Tag Archives: Alabama

Alabama Tornadoes

3/2/2007 – 5:51 pm

Many of you are probably currently familiar with hearing about the tornado that hit Enterprise, Alabama yesterday. What you might not realize is that my wife and I both graduated from the high school that was leveled in that storm system. [...]

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Katrina

9/2/2005 – 12:59 pm

I have a lot of family in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately, my closest relatives — my mother, father, step-father, grandmother, plus some aunts, uncles, and first cousins — were not in the most heavily affected areas. [...]

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Redneck

6/6/2005 – 1:06 pm

I’m a redneck.

Not because I was born in Alabama and spent most of my life there. And not because I now live in Georgia. And definitely not in the sense of chawin’ tobaccy and watching NASCAR.

I’m a redneck because I spent most of hottest portion of Sunday out in the hot sun. [...]

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The Car Tag Saga

10/15/2004 – 11:20 am

(Or: Come and See The Idiocy Inherent in the System!)

Last updated: Feb 22, 2005

April 20, 1999

On Tuesday April 20, 1999, I went down to my local courthouse to renew my car tag (license plate). [...]

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Boll Weevil History

12/11/2003 – 2:08 pm

The World Famous Boll Weevil Monument

Boll Weevil Honored

On December 11, 1919, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields but forced residents to end their dependence on cotton and to pursue mixed farming and manufacturing. [...]

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Peanut Heaven

10/31/2003 – 9:59 am

It’s once again time for the National Peanut Festival, held in Dothan, Alabama.

Wow. Their web site really sucks. I was going to say some other things about the Peanut Festival, but that page threw off my groove. [...]

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Axis of Weevil

8/30/2003 – 9:56 am

Yay, I’m in!

CONGRATULATIONS, Dougal, and as with all of our new members, you will receive your very own World Famous Axis of Weevil Gift Pack, containing a slab of Dreamland ribs, a gallon jug of Milo’s sweet tea; a G-Lox Wedgee gun rack from Mark’s Outdoor Sports for your sweetie-pie’s Explorer, a package of Bubba’s Beef Jerky (according to Dr. [...]

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