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A4 Lake Oconee News Friday, October 27,2017 Start the conversation Send us your opinions by Monday at 1 p.m. news@lakeoconeenews.us 11 i| .... fri* Falcon fans can face a failure “Gloom, despair, and agony on me Deep, dark depression, excessive misery Ifitweren’tforbadluck, Id have no luck at all Gloom, despair, and agony on me” -Buck Owens and Roy Clark, from the television show “Hee-Haw” If you read our sports pages or listen to the Lake Oconee Sports podcasts, youareawarethatoursports editor Justin Hubbard is a Dallas Cowboys fan. I’m not sure how an oth erwise rational kid from Union Point was corrupted by the nefarious Jerry Jones,but Justin islostto us. Maybe Jeff George refused to give him an autograph when he was a toddler or something, I suppose a team with eight Super Bowl appear ances andfivewins sounds a lot better than one with two Super Bowl appearances and two losses, one remem bered for a sex scandal and another that is being called the biggest choke in Super Bowl history. Makes me wish I was a Cowboys fan, too. But I was born in down town Atlanta, and I’m stuck with my hometown’s hard luck teams. My father had so little faith in the Falcons that he would change the television channel when they were ahead so he didn’t have to watch themfall behind,lose T. Michael Stone Associate Editor the game and leave the field disappointed. I was just a sprout when Atlanta started to get major league teams like the Braves, Hawks and Falcons, so I immediately latched onto all of them. Mostly misery has followed. The Braves teased us by winning the National League’s west in 1969. They were swept by the Mets. They teased us again by winning the west in 1982. The were swept by the Cardinals. The Braves finally emerged as a perennial winner in the1990s by win ning three straight division titles, followed by 11 more after the strike. The Braves finally won a World Series in 1995. But the Braves also squandered four other chances to win a series in the 1990s, losing to the Twins, Blue Jays and the Yankees twice. SEE STONE » A9 Halloween couture for adults Hello once again, dear readers, and welcome back to this teeny-tiny ink spot in your favorite newspaper where we try to show you the way like a helicopter mother with a flashlight in one hand and pepper spray in the other walking her kids around at dusk on Halloween. Halloween is no longer a kids’ holiday. It has been hijacked by adults, specif ically women, and more specifically, women who want to dress up in naughty costumes. Bad Nurse. Bad Police Woman. Bad Wonder Woman. Bad Teacher. What’s up with all this? Dave Brown Staff Writer I wanted to consult my psychiatrist, Dr. Dewey Unnerstan, about this dis turbing trend, but ever since my insurance ran out he won’t even take my calls. I was seeingDr. Unnerstan back in the day when I was dealing with a bad case of Tourette Syndrome co-min- gled with a nasty bout of Freudian Slips. Georges delaTourette, the so-called pioneering French neurologist, is alleged to have first diagnosed the condition when an 8 6-year- old noblewoman went into a repetitive frenzy of invol untary movements, tics and vocalizations. The octogenarian was extremely upset when Dr. Tourette said her bad French Maid costume was age-inappropriate. She reportedly said some thing like ooh-la-la, ooh- la-la, fishnets and alacebra, ooh-la-la, you filthy, dirty quack. The late Sigmund Freud’s methodology ofpsychoanal- ysis focused on sexuality in human behavior. An example of a Freudian Slip is like when you go to Sunday dinner and you’re thinking aboutyour mother- in-law’s Halloween costume from the previous year, and when she asks if you would like her to serve some more chicken, you say I’ll take two more gorgeous breasts with lip service. As long as you don’t wear costumes like Bad Indian Maiden or Bad Female Border Patrol Agent that SEE BROWN » A5 ZOll The future of scouting in American culture Recent news about plans for the Boy Scouts of America to accept girls as members caught my attention. And, ironically, as I began to write this column about Scouting, a great feature by Lynn Hobbs appeared in the community section of The Eatonton Messenger. This was a story about the local Scouts of Troop 310 kayaking 64 miles on the Oconee River. The photographs of smil ing teenagers in the natural river setting brought back Hank Segars Lakelife Associate Editor memories of my days as a Scout, a long time ago. We sometimes take things like scouting programs for boys and girls for granted. It seems they have always been around, andthepositive impact ofthese organizations has been large and mostly unsung. Yet, with the reported membership changes for the Boy Scouts (and new chal lenges for the Girl Scouts), one cannot help but wonder aboutthe future of Scouting.. . and about American culture as well. Scouts can be seen in and around Lake Country and all across America. Most often they are decked out in assorted uniforms, sellingpopcorn or cookies and doingfun things likecamping and hiking. There is, however, more to the program than what we generally see. For more than a century Scouting has played a role in the lives of millions of Americans and been a strong part of our national identity. NormanRockwellcaptured the spirit in his now-famous paintings. Scouts learn things: basic first aid and survival skills; howto build afire, howto cook and how to work as a team. They also like to travel, especially to campgrounds in rugged mountain or near unspoiled seashores. Scouts enjoy hiking in isolated wildernesses and swimming in natural lakes. They visit the largest of national parks and ramble through the smallest of com munity museums. Scouts areintomeritbadges and can choose to learn every thing from animal science, animation, and astronomy to welding, whitewater and woodwork. And backpacking, canoe ing, fly-fishing, Indian lore, rifle shooting and pioneer ing activities continue to be available. In today’s modern society we see kids avoiding out door activities, heads down thumbing through smart phones or computer games. SEE SCOUTS » A9 Lake Oconee News General Excellence Award Winner 2015-2016 GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION President / Publisher A. Mark Smith Vice President Jo Ann Smith Vice President, General Manager Mark Smith Jr. Vice President, Circulation Matt Smith Vice President Michael Smith Associate Editor T. 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