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“One Man’s Opinion”
Part I
This City Manager’s Search has been fodder for the crackpots, unin-
formed and Monday Morning Pundits for far too long. In the words of
the famous “Anton Jackson” (Damon Wayans in In Living Color), “Allow
me to Pontificate on the Sit-u-a-shun” Either hire the woman or start the search again. I have yet to
hear anyone say the Ms. Toney is doing a bad job. I have yet to hear anyone say she can’t or won’t
be successful in the future. I have yet to hear anyone say she isn’t qualified. So what’s the holdup?

No matter what you do Council Members, someone is going to be unhappy. Either unhappy, now or
unhappy later. Let’s get on with it. Hire her or do a new search. Wouldn’t it be poetic if Ms. Toney
removed herself from the running? That would be one way for her to show leadership. Remove her-
self and Force the council into some sort of definitive action. Offer her the job or start again. Hey you
could always hire me. Oops, I probably couldn’t get the million dollar bond either. I wonder how
many people here in Savannah could. What about it complainers, can you get a million dollar bond
and for that fact are YOU qualified to run the city?

Part II
“In my best Anton Jackson voice”, “Now lesh talk the Po Peoples Court, I meanz the DA’s Office”. A
lot has been made of the turnover since the ne DA was elected. Admittedly it does seem to be be-
yond the norm. What is normal is for a new administration to come in and make changes, sometimes
drastic changes. This I know from experience, from having being caught up in change to being the
one making the change.

Often times these changes are need to increase efficiency, boost morale, be financially responsible
or sometimes just to get rid of dead weight and toxicity. I don’t know what the root cause is of these
employee departures and I won’t hazard to guess as a lot of people have. I do know that the “only
constant IS change” and we should keep an eye on this department to see if we have lost any pro-
ductivity or competency or is just in flux only to settle in on a higher plane. In other words, “Shut Up
and Wait to see what Happens”.

Just, One Man’s Opinion.

“Live Long and Prosper”

Ronald A. Gilliard, Publisher

Thanks Savannah, for 12 Years of the HOT SPOT!

  

          

                      

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Laughs
"Hello, is this the Sheriff's Office?"
"Yes. What can I do for you?"
"I'm calling to report 'bout my neighbor
Virgil Smith. He's hidin' marijuana in-
side his firewood! Don't quite know
how he gets it inside them logs, but he's
hidin' it there."
"Thank you very much for the call, sir."
The next day, the Sheriff's Deputies de-
scend on Virgil's house. They search the
shed where the firewood is kept Using
axes, they bust open every piece of
wood, but find no marijuana. They
sneer at Virgil and leave.
Shortly, the phone rings at Virgil's
house.
"Hey, Virgil! This here's Floyd. Did the
Sheriff come?"
"Yeah!"
"Did they chop your firewood?"
"Yep!"
"Happy Birthday, Buddy!"
A telephone rang. "Hello! Is your
phone number 444-4444?"
"Yes, it is," came the reply.
"Thank God! Could you call 911
for me? I super-glued my finger to
the phone."
Laughs
Words Not Yet In The Dictionary
ACCORDIONATED (ah kor' de on ay tid) adj. Being
able to drive and refold a road map at the same time.
AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks' trus) adj. Possess-
ing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off
with your toes.
AQUALIBRIUM (ak wa lib' re um) n. The point
where the stream of drinking fountain water is at its
perfect height, thus relieving the drinker from having
to suck the nozzle, or (b) squirting himself in the eye.
BURGACIDE (burg' uh side) n. When a hamburger
can't take any more torture and hurls itself through
the grill into the coals.
BUZZACKS (buz' aks) n. People in phone marts who
walk around picking up display phones and listening
for dial tones even when they know the phones are
not connected.
CARPERPETUATION (kar' pur pet u a shun) n. The
act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a
piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and
picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down
to give the vacuum one more chance.
DIMP (dimp) n. A person who insults you in a cheap
department store by asking, "Do you work here?"
DISCONFECT (dis kon fekt') v. To sterilize the piece
of candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it,
somehow assuming this will 'remove' all the germs.
ECNALUBMA (ek na lub' ma) n. A rescue vehicle
which can only be seen in the rearview mirror.
EIFFELITES (eye' ful eyetz) n. Gangly people sitting
in front of you at the movies who, no matter what
direction you lean in, follow suit.
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 Timeline of Slavery in Savannah and Georgia
1733: The colony of Georgia is founded without slavery, the only one of the original 13 to approve
its prohibition.

Early 1750s: Bowing to years of economic pressure from Georgia colonists who wanted, like their
neighbors in South Carolina, to raise such lucrative but labor-intensive crops as rice and cotton, the
Trustees agree to lift the ban on slavery.

1760s-1770s: Savannah becomes an important entry port for slave ships from Africa.

1787: With slaves accounting for about half of Georgia's population, the state's delegates to the
Constitutional Convention serve as strong advocates for the provisions that protected slavery.

1790: The state's slave population is 29,264.

1793: Eli Whitney, a tutor at Mulberry Grove Plantation, changes the face of the South, and the
fate of millions of people, when he invents the cotton gin.

1800: The state's slave population is 59,699.

1810: The state's slave population is 105,218.

1820: The state's slave population is 149,656.

June of 1820: The Antelope, a slave ship seized off the coast of Florida by a U.S. Treasury cutter,
docks in Savannah. The decision on what to do with the 300 or so Africans that were aboard the
ship wanders through the court system for several years and eventually reaches the U.S. Supreme
Court. Finally, in 1827, 131 Africans were sent to Liberia, and freedom; another 37 Africans were
kept in the United States and sold into slavery.

1840: The state's slave population is 280,944.

1850: Savannah's slave population is some 5,700, about half of the city's total figure.

1858-60: Savannah is the site for two still-notorious incidents involving slavery. The first, the trial
of the men who unloaded a cargo of some 400 slaves from Africa on Jekyll Island, played out at the
U.S. Customs House on Bay Street. The second, the sale of some 430 slaves belonging to Georgia
planter Pierce Butler on a long-closed racetrack on the west side, is now known as "the weeping
time."

1860: The state's slave population is 462,198, representing 44 percent of the total figure.

SOURCES: New Georgia Encyclopedia; Savannah Morning News files.

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Laughs Laughs
Life's Crazy Rules I tried that thing today at the gas station
* Lerman's Law of Technology: Any technical problem can be
overcome given enough time and money. Corollary: You are
where you try and stop the pump bang on
never given enough time or money. what you want to pay, but let it go a fraction
too late and it stopped on $20.03.
* Murphy's First Law for Wives: If you ask your husband to
pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an
afterthought, he will forget two of the first five. "Rats!" I shouted and walked into the shop
* Law of the Search: The first place to look for anything is the
to pay.
last place you would expect to find it. Corollary: It will not be in
the last place you expect to find it. "Unlucky, pal," smiled the attendant, who'd
* Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation: The less important seen what I'd done. "Don't worry about the
you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is extra."
noticed.

* The Salary Axiom: The pay raise is just large enough to in-
"Thanks, pal," I said as I handed him my
crease your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on ten bucks and split.
your take-home pay.

* Miller's Law of Insurance: Insurance covers everything except

what happens.
I was at a once in a lifetime corpo-
* First Law of Living: As soon as you start doing what you al-
ways wanted to be doing, you'll want to be doing something
rate hospitality at a premier football
else. game and I got an urgent call from
* Weiner's Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross- the wife saying her mom's been hit
references.
by a bus and has only hours to live.
* Isaac's Strange Rule of Staleness: Any food that starts out hard
will soften when stale. Any food that starts out soft will harden
when stale. Fifteen minutes later, I'm at the
* Kenny's Law of Auto Repair: The part requiring the most con- hospital and the wife's hugging me.
sistent repair or replacement will be housed in the most inacces-
sible location.
"Thank-you darling, I'm so sorry
* Second Law of Business Meetings: If there are two possible
you'll miss your football."
ways to spell a person's name, you will pick the wrong one. Cor-
ollary - If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it
wrong anyway. "Don't worry, love, I wouldn't miss
* The Grocery Bag Law: The candy bar you planned to eat on this - I'm taping it and I'll watch it
the way home from the market is hidden at the bottom of the
grocery bag.
later."
* Yeager's Law: Washing machines break down only during the
wash cycle. Corollary: All breakdowns occur on the plumber's Dunno why she got so upset when I
day off.
started setting up the camcorder.
* Lampner's Law of Employment: When leaving work late, you
will go unnoticed. When you leave work early, you will meet
the boss in the parking lot.

* Quile's Consultation Law: The job that pays the most will be
offered when there is no time to deliver the services.
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Laughs
After shopping for most of the day, a cou-
ple returns to find their car has been stolen.
They go to the police station to make a full
report. Then, a detective drives them back
to the parking lot to see if any evidence
can be found at the scene of the crime. To
their amazement, the car has been returned.

There is an envelope on the windshield

with a note of apology and two tickets to a
music concert. The note reads, "I apologize
for taking your car, but my wife was hav-
ing a baby and I had to hot-wire your igni-
tion to rush her to the hospital. Please for-
give the inconvenience. Here are two tick-
ets for tonight's concert of Garth Brooks,
the country-and-western music star."

Their faith in humanity restored, the cou-

ple attend the concert and return home late.
They find their house has been robbed.
Valuable goods have been taken from
thoughout the house, from basement to
attic. And, there is a note on the door read-
ing, "Well, you still have your car. I have
to put my newly born kid through college
somehow, don't I?"
Laughs
A new manager spends a week at his new of-
fice with the manager he is replacing. On the
last day the departing manager tells him, "I
have left three numbered envelopes in the desk
drawer. Open an envelope if you encounter a
crisis you can't solve."
Three months down the track there is a major
drama, everything goes wrong - the usual stuff
- and the manager feels very threatened by it
all. He remembers the parting words of his
predecessor and opens the first envelope. The
message inside says "Blame your predeces-
sor!" He does this and gets off the hook.
About half a year later, the company is experi-
encing a dip in sales, combined with serious
product problems. The manager quickly opens
the second envelope. The message read,
"Reorganize!" This he does, and the company
quickly rebounds.
Three months later, at his next crisis, he opens
the third envelope. The message inside says
"Prepare three envelopes".
"Can you tell me how much you
charge?", said the client.
"Of course", the lawyer replied, "I
charge $200 to answer three ques-
tions!"
"Well that's a bit steep, isn't it?"
"Yes it is", said the lawyer, "And what's
your third question?"
Laughs
Little Johnny was sitting on a park bench
munching on one candy bar after another.
After the sixth one a man on the bench
across from him said, "Son, you know eating
all that candy isn't good for you. It will give
you acne, rot your teeth, and make you fat."
Little Johnny replied, "My grandfather lived
to be 107 years old."
The man asked, "Did your grandfather eat
six candy bars at a time?"
Little Johnny answered, "No, he minded his
own business!"
Murphy's Real Laws
1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't
have film.
2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
3. A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
4. Change is inevitable, except from a vending ma-
chine.
5. Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in re-
verse?
6.I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar terri-
tory.
7. When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
8. Seen it all, done it all. Can't remember most of it.
9. Those who live by the sword get shot by those
who don't.
10. I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel uni-
verse.
11. He's not dead. He's electroencephalographically
challenged.
12. She's always late. In fact, her ancestors arrived
on the "Juneflower."
13. You have the right to remain silent. Anything
you say will be misquoted and used against you.
14. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be
without sponges.
15. Honk if you love peace and quiet.
16. Pardon my driving, I'm reloading.
17. Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how
it remains so popular?
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SUDOKU
The rules of Sudoku are simple. Enter
digits from 1 to 9 into the
blank spaces. Every row must contain
one of each digit. So must
every column, as must every 3x3
square. Each Sudoku has a
unique solution that can be reached
logically without guessing.
The Solution is at the end of the Book.
No Peeking.
Laughs Laughs

Tim O'Rourke was walking his Irish
Setter in the country side. He picked
up a stick and threw it, the dog went
and retrieved it and brought it back.
Tim then threw it in a different direc-
tion and the dog once again went and
retrieved it and brought it back. Tim
then threw it in another direction and
it landed in a small lake. The dog
went down to the water's edge,
walked across the water, picked up
the stick and brought it back.
My mother and I returned to my parents'
house late one evening to find my father,
my college-age brother, Steven, and my ten
-year-old sister fast asleep.
Mom had forgotten her house keys, so we
knocked loudly, first at the back door and
then the front and side doors. We yelled my
father's name over and over, with no an-
swer. The car horn aroused the neighbors
but no one at our house. We drove into
town and phoned home, finally waking Ste-
ven.

Well, Tim was astounded. He couldn't When we got back, he let us in. Dad was in
believe what he had seen and threw bed, snoring, with the television on. Mom
stick in the lake again, and the dog quietly switched it off. Dad woke right up.
once again walked across the water to
bring the stick back. As he went into "Don't turn that off," he said. "I'm watching
town, he promised that he would it!"
show his dog's wonderful new trick to
the first person he came across.
Sudoku Solution
Once in town the first person the dog
owner came across was the town
drunk Declan Dunphy. Tim dragged
Declan to the lake to show him what
his dog could do. Once again, the dog
owner threw the stick into the small
lake and the dog went to the water's
edge, walked across the water, picked
up the stick and brought it back to it's
owner.

Once the drunk saw that, he turned to

the dog owner and said; "Why that's
great, mister! But when are you going
to teach your dog how to swim?"
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