From FB:
“My awesome ’81 Honda Accord outside the old house on Poplar Forest Drive in RVA.
Why I was still carrying around my high school varsity jacket when I was in college, I have no idea…”
Richmond, Virginia (1991)
MEG Wrestling ’88 -’89
From FB:
“A friend posted this today. Still to this day very proud (even though I got destroyed in the first round by some hulking bruiser from Lake Braddock…)”
P.S.
1. They misspelled my name.
2. They guy who ended up winning Regionals at 160 lb. was the same guy I pinned in 53 seconds earlier in the year. I’m sure he was a better overall wrestler than I was, but I sure surprised him in that match. Nevertheless, while I was looking forward to a rematch in Regionals, I got overconfident and beaten by a kid from Freeman I’d crushed earlier in the year. I ended up placing 3rd in a hard fought contest against a kid from Clover Hill to whom I’d lost twice previously, but never got to wrestle the eventual champion from J.R. Tucker.
Life’s funny that way.
Mirabile Dictu
Interjection
mirabile dictu
- Wonderfully, amazingly; remarkable to relate.
“The player places one on a little platform and — mirabile dictu — the character appears on the screen.”
Gardyloo
Interjection
gardyloo
- (Scotland, obsolete) Used by people in medieval Scotland to warn passers-by of waste about to be thrown from a window into the street below. The term was still in use as late as the 1930s and 1940s, when many people had no indoor toilets.
Noun
gardyloo (plural gardyloos)
- (Scotland, historical) A cry of “gardyloo”.
- An act of discarding waste or some other substance from a height.
Shelly Keys
Son of my GG Grandfather, Campbell H. Taylor of Coffeyville, KS.
Foofaraw
foo·fa·raw
/ˈfo͞ofəˌrô/
INFORMAL
noun
- 1.a great deal of fuss or attention given to a minor matter.
- 2.showy frills added unnecessarily.
Song Of Ajax 