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Paw Warrior [5066]
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Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 7:29 AM
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that only granddaddies know.
Mine taught me you can smoke a whole bologna. And let me tell you, it's not bad eating. Smoking a whole bologna sounds odd, I know. But, being of the Great Depression, he and his six brothers learned to make do with what they had out in the piney woods of East Texas.
So I guess, in the end, granddaddy taught me to make do with what I have.
What's something your granddaddy taught you? (Other than not to call him "granddaddy" like me.)
Happy Friday.
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Chew plug tobacco and spiti
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Mar 28, 2025, 7:35 AM
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I spit quick
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Paw Warrior [5066]
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Mine chewed Red Man.
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Mar 28, 2025, 2:28 PM
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Kept a spittoon next to his recliner and one in his Chevy.
His love of Red Man inadvertently taught me to love Copenhagen. Less mess.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 7:35 AM
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I guess the only that mine taught me was if you're an alcoholic you will often die a young and painful death...
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 8:00 AM
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Í was taught the same.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 9:24 AM
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Same. Alcoholism is the destroyer of lives and families.
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Paw Warrior [5066]
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Not the direction I expected this thread to take.
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Mar 28, 2025, 2:29 PM
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But good stuff nonetheless!
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110%er [3711]
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Smoking leads to heart disease.
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Mar 31, 2025, 2:49 PM
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My Dad never smoked, but had plenty of second hand smoke in the house, at work with his dad, in the service. He passed year before last with heart disease.
My Granddad smoked constantly. He even signed a high school smoking permit for a cousin that stayed with them.
Nasty habit.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 7:38 AM
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Sears catalogs were the high point of mail delivery because it meant they could put the corncob toilet paper away for a little while. Also grew up in the depression.
The meaning of various southern words you hardly hear anymore.
The list is long. Wish he had been around longer.
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Paw Warrior [5066]
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The Depression.
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Mar 28, 2025, 3:39 PM
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That was a rough time. But one thing I never saw or heard my grandparents do was worry. I guess the Depression taught them worrying never put a chicken in the pot.
Meanwhile, I have more than they ever dreamed of and yet panic when eggs go up a dollar.
Something has gone terribly wrong in the span of two generations.
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Hall of Famer [8339]
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Re: The Depression.
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Mar 28, 2025, 6:25 PM
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Agree. Never heard them complain and compared to today had very little. I think when you’ve gone through the crap times it gives you perspective and gratitude. Also, they were a different breed. Didn’t grow up with the amenities we have today. They did pretty much everything themselves or with the help of friends. They were strong people.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 7:44 AM
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Unfortunately, I have no memories of by grandfathers as I was age 2 & 3 when they passed. This is one of the reasons I cherish time with my grandchildren.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 8:20 AM
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I had one I am named for that passed before I ever knew him. It is odd to see your full name on a tomb stone. MY other was a fireman on the railroad
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Mar 28, 2025, 11:18 AM
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I wished I could have experienced mine. One died of pneumonia as a postman, the other building Lake Murray ###.
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Tiger Spirit [9717]
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Never wrassel with a pig..
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Mar 28, 2025, 8:01 AM
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You both get all muddy and the pig likes it”
Actually I never knew either of mine but I learned a powerful lesson from my Dads mom: keep your eyes closed when she’s driving us across the old Cooper River Bridge! Man that was scary!
Go Tigers
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Re: Never wrassel with a pig..
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Mar 28, 2025, 11:16 AM
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I remember that old bridge, I did the same thing….and I was driving!
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Re: Never wrassel with a pig..
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Poker machines, Never play something that backs itself into a corner and takes on the world, that’s all I needed to hear!
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Mar 28, 2025, 8:51 AM
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My granddad taught me (and he told me he was teaching me as he was teaching me) how to cook chicken quarters over an open pit to feed 30 people for the family reunion. I also know how to make his secret sauce to sprinkle on the chickens each time they were flipped.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 8:51 AM
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My Pappy passed away when I was 14, but would swing thru Rock Hill from Florence to take me to Clemson football games from time to time.
My Paw Paw passed away when I was 4, but he got me to quit sucking my thumb by threatening to cut it off with his pocket knife.
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Clemson Sports Icon [59089]
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Yep, that worked a lot better than the adderall they pour down kids throats
Mar 30, 2025, 12:53 PM
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nowadays.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 8:55 AM
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One of my grandfathers taught me that even a fish wouldn't get in trouble if he kept his mouth shut.
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Clemson Conqueror [12078]
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
Mar 28, 2025, 7:20 PM
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One of my grandfathers taught me that even a fish wouldn't get in trouble if he kept his mouth shut.
Top shelf advise!
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Dynasty Maker [3106]
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My granddaddy taught me how to put a worm on a hook
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Mar 28, 2025, 8:57 AM
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When I was about 7. He must have had keys to every farm pond in Lancaster and Chester county! And he knew how to make hush puppies with the bream and crappies we would catch.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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Mar 28, 2025, 9:05 AM
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A gentleman always carries a pocket knife and a handkerchief. And I have since early high school. No one cared if students carried pocket knives back then because we were taught to be responsible.
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Mar 28, 2025, 9:06 AM
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Mine taught me that on a rainy day you can hear a train in the distance more clearly than you can on a sunny day.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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I have always been a catch and release fisherman for the most part. He kept everything. Even the tiny ones. I’d say “Grandpa, isn’t that too little to keep?” He’s reply, “You eat bacon don’t ya? These little ones will add up to a big one eventually!” That’s the depression era mindset. I still practice catch and release. But that always stuck with me.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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I had no relationships with my grandparents. One died when I was an infant and the other was bedridden and could have few visitors. He died when I was just a child. So I missed that part of my life.
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Mar 28, 2025, 11:17 AM
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That’s the reality for a lot of folks. Grands are a blessing. You have a chance to make that kind of impact yourself!
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Paw Warrior [4950]
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Mar 28, 2025, 11:27 AM
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So true. I’ve tried very hard to do that myself. Don’t know if they have enjoyed it but…..I sure have.
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Sodium hypochlorite is good for removing your DNA from a room.***
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Re: Sodium hypochlorite is good for removing your DNA from a room.***
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Mar 28, 2025, 2:44 PM
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Winning post right here 😂
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Paw Warrior [5066]
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Way to contribute.
Mar 31, 2025, 12:27 PM
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He taught us the remedy for chapped lips is cow manure.
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Mar 28, 2025, 1:07 PM
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You’ll quit lickin yer lips, I assure you.
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Tiger Spirit [9705]
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How to skin a catfish. How to be patient when fishing. How to be still in Church. Hopefully how to age gracefully. Can't wait to see him again!
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Mar 28, 2025, 2:45 PM
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Amen brother
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He told me that he listened to the wedding of the future Queen Elizabeth and
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Mar 28, 2025, 2:35 PM
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Prince Phillip on the radio while in his home in Wyoming. And that he heard her say "I do" before the people in the back of the cathedral did. Such was the miracle of radio communication.
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How to work building houses, apartments in the Clemson area.
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CU Guru [1502]
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Dont work in a cotton mill and smoke unfiltered
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Chesterfields. The other taught me that taking another man’s life (France in ww2) makes you not as so gung ho as some of our leaders want us to believe they are these days..
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If you wear your boots when you are in the thick junk you won't get stung by a
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bee on the ankle. Learned how to drive a stand-up lever-clutch old tractor. Learned how to drive a regular tractor. Learned how to shoot squirrels with a 410 shotgun.
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One of the many things my granddad taught me was the most efficient way to skin a catfish. He got a clothes hanger, straighten it out, ran it through the gills, and then brought it back up and wrap the top of it around the limb of a tree. Then he cut a ring just under the gills in the skin, then he grabbed a pair of pliers, grabbed that skin and yanked it off. Cut it open, cleaned it out, threw it in the frying pan. Yum!!
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Driving a manual transmission. Operating various pieces of heavy equipment. Just some typical man stuff.
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Mine taught me how to clean fish, cut off the head remove the guts first
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I remember on my 4th birthday he got me a fillet knife.. I practiced on the neighborhood pets, but eventually moved on from fishing, I have more exciting hobbies now.
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Two things in one day, and it is one of only a few memories I have of him. He died when I was five of emphysema. Shortly before his death, we were visiting. He had three huge ponds that were full of bream and bass. I had never fished before and begged him to take me out there.
My dad says to me “son, he’s very sick and needs his rest.”
My grandfather pointed his very crooked and painful arthritic finger at my dad and said “you hush up boy. If my grandson wants to go fishing, that’s what we are doing”. So we did. Probably for 30 minutes. I remember looking at him in the spring sun with his eyes closed, basking in the warmth. Probably a slight reprieve from the pain.
The two things I learned: how to love and sacrifice through pain and that my dad had someone that could put him in his place. Of course, both of these realizations didn’t hit me until many years later.
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Mar 28, 2025, 8:16 PM
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Always keep a sharp pocket knife
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Mar 28, 2025, 8:17 PM
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Randy Travis has an awesome song about grandpa’s , “He walked on water “
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
Mar 28, 2025, 8:58 PM
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Randy Travis has an awesome song about grandpa’s , “He walked on water “
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Mar 30, 2025, 8:25 AM
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One passed before I was born but the other taught me how to enjoy a summer day with a cane pole with a hook and line and a can of worms.
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Spent a lotsa time in the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas. Lived in Houston for 20 years and would run up to Lake Sam Rayburn to fish and camp. Called on all the golf course in that area with my favorite being Crown Colony in Lufkin, TX. Great golf course. My youngest son started at Sam Houston in Huntsville, then transferred to Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches where he got his degree. Spent a many a happy hour in the Piney Woods, just like your Grandpa.
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And me.
Mar 31, 2025, 12:30 PM
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Used to run Honda 80 hp dirt bikes all over what has since become UT-Tyler but back then was just a couple of buildings and a bunch of dirt tracks.
Many of my summers were spent in those woods. I hated growing up in the city so escaping to East Texas was a welcome relief.
Caught my first fish at Lake Palestine. Did a bunch of trot-lining for catfish there, too.
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My granddaddy taught me that the only reason you can’t do something is because you’re scared to begin.
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Did you call him granddaddy?***
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Yes.
Mar 31, 2025, 12:31 PM
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He was a fine man who died too young. Rolling your own will do that.
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Mine taught me how to fold a sheet of newspaper into type of 3D triangle, and
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pin it with toothpicks. I can't really explain it, but when you did it just right, you could hold one side of it, and light the undersides with a match and set it on fire. When you did it just right(and you do this at night) it will rise up into the sky and then all the flames go out, and it just the glowing orb or red/orange embers. My grandfather always said when he grew up, you didn't have toys, so you had to create your own entertainment. My grandfather also enjoyed placing a cherry bomb (A REAL ONE,not these pitiful things they have now)into a sling shot made with surgical tubing, and having me light the fuse,whereby he then sent it sailing into the black sky. He also taught me to shoot a .22 when I was about six years old. Pretty sure he would be on a first name basis with DSS nowadays....
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Paw Warrior [5066]
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Mine took my older cousin (also RIP) out to sight in
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a 30/30 Marlin lever action with one of those simple 10x scopes.
They decided to lay the thing across the hood of granddaddy's brown LTD to keep it steady.
(This was back when to sight in a new rifle/scope for deer season or to get your swing back for Dove season you just drove out into the country and pulled over to the side of the road for a few minutes to shoot the speed limit sign or bust some clay pigeons. We didn't need gun ranges.)
My cousin shot the LTD. Put a hole the size of a silver dollar right through the hood.
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Re: Something your granddaddy taught you
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How to tie on a surf fishing rig with snell hooks and a pyramid sinker. Never used one of those pre-rigged WalMart specials.
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Grandoody taught me quiet and loving and high character family-oriented is
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Mar 30, 2025, 1:09 PM
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a great way to do life.
He also taught me the incredible joy of a fresh picked peach - peeled and eaten right in the orchard.
He looked great in a fedora kinda-hat . . . . he showed me unshakable faith in Jesus - without being off-putting about it.
Dude was a cornerstone that lots and lots was built on.
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Not my actual grandfather but growing up we had this elderly neighbor.
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Mar 31, 2025, 12:34 PM
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All of the kids called him grandaddy. One day he proudly showed us all how to siphon gas.
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Re: Not my actual grandfather but growing up we had this elderly neighbor.
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Don't ever fight an ugly man ............ they have nothing lose.
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How to freeze leftover (live) catalpa worms in a milk carton for the next cane pole fishing trip….and the worms would actually ‘move around’ when they thawed out…. I promise!
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What My "Grandaddy" Taught Me
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There's not enough room on this forum to list everything, but here's a few line items listed below.
1. He taught me that Christ is the only redeeming quality in any man.
2. Hard work; there is no substitution for it.
3. Pay now; play later or you will play now and pay later whenever you're too old to handle the price.
4. This world was not created for a man to take his ease, but a world for work.
5. The proof is in the pudding and the eating of it.
6. In this life, you won't have many friends if you're doing what's right, but the friends you do have will be worth keeping around.
7. Always be a gentleman towards the ladies, even if they root for the Gamecocks.
8. If you ever vote, try to vote for a "statesman".
9. In life, your responsibilities should hold this precedent, GOD, FAMILY, and COUNTRY.
10. There is no other place on Earth quite like Clemson.
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