Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, September 19, 1993 TAG: 9309230054
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\ ORIGIN OF MOTTO: Harwood stole the line from a song by Tom Waits, whom he assumed made it up. However, a reader in Fairfield spotted it in the mag and called Harwood to tell him the saying's been in his family for years. Harwood finally researched the lineage of the saying back to its roots as an ancient Scottish curling phrase. The "hog on ice" is the rock, which tends not to cooperate with the players during a game. Thus, something is as "independent as a hog on ice."
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BEST PAPER BOY SALES STRATEGY: "If I tell 'em it's $1.95, they won't buy it," Harwood says. "But if I say it's two bucks and I'll give them a nickel back, they'll buy it and they'll let me keep the nickel."
\ MASTHEAD NOTICE: Subscriptions are $25 per year and are delivered to three foreign countries and 36 of the United States by mail in a plain brown wrapper or by the editor himself in a plain brown Buick.
\ BEST NEWS BLURBS FROM THE SEPTEMBER ADVOCATE:
A full moon and a hot summer night at the East Lexington Country Deli parking lot provided the perfect setting for a rumble. Many of the 50 people involved were women from Lexington and Staunton. No one was seriously hurt, although one woman was armed with a baseball bat and another, a knife. Police speculated that the fight was triggered by a dispute over the relative virtues of the women of the two cities.
Former W&L Dean of Admissions James D. Farrar died at the age of 67. Farrar was a kind man who would do just about anything for anyone.
A young red-headed boy stopped as he ambled up Nelson Street one Friday evening to write the word "Sex" on one red brick on the side of the Crestar bank building with a piece of pink chalk. Without admiring his handiwork and looking somewhat dejected, he walked on up the street. Strange. The graffiti was gone the next day.
A Blacksburg man was fined $250 here for inhumane treatment of livestock. Ricky Comer, 31, was found guilty of leaving two cows without food or water in a truck at Poplar Hill Exxon. Comer claimed that, heck, the cows were on their way to the slaughterhouse.
Correction of the month: A few days after the Rockbridge Daily Press went out of business, the Roanoke Times & World-News listed it (but not the News-Gazette or this magazine) as a going publication in its special section about area resources. Two weeks later, the Times wrote, "The following information was incorrect in the Discover section, which was published August 1: The Rockbridge Daily Planet is defunct. However, the Rockbridge Advocate is a publication very much alive and well." The Times went on to lower our price by 70 cents a copy, something we have no intention of doing.
It rained. Not much. But it was rain.
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DOUG HARWOOD
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