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zhangliao04 said:
What the heck are we going to talk about then? Dr. Pepper vs. coffee?
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
I live here. It really is bad in a lot of places. I had a job here working for the county driving poor people to their doctors appointments, and it helped me get ingratiated into the community. I have no fear of going anywhere here now, but you don't want to go in a lot of those hollers if you are a stranger.
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You ever attended a meeting where they handle the serpents? I did about 18 years ago way back in one of them hollers
 
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Glitch said:
What are they doing in L.A.? Do they even geography? Do not want!
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Reverse geography. LA came to Neyland. New grads looked very young, new field looks seriously awesome, new weight room looks like an upscale Gold's Gym and The Rock needs a new artist-in-residence. Stefano's Pizza takes Papa John's coupons. Who knew?
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
I live here. It really is bad in a lot of places. I had a job here working for the county driving poor people to their doctors appointments, and it helped me get ingratiated into the community. I have no fear of going anywhere here now, but you don't want to go in a lot of those hollers if you are a stranger.
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My dad grew up and worked for a time as a surveyor in the mines on both sides of the border of TN/KY. He said you could always tell who was from Harlan and who was from Hazard by the width of their belts back in his day. lol. We are talking about a tough coal miner from a coal mining family that would not go near either of them if he could avoid it.
 
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nicksjuzunk said:
You ever attended a meeting where they handle the serpents? I did about 18 years ago way back in one of them hollers
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No..I don't associate with them. If I see a snake, I either kill it, or get away from it. That is what the good Lord gave us brains for, to know things like you are supposed to leave snakes alone.
 
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Vols4us said:
My dad grew up and worked for a time as a surveyor in the mines on both sides of the border of TN/KY. He said you could always tell who was from Harlan and who was from Hazard by the width of their belts back in his day. lol. We are talking about a tough coal miner from a coal mining family that would not go near either of them if he could avoid it.
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They don't call it bloody Harlan for nothing. It isn't as bad as it used to be, but it is still a rough place, with rough people
 
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Tennessee Vols football coach Jeremy Pruitt says no players have indicated plans to transfer

Pruitt: No players have indicated plans to transfer

If it's a surprise to you, it's not to Jeremy Pruitt.

The first-year coach of the Vols before the first stop of the Big Orange Caravan on Thursday evening said no players indicated to him they planned to leave the program during his individual meetings with his team after spring practice concluded last month.

In fact, Pruitt said both he and his team felt positive coming out of those meetings, a stark contrast to the disappointment he displayed in the aftermath of a spring game during which he felt too many of his players "flat-out quit" and fell far short of expectations.

"You know what, I felt a lot better after the spring was over with," Pruitt said, "and we had a chance to sit down and you get a chance to explain to guys where they're at and what we need to work on moving forward. I think it's good for the players to understand exactly where they were at.

"I think probably a lot of guys left out of there in really positive mood knowing what they needed to work on this summer."
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Tennessee does have what's called the May mini-term classes between now and the start of the summer semester, and Pruitt said the Vols have 30 players who have elected to stay on campus to continue going through workouts and attending classes.

Two of them are 2018 signees Kingston Harris, a defensive lineman, and top junior college tight end Dominick Wood-Anderson, and one player Pruitt mentioned by name on Thursday was redshirt freshman offensive lineman K'Rojhn Calbert.

Pruitt certainly likes the commitment level those players are displaying this month.

"We've got a lot of guys, I think we've got 30 guys that are in there month of May that are going to mini-term," he said. "I think that's a good number. I looked down there and saw a bunch of them working out, so I'm excited to see that."
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zhangliao04 said:
If you are an Apple/Samsung sheep. And have to have the newest and best every year. I still don't know why people are paying $1k for the Iphone X.
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Paid $750 cash for my X. You just have to bargain with your provider. I told sprint I was switching to Verizon and said here is $750... they took the offer obviously.
 
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Star Tennessee Vols OL Trey Smith 'feeling great,' 'ready to work'

The update on Smith provided by Pruitt on Thursday at the Big Orange Caravan sounded much more positive, even if it wasn't all that clear about whether or not Smith will be available to play this season for the Vols.

"I tell you what, Trey's working really hard right now," Pruitt told the orange-clad crowd at the First Tennessee Pavilion. "Right now, the NCAA has a discretionary weeks, so you have to have seven discretionary weeks throughout the year, which means you can't have mandatory workouts. Right now, that's us.

"We can't make it mandatory for our players, and everybody does that during the month of May. But they do have to have somebody in the weight room for supervision, and somebody told me that Trey's been in there every day. He's feeling great and he's ready to go to work."
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Harlan county makes Cocke county look like Disneyworld by comparison..
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Truth. I've been all over southeast ky and east tn with my dad back when he did reclamation work on strip mines. He was well respected and liked by the locals most everywhere, but if they didn't like you, you were liable to never be heard from again
 
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A lot of very encouraging things on this page.

Love that no one wants to transfer out. Love that so many guys are sticking around and working out during this mini May period. Love that Trey is working hard and on pace.

Also intrigued by CJP’s comment that some guys who have played a lot of football for Tennessee so far, won’t play much this year. Wonder who hes referring to.
 
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