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The US nickname Uncle Sam was derived from Uncle Sam Wilson, a meat inspector in Troy, New York.
And Now You Do
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21:9, It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #184
The BigTex FFL
September 15th, 2003
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A couple of weeks ago there was a gathering of middle age grey haired men in the vicinity of the Kerens Bank that some might think strange if you did not know these guys. From all across Texas they came into the town of Kerens for their once a year gathering and a reincarnation of something long ago lost in the past. This was a gathering of the Rural League of Distinguished Gentlemen that left home in Kerens long ago, but have never forgotten their origins.
Once upon a time Robert Ivey and I were at Chris Howell’s Fish Fry in Rural Shade playing some cards with the gang. In between hands we got to talking about football and we got on the subject of this new thing we had been seeing in the Dallas newspapers called “Fantasy Football.” The Dallas Morning News was putting on a promotion and soliciting people to join up and compete with their own team. We talked about joining, but then got to thinking about it and wondered why we could not do the same thing ourselves. Why not? The biggest task was to put all the weekly stats together and get them out to the participating teams. We drew up some plans and called some old friends and the answer we got was “Lets Do It.”
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Posted by Webmaster on Thursday, June 24 @ 12:12:01 EDT (1311 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #183
Mystery Poles
April 29th, 2010
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“What in the world are all of those telephone poles sticking out of the ground?”
I have been riding back and forth to Dallas every day for many years now and sometimes people ask: “What do you do with all of that time in the car?” Well, you listen to the radio, keep up with current events, catch all the sports scores, and generally philosophize about any and everything. One other event I get to see every now and then is some new construction project along the side of the highway. I get to see the beginnings, then every single day of progress, and eventually the completion of whatever is being built. I watched Super-Walmart being built in Ennis. I have seen water towers come down and go back up in various cities along the way. New restaurants, car lots, the widening of interstate I45, the eternal work of upgrading Central Expressway in Dallas, and several other projects.
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Posted by Webmaster on Thursday, April 29 @ 11:49:29 EDT (1309 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #182
Colon my Colon
September 1st, 2003
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I passed the half-century mark last year and had to go in for that annual physical that some of us do not mind, and some of us had rather lay naked out on Main Street than go through this ordeal. Is that more of a problem with guys than gals? I wonder.
The physical went okay, but when it was over the doctor makes this casual remark: “You know this is the age where you need to get a colonoscopy. Call my nurse and lets get that scheduled in the next few weeks.”
My mind took a few seconds to process the word “colonoscopy” but as soon as it did, I was ready to go home. “Not today doc. In fact, I am real busy the next few weeks. Extremely busy.”
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Posted by Webmaster on Wednesday, January 27 @ 16:23:44 EST (1953 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #181
Corsicana Super WalMart
August 25th, 2003
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The excitement was so intense who could possibly sleep? Slowly over the days momentum had been building as the months, then weeks, then days crawled by and were diligently marked off the calendar. Would the day ever arrive was the question until finally it became time for the light of dawn to burst out on this enormous event. An event of such magnitude that history would unfold and be recorded right before our eyes.
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Posted by Webmaster on Monday, January 18 @ 15:55:27 EST (595 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #180
The March of Technology
August 18th, 2003
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I am sitting here reading over some documentation on this latest high tech new age toy I just got and am wondering how in the world I ever did without it. First one I have ever possessed and already it is ingrained in my day to day life to the point where I take it for granted even though it did not even exist a little over a year ago. In fact, now that I have one of them, I am seriously considering getting two. A pair is bound to be twice as much fun.
As you wander through the years, this type of technical leap comes along every now and then. Usually by surprise too, or maybe sneaky would be a better word. Maybe you read about it coming for a while and dismiss having any use for it until for some reason or another you get one in your hands. You use it and then do what I did. You start wandering how you ever did without it.
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Posted by Webmaster on Monday, January 11 @ 15:04:15 EST (393 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #179
Ladies Time of the Year
August 3rd, 2003
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It is that time right now this very week for the annual Kerens.Com Ladies Column, just for the Ladies and nothing but the Ladies. Focused purely on all those hard working women out there that bite their finger nails and spank the dog all spring and summer long while waiting with tremendous heart stopping anxiety for Hank Williams Jr. to bellow out those famous words:
"Are You Ready For Some Football!!"
That has got to be the deadest part of the year between February 1st immediately following the Superbowl and August 1st when the first pre-season game kickstarts a new season. Isn't that right girls? What in the world are all of your guys suppose to do with their free time when there is no football on the television set? Boring Boring Boring. You might as well teach them how to crochet during that bad time of the year.
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Posted by Webmaster on Thursday, May 07 @ 15:51:42 EDT (733 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #178
Bulldozing Johnny Scott's Cafe
August 3rd, 2003
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My first surprise this week was when I opened the Tribune and saw that Neal Williams was out of town on vacation and my column was lost within the bottomless bit bucket under his computer. The notice also said there would be a double dose of Darby this week in the newspaper. Hmmm. What in the world would I put down that would accompany those words about Main Street last week. I was already planning something for the ladies. Something about football season since that time of the year is staring at us right between the eyes. Football season is important to all of us ex-Bobcats, although I would not quite put it in the same category as the street we lived on when growing up as kids. You know, that red brick street that runs through the middle of town. Not quite a yellow brick road, but to Dorothy, it was a symbol of a road leading to home. Don’t you think? I do not have any sparkling red slippers that I wear around the house, but I still see that road as a pathway into my hometown as do so many others.
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Posted by Webmaster on Friday, May 01 @ 11:08:12 EDT (821 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #177
Main Street
July 28th, 2003
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I saw the cleanup or maybe cleandown work that is ongoing on Main Street this week as the landscape downtown continues to evolve. Lot of work left to be done yet before we see a clean brick street again.
There are many people around who did not grow up in Kerens, and maybe many younger ones that were not around when Main Street was such a central part of the life of us teenagers. During the week and of course on weekends this was the place to be when the sun went down and it was time to get out of the house and be with your classmates. If they were out of the house, then there was only one place you would find them. Making the buttons on Main Street.
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Posted by Webmaster on Monday, April 06 @ 14:16:37 EDT (610 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #176
The Burning of Main Street
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It is Monday afternoon and due to a break at work I got home early today at around 5:00 p.m. Without wasting too much time I changed clothes and fixed a cold coke on ice to sit down and ponder what this column tonight would be about. A few ideas were rolling around in my head, but nothing I had latched onto yet. That is soon to change. The phone rings and when I pick it up, Mother is on the other end and says: “There has been a big fire in downtown Kerens. Aunt Bobby is downtown right now watching buildings burn down.”
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Posted by webmaster on Monday, October 13 @ 17:24:10 EDT (765 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #175
KESA Summer Gold Tournament
July 14th, 2003
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The first K.E.S.A. summer golf tournament went down a few weeks ago and several of us ex-students from the High School of Kerens got all of the bright hot sun we could stand. It was hot. In fact, I think you could compare a few hours out in this sunshine as being highly equivalent to smoking a few packs of cigarettes. You think about it. Excessive sun exposure causes cancer. Smoking cigarettes causes cancer. But then again, if you pour enough water down a few thin mice, they will probably swoon sooner or later. In any case, I wore a broad brim hat to keep that sun from burning too badly.
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Posted by Webmaster on Tuesday, September 30 @ 11:55:24 EDT (724 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #174
Bloodied Head
July 7th, 2003
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Blood was everywhere. It covered my glasses and was running down my arms. Bright red blood is dripping off my elbows and splattering on the floor around my shoes. I stumble along feeling the wall and finally make it through the door into the restroom where soon the sink is shining red and the faucets are lined with red streaks.
I was in the weirdest accident at work recently and learned a few things about head wounds and the law in this day and age of tort reform, or maybe the absence of common sense when so many lawyers are around trying to find a hole in our legal system.
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Posted by Webmaster on Thursday, September 11 @ 16:26:29 EDT (706 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #173
July 4th & Adams & Jefferson
Jun 30th, 2003
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Last year in 2002 after the column you are about to read was published, I received a phone call from my old High School history teacher, Coach James Kelley. He told me another interesting fact about this date in history, July 4th, 1826, that I did not know. I promised then I would re-publish it again next year and add this piece of great history that makes our country so proud to fly our flag. So with a few minor updates, here it is.
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Posted by webmaster on Thursday, September 04 @ 17:52:10 EDT (742 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #172
Murder by the Book
June 23rd, 2003
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That bad day on the calendar was approaching fast. Next Friday was going to fall on June 13th and everybody knows that is the day Jason wakes up and terrorizes everybody in the world. Even the hockey players are afraid of each other on that dreadful day. In fact, this is an excellent spot on the calendar to just stay home and watch Disney movies. No doubt about it.
Then a few days earlier the phone rings and Robert Ivey on the other end poses the question: “Wanna make a trip to an author signing at Murder By The Book?” The last trip we made to that bookstore was a lot of fun so naturally: “Sure thing. What day are we going?”
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Posted by webmaster on Wednesday, September 03 @ 11:20:02 EDT (803 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #170
Amtrak South to the Alamo
June 16th, 2003
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“All Aboard” was the signal that departure time had arrived. All the bags were stowed away and time to make a trip down south to the hallowed ground of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. Back a few months ago in March we had decided to take another family vacation to Alamo country where we had visited a few years ago, but this time we decided to make it a little more interesting. Instead of heading to Waco and south down Interstate 35, we decided we would get there by heading north instead. How do you do this?
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Posted by webmaster on Tuesday, September 02 @ 11:22:36 EDT (701 reads)
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Tribune Columns: Kerens.Com #170
No Baked Potatoes
June 9th, 2003
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The name is “Atkins For Life.” For a do-it-yourself diet book, this was not bad at all. Not exactly a bestseller with Tom Clancy assassins or Stephen King monsters, but it was good reading. I have read some others such as the “Fit For Life" book, the "Eat To Win" book, and a few other odds and ends. These traditional diet books typically tell you to eat alfalfa sprouts and to prepare your own fruit juices and to buy only organically grown vegetables. No fat in anything. Also you are suppose to eat raw fish and run five miles each morning before your breakfast of grapefruit slices.
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Posted by Webmaster on Thursday, August 07 @ 14:09:02 EDT (783 reads)
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 Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
-- Frank Moore Colby
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| Tuesday, July 22 | | · | Kerens.Com #169
Student Scholarships
June 2nd, 2003 |
| Monday, June 02 | | · | Kerens.Com #168
First Time to India
May 26th, 2003 |
| Monday, April 14 | | · | Kerens.Com #167
Annika Sorenstam & Golf
May 19th, 2003 |
| Friday, April 04 | | · | Kerens.Com #166
Mother's Day at KESA
May 12th, 2003 |
| Thursday, March 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #165
Dayton Flight Museum
March 5th, 2003 |
| Tuesday, January 01 | | · | Kerens.Com #164
Speed Bumps
April 28th, 2003 |
| Thursday, December 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #163
KESA Easter Luncheon
April 21st, 2003 |
| Tuesday, November 27 | | · | Kerens.Com #162
KESA Easter Luncheon
April 14th, 2003 |
| Tuesday, November 13 | | · | Kerens.Com #161
Born in the U.S.A.
April 7th, 2003 |
| Saturday, November 03 | | · | Kerens.Com #160
Puppy Dog
March 31st, 2003 |
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