Sedline for Jan. 7-8
“We disagree with Circuit Judge Paul Beard concerning bingo located in the former cafeteria at the junior high. We don’t feel bingo will influence the students at all, and the booster club helps the students tremendously. Some students will do what they want, when they want.”
“This is a safety alert for all the people who think they can walk through the street at night. ... Please, they make sidewalks for a reason. Don’t walk in the street at night, and if you think the headlights are making you visible, they’re not. We can’t see you until we’re right up on you.”
“What is it about these 911 calls? ... C’mon people, what are we supposed to do? ... The whole world is going to get us by our boo-boo now.”
“I’d like to thank the young fellow who stopped to help me when my car was broken down on Route TT and Highway 50 ... It was early in the morning and traffic was heavy and it was a bad position to be in. This young man, I hope the favor comes back to him many times.”
“I enjoyed reading the column that Susan Fischer wrote that you put in the Christmas eve edition of the paper. I think it is time to rerun all of those columns ... They are so enlightening and bring back such good memories of her.”
“No one knows how to have fun at the karaoke bars. Everybody thinks you have to sing like Elvis or Waylon Jennings. Most of the people are drunk in the audience, or just plain dumb or airheads who listen to rap or hip-hop music. ... The bar business is no longer what it used to be.”
“After many false alarms, businesses should be charged a fee. .... The taxpayers should not have to pay for these false alarms.”
“I think if the deer are shot out at the Sedalia airport, the deer should be processed and the meat donated to the local food pantry.”
“If you are going to put a fence around the airport, you better make it mighty high. Deer do jump, in case you don’t know.”
“Show-me Missouri, show-me Sedalia, where justice resides somehow in injustice, and people get 120 days in prison for manufacturing meth above my child’s school, and then my child’s father gets nine years in prison for possession of a pipe and stolen goods he never had.”
“I just got Saturday’s paper and I saw the top 10 sports stories for 2011. How can you pick a team that went 14-11 for No. 6? I don’t see anything great about that.”
“The Frosty Buns Run was sponsored by Josie’s Tiki Bar.”
“Travis McMullen’s columns alone are worth the price of admission.”
“2011 was a pretty good year, considering the economy and such, until December came along and Adco told me to pack up and get out. Not the best Christmas present I received. Hopefully 2012 will be better.”
“Our headlines in the Democrat have been the same headlines for years and years. C’mon, Democrat, let’s get some different stories going.”
“I’ve been working extra hard for the last three weeks nonstop and the devil’s been after me. I can’t find my crackers. I really can’t. I had my cracker box yesterday.”
“I don’t know how many people get these brag letters at Christmas. All they do is tell you about where they’ve been and what they did all year. I don’t care where they’ve been and what they’ve done, I don’t care if they went to the moon and back. I don’t like something like that. If they want to brag about it, why don’t they brag it to themselves?”
“What are the chances that the Cole Camp school board has the gumption to hire an outsider for the new superintendent? Hmm, slim and none would be my guess. Word is it’s a done deal.”
“Old people do need spittoons. The brass spittoons need to come back.”
