Women and Cats...

Jeanie noted this sign in Bob Evans lobby this morning:

"Women and Cats will do whatever they want and men and dogs should just relax and get used to it."

I thought when I was a child that all dogs were male and all cats were female. Could I have been right back then?

Sam

Jack & Sam regarding Portsmouth Area Beautiful Women

Don't I, and Jeanie, know of my eye for beautiful women, Jack. I read her your comment just now and - guess what- she blushed and appreciated it very much. She said "You Portsmouth guys (she is a New Bostoner) are all ornery."

You and Jeanie make me go deep in philosophy on this one. Sexuality, as we humans know and sometimes do not articulate, makes the world go around. The male is the hunter and the female is the quest. Strange that the very beautifully effeminate creatures do not want unsolicited advances from the hunters.

Yet they wear more than subtly beguiling outfits which we sometimes take a sideways glance at. Uh... well... Then we are the sadists, the slobbering idiot molesters. The philosophers tell us that rapists, which I could never be, have a hatred for females and are expressing that in their untoward actions upon the girls. Most of us have had great mothers whom we may even rarely have disagreed with, but whom also we have loved and respected deeply. My mother, Mary Eleanor Kegley, was just such a beautiful woman.

God knew all of this in the beginning; however that beginning started, even of our God! I like to believe and I do believe that He loved us so much even in our iniquities, that He sent his son as our great Teacher of how to live with each other- even male and female.

I thank God for my Jeanie's beauty which is far more than this Mound Park Urchin ever deserved in life.

Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: Jack H Plymale
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: 2008-11-09 08:22
Subject: Re:
Sam, You have an eye for beautiful women and you can tell your wife I said so. Bea was indeed a lovely young woman. The Spriggs guys also had an older sister who might well have been the prettiest woman in Portsmouth. I'm almost sure she was older than John and ,I think, her name was Sarah. She rode the Mabert Rd, bus also and I used to make myself all kinds of promises when she would get on the bus. That Spriggs family was a classy bunch of people till they got down to the last one.( You can tell ol' Flip I said that)
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Sam Kegley <skegley@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
Yes I remember Gene and Herb "Hob Knob" heath. Hob Knob got his name from playing a pin ball machine with that name down on eleventh Street, according to Flip Spriggs. They had a beautiful sister named Bea. Bea was a prettier Lauren Bacall.

Sam


----- Original Message -----
From: Jack H Plymale
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: 2008-11-08 16:14
Sam a guy that I have never mentioned who spent a lot of time in the park, was a good athlete but very light. Majored in foriegn commerce at OSU and spent practically the rest of his life in So. America and Guatemala making lots of money is Gene Heath. He was a red hot pool player. Although he had the GI bill he still payed a lot of his way through school shooting pool. When you can win up there, you are good. I've forgotten what they called his brother. He was a good guy too but a little slow. We called Gene ,Heater all the time. You might remember him by that name.-- Jack P.-- Jack P.

Phyllis Orth Sparks reply to "Reminisences"

Sam, I enjoyed reading this e-mail and reminiscing about the good old days. We probably didn't think they were so good at the time but as we get older they really were. I remember quite a few of the ones mentioned in this e-mail.My husband and I went to a book signing at the Portsmouth Library today. (Sat.).Dick Burdette had written a revised book on "The Waterloo Wonders". I have his first book on it, I forget the year it was published. They were a tough team. I thought you and Dick Klitch would be there and I had a picture of Dreamland Pool for each of you. It is the same size of the PHS placemat I gave you. Two places that should have never been torn down. They tore down the Greyhound Bus Station last month. Portsmouth has very few landmarks still standing so sad. Take care.Phyllis Orth SparksSam, I am a year older than the last time I saw you, I am "plenty nine" now.. ha ha .

We are getting older, Phyllis, but, not to worry, Jack Plymale still considers that we are youngsters. Everything is relative!

Dick nor I knew of Dick Burdette's latest book signing. Like many, I used to have the Waterloo Wonders book, but can't find my copy. I probably loaned it to a friend. I had suggested to Dick and Jenny Lavender that Dick should have WW reprinted. I am sure a lot of people want copies of the new book.

Sam