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Bits’n’Pieces
Welcome back to Bits’n’Pieces, a weekly look at some of the interesting, funny, comical and sometimes outright weird things that happen in and around Montgomery County. Have something you think should go into Bits? E-mail it to us at [email protected], won’t you please?
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CAN YOU believe Thanksgiving is just about a week away? Us neither!
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HERE’S A TIP of our buddy Honest Hoosier’s seed corn cap to the Wabash College Little Giants, winners of this year’s Monon Bell battle with arch-rival DePauw. We often kid (and take the home team’s side), but the truth is those are two very fine schools and we salute each for upholding the very best in intercollegiate athletics.
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IT’S NOT a huge deal, but rumor has it that Honest Hoosier is preparing a special walk down memory lane for the Christmas season. Stay tuned after the calendar turns to December!
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PREPARATIONS are already beginning for Crawfordsville’s annual celebration that officially kicks off the Christmas season – Party Night! Stay tuned, but if you are like most of us we can’t wait!
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DID YOU hear that a new movie is coming out about famous musical composers? Apparently Matt Damon is going to play Mozart and Billy Bob Thornton is going to be Beethoven. Someone asked Arnold Schwarzenegger who he wanted to be and he (wait for it) said, “I’ll be Bach.”
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WE’VE SAID it in this space before, but please do patronize advertisers in The Paper. If it wasn’t for them, there would be no daily edition. We truly appreciate local business and we hope you do, too!
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AS IS OUR custom, we’re looking for some great holiday displays. If you see one, or if you are the proud owner, please send us a photo with some details, or let us know an address. We’ll try to pass along some of the best ones as we get them.
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SPEAKING OF . . . wouldn’t it be neat to see a drive-thru winter wonderland in our city park – much like Waynetown, or Frankfort, or a number of other places? Just saying . . .
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OK, AS LONG as we are doing some early Christmas wishin’ how about a Santa’s Workshop on the courthouse veranda? The tree every year looks nice, but how neat would it be if there was a small wooden structure with Santa and a helper inside? Kids could visit, sit on his lap and tell the jolly ol’ elf what they want for Christmas. Again, just saying . . .
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THAT MIGHT ALSO solve the annual argument over which business gets Santa on Party Night.
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ONE MORE Christmas note, you won’t be reading any “happy holidays” in this space. We’re all about celebrating the religious side of the holiday, the fun side and all the other sides, too. That does not mean we are putting anyone else down. It’s a shame that celebrating one thing has turned into people thinking you are opposed to others, isn’t it?
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THERE ARE probably a lot of us who enjoyed that first snowfall earlier this week (somewhat). There’s always some magic and wonder to the first time we see big ol’ fluffy flakes coming down. Pretty sure most of us will feel differently come February.
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IF YOU ARE marking down things to do for Christmas, don’t forget the Depot in Linden. Word is that there are some pretty cool things in their 12th annual Christmas Open House. Hmmmm. There might even be a story about it somewhere in this here pages today!
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SPEAKING OF other pages today – please be sure to read Joyce Fitzwater’s guest column about the Community Christmas Dinner, and how if some others don’t step up it might be the last year. Joyce and her helpers have taken on this chore for quite a while and have done so admirably. We hope people listen to her message and find it in their heart to help come up with an answer. What about some of our great community organizations? Wouldn’t this be an awesome project for a community fraternal organization or club?
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ANYONE PLANNING on cutting back the Thanksgiving meal because of rising prices? If so, let us know please.
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MUMOCO! Mask Up, Montgomery County!
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VUMOCO! Vax Up Montgomery County!
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FOR OUR riddle this week: I am a five-letter word. I sounds the same when you remove my first letter. I sound the same when you remove my third letter. I sound the same when you remove my last letter, and I sound the same when you remove all three. Which word am I?
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OK, CONTINUING the knock-knock jokes (and getting in the “spirit” of the season . . .
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Tarzan.
Tarzan who?
Tarzan and Stripes forever! And I don’t know of a more patriotic paper than the one you are reading right now!
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HERE’S AN interesting tidbit from one of our favorite publications (besides The Paper of Montgomery County, of course), the Farmer’s Almanac. It says that if birds and badgers are fat in October, expect a cold winter. Well folks, we saw a lot of fat birds this year! Another ditty said that in olden times, it was always believed that Oct. 28 would be rainy. And sure enough, a quick check showed we did have sprinkles.
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CONTINUING our official countdown . . .
Party Night – 10 days
First Day of winter – 34
Christmas – 38 days
First day of spring – 123 days
First day of summer – 216 days
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THE ANSWER to our riddle: Empty. (Empty, mpty, emty, emp-t, m t.)