Karen Mathis

Mo.-raised, Mizzou-schooled. Worked at T-U, WJCT, Dreams Come True. At Daily Record. Rhett’s Tootsie; hubs Mack; sons Eric & Alex; DIL Michelle; Slugger’s chef.

[Karen Mathis @MathisKb]

@garybsmith Thank you.

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@ronsterd89 Painful.

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@AlanVerlander Hmmm

[JAXairport @JAXairport]

As construction for Concourse B ramps up, the food court and Club JAX are now permanently closed. Once built, the Concourse B will offer travelers new lounges and plenty of additional dining options. #jaxbeyond

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Developer’s planned condo tower would be the tallest building in Downtown Jacksonville https://t.co/IRT2R8CqAa

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Helicopter removes Wells Fargo signage from Downtown Jacksonville tower https://t.co/mpC91OQJ8r

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Harveys in Edgewood Square is first Northeast Florida store turning into an Aldi https://t.co/FH8F3ENJE8

[Karen Mathis @MathisKb]

Jim truly will be missed. Not only will viewers and colleagues miss him, his sources will too. He embodied trust.

[News4JAX @wjxt4]

We are celebrating our most senior reporter, Jim Piggott, as he is set to retire. He has been covering the biggest stories in Jacksonville politics since 1985.

Jim’s last day is Monday, July 1. Wish him well or share your Jim stories with us! https://t.co/GUBKYRqy8Y

[Karen Mathis @MathisKb]

@WallStreetSilv It belongs in a Dollar General.

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Who remembers the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, from 1966-2012? To win the award a participant had to place in the top 85% of students participating in five challenges: long jump distance, shuttle run, number of pullups, softball throw distance, and mile run time.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

If you stop to watch one thing today, let this be it.

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Parts of Regency Square Mall could be demolished and redeveloped with housing, retail and entertainment https://t.co/M06937pObb

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@AbGamble1 @SanMarcoTrain How about this?

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Electricity in Jacksonville.

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Natural fireworks in Jacksonville, FL.

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Pinstripes, Puttshack could be coming to St. Johns Town Center https://t.co/SPiySNSao6

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Council president creating special committee to examine DIA, future of Downtown https://t.co/61qrdSQdSP

[Moz Perkins⚓️🇨🇶🇬🇧 Author 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MozPerkins]

“Things I have learned from the movies"

Having watched hundreds of movies, they have taught me many things that I would like to share with you today:

1. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year.

2. All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a woman but only waist level on the man lying beside her.

3. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

4. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.

5. The ventilation system of any building is a perfect hiding place. No one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.

6. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.

7. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window of any building in Paris.

8. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

9. When paying for a taxi, never look at your wallet as you take out a note - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.

10. If you lose a hand, it will cause the stump of your arm to grow by 15cm.

11. Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning, even though the husband and children never have time to eat them.

12. Cars and trucks that crash will almost always burst into flames.

13. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a football stadium.

14. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.

15. All single women have a cat.

16. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.

17. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them all than 20 men firing at one.

18. Creepy music coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.

19. Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings - especially if any of their family or friends has died in a strange boating accident.

20. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessor.

21. During a very emotional confrontation, instead of facing the person you are speaking to, it is customary to stand behind them and talk to their back.

22. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.

23. Dogs always know who's bad and will naturally bark at them.

24. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

25. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gases, lasers and man eating sharks that will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

26. Having a job of any kind will make all fathers forget their son's eighth birthday.

27. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

28. It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.

29. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

30. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps

[Karen Mathis @MathisKb]

@mariacoppola @realBobWoodward @FlaglerCollege I fear it slipped by many of us in the heat of deadlines.