In the past 27 hours there has only been 3 Posts. Come on people, if this DOES NOT GET BETTER! WE RUN THE RISK OF THE FORUM BEING SHUTDOWN. Maybe one of you could start a new topic, like how many Deer there are in Elk County or how many Armadillos were killed on the Highways in Elk County over the Past 2 years.You could start keeping track and everyone count them in them. The Kansas Fish and Game, would appreciate that. I think playing Bingo would be fun, we could not offer prizes because we couldn't see the cards. Maybe some of you could come up with something better.
Frank, I keep asking people to put the sports scores on or what happened around town. When the American Legion programs are. What I would like to see is all of the Garage sales, or auctions around the area. I can not get any one to put anything on here. So I would say people are not interested.
Jane I would say your are right. You can't make them Post if they don't want to. Again, my concern is the Forum could be Shut Down, and that would be really sad. We like to see the Obituaries, and Most of the Local news. Well need to get cleaned up for Church, everyone have a GREAT DAY.
Frank, I can't say where everyone else was yesterday, but it was such a delicious day that my bet is that they all went fishing. As for me, I spent the day recuperating from the trip to Wichita on Friday.
Jane, I, too, would like to see more about what is going on in Elk County. Not being able to get out and around, the Forum could be a big source of information for me. The people that I can think of that could do a good job of providing us with that information is also busy with a full time job. I think that is the story with most people now. Working takes up most of their time and their energy.
I am very thankful for Patyrn's devotion to keeping the obits current. I probably would not hear of most of them otherwise.
I wish we few who are still contributing could make it more interesting for the ones that have left us, but the ones that I know have found a more interesting way to keep up. If I weren't so far out of it, I would go to Facebook, too, but I can't see the advantages of doing so.
Frank, if it was not for Karen doing the obits, Rex and I would never know who passed away in Howard.
Quote from Diane :
Hope the good people there have a wonderful day. The rest can just stick it. Who needs 'em?
There is your answer Frank----the reason a whole hell of a lot of people have quit the forum.
You got that right Jarhead.
WOW! I didn't know I was that powerful! I also didn't know there were that many ''not'' good people out there! HA! I guess if the shoe fits.... Touch, touchy. Must be people just lookin' for somethin' to spook from, huh.
"Powerful" ? You wish. Demeaning is more like it. One is only your friend if they always agree with you.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Frank, Jane and Jarhead.
Ok, you win. I've never expected anyone to always agree with me, but the responses aren't responses, they are personal attacks on myself, my friends, my education, my career and probably what I eat for lunch.
The attacks are so personal. That's what I don't like. Putting me down doesn't make them more correct than I am.
I said back on Feb.19th I wouldn't say anymore about the issue and I didn't, and only wrote then based on what Proelco had said, plus a pm I got. The nasty retorts from Feb.19th on were not written or stirred up by me! Look elsewhere for those.
Now, some can fight those terrible invisible socialists in Elk County, and call your commisioners liars... but you can always blame me. If ya don't like the weather, it will be my fault and if "bad" people want a place to live and be happy, Elk County is it. .sure can't say anything against 'em. ;D ;D ;D
Bye. One less to read. Hope you're happy now.
Pure factual observation is hardly a personal attack. However, telling others to "stick it" is.
What others? Yer dreaming.
Diane, let us know who the others are that can "stick it'. To me that sounds kind nasty to the people on the forum.
Quote from Diane :
Hope the good people there have a wonderful day. The rest can just stick it. Who needs 'em?
Sorry. It was just a turn of a phrase, the opposite of "good" people. I've never said or suggested or felt that any of you are "bad," but some are unnecessarily rude....and to a lot more than me.
I'm told to kick Joe Biden in the butt. I though it was meant to be funny, but if I was overly sensitive I'd complain wouldn't I? That could be considered rude since I know the man and have for many years. So what ?
As far as rude, that's pretty clear, why would anyone need to name names? They know exactly who they are. Just round up the usual suspects. ( That's joke too..get it?)
I think calling one's elected commissioner a liar is very rude, and very serious. Disagreement is one thing, have at it, but calling someone a liar is very rude and accomplishes nothing.
I guess it's rude to name the name of who said things so I won't but the four quotes below, just a few of many, I think could be called rude too---but hey---only "corn pones" of Elk county can be rude. .
Always the victim---never the name calling, rude bully.
" We have had two tragedies here today and I'm in no mood to baby sit corn pone and company. Stick it in your ear or whatever other opening fits! Geeze what a piece of disgusting snot you are.
Go sit on a fresh cow pie.. You are both a waste of good oxygen.
That's about as "grew up in a barn" rude as one can get
What a doofus."
What the . A "turn of a phrase"? Don't believe I've ever heard of that. Deflect all you want. Everyone knows exactly what was meant. Stick it, up your a**, f*** off and the like. Us corn pones, hillbilly s, or whatever you want to call us, will always call a spade a spade.
So what is your point? I said I'd not comment further and I've tried not to, but ya call me out, I'm likely to hiss and spit right back at you if you insult me.
I said I'd no longer turn the other cheek long ago. At this point I'd rather be a fighter back than a lily livered victim. I will stand up for myself when I'm forced to. You decide. HA! Wanna stop all this? Stop with the veiled attacks. And I do mean all of you who are so mean spirited.
You know exactly who kept this going by trying to incite Red to fight me...It didn't work. Now you're going to have to try something else? Why not just let it go? I sure tried to. Enough already.
Bull, not being black, ya can't call me a spade.
Corn pone? Yer dern right, but ya carefully left out to what I had responded. I told you, I stopped turning the other cheek. Don't try to hold me to a standard higher than your own.
I don't especially want to call you anything ya don't deserve.... But it depends on how you act ,doesn't it? Why not let it go just to prove you can?
Black? I guess that is an east coast race card thing. The phrase was coined regarding a" deck" of cards.
I'll leave you to twist in the wind having put the noose around your own neck.
Nope. It started in the 20th century, on the east coast, mostly by KKK.(I think in Rising Sun Maryland which as been a hot bed ,now underground,of KKK activity.) Thank goodness it isn't used so much anymore. It of course still is used for the original meaning too. It can be a deck of cards or a gardening implement. I won't be led to respond to the other unnecessary comment.
Nope. You might want to do a little research before presuming to know all about something.
Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to acquire a negative, racial overtone.
Historians trace the origins of the expression to the Greek phrase "to call a fig a fig and a trough a trough." Exactly who was the first author of "to call a trough a trough" is lost to history. Some attribute it to Aristophanes, while others attribute it to the playwright Menander. The Greek historian Plutarch (who died in A.D. 120) used it in Moralia. The blogger Matt Colvin, who has a Ph.D. in Greek literature, recently pointed out that the original Greek expression was very likely vulgar in nature and that the "figs" and "troughs" in question were double entendres.
"To call a spade a spade" entered the English language when Nicholas Udall translated Erasmus in 1542. Famous authors who have used it in their works include Charles Dickens and W. Somerset Maugham, among others.
My "research" is from hearing it used. I knew about the rest anyway! Like I said, when "certain people" came to Newark, and other towns around here, they were very mouthy about the use of that term. It went from calling blacks "spades," to calling a spade a spade, plus Sambo, ninnies and others.
Disgusting Bounty Hunters who were around long ago had really rotten mouths on them too. Why do you assume I couldn't possibly know about any of it?
Also, in lower Delaware, where they did have some slave holders, degrading terms were very common for a time. Thank goodness that is long gone now.
Of course you didn't have to take PA .or Delaware history. I had to take both, one in high school and one at UD.
No. I sure I don't know "all" about it but, I sure know plenty. Why does that bother you so much?
Did you know Little Black Sambo wasn't an American kind of "negro" at all when the original book was written? He was a dark skinned Indian, from India. The White English called them blacks too.
Later illustrations and printings here depicted him as an American style negro boy. I did a research paper on the book when I was at UD. I won't bore you with why there was a course about that kind of thing. But think about it...when you learned to read, weren't all the kids illustrated in the books pale skinned blue eyed
blonds?
I remember Jim and Judy, and Spot very well.