Demopolis, Alabama Puns

On September 7, 2015 Rebecca Henderson Paulk left her parents home in Demopolis, Alabama where she traveled to Meridian, Mississippi. The drive takes about an hour. Rebecca was driving a white Honda Civic. Her car was found on September 8, 2015 in a ditch in Whynot, Mississippi about 10 miles from her last known whereabouts. Rebecca was a very reliable young woman who rarely let a day go by without being in contact with her family. In the car they found Rebecca's laptop, iPad, and her purse. The car was also left unlocked but there was no sign of Rebecca.

Rebecca was last seen at a local business in Meridian, Mississippi. Because of the circumstances authorities suspect foul play maybe involved. Authorities have served a search warrant at the home of John Bentley Poisso Jr 57. He was subsequently arrested for a unrelated misdemeanor charge. However he remains a person of interest in Rebecca's dissapearance, he is the last person known to have contact with her.

She is described as a Caucasian female with blonde hair and green eyes standing at 5'6 weighing 145 pounds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/search-ongoing-several-states-missing-woman-rebecca-henderson-paulk-n435136

https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/09/arrest_made_in_connection_to_m.html

You probably vaguely remember Andy Phillips. Utility infielder from mid 2000s, right? With a career line of .250/.294/.384 in 604 PA over five MLB seasons -- 0.4 bWAR -- you might think there's not that much to remember.

But there is!

George Andrew Phillips was born April 6, 1977, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He attended Demopolis High School, and the Brewers took him in the 41st round of the 1995 amateur draft as a high school senior. He didn't sign, going to the University of Alabama instead.

Andy was a stand-out third baseman at the University of Alabama, where in his four seasons he would hit .356/.412/.652 in 905 at-bats. As of 2020, he was the only player in school history with 50 home runs, 200 RBI, and 300 hits, and he ended his career as the all-time leader in home runs, RBI, hits, and total bases. The Crimson Tide made three College World Series tournament appearances in Phillips's four years.

As a senior, Phillips hit .396/.454/.781 in 260 AB, with 22 2B, 6, 3B, 22 HR, and 15 SB. He was a first team All-American and the runner-up for the 1999 Dick Howser Trophy as the best player in college baseball. (Jason Jennings won it.)

The Yankees were probably pinching themselves when Phillips was still there in the 7th round of the 1999 draft, #231 overall. (The only one other future major leaguer taken that round: Coco Crisp, taken by the Cardinals at #222.) Believe it or not, Phillips was the best -- by career bWAR -- player taken by the Yankees that year. 1st round pick Dave Walling never made it out of the minors; the only other players drafted and signed by the Yankees who saw MLB service time were 3rd rounder Alex Graman (-0.5 bWAR) and 31st rounder Kevin Thompson (-0.3 bWAR). Not a great draft. If you had a time machine, you could advise the Yankees to take Brian Roberts, who went 50th overall to the Orioles; Carl Crawford, 52nd to the Devil Rays; Brandon Phillips, 57th to the Expos; John Lackey, 68th to the Angels; Justin Morneau, 89th to the Twins; Shane Victorino, 194th to the Dodgers; Jake Peavy, 472nd to the Padres; or... Albert Pujols, 402nd to the Cardinals.

But we got Andy. And he got off to a great start, hitting .322/.417/.519 in 276 PA for Staten Island in the New York-Penn League (Low A). The following year he hit .287/.346/.446 in High A, and the year after that, .302/.353/.503 at the same level

I am looking for events that are happening in Alabama for the month of December. Something different like the Victorian Porch Tour that happens in Opelika.

I am not looking for parades. I am not looking for lighting of trees, and I know things exist like the Galaxy of Lights in Huntsville.

I am just wanting to keep it in Alabama instead of driving out of state. Plus I like visiting towns/cities in AL I have not been to before.

Demopolis on the River, Bama Lights, Tuscumbia does a Dickens Christmas, Candyland in Andalusia, The dog track in Bham, Lights at Noccaalula Falls, have all been suggested. It’s just my husband and me. No only kid stuff.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I’m directly descended from a prominent slaveholder around the end of the civil war. I’m not interested in him as there are plenty of records as easily accessible as Wikipedia . I’m less interested in him as I am the impacts of his forced labor across generations.

Does anyone know how I could find slave manifests for his plantationplantation or begin to understand the economic and social conditions of those people after their emancipation?

Any advice would be a huge help!

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 70%. (I'm a bot)

> Dr. Scott Harris rattled off the numbers of Alabama COVID-19 deaths verified in recent days.123.133.205.250.161.192."These aren't numbers or stats. These are our families and friends and loved ones dying of COVID," Harris, the state's health officer, said Friday at a weekly press update.

> The 1,064 deaths didn't necessarily occur within the last week, Harris said, but were counted after official verification by health officials.

> At least 13,921 people have died from COVID in Alabama since the start of the pandemic in 2020, more than all Alabamians killed in U.S. military deaths in the World War I, World War II, Korean and Vietnam conflicts combined.

> The COVID-19 wave - driven by the highly infectious delta variant - began crushing Alabama health-care capacity in July, with hospitalizations skyrocketing past available ICU capacity for weeks on end.

> In addition to military medical units deploying into state hospitals in recent weeks, Harris said Friday three National Guard units would soon enter rural hospitals in Troy, Monroeville and Demopolis to assist with beleaguered hospital workers.

> "The lack of staff we have in our hospitals is so tremendous, we will continue to need this when these numbers have declined somewhat," Harris said, noting that the some 1,700 people currently hospitalized is still a "Huge surge" for Alabama hospitals, even though it's improved from peaks in the upper 2,000s.

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For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Because she wanted to see the task manager.