Attorney with Littler Mendelson || Driver of the #92 C5ZO6 @barberMotorPark || Dog lover || Graduate of UTK and YLS
Birmingham, AL
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Jay St. Clair retweeted
Our boss called an emergency meeting about "the Tennessee situation."
Background: my coworker spent a year in Tennessee. He came back saying "y'all," holding doors for the entire floor, and telling people he's proud of them.
Then hundreds of Tennesseans replied to my post about him.
He read every single reply. Out loud. At lunch.
It got worse.
He now asks our boss, "How's your mama and 'em?" Every morning. Our boss's mother is 89. She has started sending him rice crackers.
He learned "bless your heart" can mean two things. He decided to only ever mean the nice one.
He made sweet tea in the office kettle. Accounting calls it "the syrup." Accounting drinks the syrup.
So. The meeting.
Our boss stood up. Nobody breathed. We were sure "y'all" was about to be banned.
He said, "I have one question."
"How do I tell my team I'm proud of them… without anyone crying?"
My coworker thought about it.
"You can't, sir. That's how you know it worked."
Our boss was quiet for a long time. Then he said it. To every one of us. By name.
Three people cried. One of them was him.
Tennessee, y'all said it was contagious.
You were right.
Please don't send a cure.
Jay St. Clair retweeted
My coworker spent one year in Tennessee.
He came back to Tokyo two months ago.
He is not the same man.
He says "y'all" in meetings. To our boss.
He holds the door for the entire floor. Twelve people. Every morning.
He asked the convenience store clerk how her day was going. She had to sit down.
He calls every man "bud." Including the CEO.
He refuses to describe anything under three hours away as "far."
He waves at drivers who let him cross. One driver waved back and almost hit a pole.
Last week, he told a junior employee, "I'm proud of you."
She went to the restroom and cried for ten minutes.
We thought it would wear off.
It didn't. It's spreading.
Three people in accounting now say "y'all."
The junior employee holds the door.
The convenience store clerk asks HIM how his day is going.
Tennessee, I don't know what you did to him.
Please do it to the rest of us.
Jay St. Clair retweeted
Dog tells his owner his blind friend deserves a treat first.. 🥺
Dogs are the best.. 😊
Jay St. Clair retweeted
Good morning to everyone, but especially the dictionary.
ALT The Merriam-Webster dictionary explaining the origin of ‘Goodbye’ meaning ‘God be with you’. And someone responding asking for evidence.
ALT The Merriam-Webster dictionary giving evidence of the etymology of ‘goodbye’.
ALT he Merriam-Webster dictionary saying they are the dictionary and not making things up.
Jay St. Clair retweeted
In 1984, Paul Newman took the watch off his wrist and handed it to a young man who'd just told him he didn't own one. Thirty-three years later, it sold for about $17.8 million.
It was his Rolex Daytona, a gift from his wife, Joanne Woodward. It was probably worth a few hundred bucks at most at the time. On the back, she'd had it engraved "DRIVE CAREFULLY ME" on three separate lines, because he raced cars and it frightened the life out of her.
Newman wore it every day for years. Then one summer, his daughter's boyfriend, James Cox, was rebuilding the family tree house when Newman asked him the time. James said he didn't know and didn't own a watch.
So Newman took the Rolex off his wrist and handed it over:
"If you can remember to wind this each day, it tells pretty good time."
No photographers present, no fuss, just a spur-of-the-moment gift to his daughter's boyfriend.
In 2017, James sold it for about $17.8 million, a world record for a wristwatch at the time. He then reportedly donated a large portion of it to the Nell Newman Foundation, Newman's daughter's charity.
That was typical Newman. Newman's Own, the food company he founded, gives all its profits to charity and has handed over hundreds of millions. He was also known for giving privately, without letting anyone know it was him.
What a great example. Anyone can be generous with a camera on them. A true gentleman does it when no one's watching.
Jay St. Clair retweeted
🎣Andy Griffith called Don Knotts by a name almost nobody else used. He used it one last time at Don's hospital bedside.
They met in 1955 on Broadway, in No Time for Sergeants, and became lifelong friends.
When The Andy Griffith Show began in 1960, Knotts became Barney Fife, Mayberry's jittery deputy. He won five Emmys for the role.
Griffith had said the show would end after five seasons. Knotts believed him and signed a movie deal. When Griffith decided to keep going, Knotts had already moved on.
But they never really parted. They reunited for Return to Mayberry in 1986, and Knotts later joined Griffith on Matlock.
In February 2006, Knotts was dying. Griffith went to the hospital and stayed into the evening.
Knotts couldn't answer him anymore, so Griffith talked to his friend by his real first name, Jesse, which Don didn't like but Andy always used: "Breathe, breathe, keep breathing, Jess."
Later he said, "I was able to tell him I loved him."
Another reason to love dogs👍🙏
A very good boy may have just earned his place in the church choir.
During Mass at The Grotto’s annual Blessing of the Animals on Sept. 20, one husky couldn’t resist joining in when the music began. In a now-viral video filmed by attendee Blanca Gallardo, the pup lets out a series of enthusiastic howls as a priest sings — prompting the priest to walk over and hold a microphone near the furry vocalist.
The moment has become an internet hit, with the Instagram Reel drawing 7.1 million views and 741,000 likes. The husky’s owner and identity were not initially known, though Gallardo said she attended the blessing with her own dog, Phoebe.
The clip’s comments quickly turned the impromptu duet into a heavenly punchline. One viewer, @kindsi, wrote: “The priest sang, ‘all creatures of our God and King, lift up your voice and let us sing’ and the husky said ‘HaleAWOOOOOyah!’”
Honestly, the dog was just following directions.
The Blessing of the Animals took place at 3:30 p.m. in The Grotto Plaza. The annual event welcomes people and pets of all faiths and celebrates the “joy, beauty, love, fidelity, encouragement and comfort” that animal companions bring into people’s lives.
And if this dog had anything to say about it, that comfort apparently comes with a powerful set of lungs.
Today, on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, it seems only right that one enthusiastic husky reminded everyone at Mass that all creatures are invited to lift up their voices, even if that voice is an awe-inspiring “awoooo.”
Read more at Churchpop.com!
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Hey @mattmurphyshow this is the game where @chuckstclair11 and I stormed the field👍👍
I am so glad I studied Milton Friedman in college. He shaped my beliefs enormously 👍👍
The greatest TV show ever made
.@mattmurphyshow does this remind you of anyone at the Hoover Dam? @chuckstclair11 understands
Jay St. Clair retweeted
Dolly Parton, her parents and siblings doing a version of “In The Pines” in 1976, a song long associated with Lead Belly but whose origins predate him…likely came out of a hodgepodge mix of songs from Southern Appalachia.
Jay St. Clair retweeted
An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.
