Tell me about. . . middle Georgia (the state, not the country).

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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All I cn tell you Trip is if you’re feeling peckish you can go to Athens and visit with the double barrelled cannon.

Oh, and you probably won’t be needing that oh so cool Soviet hat.

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I’m all over a tailgate party. Though we should also consider Sampiro’s idea. Heck, who’s to say we can’t have more than one Jawja dopefest!
swampbear
I can’t wait to introduce Tripler to the joy that is boiled (pronounced “bald”) peanuts and cold beer!

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Late July/early August, and no, I got it from a Doonesbury character.

This is going to be sweet. I’m going to ‘host’ two DopeFests in dang near a month! First, my departing Montana DopeFest, and then my arrival DopeGate in Georgia.

Oh man, the beer will flow. :smiley:

Tripler
Oh yes, my friends, the beer will flow.

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I have this mental image of a keg fountain type contraption. The idea both intrigues and scares. If you’re not going to be in Jawja until late July/early August, then I guess a hockey tailgate will have to wait for a few months, but we could always do what Sampiro suggested or other stuff. It’ll be fun no matter what.

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Macon has plenty of shopping in and around, including a good size mall. Sales tax in GA caries by county and ranges from 5% to 7%. Macon is in Bibb county where the sales tax is 5%. I don’t know as much about shopping in Warner Robins, but it is located in Houston (pronounced HOWston) county where the sales tax is 7%.

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And again, Atlanta is only an hour further away and you can find anything there, plus between Macon and Atlanta is a large outlet mall.

Two oddities about Georgia pronunciations and county names:

1- Very few places in south Georgia are pronounced the way they’re spelled. Houston/How-ston is one example, but others include

Place Pronunciation

Perry parry
Buena Vista buna (rhymes with tuna) viss-ta
Albany all-benny or al-benny
Cairo kay-ro

There are others.

  1. Cities of a certain name are never located in or anywhere near the county of the same name. For example, the cities of Quitman, Baldwin, Perry, Monroe, Oglethorpe and Grady are nowhere near the counties of Quitman, Baldwin, Perry, Monroe, Oglethorpe and Grady, so when you see that a house is for sale in Quitman or that there’s a John Davidson concert you wanna see in Grady then knowing whether it’s city or county is the difference in one side of the state or the other.