Favorite team:LSU 
Location:West Georgia Chicken Farm Territory
Biography:Equal parts hill-billy, coon-ass, redneck, and cultured southern gentleman
Interests:LSU, Louisiana State University, The Ol' War Skule
Occupation:Cantankerous old man
Number of Posts:10377
Registered on:7/16/2004
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Damn gif speeds back up at the wrong time.


Is this better?

EWE was the guest lecturer a couple times in my Louisiana Government class at LSU while Buddy Roemer was in office and Edwards was out of work.

One of the reporters from either WAFB or WBRZ got wind of it and decided to attend to see what was going on.

After class, Edwards spent a few minutes to speak to any students who had questions. We would line up to ask him individually after class rather than doing the "raise your hand" thing. This reporter was in line in front of me and Edwards recognized her. He told her that this Q&A was for students, and if she wanted to ask him anything she could meet him at his car afterwards.

She responded quickly with - "I don't f*** politicians for information!"

He replied - "That's okay. I only want a bl*w-job anyway."


I was never a fan of his, but you have to give the man credit for being quick on his feet!
Supergirl looks like Chaka from Land of the Lost! :lol:

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They are the ones not doing the job the people elected them to do.


This could be more correctly stated: "They are the ones doing a job on the people who elected them."
Yes, you can have too many hobbies. Mine included music (writing, recording in a 64 track home studio), surfing, SCUBA, fishing, firearms and shooting, woodworking, and fly fishing. It got to the point that they were interfering with each other. Had to trim it back to fly fishing, firearms, and woodworking. (I may have to switch from woodworking back to the music studio though. I miss that more than I thought I would.)
Insofar as personal hygiene products go, I'd say Irish Spring soap was a big let down for me, not to mention the trouble I got into for cutting all the bars of soap in the house in half with a knife just like the guy in the commercials. (This was early to mid 1970s)
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all of the mom's that shopped at the Krogers


Now that I think about it, it may have been more of a thing related to Kroger shoppers. I seem to remember that was the main grocery store in our town growing up.
Wasn't always a scarf. Just as often it was a mesh net. I remember both well and thinking that they ought to finish getting dressed at home rather than in public. And, of course, even back then there were those who would go out into public to shop while wearing their fuzzy house slippers.

re: Pictures from days gone by....

Posted by Swamp Angel on 7/18/26 at 8:02 am to
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1972. The Country was already going to shite. You would have never seen a woman out in public with curlers in her hair in 1962.


For some reason I can't see the photo you posted, but this caption tells me what I need to know about it. I was thinking about tis exact thing the other day. My mother and sister never went out in public with their hair in rollers, but I remember seeing plenty of my friends' moms out in public with their hair in curlers. (Usually at the grocery.)

re: What more does one need?

Posted by Swamp Angel on 7/17/26 at 8:38 pm to
I'm not a huge cigar aficionado, but I could definitely go for some Marty Robbins. Excellent selection.

It's a shame there are less cultured folks who haven't an appreciation for true country/western music. I would imagine those complaining of your music selection likely consider Luke Bryan the apex of country music.

I think I'll have to give a listen to "The Hanging Tree" now.

re: Shooting at Kroger

Posted by Swamp Angel on 7/17/26 at 1:41 pm to
Capital punishment should not be reserved for those who were successful at murder. It should be meted out to those who attempt it as well. It is/was only luck that the victim did not die in an attempted murder, and luck should play no part in the sentencing of those who attempted to take someone's life.
Plot twist: It was his wife's boyfriend's truck.


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Why did Trump eliminate the Election Security Program and then gut the Election Assistance Commission


Because they were about as effective at ensuring election integrity as the 87,000 new IRS agents were at finding Somali fraud. (And more than likely for exactly the same reason.)
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This needs to be put to music...




"And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile..."


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DeSantis is a top tier governor,


I think he'd make a rather fine president as well. He seems to have a strong grasp on running the executive branch to great effect.
Applied to LSU, Eastern Kentucky University, University of Kentucky, and Marshall University. Never had any intention of going anywhere other than LSU though, so when my letter of acceptance came from LSU I threw the others away and headed 960 miles south along several interstates with the biggest smile on my face that I'd ever had before or since.
I'd be rather interested to see how many illegals are registered here in Georgia as well. We have that "Motor-Voter" thing going on here that allows a person to register to vote when they get their license here. I certainly appreciated it when I moved here from Florida several years ago, but even then it made me raise an eyebrow since there was nothing on the Motor-Voter form that required proof of citizenship. I can well imagine that this is how voter registration is done in a lot of states.

It's interesting to note that you must have TWO forms of ID to be employed - one of which is a Social Security card, yet there is no such safeguard when it comes to registering to vote in our nation's elections.

re: Pictures from days gone by....

Posted by Swamp Angel on 7/16/26 at 8:23 pm to
Oh, what the heck... Why not post this one again. This time with color because I really wanted to see what this one would look like with more than black and white.



I like these every day photos you run across on occasion, Mauser.
None of the above.

It's the frog gets it or no one!
On an English quiz my freshman year of high school we had to identify whether a sentence was written in the active or passive voice. I couldn't remember the word "passive." My brain just drew a blank, so I wrote "passionate." I knew it wasn't exactly the right term/word, but what the hell. I knew it started with a "p-a-s-s-...something-or-other."

Our English teacher, Mrs. Riley, had tears rolling down her face when she was grading it and forty-four years later I still get red-faced when I think about it.