Comments on: Setting down for a spell on the Saturday OPEN thread http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/ Tue, 21 May 2013 04:17:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: wayne goodman http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-291636 wayne goodman Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:30:31 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-291636 Nancy Klaus Drake | March 11, 2013 at 9:32 pm

Jason Perdue- My dad is Billy Klaus! You have a great memoru!

I was a huge red sox fan in 1955 which was Billy’s rookie season with the sox. He was a great scrappy player who hit 283 as a rookie and placed second in rookie of the year voting to a legendary pitcher named Herb Score.
And that Red Sox team was struck by tragedy when its rising superstar first baseman, Harry Agannis, was struck down suddenly with a pulmonary embolism and died in June. B illy Klaus was as good a defensive second baseman as the Red Sox ever had.

]]> By: Nancy Klaus Drake http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-291620 Nancy Klaus Drake Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:32:50 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-291620 Jason Perdue- My dad is Billy Klaus! You have a great memory.

]]> By: J. Montague White http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-270004 J. Montague White Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:30:24 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-270004 Frank, if that’s what you gathered from our comments, it’s no wonder you’re so consistently wrong in your interpretation of everything else you cluck about on this blog. I’m going to give you the benefit of a doubt and pretend you were just trolling.

It doesn’t matter anyway. Ancient Bobcat is now a cross-dressing hedge fund investor in my mind. Now the story I’ve made up for your character, Frank, is a wild one indeed. Perhaps I’ll share it some time. Then again, perhaps it’s best not to.
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And yes, wayne goodman: J. Edgar loved dresses like G. Gordon loved document shredders. You can keep your junior GMAN badge, but you’ll have to send off three UPCs and $4.95 S & H for your BRAND NEW decoder ring (now with null-key encryption and twin LASERS!). J. Edgar never offered you lasers, did he? That’s because he was weak and blew his laser budget on dresses (…and they probably would’ve had to make cereal boxes a LOT bigger to accommodate even one laser back then, but whatevs. I’m going with “weak”; his estate can sue me).

Who are you gonna trust, wayne? J. Edgar, who has no lasers and kept documents on everyone, or your good pal, J. Montague, who loves freedom and offers you, the loyal citizen, a LASER!? (documents? Psha! All personal information is now stored digitally along with your DNA from birth. We don’t need no stinking documents!)

I think the choice is pretty clear: All of your friends have already gotten their rings. They’re probably out there right now shooting down enemy warplanes with their lasers. They’re cool, man! Don’t you want to be cool too, wayne?

]]> By: Debbie http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-269982 Debbie Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:36:05 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-269982 I’m sure J.M. White comprehended my comment, Frank, even if you didn’t.

]]> By: wayne goodman http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-269862 wayne goodman Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:35:34 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-269862 The red scare and communist hysteria that gave rise to the McCarthy era and paranoid conspiracy rantings of the John Birch Society ( and modern day Suzies) were fomented and abetted by the motion picture industry and the media in the early 1950′s. Those of you old enough to remember an age when the entertainment in most households came from radiosinstead of televisions might remember the radio drama series called “I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI” which J. Edgar and his minions did nothing to
refute. Here is a link to info about that old radio drama starring Dana Andrews with its famous tagline “I walk alone”.

http://www.iwasacommunistforthefbi.com/the-show.html

]]> By: wayne goodman http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-269854 wayne goodman Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:13:25 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-269854 77.hmmm,

…let me get this straight. sooo, J.M. starts out as a little girl, then grows up to be …J. Edgar?

Nope, I never saw THAT coming…

Comment by Frank — January 20, 2013 @ 8:07 pm

It’s OK Frank. We all understand that you have some problems seeing things clearly (real things that is)
But considering your noted lack of comprehension, we’ll give you a pass this time. :)

]]> By: Frank http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-269626 Frank Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:07:36 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-269626 hmmm,

…let me get this straight. sooo, J.M. starts out as a little girl, then grows up to be …J. Edgar?

Nope, I never saw THAT coming…

]]> By: Debbie http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-269522 Debbie Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:04:21 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-269522 Aww c’mon Steve C, he might just blow himself up, or are you being a good citizen and looking out for his safety? If that’s the case, carry on.

]]> By: Steve C http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-269476 Steve C Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:32:49 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-269476 #25 applewood, if your craftsmanship is as bad as your knowledge of quotations is I wouldn’t advise you to shoot anything you built.

]]> By: Debbie http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/2013/01/setting-down-for-a-spell-on-the-saturday-open-thread/#comment-269474 Debbie Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:29:42 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/dancasey/?p=35824#comment-269474 Oh Wayne, I’m so sorry! :-) Now I will forever think of myself as the dream crusher.

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