JOYNER’S CORNER
You can reach Charles Joyner by e-mail: joyner@carolinacountry.com
Phone etics
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Well, if you can’t remember what I asked you to get me for my birthday, forget it!?
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It’s a fact: M A T C H B O X E S S A E M A U R O L April showers bring out
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Match the boxes below with the boxes above to create a multiplication problem. Solve the problem and write your answer in the box tops. Then match boxes again to find the hidden answer.
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If you were to punch in the numbers above on your telephone key pad you would spell out the two missing words in this sentence.
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exp sure It’s About Time You know you’re talking to a southerner when you call someone and are told,
Lottery chief says all goals are getting met except ticket sales ... “We’re doing one heck of a job,” Executive Director Tom Shaheen told the lottery’s —Asheville Citizen-Times governing board. He still has his sense of humor, apparently. © 2007 Charles Joyner
“He’ll be here shortly” (pretty soon), or “He’ll be here directly” (not too long), or “He’ll be here presently,” meaning “by and by, but I don’t know just when.”
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