Rhythm & Dews

Street scenes

by Keith Graham | 1, Add your Comment | Mar 12, 2009

Overheard from a man musing over an article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about a possible plan to introduce Florida panthers into Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp: “If Florida panthers come to Georgia, would they still be Florida panthers?”

Attractive young woman in a craft shop in the Buckhead section of Atlanta, Georgia, asking for a product called “Mr. Stiffy.” “And what exactly do you do with it?” a bemused clerk asks. “The woman who told me about the product is a widow,” the young woman replies.

A large F scrawled in front of a sign saying Utility Work near the Emory University campus in Atlanta, Georgia, so that it now reads “Futility Work.’’

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One Response to “Street scenes”

  1. Chrys B. Graham chrys says:

    Great street scenes. I think the panthers will have to be Georgia panthers.. It is the Georgia State University mascot after all.

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Keith Graham
About the author Keith Graham: Keith Graham lives in Atlanta most of the time and on St. Simons Island on Georgia’s coast the rest. Like so many Southerners, Keith was named for a blind piano player, who is now little remembered, and he spent his earliest years living with his parents in the back rooms of a small-town Georgia radio station. Later, he moved to several other states, including North Carolina twice, before returning to Georgia. He has worked for a series of newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal and Constitution from 1979 to 2007.