So, I’m checked in at work, met my bosses, and like my coworkers. By all accounts, it’s a perfect start to a new assignment. I get ahold of my realtor, and we plan to go start lookin’ for “Rancho Tripler-o” on the morrow.
But I keep noticing these freaky acronyms on posters in business signs: “EDIMGIAFAD”
Everytime I go to the front of my hotel, there’s a place across the street: “EDIMGIAFAD!”
I go to the liquor store for a little beer: “EDIMGIAFAD!”
I even see it emblazoned on some political poster in front of the WR municipal complex: “EDIMGIAFAD!” :eek:
Hell, I even saw some bushes on a hillside trimmed into this macabre motto. So I look it up on acronymfinder.com. Apparently, this enormous announcement stands for:
“Every Day in Middle Georgia is Air Force Appreciation Day!”
Damn dude! I know patriotism is a good thing, but jeez alive, does it have to be so foreboding?
Tripler
You middle Georgians are already a strange bunch.
We do so have hockey! Southern Professional Hockey League!
I’ve seen the equipment used to make the ice. Huge doesn’t begin to describe it.
It is kinda funny to watch people arriving for games in October and waiting until they get inside to put on their jerseys because it’s too hot outside to wear them. The Canadian players love it here - they go around in shorts and sandals all year.
Ugh. I hate “every day is _______.” If it’s every day, why do you need signs? Can’t it just be assumed? And isn’t it going to be taken for granted anyway?
*All work and no play makes every day Air Force Appreciation Day.
All work and no play makes every day Air Force Appreciation Day.
All work and no play makes every day Air Force Appreciation Day.*
Poor bastard. I pity him, whoever he is. It’s like that movie Groundhog Day, except he’s condemned to spend an eternity in central Georgia. And there’s no groundhog. I guess the lesson here is to never slag off the Air Force without first performing a spot check for the presence of Rod Serling.
Ummm… Don’t forget where the Stanley Cup is, either! Southern hockey rules!!!
Oh, and ice? We have it in arenas, just like Toronto and Detroit. You don’t think the Black Hawks go out and play on the frozen river in April, do you?
I spent eight years living in the Columbus, GA area and on Fort Benning. I don’t remember an ice rink anywhere! Is this new in the last 16 years? Or did I just miss it? And I hope in the Columbus area the signs drop the F and refer to Army, not Air Force!
The musty old Civic Center you remember is gone, replaced with a brand spanking new one which contains an ice rink. We’ve had hockey here for going on 11 seasons now. Fun!
And we don’t have any weird signs like that around here that I’ve seen. So far. I hope the city council doesn’t get wind of it. They love excuses to chop down trees, and they would put a sign behind a huge oak, then cut down the tree because it blocked the sign. I love the “Oakridge” subdivisions with not a single tree over three inches in sight.
A Hockey Dopefest sounds like a wonderful idea to me!
I’ve just been out looking at houses, and wanted to post that I counted another three more today. The first was a big banner strung underneath a credit union sign: "EDIMGIAFAD"
The second was posted on a supermarket’s sign: "EDIMGIAFAD!"
The third was a banner on a bank, with the word superimposed on an American flag, giving it just a little more of that ‘patriotic oomf!’ "EDIMGIAFAD"!
:eek: – I’m scared. . . hold me.
In other news, I ate at “Zaxby’s” today, and kinda liked it.
Tripler
But I think a Hockey Dopefest is a wonderful idea: I’d call it RinkDope.
– I’m scared. . . hold me.