MrTonkle
Joined: 01/17/2006
Posts: 31
Location: Rome, Ga
Occupation: Sorting out other people's problems
Bio:
Started off here, moved along, came back, moved along, came back again. Learned that no matter where you go, there you are; which, in all reality, is all wrong, because no matter where "there" is, once you get "there", "there" becomes "here". Childern ask, "are we there yet"? I reply, "we'll never get there, but if we ever do, we'll be here". They just stare at me... Time traveller's children ask a different question of course... "are we then yet"?

Recent Comments by MrTonkle
The Watercooler
06/27/2007 06:12:35 AM
Rosie O'ShockValue has posted a picture of her adopted daughter wearing a bandoleer, and claims that the girl and her brothers were "just playing army".

Excuse me? I'm lead to believe that at any give time, one could walk into the children's rooms and find toy implements of destruction? Rosie's kids own toy guns?

I'm sorry, but I don't buy that. Rosie has "used" her adopted daughter to post what Rosie considers a "shock" image (quite rightly it appears, from reading the whiny posts on her blog).

Way to go, Miss Piggy, use your kids to further your whacked out agenda.

The price you pay for doing this to your adopted daughter is wrong.

What makes me mad in Floyd County is...
06/24/2007 07:37:06 AM
I looked up the watering restrictions, and it's outdoor water use that's banned. So on the other hand, outdoor water use is okay during prescribed times. These times being midnight to 10 am on every other day. Which, I can't remember, but I do remember no usage is allowed on Fridays. Also, if you just sodded your yard, you can water daily (except on Fridays) for a month so the sod takes. But this is in the city. The county has it where you can only water on weekends, though I don't remember what the deal is with newly laid sod.

http://www.gaepd.org/Files_PDF/rules/rules_exist/391-3-30.pdf
Thank you!
06/08/2007 11:49:54 PM
Thank you to our Armed Forces. Come home carrying your shield son, not on it, please!
What makes me mad in Floyd County is...
06/08/2007 11:47:18 PM
The wells around here are drying up, people. The drought is that bad.
Judge Colston tosses Craton case against Coosa Country Club
06/08/2007 08:52:25 PM
I have no love for the blatantly wealthy, especially those who desire to band together and keep out the riff raff, but in this case, seeing as my interpretation of Craton's actions was, "in your face!!! I can be anywhere I want to, and you can't stop me", I love it, because in effect, the club's response is, "IN YOUR FACE, WE'RE A PRIVATE CLUB, AND WE JUST DO NOT CARE FOR YOU AT ALL. NOW GO AWAY". On the other hand, one must look at it from a business stand point. I'd imagine that tremendous pressure was brought on the officials of the club to remove Craton, and they basically were told, "that one family leaves or we all leave". Guess what happens in such a situation? It don't take no Einstein to figure that one out. Hey Craton, start a nudist colony in Waycross!!! Hell, everything else down there's de-nuded lmao. Fire, de-nuded, get it? God, I kill me.
What makes me mad in Floyd County is...
06/07/2007 03:58:54 PM
Brian, the US has the lowest water rates in the industrialized world. While you see Comcast stringing up new lines, AGL laying new mains, etc. no one ever replaces water and sewer mains. Why? Because we have the lowest water rates in the industrialized world. But that's not all. Our beloved leaders take the profits the folks over at the water department make, and use it for whatever they feel it needs to be used for. One would imagine that, with this extra cash on hand, that one's property taxes would be less, no? Well, they aren't. So, our beloved leaders come up with budgets for long term developments, let's call it "Swindler's List", and lo and behold, some big business that used to use a lot of water closes. Well heck, there goes the cash cow! So the rates go up. I hate it, too, because I don't like paying more for anything. And as far as the foot bridge? Why in tarnation ain't they gonna build a traffic bridge instead? And they're building a "green spot" on prime parking space (of course there'll be a parking deck, but still...)? I just don't get it, personally, but them fellers make more than I do, so they got to know something we don't know, right? Hey, I wonder if water expands as much as gasoline does when it gets hot? :)
Disappearance of Theresa Parker, 911 dispatcher in Walker County
04/11/2007 06:09:55 AM
Okay, that was pointless. I'll post what I've heard, because you never know if it's a rumor or fact or a mix. I don't know all the names, but here goes. Chaffin knows approximately when it was done. He was on the phone with the husband, who said that "if she doesn't shut up, I'm going to blow her head off and dump her in a river". Chaffin told him to calm down, that he'd be right over. By the time Chaffin got there, she was dead, and Chaffin helped hubby clean up.

Truth or rumor, it's what I was told by someone who works in that area in a role where he comes into contact with people who could very well know a lot more than is being told.

If this horrifies any family members, my apologies.
Disappearance of Theresa Parker, 911 dispatcher in Walker County
04/11/2007 06:03:34 AM
The butler did it. Dumped her in a river.
The Watercooler
03/20/2007 07:48:34 PM
Um, I hear that in the Arctic, your pea freezes before it hits the ground.

*me lightening up*
Possible Mohawk dye plant closing could affect water rate
03/20/2007 07:46:20 PM
Wow, I killed a thread. Sorry about that.