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Tish Mims
Columnist
perry.dda@perry-ga.gov
The kidnap
survey
I have a friend that I kid
nap from time to time for a
little girl’s time out.
Sometimes we go for ice
cream and sit in a parking
lot to eat it. Sometimes we
go to the mall, although not
often. Sometimes we visit
other friends, and some
times we just visit with each
other. I called her recently
to see if it was convenient
for me to kidnap her for a
couple of hours, and she
informed me that her hus
band had kidnapped her
and they were at the beach.
I am so jealous! I want to be
kidnapped (and if any crim
inals are reading this...not
by you)!
I started thinking of what
I would want to do if I were
kidnapped for the weekend.
More than anything else, I
want to fly to Maine for the
weekend to eat lobster. I’d
pack a duffle bag with a
couple of pairs of jeans and
T-shirts and my toothbrush.
No makeup, but maybe a
ball cap so I wouldn’t fright
en anyone with my hair. I
don’t want to do anything
else, just eat lobster.
Breakfast, lunch and sup
per, I’d eat it until it was
running out of my ears. Or
I’d like to go to New York
for cheesecake (and art gal
leries). Or go to Seattle for
coffee (and music). You get
the idea. I don’t want to do
the traditional tourist
attractions. I just want to
enjoy something special
about each place for the
weekend.
I asked around for other
kidnap ideas, just in case
there might be something
else I want to do and I
haven’t thought of it yet.
The rules for being kid
napped are that it has to be
for a weekend only,
although it can be a long
weekend. Travel isn’t an
issue. You can go by car or
plane, but you have to be
able to accomplish your trip
in 4 days. This is what I
got.
Laura Loewen wants to go
to Dillard, Ga., eat at the
Dillard House, ride horses
and swing by Andy’s Trout
Farm to stick her feet in the
water and do a little fishing.
Deb Hamlin says give her
a cabin in the mountains
without a phone, but close
enough to civilization to go
out to eat. Or if she can go
anywhere at a11...100k out
Hawaii! Sue Moore wants
to jump on that plane to
Hawaii too. Rose Moore
says we can drop her off in
Las Vegas; she might not
even leave her room.
Stan Durrance wants to
see Tom Jones in concert
and sit on the front row.
Connie Potter said she’d
be off to Costa Rica. I like
Connie’s idea. I might want
to go to Costa Rica with her.
Connie said that with
beaches, mountains and
jungle, there’d be plenty to
do.
Happy Wyatt wants to go
to a winery with a B&B and
read, ride and relax. She
says that she’ll go on that
Seattle trip with me, since
she’s a coffee hound too. As
matter of fact, we frequent
ly kidnap each other to go
out for coffee.
I got lots of responses to
the question over the week
end, and each response gave
me a new idea of places to
go and things to do. Where
would you go?
THURSDAY,
JANUARY 27, 2005
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Stacy Brown performed a monologue of Langston Hughes “Mother to Son,” on her
stage entrance and exit she sang, “Wadin’ in the Water.”
WRHS Pageant a talent showcase
From staff reports
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theme was “She’s Gone
Country,” and the talent
was outstanding and varied
as 17 young women com
peted Saturday night for
the title of Miss Warner
Robins High 2005.
The talent competition
included performances on
the flute and piano, dra
matic monologues, baton
twirling, singing, clogging,
ballet, and taekwondo.
The event was a collabo
rative effort of the school’s
Graphic Art Department,
which designed programs,
and the Thespian Club,
which provided stage crew,
ushers and dressing room
attendants.
When the evening was
over, Lauren Alligood, who
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Laura Peek played the piano and sang, “Only Hope” by Mandy Moore .
Blame it all on
One of the New Year’s
resolutions that I made this
year was that I would not
waste my time during the
middle of the day sitting in
the dorm room getting
nothing accomplished like I
did last semester.
Since most of my classes
end early, my thoughts were
that I could use the after
noon to do my homework
and reading, which would
in turn free up. my nights.
This plan lasted for at
least 12 minutes of my first
day up here. Since then,
I’ve been pretty much com
pletely worthless before 7
PM just about every day.
The bad thing about it is
that I never start off the
day with the intention of
achieving nothing. What
normally causes the prob-
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lem is that my classes end
about 3 hours before my
roommate’s first class
starts on Mondays and
Wednesdays.
I’ll walk in from my last
class at about the same
from Puccini’s “La
Boheme,” was the winner,
but the combined talents of
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the contestants had made
the pageant a night to
remember.
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time that he is starting to
exhibit some form of
human life. Every day, we
have the same conversa
tion. I’ll say, “What are you
doing today?”
He’ll say, “I don’t know;
probably read some stuff.”
At this point I’ll think that
I could probably do some
reading myself and get
ahead of the game.
Then we both remember
a very important piece of
information: “Home
Improvement” comes on
one of the local TV channels
at 1:30. Since there is
always the chance that it
will be one of the four
episodes that neither of us
has seen, we feel obligated
to watch it.
Our next event is either
the “See who can quote the
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ABOVE: Brittany Cook danced en pointe to “I Can Only
Imagine”. She placed first runner up in the talent portion
of Miss Warner Robins High pageant.
LEFT: Tiffany Jenkins showed her Tae Kwon Do skills as
she did movements to “Sandstorm."
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Molly Moore performed “Popular,” from “The Wizard of
Oz." She was also second runner up for Miss Warner
Robins High 2005.
next line quicker” game or
the “Laugh at Tim blowing
himself up” game.
Next on the agenda are
showers and lunch. When
we get back to the room,
we’ll both remember anoth
er startling fact: Two
episodes of “The Drew
Carey Show” come on at 3
p.m.
There are times when the
entire mood of our day can
be set around which theme
song is played for Drew
Carey. If it’s the good theme
song (“Cleveland Rocks”),
we are in good spirits. If it’s
the bad theme song (“The
bad theme song”), it puts a
damper on our afternoon.
After Drew gets done
making fun of Mimi for an
hour, my roommate has to
go to class, at which point I
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get the highlight of my day
by making certain sarcastic
remarks reminding him
that I’ve been done with
class for three hours. If he
were awake in the morning
when I went to class, I’m
sure he’d do the same to
me.
And by that point, I real
ize that once again I have
wasted away a perfectly
good afternoon and will
have to spend some of my
night studying.
This isn’t the part that
bothers me. What worries
me is that I have become
entranced by daytime TY
which I have said time and
time again is cruel and
unusual torture. I may have
to seek medical help to cure
me from this addiction. In
the meantime, “Seinfeld” is