Aaron E. Sims

Ozarker, husband, teacher at Cedar Ridge H.S., normal type of guy.

Turkey bacon is NOT bacon!

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The best Granny and Gramps ever.

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Feeling melancholy is no fun.

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@LeadingReport Please, and remove lawyer ads next!

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@Hunter7___ Rose Colored Glasses - he's only trying to be happy. Paper Rosie is celebrating her life - she's in heaven, we know because the angels sing.

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@KD0CQ I use this gif in my day 1 presentation reminding students I will call parents but... As it says

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@realcountry1953 Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Dear non-Muslims, it is ok to be afraid of Islam. It has not been very kind to you for 1,400 years. There is no such thing as Islamophobia. It is a term invented by those who do not wish for anyone to scrutinize Islam. Carry on.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I attended a county fair and watched a child sell a pig.

The pig is worth, I am told, somewhere near four hundred dollars. I looked this up afterward because I did not believe what happened.

The girl is twelve. She walked the animal into a ring wearing a white shirt and a numbered card. She had raised it herself, from a piglet, for nine months, which I confirmed, and she had a binder of records because the program requires one.

The bidding began. Local men. A man from a bank. A man who sells tires. A woman who owns a restaurant I had eaten at the previous evening.

It did not stop at four hundred.

It stopped at three thousand two hundred.

I turned to the man beside me and asked whether the pig was of exceptional quality.

He said, "It's a fine pig."

I asked whether it was worth three thousand two hundred dollars.

He said, "No."

I asked why the price was three thousand two hundred dollars.

He said, "She's a good kid."

I stood up. I could not remain seated. I said, out loud, in a metal building that smelled of animals, that a market which knowingly and deliberately misprices a good in order to put a child through a university, and does so every year, in the open, with an auctioneer and a microphone, is not a market at all but a rite, and that I have never seen a province conduct one so cheerfully.

He said, "You want a lemonade?"

I said that I did.

Here is the part I had entirely misread. The men bidding against each other were not rivals. They were raising it together. The tire man bid, then the bank man bid, and the tire man nodded at him, and they were pushing the number upward on purpose, in public, in front of the girl. She knew. Everyone knew. The auctioneer knew. The rite requires that nobody says it.

Afterward the girl shook every buyer's hand. She writes them letters later. That is also part of it. She writes letters.

I asked the restaurant owner why she bids every year.

She said, "Somebody bought mine."

She is fifty-eight.

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@washghost1 His "father" should have whooped his butt right there in front of God and everybody, then made the kid apologize.

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@ChrisBearFX Prayers for you and your good boy

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

You may ridicule Whiteness.
You may not ridicule Blackness.

You may ridicule masculinity.
You may not ridicule femininity.

You may ridicule heterosexuality.
You may not ridicule homosexuality.

You may ridicule the Right.
You may not ridicule the Left.

You may ridicule the majority.
You may not ridicule minorities.

This is not equality.
This is a hierarchy.
And pointing it out is the only real crime.

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@lady_valor_07 The house we lived in the first years of my life had no rubbing water and an outhouse. Baths in a washtub with water heated on the stove in winter or by sunshine in warm months.

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@japan_nobunaga "...at midnight like a raccoon with a mortgage."

Poetic and such great imagery.

I use tweets like this as examples of great writing in my classroom.

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@japan_nobunaga @japan_nobun Your posts make me proud to be American.

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@Hunter7___ Joe was a great singer and nice guy - until you pissed him off.

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@Brick_Suit Goodness, you've got conviction.

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@realcountry1953 @Chase_Steely It was my Pops, and I've even got the bird book to look up the ones I don't recognize.

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My Pop was a farmer - hogs and feeder cattle. He helped more neighbors than I can remember - if they needed anything and he could help - he did. Loretta had it correct. Society needs to return to the neighbor ethic.
https://t.co/vfXNnno3UY via @YouTube

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@realcountry1953 Honestly, Jones could make you feel each lyric in your soul.