Deuce Weekly 02/27-03/05/01

(all comments in gray and italicized were written on 2/27/06)

The Deuce Weekly
Vol 1, Iss 2
02/27-03/05/01

If I could be serious for a minute:
Valleydale had its DiscipleNow weekend over the last three days. God walked into the room and just said “I don’t care what plans you have, I’m doing whatever I want in here.” And He did.

DRL (deuce request live) Top 5 of Everything:
5. Brunswick Lanes. They played “Jump” by Kris Kross. How old school is that?
4. Jessica Walker. She’s just so “Pretty.” (i have no clue what this means)
3. Number 3. (that’s my final tribute)
2. Nathan Tutor. His message this past Thursday was truly God.
1. God. After this weekend, you can’t put anyone else in the top spot.

Coming up at The Deuce:
*March 3rd. The first Saturday of each month is Breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and we’ll meet at 10 am on this coming Saturday. We’ll all have a breakfast meal together, and enjoy a great time of fellowship. (the first of many to come)

*March 9th. Come over about 11 Friday evening, and at midnight, enjoy a pancake, waffle, egg midnight breakfast. Two dollars per person cover charge, all you eat. Josh on waffles, Dave on ‘cakes, and we’ll hang out into the wee hours of Saturday morning. (again, the first of many to come)

*On March 11th, its Selection Sunday for The Big Dance. We are going to try our first March Madness prognostication round-up, so email me to sign up.

*March 25th is Oscar Night at The Deuce. I have a copy of the Oscar ballot, and can email it to you upon request, or you can go to EWonline.com and get them. Everyone picks the winners from the 23 categories, the best record gets you two free movie passes, provided by The Deuce.

The Spotlight Haiku:
To show our appreciation to everyone around The Deuce, I bring you our salute to you guys. This week’s haiku salutes Drew Morris
Play that guitar Drew
Every Rose Has Its Thorns, Drew
Slash wants to be Drew

Coming Soon:
*May 4-6… The Deuce follows Common Ground and invades Panama City
*June 28-30… Stages: In the Round with V’dale’s WalkAbout drama team.
*July 7th… DeuceFestDeuce.
*July… finally, the Deuce Open Invitational Nerf Golf Championships
*August… So Long Steph, our salute to the departing Stephanie Nipp
*September… The Deuce Football Championships, Season II
*October 6th… Deuce Semi-Formal
*December 15th, It’s A Wonderful Deuce: The Party


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Deuce Weekly 2/20 - 2/25/01

On February 19th, 2001, I sat down in front of the computer I worked on, on the third floor of Saks Incorporated's Parisian Buying office over 7500 Industrial Drive. I typed out the following addresses and names from memory into an email:

David Dollar; 'Lupe618' (Ginger Thomas); 'jkpsmile' (Jennifer Pritchett); 'jfberthon' (Jill Berthon); 'Litlman16' (Matt Latta); 'brazzma' (Meredith Brazell); 'quintana' (Meredith Quintana); 'Chelle0831' (Rachelle Thomas); 'RossManSF' (Ross Kingrey); 'kawlalove' (Sarah Hasha); 'slcampbe' (Stephanie Campbell); 'SNIPP2' (Stephanie Nipp); 'lnipp' (Lynn Nipp); 'drj711' (Justin Glenn); 'lucy913' (Dana Mitchell); 'GuitarGuy25' (Brad Latta); 'sybil' (Sybil Johnson); 'ntcoffey' (Ty Coffey); 'CoachFuly' (The Wookiee); 'jessic5384' (Jessica Caldwell); 'DivAmy' (Amy Anderson); 'beccamos' (Amy Valdmanis); 'clberthon' (Cheryl Berthon); 'powelld' (Daniel Powell); 'dmo1' (David Mark Osborne); 'reddvl777' (Stephanie Crook); 'TIDE1AMY' (Amy Wible; 'lbeauty17' (Leslie Cordell); 'alil6' (Alison Lecroy); 'bigslam22' (Amanda Abbott); aldennistx' (Amy Dennis); 'jessielou21' (Jessica Caldwell); 'mockron' (Rona Mock); 'aubiti7' (Nikki Brown); 'culpelb' (Brook Culpepper); 'Wendy.j.brobst' (Wendy Brobst); 'hpkhill' (Hillary Kelly); 'nhtutor' (Nathan Tutor); 'justinsmith52' (Justin Smith); tmjohn (tom); shawngalensharp (shawn sharp); nubjubjr (Mikey)

Subject line? "The Deuce Weekly 2/20"

And thus it began.

So here now, in its entirety, is the first ever Deuce Weekly. Any comments I have added today will be in gray, and italicized.

Welcome to The Deuce Weekly, for February 20th-25th, your guide to what’s going on in and around The Deuce, plus the latest news. (this set up and style was a "just the facts" style... it got longer, more joke filled and more controversial as time when on)

Before I begin, let me just say this:
I don’t know how hard it is making a living by making left turns all afternoon, but The Intimidator was the best at it. Loved to root against you when you lived, mourned you when you died. Rest in peace, number 3. (its weird that today, 2-19-06, was also the Daytona 500, five years to the day of Earnhardt's death)

Coming up at The Deuce:
*On March 11th, its Selection Sunday for The Big Dance. Sixty four teams will be picked to participate in the NCAA’s Men’s Basketball Tournament, also called March Madness, and we’ll be doing a tourney of our own… how good are you at picking the winners? The last day to sign up to play is 3/10… it costs nothing to play, you get no money if you win, but you do get bragging rights that you are the big dog around. (drew morris won this)

*March 25th is Oscar Night at The Deuce. I have a copy of the Oscar ballot, and can email it to you upon request, or you can go to EWonline.com and get them. Everyone picks the winners from the 23 categories, the best record gets you two free movie passes, provided by The Deuce. Our own Michael Nipp took it away last year, but this year he admits to not knowing what he’s going to do! (michael won it again)

*DeuceFestDeuce is Saturday, July 7th, mark it down, make plans for it. We’ve already got a Deuce First Lady Stephanie Nipp in her own set, Justin Glenn has agreed to do some, and after talking to my fellow Deucemates, we might have a few surprises up our sleeve. We’ll keep you posted.

Coming Soon:
*May… Murder mystery time at The Deuce. (this would have been fun)
*June 28-30… Stages: In the Round. V’dale’s WalkAbout drama team, directed by yours truly, takes the stage for our second annual dinner theater
*July… finally, the Deuce Open Invitational Nerf Golf Championships (see note on mystery dinner)
*August… So Long Steph, our salute to the departing Stephanie Nipp
*September… The Deuce Football Championships, Season II
*October 6th… Deuce Semi-Formal
*December 15th, It’s A Wonderful Deuce: The Party

The Webpage:
Shawn has been working diligently on the webpage, which is TheDeuceonline.com, and hopefully will have it up and running in March. It will feature archives of encouragement and stories, updates on new events coming up, pictures, links to other cool sites and so much more. Keep your heads up for it!

The Spotlight Haiku:
To show our appreciation to everyone around The Deuce, I bring you the first installment of our salute to you guys. This week’s Spotlight Haiku salutes Matt Latta.
Matt Latta at Lee
Lives with that Marine guy Ross
His chick Ging is hot

Thanks Matt!

Contacting Us:
David Dollar, tanguy2001 or just reply to this email
Call us, 824-XXXX

We’ll see you next Tuesday for another edition of The Deuce Weekly