our President should apologize for saying to The Media that Rittenhouse was a White Supremacist even when acknowledging that he didn't watch the trial.  It appears that he didn't read about the trial either.  I guess he was too tired from all the duties of the White House, even though it has been reported that he usually leaves the oval office about lunchtime, and does not typically return until about 8:30 the following morning, for video conferences on most days.  Obviously, his "handlers" take care of the bulk of the presidential responsibilites; his unelected handlers.  

Steve Keene

David,

The scarry thing was Joe transferred the acting Presidency to Kamala Harris for the 85 minutes he was under anesthesia.  

David Cordell

First woman President.

Jerry May

Happy Birthday Brenda Brown!

David Cordell

Lance said, "These days, I am ever so mindful of the fellowship of phony furtive false friends."

David asks, "What's this about??"

David Cordell

Interesting. From Nov 8 issue of Wall Street Journal.

David Cordell

From a Men's Club.

David Cordell

From Babylon Bee.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Isn't that the truth of the mess, David?  The Lefties had the babyfaced kid headed to be prison's new favorite boytoy of the day!  No wonder the guy nearly collapsed after the last "Not guilty."  He must have been sweating bullets!  (no pun intended..) 

Mail-In ballots!  Lord have mercy, please, somehow?  Help us save our country, if we have any chance left at all.....please hear our prayers, even though we have disappointed You so much.......  We humbly beseech You and ask for mercy....we plead as we kneel in sorrow and shame.....       

We are a pitiful bunch of screw-ups.........

It's pretty darn amusing to hear CNN anchors go on and on of how far we Americans have sunk with our inability to see what they (CNN elitists) evidently see, and to hear them still mention Trump's name in almost every issue they speak of incessantly each day, isn't it?

They are scared sh*tless that he is going to arise again to spite them!  HA!

After seeing Chris Christie speak the other night on CNN, of all places, I have renewed interest in him.  He gave a lengthy interview to one of the CNN babes.  I don't watch them enough to know what her name is, but she sure was pressing him really hard on Trump info. she thought he might have.  She was obviously nervous already, while only 11 months into Biden's first year.  Christie had good answers and is definitely interested in 2024.  I think he says a lot of what Americans will be interested in hearing in the primaries.  I would like to see Trump get behind a guy like him, instead of challenging him and others too, like DeSantis.  I truly believe that if Trump runs again, the Lefties will hire a hitman to take him out; the seething hatred is THAT strong, not to mention that Trump threatens their livelihoods so much, they tremble that they will have to sell the ranch or their third residence in Vail.

Ha, ha, ha!   I heard CNN's head honcho is leaving----Jewish guy whose name begins with a Z., I think.   Is it Zucker, maybe?  Their ratings have plummeted since Biden won.  And did you hear that Don Lemon got into a scuffle with a guy at a bar who is now pressing charges against him?  Assault charges that CNN is trying to get hushed-up? 

Carlson calls Don Lemon, Don LeMon.  Cracks me up everytime I hear that, 'cause it is the perfect name for sweet Don!

David Cordell

Footballisms 

Probably none of the quotations are real, but they are fun to read anyway.

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble the football"...  

          – John Heisman, first football coach at Rice   

"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."  

– Bear Bryant / Alabama 

" It isn't necessary to see a good tackle, you can hear it!”   
- Knute Rockne / Notre Dame   
 
"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. 
That costs money, and we don't have any." 
– Erik Russell / Georgia Southern 
 
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."        
-  Lou Holtz / Arkansas - Notre Dame 
 
"When you win, nothing hurts."     
-  Joe Namath / Alabama 
 
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."      
-  Frank Leahy / Notre Dame 
 
"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."      
-  Woody Hayes / Ohio State 
 
"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation."        
-  Bob Devaney / Nebraska   

"In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."      
-  Wally Butts / Georgia
 
"I never graduated from Iowa. But I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's."     
–  Alex Karras / Iowa 
 
"My advice to defensive players is to take the shortest route to the ball, and arrive in a bad humor.”  
-  Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee 
 
"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar except for my grades."      
- Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State   
 
"   Always remember Goliath was a 40-point favorite over David."      
- Shug Jordan / Auburn    
 
"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me "       
He said,    "Well, Walt, we took a look at you, and you weren't any good."      
-    Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State/Dallas Cowboys   

]"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."      
-  Bobby Bowden / Florida State 

"Football is NOT a contact sport, it is a collision sport. 
Dancing IS a contact sport."   - 
Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State 
 
After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team was;   ]
"All those who need showers, take them."      
-  John McKay / USC ]]]]]]]]]]]

"    If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.”      
-  Murray Warmath / Minnesota 
 
"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb.   
To be a back, you only have to be dumb."      
-  Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
 
"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches."       
-  Darrell Royal / Texas    
 
"We didn't tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking."             
-  John McKay / USC 
 
"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."      
-  Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
 
Ohio State's Urban Meyer on one of his players: 
"He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. 
In fact, I just saw his grades and he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.”

Why do Auburn fans wear orange?        
So they can dress that way for the game on Saturday, go hunting on Sunday, and pick up trash on Monday.   

What does the average Alabama player get on his SATs?        
Drool.

How many Michigan State freshmen football players does it take to change a light bulb?      
None. That's a sophomore course.   

How did the Auburn football player die from drinking milk?   
The cow fell on him.   

Two Texas A&M football players were walking in the woods. 
One of them said,   "   Look, a dead bird." 
The other looked up in the sky and said,   "Where?"   

What do you say to a Florida State University football player dressed in a three-piece suit?       
"Will the defendant please rise."

How can you tell if a Clemson football player has a girlfriend?   

There's tobacco juice on both sides of the pickup truck.   
 
What do you get when you put 32 Arkansas cheerleaders in one room?   
A full set of teeth.   

University of Michigan Coach Jim Harbaugh is only going to dress half of his players for the game this week.    The other half will have to dress themselves.   
 
How is the Kansas football team like an opossum?    
They play dead at home and get killed on the road.    (Except in Austin. Arggghh!)

How do you get a former University of Miami football player off your porch?   
Pay him for the pizza.

David Cordell

Janalu,

Does it seem that almost all of the nationally-publicized, cause celebre "victims" in the past few years, including in the Rittenhouse case, have been low-life scum?