Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 00:24:58 -0500
From: Gene Galin
Subject: Last Week’s Hottest Chatham Online Bulletin Board Topics

1. Liberal Progressive Pittsboro NC Town Council Denies Children’s Christian Academy  (Read 8800 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24900.0.html

2. Who is this woman ripping down signs for Haw River Christian School in Pittsboro  (Read 7764 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,24985.0.html

3. Team Pittsboro: Another Randolph Voller scam to get credit for others’ efforts  (Read 6543 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,23786.0.html

4. Pittsboro General Store Cafe status?  (Read 3444 times)  at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,25016.0.html

5. Preston’s plans for 7,000 acres in Chatham  (Read 3300 times) at
http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,25029.0.html

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:51:13 -0500
From: Cathy Holt
Subject: Pittsboro

Hi Bob,

Welcome to Pittsboro.

I am sorry that a few unconscious people on the Chatlist have made you uncomfortable about your choice to move here.

I moved here 20 years ago alone, and I have never felt so embraced by a community. We are a warm and welcoming, creative and eclectic group!

People that have written these hurtful and negative posts on the chatlist are not bad people…. I think that they are a just folks that are unaware of any other way to vent the pain in their lives. Unfortunately the way they choose to vent it is ineffective.

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:49:27 -0800 (PST)
From: CAROL RIGSBEE <
Subject: Bottle water

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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:21:59 -0500
From: Cherie Ernest
Subject: Major disaster – General Store Closing

The General Store has been part of my and my family’s life for so many years! Just the Saturday before they closed, we had a wonderful meal, promising each other to try each others orders next time around.  I had commented on how superior the all the components of my Mediterranean platter had been.

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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:47:08 -0800 (PST)
From: James Tournbleau
Subject: Randy Dye illiterate champion for education

Anyone can be a reporter nowadays even if they are unable to speak English. What we do not need is an illiterate reporter defending education. Randy learn verb tense before you commit to video. You are a prime example of failure in our educational system. This video is embarrassing!

http://youtu.be/gvGCrVzmqho

Here are a few examples from Randy’s video:
“People have put up”
“You probably seen before”
“This is where you seen”
“I actually digged in the trash myself.”

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:15:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Brad Page
Subject: Ole’ Joe

Re: Walmart versus so-called liberals. Cheap shot, Joe. I don’t imagine the typical Walmart customer worries much about whether his vegetables or plastic toys or electronic giggaws are liberal or conservative. Pig farms ain’t liberal or conservative either but you wouldn’t want one to land in your back yard.

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:02:09 -0500
From: CrYpTiK
Subject: Re: Chatham Chatlist #4223

Regarding “real names” on the Chatlist and my posts:

The reason any of you have a problem with me choosing to hide behind an alias is that you suddenly don’t have a person to attack or retaliate in real life against anymore. 

Logic does not allow one to get away with attacking the person instead of the points being made; it’s called an “ad hominem” argument and it holds zero weight.  I’ll commit one (even if only weakly) right now, in fact: perhaps the reason that you people attack my lack of identity is because you have no substantial thoughts in your head that counter me in a way that other people might actually find reasonable.

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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:00:01 -0500 (EST)
From: cwroble
Subject: Re:  Jason Derrick

Thank you for your post concerning the good and not so good.  I have to say that the other day I made my first post on the Chatham Chatlist and gave my opinion, and only an opinion, concerning the development of the Wal-Mart on 15/501.  To my amazement I read the following day the defensiveness toward the Wal-Mart.  It is better to express an opinion rather than go on the defense about a topic.  To those who are in favor of the Wal-Mart, so be it, and to those who do not wish to shop there, so be it, too.

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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:30:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Edwms8
Subject: Tapa cloth – Meg Miller

I remember seeing tapa cloth when visiting the Cook islands and Samoa, back  many years ago while I was living in New Zealand. I wanted to buy some for  display, but my then-wife didn’t want to, so guess what?

It’s beautiful cloth, made from the bark of certain trees native to the islands of the South & Central Pacific. I recall asking a Cook islander,  while on a visit to Rarotonga, how the heck you could make cloth from tree bark.  He answered nicely – didn’t bark at me – but I don’t remember the procedure  other than it involved a lot of hammering. I wish I had bought some.

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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:13:30 -0500
From: Steve Smith
Subject: Names

I  always use my real name everywhere — except when I shop  at Walmart and want something more anonymous sounding.

- “John Jones”

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