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Debby Johnson's avatar

I cracked up when I read this! Way to go, Bob! Keep ‘em coming, and show no mercy!

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Bob Morris's avatar

Why, thanks, Debbie. AS for mercy, I dispense it in small portions...

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Debby Johnson's avatar

If you see Jim Born, tell him the Johnsons in Columbia, SC, say hi!

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Bob Morris's avatar

Don’t see Jim often enough but we always recall what a fine time we had with y’all at SC Book Festival. Hope this finds all well in your world.

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CAS's avatar

You’re killing me smalls! So funny I actually snorted over several of your clever suggestions and I hate when I do that!! 😉

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Bob Morris's avatar

Thanks for snorting, thanks for reading.

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Rick Frazee's avatar

Bob, my friend, I'm great at finding fault as well, but to do it on the scale that you do is no more than whining. Propose a solution and let people pick it apart or promote it; otherwise, the whining becomes too much noise for all of us.

R

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Bob Morris's avatar

What, you didn’t take my “solutions” seriously? Pick away, pal, pick away …

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Jim kay's avatar

Bob, I'm going to '"Assume" ( and you know what that does) that Mr. Frazee is either a very humorless human being or he was born with out tongue or cheek. I like all of your encampment proposals but I think you left out a very promising site near our old home town..THE VILLAGES. Each one of those fine big houses could hold up to as many as 25-30 detainees. Most are 4 bedroom 3 bath, so they would not be over crowded at all with all the amenities of home! And seeing how the current populations average age is close to 4 score and 7 they would provide The Village Community an influx of younger and certainly more diverse people. Just think of it..Instead of a mass of aging North of the Masson Dixon line white folk riding around in over priced golf carts there would be Mombo dances, and live chicken sacrifices almost nightly in the streets!

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Bob Morris's avatar

Rick’s a good guy. I think maybe he’s just having an off-day, as do we all. I wanted to include the Villages, but I was also trying to name places after existing notorious prisons and I couldn’t think of one for the Villages. But I’ll keep thinking …

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Jim kay's avatar

The Villages of Sing Sing, where the music of the oppressed is always acapella and off color.

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Bob Morris's avatar

I like that. And I was trying to come up with something for Sing Sing. Best I could do was Sing-Singer Island after the place by Palm Beach. Let me play around with this and I might add it, thanks

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Jim kay's avatar

LOL! or maybe ..The Correctional Villages of Sing Sing South.I got a big kick out of the whole premise. I wonder if the movie 'Papillion" will get a whole new audience Oh a side note..Did you or have you in your journalistic travels ever run into or read anything from a Pete Collins?

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Rick Frazee's avatar

Bob

Easy to criticize. What's the solution? Stop whining.

Cheers

Rick

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Bob Morris's avatar

Rick, my friend, if you drop by here looking for solutions you are in the wrong place. And you should know me well enough to understand that I'm a beer guy not a whiner. Thanks for reading...

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Norman Van Aken's avatar

This might be my favorite one of yours so far! Johnny Swift style!

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Bob Morris's avatar

My very own "Modest Proposal?"

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Norman Van Aken's avatar

🎯

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