Friday, October 23, 2009

To Whitey


Scan12303, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

I may owe you an apology. Is this your hand writing?

Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 10/23/2009 11:30:00 AM

8 comments:

jake milam said...

buckles,when i read this and saw diamond at knoxville zoo, it reminded me of bill o'harris who did some time there caretaking this bull. i went there in 1978 to pick up some lions for bucky steele, and bill took me to the elephant barn where diamond was and showed me the operation that took place to bring him in and out of the barn, (reminded me of something out of jungle book). also, do you have any history on bill, as i met him there and again a few years later at gee gee's place in gibtown, i remember him telling me a lot of stories about working with your dad and about trips to far east with him to get elephants. you may remember me i saw you at billy powells home about two years ago while visiting pam and roger zoppe, and also worked for gee gee and bucky years ago and also with you and barbara on some james bros. dates about 1971. thanks jake milam

23 October, 2009 17:22
Ole Whitey said...

No apology required.

Only the most generous definition would call this scrawl "hand writing."

I made straight D's in penmanship and have never improved.

23 October, 2009 18:56
Anonymous said...

Dave,
No apology needed, when I was in
4th grade, my mother asked the principal what she could do to improve both my printing and cursive writing and his reply was get him a typewriter. And they did, although I couldn't get a typing course until I was 14, at the local vocational school. I still have trouble with both, except my typing course really helped when the company I worked for went to computer terminals.
This also helped in high school when we had a history teacher who was hired as a football and basketball couch. He took a nap every day after lunch during our class, but insisted that we answer the questions at the end of each chapter. I changed the cover for about 3 or 4 times and then typed a new insert after it got ratty.
Bob Kitto

24 October, 2009 18:59
Ole Whitey said...

Bob:

You must be younger than I am. My generation called the two forms writing and printing. Now they're cursive and manuscript. You came right in the middle.

How many out there recall practicing push-pulls and ovals?

Do they still have those booklets showing what nice cursive letters are supposed to look like?

Another thing: I never heard of a schwa until I was in my late thirties or forties. I saw that on a crossword recently-the question was, "What does America start and end with?" and the answer was a schwa.

If I've lost any of you, ask your grandkids.

24 October, 2009 21:04
Anonymous said...

Dave,
You are right, I used the cursive for today's people. I can't tell you how many nights I made circles and other such crap. And yes you are 2 years older then I am.
In 1960 I worked with an accounting firm in Milwaukee and one of the partners had the most exquisite Spencerian script that you could ever see. He said that he spent hours every night when he was in grade school, in practice, so he wouldn't get his knuckles rapped the next day.
Bob Kitto

25 October, 2009 19:24
Richard Reynolds said...

And whatever became of the Palmer Method of cursive writing that I had in the 2nd-4th grades or 1941-1944.

Go to any courthoouse and loook in the real estate records from the early 20th century and there you will find deeds recorded by the clerks in the most beautiful cursive writing you can imagine. All painfully and accurately copied.

25 October, 2009 23:42
Ole Whitey said...

Richard: In this day of electronic everything, we forget that not many years ago literally everything in the way of records was copied by hand, often several times.

Years ago I read the strange tale of "Bartleby the Scrivener," which among other things tells us something of this never-ending need for hand-written documents.

Of course today's youth know not even how to use a typewriter !!!!

26 October, 2009 11:17
Anonymous said...

Willie Storey hadthe world's most magnificent handwriting and his daughter Renee runs a very tight second!
:-)
CP

28 October, 2009 16:41

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