Month: August 2009

Entertainment, Fun, Sports4 Comments

“Your best entertainment value in town”

Tim May

DSCF5254That’s a line I’ve used for years in closing the pre-game announcements and prior to kickoff of Lake Dallas High School’s “Falcon Football Friday Night”

Five times a year, I have a bit of fun doing the PA for home football games. None of my extended  family have heard “the voice of the Falcons” (keep in mind that this is what the athletic director has called me for a very long time…I’m still trying to figure out whether that’s a good voice or a bad one; he’s never really said). FS heard me last on the PA in the fall of 1999; FD heard me last year when she was back for her 10-year reunion; Deb…well she’s in that school of athletics-not-for-me. Her last time may have been when FD was cheering her senior year. Continue reading ““Your best entertainment value in town””

Fun, Humor7 Comments

I don’t want to run anymore, Forrest

Tim May

So it is on this day – today – I receive an email from “Runners World” magazine. It starts out saying this:

You’re a runner. Whether you run for your health, to lose weight, or the sheer joy of hitting the road, running is an important part of who you are – and who you want to be. And no one makes it easier to get more out of your passion for running than RUNNER’S WORLD. Continue reading “I don’t want to run anymore, Forrest”

Email Humor Received (EHR), Humor, Life3 Comments

EHR: Wisdoms, Questions, and Findings

Tim May

From OFNi Dani – I don’t get emails from her often, but she and I, we’re both standing on the same peg on the humor ladder. So when her funny emails do come in, they are usually tear-wipers for me:

  1. I wish Google Maps had an “Avoid Ghetto” routing option.
  2. More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
  3. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. Continue reading “EHR: Wisdoms, Questions, and Findings”
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Moral courage, moral cowardice

Tim May

I will be the first to admit I can be annoyingly addicted to business advice, leadership education, and becoming an overall better guy. Advice taken to heart recently – please know, despite what you may have heard, I strive for moral courage in both my personal and professional daily life:

From Nashville Business Journal, Nancy Reece Guest Column on Friday July 31, 2009

Strategies

Making the right call can make all the difference

Jim was a self-described “yeller.” He knew he yelled, but rationalized his yelling with the phrase, “That’s who I am.”

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Education, Family, Government, Life, Money, politics, ReligionLeave a comment

ERR: “You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

Tim May

I get, on nearly a daily basis, emails proclaiming the sky is falling and life is seemingly not worth living with the current political forces in play. Some exclamations are quite humorous, some are shameful, some will make you sick that civil people would actually forward such nonsense, some are good, some are worthy of my commentary. This one came today:

This is probably the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read. This is one paragraph that should be in every book in every school room in every city in every state in our great Union . Our educators should make a lesson plan on this one statement and beat these words into every head in every class in every state in these United States of America .

Profound short paragraph:  “You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.  When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”   Adrian Rogers, 1931-2005

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EHR – Be not so quick to judge

Tim May

from the Todd-man:

A new pastor was visiting in the homes of his parishioners.  At one house it seemed obvious that someone was at home, but no answer came to his repeated knocks at the door.

Therefore, he took out a business card and wrote ‘Revelation 3:20’ on the back of it and stuck it in the door.

When the offering was processed the following Sunday, he found that his card had been returned.  Added to it was this cryptic message, ‘Genesis 3:10. Continue reading “EHR – Be not so quick to judge”

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Yes it’s true…

Tim May

…the Eagles have a Vick.

Please excuse my amateur attempt of humor in varying a line from Ghostbusters, but it is the professional National Football League, aka NFL – Nuts, Felones, and Lifers, that gives us the most humorless story of the week.

One of my favorite radio talk shows is a local duo – Ernie and Jay. Friday, they devoted much of their midday talk show to the NFL, Philadelphia Eagles, and Michael Vick.  Hey! How did he get out of jail, being a felone and all, long before the Jackson family decides to bury Micheal (and what’s up with that?)?

Continue reading “Yes it’s true…”

Email Humor Received (EHR), Humor1 Comment

EHR – Elderly patron bank letter

Tim May

 

Now this is a prime example of a long-time-ago prior posting of mine, complaining about the general lack of Raving Fan service with today’s entitlement generation. Email Humor Received (EHR) from Shawn, by way of somebody else I’m sure:

Shown below, is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by an 86-year old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times.

Dear Sir:

I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavored to pay my plumber last month. Continue reading “EHR – Elderly patron bank letter”