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Hearsay: Ping-Pong or table tennis? Same game, but there’s a difference
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HEARSAY is written by Salley M. McInerney. If you have a contribution for Hearsay — something you’ve seen or heard that struck you as funny, silly, interesting, entertaining, odd or otherwise — get in touch with Salley. Her e-mail address is salley@hartcom.net.
- “What’s in a name? That by which we call Ping-Pong by any other name would be table tennis.” Forgive, please, the play on words from “Romeo and Juliet,” but Hearsay is here to say that Frank Carithers of Anderson is looking for table tennis players. Mr. Carithers played in national table tennis tournaments and state leagues in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. “That was years ago,” he said. “Then I got married, went into the service, and things changed.” Mr. C is now bound to get back in the game. He’s hoping to find some folks who are equally interested in tackling a little table tennis. Hearsay wondered if that’s the same game as Ping-Pong. “Same game, different name,” Mr. Frank said. Table tennis, he told Hearsay, features “more speed and more spin” on the little white ball. ’Nuff said. Anyone interested in playing table tennis with Mr. Frank should give him a call at 864-940-0457.
- As for those sunflowers. First of all, Hearsay DID NOT pick any of the fabulous sunflowers located in several fields between Hartwell and Anderson, which were mentioned in last week’s column. (Hearsay paid attention to the signs by the side of the fields that say don’t pick ’em or you’ll be prosecuted.) Mention of the sunflowers, however, has blossomed into a bit of a story. A lovely lady whose family owns the fields where the sunflowers have been planted called to say that there’s been quite a problem with folks filching the fetching flowers. “A lot of people stop and take pictures, and I tell them that’s all right, but we’ve had other people take them. One man had 25 plants when a deputy caught him. People just don’t understand that they are planted for a reason.” That reason is production of sunflower oil. So, by all means, enjoy the pretty picture that the flowers provide, but please don’t do any picking.
- A single pine needle for sale? Down near the old textile plant in Hartwell, Ga., a cardboard sign on a stick recently popped up in a front yard. The sign said, “Pine Needle For Sale.” OK, so, this is no big deal, but the fine needle sign brings up something that has always bugged Hearsay a little bit. Why is it that when folks have some kind of homegrown product to sell, they put up a sign in the front yard that seems to offer only a single item of said product? You’ve seen those signs, haven’t you? “COLLARD FOR SALE.” Or better yet, “Boiled P-Nut 4 Sale.” Just makes you wonder how much a single goober’s going for, or how much one pine needle could possibly cost!
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