4 DEC 06: Q'S YOU CAN USE
The Georgia runoff campaign has been so dull, I can't come up with a good pre-election quiz. If you can name all six candidates on Tuesday's ballots across Columbus, you're probably ahead of 95 percent of the people in town.
Instead, let's do something we haven't done in a while -- and ask some open questions about a variety of other things. I don't have good answers for these questions; perhaps you do. I'm just asking....
+ How did Columbus wind up with two Ford dealerships, but only one of everything else? Do the Ford managers think one of them is in Phenix City?
+ Why doesn't Councilor Nathan Suber put on a cape in his campaign commercials, and call himself "Suber-man?" (A co-worker suggested this one to me Sunday night.)
+ If 2,000 Columbus families took in one homeless person, would the House of Mercy shut down?
+ Why is there a Ladonia, and not a Lassonia?
+ How does the "Yella Fella" get the dirt stains off his cowboy suit, out on the lone prairie?
+ Will someone in Dallas be checking, to make sure the Auburn football team wears cotton uniforms at the Cotton Bowl?
+ If a meteorologist at WRBL "News 3" said the temperature was 38 degrees, would he or she get in trouble?
+ Why does the sun always seem to shine a bit brighter, when you drive south on Interstate 75 from Tifton to Valdosta? Is it because you might as well be in
Florida already?
+ If AFLAC can have a duck and Geico can have a gecko, why doesn't State Farm Insurance have a farm animal mascot?
+ Does Councilor Red McDaniel live in a "red district" or a "blue district?" Should he change his nickname, if necessary?
+ If Columbus can have a Best Pawn shop and a Better Jewelers, where is the Plain Old Ordinary Jewelry Store?
+ Should there be a contest in Russell County, to find the Hatchechubbiest person?
+ Are politicians across Georgia quietly looking forward to January, when only one Kathy Cox will hold a statewide office?
+ Why hasn't Starbucks Coffee jumped at the chance to buy the old Krystal restaurant downtown? Is Ruth Ann's Restaurant that imposing?
+ Should the Miss Georgia pageant be moved from late June to September, now that Miss America is crowned in January? Wouldn't that save the contestants money for antiperspirant?
+ Would more people have heard Prather Powell as a Columbus Councilor on the city government channel, than hear him preach now at 6:30 a.m. on WXTX?
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