The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecc. 10:2 - Christian / Conservative / Best Selling Author / 1A / 2A
@BGatesIsaPyscho He’s wearing my grandmothers shoes, but I don’t understand why they disappear and meld into the concrete and then reconfigure themselves back into shoes again.
@PrideOfTheTide I was at this game. The poor Notre Dame fan sitting next to me told me how much he’d spent to get to the game, tickets, etc before the game started. He shook my hand in the middle of the 2nd quarter and told me he was going to get drunk. I never saw him again.
@rabbriansamuel I’ll accept your premise, so long as we all understand that all people from the location “Israel” are not the true Biblical Israel and are not Jews by your definition.
In Alabama a man said "Roll Tide" to me as a greeting.
Later that same day, the same man said "Roll Tide" as a goodbye.
I asked a woman at the store what it means.
She said, "Roll Tide."
I asked what it means.
She said, "It means Roll Tide, sugar."
So I began collecting evidence. I kept a list. I am not embarrassed about the list.
I have now heard "Roll Tide" used as: hello. Goodbye. Thank you. I am sorry. Congratulations. That is unfortunate. I agree. I disagree. And once, in a hardware store, as a complete set of instructions for installing a ceiling fan.
I heard it said at a funeral.
It was appropriate. It was the most appropriate thing anyone said that day.
I began using it. Carefully at first, the way a man handles a borrowed sword.
I said it to a cashier. She said it back.
I said it to a police officer who had stopped me for a broken taillight.
He looked at me for a long moment. He looked at my face. He looked at my taillight.
Then he said it back, and nodded once, and did not write the ticket.
I wish to be extremely clear that I am not claiming those two events are related.
I am also not claiming they are unrelated.
A man at a gas station heard my accent and asked where I was from. I told him Japan.
He said, "Roll Tide."
He meant welcome. I knew he meant welcome. There was no ambiguity at all.
I have been in Alabama eleven days.
I have one word.
It has been enough for everything.
I have started saying it in other states.
It does not work in other states.
I said it in a warehouse store in Oregon. One man turned around.
He was from Alabama. He said it back. We did not speak after that. We did not have to.
I say it anyway.
@BrittRooted Haven’t read Lonesome Dove, but East of Eden is a fantastic book. So much underlying symbolism that’s so well intertwined. I just love that one. If you haven’t read The Grapes of Wrath, I would suggest it. I enjoyed it a lot, although it isn’t equal to East of Eden.
Many forget how hard that John Popper harmonica solo hit on Metallica’s version of Tuesday’s gone.
And as a proper Texans, I enjoy a fiddle solo as well (from the Shane Smith and The Saints guy). First time hearing this for some reason.
@Schirsbn1@pinitreply Yeah, except for that small percentage of parents who mentally, physically, or even sexually abuse their own children. These parents seem to fit into that group.