Abeline If you’re not from J’ville....
The Courier-Journal’s “Open Line” invites you to share your comments and concerns about any important local, national or international issue.
This is to the Jerk who cut me off in traffic goin’ down Morton Avenue. Thank you very much! I’d like to get ahold of your year bumper, Bubba, and squeeze it ‘til it pops.
Open Line, Open Line, Just open the paper and hear ‘em whine You can lie, but you don’t have to sign, in Open Line, my Open Line. Journalism...don’t make me gag...Just an excuse to sell this rag Good place to bitch and nag in Open Line, my Open Line.
When we get the paper in our skivies off the porch.. We skip the Wars and Famines for the overnight report of... Open Line, Open Line, Don’t need no nerve to call this time Just hide behind that telephone line in Open Line, My Open Line.
---To the person who opened their door and scraped my car in the Walmart parking lot yesterday, Thank you very much! I hope you die of lead poisoning. ---Jacksonville’s Cable television is the worst in the world! Why can’t we get The Quilting Channel, the Strawberry Preserves Channel, the Assembly of God Aerobics Channel, and Nude NASCAR racing? And by the way, I’m sick and tired of paying for all these extra channels! ---An eight-screen movie theatre in South Jacksonville? This is obviously a communist plot by Glenda Hazilrigg and Ron Tendick, the same commies who re-routed the traffic on the downtown square and put flourine in the town’s drinking water. ---This is me again, Thank You Very Much! I am sick and tired of the dogs leaving their droppings on my front lawn. Isn’t this the job of the city council? Used to be ....Differently It took some guts to take a poke at me. Now you can hide behind A.T & T...in Open Line, My Open Line...
Now at least for gossip, innuendo, blood and gore... I, don’t have to purchase, the Enquirer anymore..Oh... Open Line, Open Line, Like Window-Peekin’ any time. Cheap shots don’t even cost a dime in Open Line, my Open Line.
---I want to complain about the Greene County work camp and... ---I want to complain about the Greene County ball teams and.. ---I want to complain about the color green. ---I think Greene county should get its own paper! They’re taking up all the room and we can’t complain about the Beardstown hog confinement. ---It’s me again. I want to say Thank You Very Much to the young man who helped me change my tire yesterday coming out of Chapin. Now if he’d just return my car.
Why they would call this good...same reason a Klansman wears his hood I guess they’re both just misunderstood in Open Line, My Open Line. Not much courage, not much guts...but you know our circulation’s up... The First Amendment’s gone plumb nuts, in Open Line.. My Open Line.
Why they read...I’ll never know....The paper’s up when the I.Q. is Low... Instead of thinkin’ you can say hello, to Open Line...My Open Line. Are they loonies? Are they nuts? Yep, it sounds as if they’re one of us! No need to think when you can dial us up in Open Line... You probably won’t have the guts to print this, but I think the Coonridge Digest is just the best thing in your paper. Mom...I think they recognize your voice by now. My Open Line!