The Red Man has received an award for his Rants and Raves from one of his cyberspace friends who writes Polysyllabic Profundities that always entertain us on Worsham Street and Casa de Canterbury. We received this award from our good friend Wiley of Wiley’s Wisdom, too, so we thought we must accept since two of our Amigos had given it to us, although we generally avoid recognitions so as not to falsely encourage the old woman Slow in her editing efforts. She constantly asks for an increase in her salary, and awards of any kind are just the rationale she’ll use to hit me up again. Shit house mouse.
But the “Family Award” I can’t refuse on so many levels. It was started by someone who wanted to say what being a part of cyberspace had meant to her and what a family atmosphere existed in her WordPress World. The Red Man agrees and also thanks our Sports Fans who have accepted our “family” during the past two and a half years and over 180,000 words. (Yes, yes, I know. Who but an ex-CPA would actually keep an ongoing WORD count on WORDPRESS??) Pretty, Smokey Lonesome Ollie, Paw Licker Annie, Tennis Ball Obsessed Chelsea, Spike, the old woman Slow, Granny Selma who was as old as dirt and Aunt Sweetie Pie who have both crossed over into their own cyberspace, and The Red Man thank all of you for making our family a part of your family.
Acceptance of the Family Award requires us to nominate 10 others in addition to the friends who nominated us and so we give our Awards to the following friends who make us laugh, make us think, make us proud to be a part of their family.
A Lingering Wall
Dianne Gray
Human Writes
The K9 Miss Harper Lee
Animal Couriers
Long Life Cats and Dogs
Sethsnap
Hollis Plample
The Family Kalamazoo
Leanne Cole
Get me outta here Percy…let’s go pop a cork…
Red's Rants and Raves 
Congratualtions! well deserved…
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Thanks Robyn…I think you’ve read almost as many of these blogs as Teresa has!! I’m glad you’ve been with me.
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Sweet – we’re ducking in case any corks go astray! Love Red’s rants and raves and very touched that you have passed the award to us. We’re notoriously bad at responding but might one day set a fire under our butts 😀 thanks dear RM and Slow.
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Trust me – The Red Man is equally notorious in accepting awards so we won’t be upset if you don’t have time to respond. We just love your blog and the work you do and wanted to let you know!! Keep going…:)
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Well done, and deserved. Must tell you before I forget in a cloud of cigarette smoke and maze of words…like the new backdrop. Thanks for the nomination, I’m just not an awards type of guy. My cyber conversations with you is award enough for me. And if Slow caught wind of it, I might be billed, and i’ve only one receptacle for bills and it overflows as often as a Third World commode. Don’t think I spelled that right…does Slow do pro-bono work for the needy?
Woof to the Pack –
Later…
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The Red Man doesn’t typically respond to awards and he was quite sure Human Writes wouldn’t either, but he wanted you to know how much he likes being friends with you in cyberspace. The Philosopher Red entertains both moi and the old woman Slow who is a sucker for the needy so she’d probably do pro bono work for them. God help her.
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Too funny. Slow needs to assess risk when she considers working with a phantasm with a below zero credit rating…that even reflects bad on pro-bono work.
Later…
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Hmmm…she’s a crusader from way back. I mean, she was storming the Hill for the ERA in the 70s so phantasms with a below zero credit rating would be just up her alley. Sadly.
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I have a weakness for idealists, especially idealists from when it wasn’t very ideal to be one. More power to you and the Pack.
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🙂
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I’m so dense…I just saw your portrait while scrolling up the page. You look to sweet and cheery to be falling into my web of confusion on any regular basis. Glad you do, but I always imagine my readers as shaky, haggard people who dwell in dark spaces, prone to fits of outlawism. You’re too fun.
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Alas, sweet and cheery have been requirements for the old woman Slow for over forty years in her world of numbers, so it’s no wonder her picture looks like that. Actually, she’s as shaky and haggard as they come. The Red Man knows her inside and out. You are also too fun.
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Requirements require too much risk/reward assessment. Pull the cord on the escape hatch. The Red Man must be a soothing presence to survive in such a pressure cooker.
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Pulled the plug five years ago and never looked back. The Red Man tried to get her to go to Costa Rica or somewhere like that but unfortunately her Dodge Dakota couldn’t make the trip. Oh, well. Texas is a close second.
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Ever see that god-awful film Borat, where the oxen is pulling the car? Burros here. They’re cheap, and a good diversion for any feisty crocodiles. Does all of Texas look DFW? My only experience…and that is my image…Starbucks and long lines of Latinos going south.
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Never saw Borat after seeing previews but good to know burros are in vogue in Costa Rica. Must be hell pulling cars in all that sand. Southeast Texas during bluebonnet season makes you want to smack your granny. The old woman Slow prefers Shipley’s Donuts to Starbucks. Not nearly as much dinero. BTW many Latinos stopped here. Actually, they used to own the place, but then that’s another story.
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congratulations!!!!
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Thanks!!
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Congratulations on your award and thank you so much for sharing it with me. I love the idea of a Family Award (although I must say that in many ways WordPress family is waaaay better than real-life family; maybe it should be the Better-Than-Family Award ;-)). And now that we’re family, you really should talk to the old woman Slow about getting a hobby . . . something other than counting words! Pass the champagne!
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Thanks so much Miss Harper Lee!! Yes, some of our family connections are suspect, if you catch my drift, but the old woman Slow spends a lot of her time riding around in the Dodge Dakota to visit them anyway. As for counting the words, well, it’s just too pathetic. I don’t think she can help herself, though. 🙂
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*insert giggles here* Dear Red Man, you and I are cut from the same kind of canine cloth. 🙂
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Yes, we are Dudes for sure!! 🙂
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A big congrats to you 😀 Thank you for including me – I LOVE being part of the Worsham Street and Casa de Canterbury family 😉
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And we LOVE getting ready to move in the RUC in Australia with you!! No geikos preferred. 🙂
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I was going to say wowza, but it’s bowwowza!! Sheila, you so deserve it! And thank you for recognizing my blog as part of the family :)!
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Bowwowza! Cowabunga!! Thanks…:)
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Thank you again for the WordPress Family Award. It was my pleasure to pass the award along to 10 other members of my WordPress family. You can read all about them here: http://thek9harperlee.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/we-are-fam-i-ly-get-up-everybody-and-dance/. Hope you’re feeling better . . . and that Slow if still handing out the canned food and Annie has vacated your bed!
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We are really not Award types up in here, but we couldn’t resist the Family Award, and we consider Miss Harper Lee to be a part of our immediate cyberspace family! So glad you passed the award along to others. Slow is still handing out the canned dog food, but she now mixes it with kibble that she puts water on. Paw Licker Annie has gone back to her big beds. Life is good – or at least getting better! Thanks so much for your support!
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