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Say it isn’t so! Edgefielddaily.com web posted July 29, 2005 A column by the Editor As an avid reader and news junkie I read just about everything I can get my hands on. Among the vast array of articles, news stories, public records, laws, rulings and “news of the weird” that are poured over on a daily basis there is one column I greatly anticipate every week, and it is not on Edgefield Daily.com. It is the Ramblin’ ‘Round column written by Buck Asbill in the Edgefield Advertiser. As a former student of Mr. Asbill’s at Strom Thurmond High School I was pleased to see he began offering his unique take on subjects in one of our local papers. I suppose part of it was because he no longer made me sit in his classroom for three consecutive classes and the grueling work he would challenge each student with. Another part of it was maybe, just once, I could catch him doing some of the things he would mark wrong on a composition that I had turned in for an Advanced Composition class. That hasn’t panned out as well as I had hoped. However, this week as I began reading Mr. Asbill’s column I was struck with fear; he started it off by saying, “The longer I live the more uncertain I am about how to use some words and what some other words mean.” Say it isn’t so! I said to myself. This is a man who would pile vocabulary words on his students higher than the pile of excuses my thirteen year old daughter can give me for why she just “has to” talk on the phone so much. Yet, here is a mentor of mine saying he is not sure of how to use some words and what others mean. What is next? Is he going to tell me that there is no Santa Claus? My world has been turned upside down. There is a definite warp in the time space continuum. I’m not sure If Mr. Asbill reads Edgefield Daily.com on a regular basis, although he has stated he has visited the website. I feel this way mainly because I do not get e-mails from him where he has taken an article or editorial and his trusty red pen and corrected my slaughtering of the English Language as I am so apt at doing at times. By the end of his article he laments that his first point was actually correct, which I guess would lend credence to the saying, “I am not always right, I have been wrong once. I once thought I was wrong but it turned out I was right after all.” Once I finished reading, the pieces of the world were slowly moving back into place and the world began to spin again. My watch is still a few minutes slow for some reason. One piece of advice for Mr. Asbill, do not ever do that again! I am older now and with three teenagers I do not know if I could handle another shock akin to the master saying he is not sure about word use and the meanings of others. Now it is back to doing good deeds as Santa will be here in just 149 days. He keeps a list of those things, you know, and I have my eye on a shinny new truck. Edgefield Daily.com would encourage our readers to enjoy the musings of arguably the finest teacher, mentor, and friend that ever graced the front of a classroom in Edgefield County, Mr. Buck Asbill. Buck Asbill's column can be found each week on page 2 of the Edgefield Advertiser. We searched the Edgefield Advertiser website and did not see it online. Return to Main Page
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