May
2007
For Better
Graphics CLICK VIEW ON
LINE
Bumper
sticker - Impotence.-.Nature's
way of saying "No hard feelings,"
KEEP UP
WITH THE WARRIOR NEWS, ADD OUR BLOG TO
YOUR
“FAVORITES” AND CHECK IT DAILY!! DO IT NOW
Also, periodically check YOUR BIO
PAGE on our web site for comments
left for you. You have sent
us a bio, haven’t you? Click for bio pg.
EMAIL
ADDRESSES FOR OUR TROOPS CLICK FOR OUR TROOPS PG.
Class pics
–
Phil has posted our tribe’s ’61 & ’62 homeroom pics. Click for pics .
SEND
The Reverend Mr. John Meeks left April 18th to go to
Army Combat Engineer unit that he served with in
of his old unit since 1967. Also see “IN THE NEWS WITH VIEWS”
It’s A Despicable
and Dastardly Deed that
Not since Smoke Signals ran the story of Bwana Boz,
the coon killer, have we received the flood of
emails that the Xtra regarding
the ebay auction of Iris Duncan’s
’63 Central Yearbook generated.
After this story broke, we dispatched our investigative reporter Carl Kolchak
to
Duncan’s comments. According to Ms. Duncan “ The book must have
inadvertently gotten caught
up in an estate
sale.” Click For Mug Shot.
After the last grand reunion, Mary Ann Vlahos, widow of Paul Vlahos
(CHS'65) donated a near
pristine 63 yearbook, which we will auction in the not too distant future.
Author, Author, Cricket’s Hubby Pens
Novel
Rosalee Baker’s husband, Rod
Wallsmith' first novel, BOOZE, BLOOD and
JUSTICE has just
been published. It is a fictionalized account of an actual event that occurred
in
the late '60's. It is available at Barnesandnoble.com, Booksamillion.com or can
be ordered through
your local, favorite bookstore. Cricket promises that it is a real
"PAGE-TURNER". Rod has begun
work on a sequel.
WHO DAT WARRIOR?
What classmate would climb
clue. The classmate is female. Still stumped? Click and guess!
Vote in the 2008 Presidential Poll CLICK TO VOTE
Memories
– Send you Central Memories to PAULA
PHIL CREATES AN ALUMNI PAGE FOR WARRIORS OF
ALL YEARS.
Click for alumni page
SAY WHAT?!!
"I
propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in
any one sitting."
Sheryl Crow
And from the “Don’t do as I do. Do as I say do” file,
this from the NY Post
SHERYL Crow should eat crow. The
save-the-environment rocker who's on a "Stop Global Warming
College Tour" with Laurie David and just proposed a limit on toilet paper
usage is a big gas-guzzler.
Her performance rider demands for each show include three tractor-trailers,
four buses and six cars
for her entourage, TheSmokingGun.com reports. She also insists on 12 bottles of
Grolsch beer, six
bottles of "local" beer and a bottle each of "good Australian
Cabernet" and "good Merlot." Crow's flack
said the rider was "an old one from 10 years ago" but declined to
show us a current one.
Doesn’t she
realize that the grain used to make her booze could have been used instead to
produce biofuel? - Ed.
BE ADVISED
- A panic alarm,
always at your fingertips from Phil
Aquino
Consider this. Most recent model automobiles come with a key fob
containing a panic alarm button.
In addition to having your finger on this button while walking to and from you
car; keep it close at
hand while around the house. These alarms can usually be activated from a
considerable distance
from the car. Thus, be prepared to use it in the event of a home invasion.
Leave it bedside at night.
Once activated, these annoying alarms can easily be heard from inside a closed
garage. It is almost
guaranteed to frighten off an intruder while summonsing curious neighbors.
WARNINGS TO WARRIORS – from Smoke Signals medical advisor Dr. Vinny
Boombatz
Reeder
Dowdy sends these words of advice to women, who may
experience heart attack symptoms
entirely different from men.
While not having eaten any
food, the feeling that you’ve swallowed a golf ball that’s slowly and
painfully moving down the esophagus.
Squeezing motions racing up the spine and under the sternum.
Discomfort spreading into the throat and jaw.
If you experience any of these,
first and foremost CALL FOR AN AMBULANCE! Don’t try to drive.
Don’t let someone else drive. CALL FOR AN AMBULANCE!!
April is National
Donate Life Month
Be an organ donor
HELPFUL
HINTS From Smoke Signals’ HOMES
editor -
Mike Blackwell
After drying my sheets, I put both sheets and one pillowcase in the other
pillowcase. Fold neatly in
a square. Next time you change sheets, you just take the one pillowcase and all
the sheets and
pillowcases are inside. No need to look for matches.
FROM THE
LAUGH TRACK from Larry Solomon a fitting
tribute to his sense of humor
The
ULTIMATE in Women's Body Piercing...
Men all
over the country are urging their wives and sweethearts to get this 'chic'
procedure. The going
rate on the east coast now exceeds $10,000. Many men feel it is worth it.
Click for pic
SEND US A SHORT BIO ALONG WITH A RECENT PHOTO SO WE
CAN PUT YOU IN "THE SPOTLITE" . Use this well-done bio from
PINKY as your
guide
See What Margaret Elna Sullivan has been doing for the past 44
years. Years that have been Very Good to Margaret! Click for pics
IN THE NEWS WITH VIEWS send
news of new jobs, retirement, kids, grandkids, ANYTHING
OF INTEREST going on in your life to SMOKE SIGNALS
Sweet Baby James – New
Photos posted of Paula Wicker Hamby’s
grandson Click For Pics
“Mr. Magic” - Dick Williams,
whose TV show Magic Land holds
the Guinness’ record for the longest
running
TV magic show, needs your help after suffering a fall Click for the story
From R.N. to P.P.G. –
From our Stranger
Things Have Happened files, Vera
Bailey O’neal has
hung
up her stethoscope and grabbed a paintbrush. Vera
left the river city and her profession as
a registered nurse and moved to the
‘Redneck
a Porter Paint (PPG) store in
area will call her. Her phone number is 251-968-5882,
E-address veraoneal@yahoo.com
The ‘Gang of 14’ now
13 – In what can only be described as fortuitous web
surfing, Kenneth Herman
stumbled upon our “Missing Warriors” page, only to see the name of his wife Margaret Sullivan.
See “In the Spotlite” above.
Why don’t you help us find more
of the 13 remaining missing Warriors? CLICK AND GET
BUSY!
Does anybody really know what time it is? – Bettye Jo Olive Johnson
At three minutes and four
seconds after 2 AM on the 6th of May this year, the time and date will
be
02:03:04 05/06/07. This will never happen again. Also,
about our next Grand
see exactly how long you have to wait Check the blog for more!
Go west young man – The
Reverend Mr. John Meeks has moved
from the relative safety of Moscow
Tn. to the Kimball-Prescott area of
Roma
Leah Trobaugh Allen’s son David, who graduates from
Virginia Tech in May, was scheduled
to attend classes Tuesday in the very Norris Hall rooms where the shooting
tragedy took place. With
a 3.6 GPA David opted out of finals, but still retains that HOKIE spirit. Check the blog for more!
Sucky
Service – A recent MSN-ZOGBY
Customer Hall of Shame poll ranked COMCAST as the 3rd
worst.
Coming in 1st – Sprint, 2nd – Bank of
NEWS FOR THE OUT-OF-TOWNER for more, visit THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
April 2nd – Today’s
CA reports the death of Henry Clay Nall III in
Robin Nall Smith Click
For Temp. Link to Obit and Guest Book
Where
fore art thou, Global Warming – According to WREG-TV, On April 5, 1893,
the earliest occurrence of a 90-degree temperature. The WREG-TV forecast
for April 5, 2007 called
for a low of 38 with snow flurries.Thankfully, they were wrong. During the
first week of April, 2007
We’re number 2! - A
recent CA article rated
public officials per capita, behind
been created offering commemoratives with some of the better-known
colloquialisms printed there on.
Click for More
April 15th – Larry Solomon died in
a Warrior who loved everybody and was loved by all. Click and leave a comment
April 25th – Even the
cops aren’t safe. A Wake County, N.C., S.W.A.T. team in transit
to
Ar. stopped for a little taste of
at Interstate Bar-B-Que on South Third, some denizens of the dark, driving an
SUV stolen from a
Tunica casino, broke into their van. Among the eight weapons stolen were three
full-auto assault rifles
along with a cache of ammo. As of today, all but two Sig pistols have been
recovered.
Where fore art thou,
Global Warming, re dux – Gov. Phil Bredesen
has asked the USDA to declare
all of Tn’s 95 counties as disaster areas because of crop
damage caused by the unusually late
freeze. Experts predict that all of Tn’s
apples, peaches, and pears, along with most winter wheat
were destroyed.
By
the numbers 28,46 – 28 the all time record low in
2007. 46 the number
of murders in
LINKS YOU’LL LOVE
Although
Smoke Signals never contains material that would be considered
obscene, some links may occasionally contain
a word, image or other content that
might be offensive to some. Henceforth, those links will appear BLACK in color.
The Wrong Army - Mouse When "NO!!" just isn't enough Our
lives in 5 min. –
Falls
in a pile of S#*T, comes out smelling like a rose. THIS WILL BOIL
YOUR BLOOD!!- Phil
17 yr-old opens can of
whup arse on 4 thugs Better Living thru... GAZING?
Another GREAT trip back – Chuck King Christian
Inspirational – Susan Gray Drum beat
HENRY’S
CORNER
Speaking of Jay and the Americans, we were,
weren’t we? The group, with
lead singer John Traynor, began as six
classmates from
themselves “The Harbor Lites” In 1959, they released a
local hit “Is It Too
Much Too Ask”. In 1960, they signed with record moguls Jerry Leiber and Mike
Stoller. United Artist wanted to name the group Blinky Jones and the Americans,
but Traynor convinced them to use his nickname “Jay”. In 1963, after their
single “She Cried” charted
at #5, Traynor left the group and was replaced by David Blatt AKA David Black.,
AKA Jay Black. In
Oct. of ’64, “Come A Little Bit Closer” became their highest charting single at
#3. They changed their
musical approach and began covering popular singles beginning with the beautiful
“Cara Mia”, which
is probably their most remembered hit, charting at #4 in ’65. Their last single
was a cover of the
Drifter’s “There Goes My Baby” in ’71. During their career, Jay and the
Americans produced 10 singles
that charted in the top 40. Court
rulings have prevented Black from touring as “Jay and the Americans”
but allow Jay Black and the Americans.
The Internet hosts approximately 200 million blogs that are
no longer being updated. Ours
is NOT one
of those.
Depending on whom you ask, the term 86’d
refers either to the bartender’s practice of switching from
100 proof booze to 86 proof once the drinker is too intoxicated to notice the
difference. Or possibly the
term originated during prohibition, in Chumley’s speakeasy at
that a police raid was imminent, the bartender announce “86 everybody” which
meant that customers
were to leave through one door as the police were about to enter through
another.
One hit wonder Bobby “Boris” Picket”, whose
single “Monster Mash” hit # 1 on the charts in 1963 and
#3 in 1973, died April 25th of leukemia at the age of 69.
You may not agree with George Will’s
politics, but his description of the events leading up to the 1932
dustbowl
are an absolute must-read. Click for
story.