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It’s Forty-Sheven Degrees and Spartly Clouby

December 31, 2008

It happens every year. Somewhere in America a Disk Jockey is getting drunk on the air for New Year’s Eve to demonstrate the dangers of drinking and driving.  Johnny Fever did it on an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati and that one episode is responsible for this annual event.

WKRP caused untold havoc in radio due [...]

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New Things You Cannot Do

August 20, 2008

You cannot do that in Valdosta! There is something about being told “you cannot” that creates the urge to do it immediately. With that warning, here are more suggestions for our growing list of 100 Things You Cannot Do in Valdosta.
Last week’s posting brought a wealth of suggestions. I’ve included the ones that do not [...]

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Little Orphan Title Town Trophy

August 15, 2008

Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan – ancient proverb coined by someone unknown, but ancient.
The ESPN Title Town trophy has an embarrassment of fathers. The City wants it for the City Hall Lobby. The quasi governmental Valdosta Lowndes County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau wants it for the James H. Rainwater Conference Center. [...]

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A Few More Things You Shouldn’t Do in Valdosta

August 3, 2008

The most endless feature of this column is the quest to come up with a list of 100 Things You Cannot Do In Valdosta. The list currently stands at 50 items after a long-overdue pruning to get rid of out of date items, politicians who were hounded out of office, or people who died and [...]

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Title Town Roundup

July 29, 2008

The finest wine is not revenge, but that vintage known as gloat. If you are from Valdosta, I have a list of links to stories around the country about our Victory as Title Town up at my companion blog “InsideTheNest”
Some excerpts from the article are underneath the link Drink up!

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