Rumors of my untimely demise...

[Gregg]

Gregg, may you be as indestructible as the legend depicted in your avatar.

You need to ask yourself only question: "Have I ever seen Gregg and Keith Richards together at any time?"

I offer one potentially useful data point to those pondering this question. I frequently ride by Keith's house in Weston Connecticut on my weekend bicycle rides. I have never seen a high performance Mustang with Kentucky plates parked on the street. I also have not seen any dachshunds in tactical gear apparently conducting surveillance of the property.

Me and Dachshunds are pretty stealthy, ya know"

[longdog]

Me and Dachshunds are pretty stealthy, ya know"

Dachshunds certainly* have a low radar signature.

*Probably.

[Gregg]

Myself though, I flood the radar with an image so large its usually assumed to be a malfunction or an aircraft carrier.

[longdog]

Myself though, I flood the radar with an image so large its usually assumed to be a malfunction or an aircraft carrier.

I know the feeling. How I have the nerve to call my whippet a "podgy little git" I have no idea. Pot, kettle, sooty arse.

[noblepa]

Myself though, I flood the radar with an image so large its usually assumed to be a malfunction or an aircraft carrier.

In northern Kentucky?

[The Observer]

In northern Kentucky?

I think northern Kentucky is known for being a malfunction.

[JamesVincent]

I think northern Kentucky is known for being a malfunction.

Wait just one second.... Oh, wait, we came from Eastern Kentucky. Nevermind, carry on.

[Gregg]

Downtown Argillite!

[JamesVincent]

https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/98211 ... itEALw_wcB

Order it up.

[notorial dissent]

Downtown Argillite!

Is this to imply there is an Uptown Argillite??

[The Observer]

And coming up next, "Uptown Hick" by Billy Joe Joel.

[grixit]

Who's the reggae man on the left side of the image?

[Gregg]

Who's the reggae man on the left side of the image?

Refrigerator magnet from Jamaica. That's the fridge I have at work which is the best picture I have of a DTA sticker.

There is no "Uptown Argillite" per se, but there is "Oldtown" (of Billy Ray Cyrus fame, he's a local boy) as well as "Greater Flatwoods" which encompasses all of the above, but oddly, not the nearby city of Flatwoods proper. That name comes because at the intersection of KY1 & KY207, there was a sign "Flatwoods" with an arrow, and being the big city the rest are the outlying area. Even that is bent logic, because the actual big city is Ashland and Wurtland is bigger than Flatwoods as well.

Greater Flatwoods on map

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oldto ... 8224?hl=en


I am not making up a word of this. Eastern Kentucky is really like this. Tell 'em James!

[JamesVincent]

About 10 years ago I looked into buying that old General Store at the corner of Rt.2 and Rt. 7. Didn't do it because the kids who inherited it decided to rip out the gas pumps and tanks without updating the real estate ads or the price. (Didn't help when I went to look at the apartment above the store. After being told that the elderly couple who had owned the store had passed away 4 years previously and then finding food in the refrigerator.....)The address was listed as Greenup even though you have to drive through Argillite's area to reach Greenup. Yeah, Eastern Kentucky is like that. The town my family came from, Farmers, is almost 4 miles or so of area that is called Farmers. However, the actual town of Farmers is maybe 3 blocks long at the intersection of old US 60 and old US 801 and has a census population of like 300 people. C&O and later CSX had a station dead downtown up until the late 70s when the tracks were ripped up. My uncle Clint's house was 2 houses away from the station.

You want to really see some weird things start looking at post offices in some of the more outlying areas. The PO that services Plummers Landing, which is where our family cemetery is and where my uncle's sawmill is, is in the Hinton Mills feed store. The PO for Muses Mills, further down the road, is in the old general store.

[Gregg]

The Argillite Post Office, which is also Illuminati World Headquarters, is smaller than my great room in Cincinnati. They wrapped the original clapboard building in brick veneer but its tiny.

Current


Old School

[JamesVincent]

This first one is the Hinton Mills building with the USPS sign on the side. Almost directly behind where this pic was is my uncle's house and sawmill.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hinto ... 83.5609063

The second is the building that the PO is in for Muses Mills. The road down to the left is the road I used to take when I was a vet tech for an animal rescue.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/6+Rya ... -83.527148