I believe today's client in the afternoon is the youngest person that I have ever had as client.?ÿ She is either 21 or 22 years old.?ÿ She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the best university in the country in December and has purchased a very nice chunk of pasture land to start running some cattle on.
As we were wrapping up a complex survey this morning I received a call from the buyer asking me to meet him after lunch for a few minutes.?ÿ About 95 percent of the land surveyed is a marshy cedar-infested jungle, so I'm expecting the buyer to show up in camo in a mud puppy truck that is jacked up to clear the oversized tires.?ÿ I was wrong.?ÿ Completely wrong.?ÿ He arrived in a pickup with a winch in the bed commonly used for assisting wheel chair-bound drivers.?ÿ He didn't need it.?ÿ He hopped out with a pair of crutches and a modern style curved prosthetic on one leg.?ÿ I assume he has one for the other leg as well.?ÿ He is a building contractor by profession and has the upper body to match.?ÿ Really a nice guy.?ÿ He wanted to meet with me to talk about probably surveying a nearby tract for him that he is in negotiations to purchase.?ÿ He is new to the area and had some very good questions about easements, city dictates, county dictates and similar things.?ÿ Sounds as though I will probably see him again soon.?ÿ This is the first time, of which I am aware, where one of the parties involved has had both legs missing from just below the knees.?ÿ I recall a few with one leg missing and a few who were fulltime users of wheel chairs.
In regards to the first of your stated firsts, is this still a dating forum?
I can give you her father's phone number.?ÿ He is an attorney.?ÿ I'm sure he can provide some sound advice.
It's a bit early to be negotiating pre-nuptials, we've only just met.
In regards to the first of your stated firsts, is this still a dating forum?
Richard, he probably found an old Penthouse magazine and drifted away to fantasy land. ?????ÿ
The mag to which he refers, I have been told, is full of photos of naked women.?ÿ The one that contacted me for a photoshoot was Playgirl way back in 1975. I was the next issue after Lyle Waggoner of The Carol Burnett Show. ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ?????ÿ
best university in the country
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Are you trying to start a P&R flame war?
Probably not. You'll see that he qualified it by saying it is only in December that it is the best university in the country:
"She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the best university in the country in December and has purchased a very nice chunk of pasture land to start running some cattle on."
A good example of why it is best to keep descriptors near the thing being described.
A friend of mine grew up on a farm near Villisca, Iowa.?ÿ He told us how certain locals would structure their phrases poorly.?ÿ His favorite was an instruction given to a teenager to "Go throw the pigs over the fence some corn."
While checking for the correct spelling of Villisca, I discovered the mystery of the Villisca Axe Murders that took place in 1912.?ÿ Learn something new everyday around this place.
I don't know that area well enough to know what ethnic backgrounds are common, as I grew up somewhat east of there.
The phrasing you quote is often used as an example from people who learned German or related language first and English second.
My wife was born and raised as a northwest Iowa farm girl, then spent a few college and early career years in Sioux Falls, SD, then 24 years in Minneapolis.?ÿ
One may easily say that she has a few "Iowegian" terms and constructs in her everyday conversation....
And I have to say that her extended family and friends back in Iowa are some of the nicest people that I've ever met.
