Walton Sun SoWal.com Article

[WaltonSunDave]

The Walton Sun SoWal.com article is now available online:

http://story.waltonsun.com/article.display.db.php?a=1390

I wasn't able to speak to everyone that contacted me (I received more emails than I expected), but I want to thank everyone at SoWal for their help. I hope you enjoy it.

Dave

[skippertoo]

:clap_1: :clap_1: KDW you are now famous !

[JB]

Nicely done.

Something tells me we'll have quite a few new members as a result of this article. Can't beat free pub.

[RiverOtter]

The Walton Sun SoWal.com article is now available online:

http://story.waltonsun.com/article.display.db.php?a=1390

I wasn't able to speak to everyone that contacted me (I received more emails than I expected), but I want to thank everyone at SoWal for their help. I hope you enjoy it.

Dave


Very cool :cool: ..... not a bad 1st and only post :biggrin:

[Gypsea]

Funn article Dave. Kudos to Daddy-O for starting our SoWal community and for our now famous celebrities such as SJ & Darlene.:clap_1:

[InletBchDweller]

:clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1:
LOVE IT!!!!

[Beachmom]

Grayt job!!:clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1:

(Why do I suddenly feel a case of stage fright coming on?:rolling: :biggrin: )

[Smiling JOe]

nicely written, Dave

[Cheering472]

Nice:D

[kathydwells]

WaltonSunDave, thank you for the great article. Hopefully it will bring more folks our way. Oh, and :welcome: to the board. Now maybe you will get sucked into our world. ;-) Wow, what a nice article. However, one clarification. I haven't organized any luncheons or get-togethers, I just crash them. :biggrin: I loved how you spelled funn with "2 n's" because that is how we spell it around here. If anyone gets a copy of the paper, get me one please and hang on to it until I get there if few weeks!!!! Nevermind, I will just print it. DUH! :doh:

[jdarg]

Woo hoo- I likey the FUNN!!!!:clap_1:

[BPickelTDC]

Great article Dave!!

BTW, I bet he is probably already in the Sowal world by lurking ;-)

[kathydwells]

Oh, and I don't own properties I just enjoy the ones that are already there. As my sister said though, perhaphs this is an omen and I will own there one day!!!! :clap_1:

[Cheering472]

I don't own there, as in I don't have to pay property taxes. But I always feel ownership for the time I am there. :wub: My friends here think I own there since I'm a nervous wreck when it storms in Sowal, not for property, but for friends and paradise.

Besides, I'm sure you've paid enough in rental fees to claim ownership of that hammock. :biggrin: You are also contribute to the Sowal economy. Lets see there's the liquor store, the grocery store, Tom Thumb, & any number of dining establishments you may frequent while you live there for 2 weeks a year. Sowal benefits from your visits, just as we do here.

Besides we all own the beach. Join me "This land is your land..."

[Mango]

Oh, and I don't own properties I just enjoy the ones that are already there. As my sister said though, perhaphs this is an omen and I will own there one day!!!! :clap_1:

Grayt article, and Kathy you have a special place in the heart of us SoWalers, so in a sense you will always have a place there. :wub:
You're ok too SJ. ;-)

[Miss Kitty]

:clap_1: ...DARLENE!!!! That was my favorite line. That was funn reading and I am proud of our representatives!!!! :D

[Smiling JOe]

Grayt article, and Kathy you have a special place in the heart of us SoWalers, so in a sense you will always have a place there. :wub:
You're ok too SJ. ;-)
Okay? Just Okay? Where's the love? I thought Oklahoma was OK. :idontno:
just pulling your chain... :D

[KISH7374]

I would make a bet that Kurt never thought this thing would get this big or so much funn!!

[TooFarTampa]

:rolling: I just love this.

I loved how Dave capitalized the O in JOe all through the article. :floor:

[kathydwells]

:clap_1: ...DARLENE!!!! That was my favorite line. That was funn reading and I am proud of our representatives!!!! :D

And that my dear is all because of you!!!!! I would NEVER have been called Darlene if you had not started it way back when!!!!!

[kathydwells]

:clap_1: :clap_1: KDW you are now famous !

I will give you my autograph when I finally get to meet you! :biggrin:

[ShallowsNole]

Grayt job, guys!!! :clap_1:

[Ocean Lover]

I don't like it...I love it!!!:clap_1:

[Gypsea]

Darlene, don't let this go to your head ~ we don't want you to start shaving your head and checking in and out and in and out of rehab.:eek:

[supermom26.2]

I have emailed to several friends back home! Thanks for the wonderful article Dave! Grayt Job Kurt - I would like to talk to you about a job!:clap_1:

[kathydwells]

Darlene, don't let this go to your head ~ we don't want you to start shaving your head and checking in and out and in and out of rehab.:eek:

Yes ma'am. :blush:

[lindatat]

Very cool! Great article and great subject matter. Kurt, you should be so proud of this site. It's like a "home away from home" for so many of us who can't get to the beach as often as we'd like!

[Paula]

:clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1: and welcome to the board WaltonSunDave.:welcome: I was just talking about this message board today to someone in our wintery town in Michigan and was saying how wonderful SoWal.com is -- it has provided information, humor, comfort during tragedies, and advice of all kinds. I was telling my friend that an anthropology or sociology academic should do a study on how this virtual community developed and became such a wonderful place in which the relationships are so special. I feel lucky to be a part of this place!

[Rita]

Thanks Dave! http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/gulfwindsway/cool_animated2_md_blk.gif

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[Allifunn]

:clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1: Grayt article!!! It made me tear up. I don't think most of the readers will fully understand the community and family that we are :wub: But it's a start :biggrin:

[Bob]

Kurt, Contact the guys at Google. They have lots of cash for aquisitions. You heard it here first!!!!!

[audie]

:clap_1: woo hoo - we are making the big time !

[DD]

:clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1: Great article!!

[WaltonSunDave]

Thank's for all the kind words, everyone. I forgot to mention, it will be in this Saturday's edition. Front page.

Now, time to switch to my other, less obvious screen name ;-)

[OnMackBayou]

Kurt,

Way to go! Are you kidding me? Two million page views a month?

Holy see are ae pee!

Now tell me again. When was it you were starting that $19.99 a month thing?

[Miss Kitty]

Thank's for all the kind words, everyone. I forgot to mention, it will be in this Saturday's edition. Front page.

Now, time to switch to my other, less obvious screen name ;-)

FRONT PAGE!!!!! :clap_1: You are a wise man WSD! Now I am really wanting to know your "less obvious" screen name!

[Allifunn]

:clap_1: Now I am really wanting to know your "less obvious" screen name!
:scratch: :scratch: :scratch: me too......:biggrin: I love a mystery

[jessifunn]

let me know when you want to do an article on nothing but the funns :biggrin:

fyi- the funns have a competition to see who can be in the walton sun the most. :biggrin:

p.s. i really want to be on the front page in the faces of walton county with this story....

make it happen davey!!!

[kathydwells]

let me know when you want to do an article on nothing but the funns :biggrin:

fyi- the funns have a competition to see who can be in the walton sun the most. :biggrin:

p.s. i really want to be on the front page in the faces of walton county with this story....

make it happen davey!!!

I think this is a marvelous idea!!!!!!!!!! Do it, do it!!!! :clap_1: :clap_1:

[kurt]

Thanks Dave! As you can see, the characters here are quite a group. I hope you can follow up with some of them one day.

Thanks to everyone for contributing - anonymous or not!

[30A Skunkape]

let me know when you want to do an article on nothing but the funns :biggrin:

fyi- the funns have a competition to see who can be in the walton sun the most. :biggrin:

p.s. i really want to be on the front page in the faces of walton county with this story....

make it happen davey!!!

Do the police reports count?:floor:

[Tootsie]

fyi - out of towners - the newspaper version includes an image of the message board front page (forums) and a big sowal sticker! :cool: :clap_1:

I think the article was very well written and an excellent introduction to sowal.com. there are some things that are just hard to represent in a short article though - such as how the board is represented by people from so many parts of the country with diverse backgrounds and a pretty wide range of ages. south walton is the common ground. but the community encompasses so much more.

I was proud to read all about it! :wub: :biggrin: :D glad they didn't mention the PCake thread though... tee hee. although its a perfect example of how we all came together to help out a fellow sowaller who needed to find a special local baker, and how we all got to be witness to a very happy and successful ending (bachelorette party at Red Bar, complete with photos of party and cake, and a printed book of the thread presented to the lucky bachelorette)...:lol:

[Johnrudy]

This is unbelievable! Congratulations!!
:clap_1::clap_1::clap_1:

[Smiling JOe]

with 600+ people on the message board right now (on a Saturday), the article has reached a few people.

[Miss Kitty]

with 600+ people on the message board right now (on a Saturday), the article has reached a few people.

:welcome:

[Smiling JOe]

Quick, someone say something important. :funn:

[30A Skunkape]

Quick, someone say something important. :funn:

Why do you spell funn with two n's?:idontno:

[kathydwells]

Why do you spell funn with two n's?:idontno:

Because of our funn girls...jessifunn, kimmifunn, whiteyfunn....the orginal funn girls. ;-)

[hi n dry]

SOWAL finally got the positive publicity and credit it deserves.
Great article!
Thank you Walton Sun.

[Tootsie]

Why do you spell funn with two n's?:idontno:

you better go study that funn thread. wherever it is...

skunkape - do you know the answer to this important sowal question, when you happen to meet a sowaller? how do you spell funn?

[iwishiwasthere]

:clap_1: :clap_1: Fantastic article...now I can share with my friends who do not understand this place I visit.:rolling: No axe murderers here.:biggrin:

Kurt you certainly do deserve lots of credit! :clap_1:

[30A Skunkape]

you better go study that funn thread. wherever it is...

skunkape - do you know the answer to this important sowal question, when you happen to meet a sowaller? how do you spell funn?

I think I have a loose grasp on the spelling;I was just trying to help the newbies who are asking WTF is up with 'funn'?:lol:

[lindatat]

:clap_1: :clap_1: Fantastic article...now I can share with my friends who do not understand this place I visit.:rolling: No axe murderers here.:biggrin:

Kurt you certainly do deserve lots of credit! :clap_1:

Too funny - whenever I tell people about all the Sowallers I've met, they instantly assume there must be an axe murderer in the bunch - so far, so good - haven't met one yet (that I know of anyway!)

[audie]

Too funny - whenever I tell people about all the Sowallers I've met, they instantly assume there must be an axe murderer in the bunch - so far, so good - haven't met one yet (that I know of anyway!)

don't be so quick to judge - we are staying together for 5 days in april :twisted:

[Beach Crazy]

you better go study that funn thread. wherever it is...

skunkape - do you know the answer to this important sowal question, when you happen to meet a sowaller? how do you spell funn?

TOFAM :cool:

[Cheering472]

My kids do not get it either. When my sister found out I'd actually "met someone from the internet", she freaked. But then she prefers to vaca in PCB and thinks 30A is boring so her opinions are not filed as important. :D

[jessifunn]

I think I have a loose grasp on the spelling;I was just trying to help the newbies who are asking WTF is up with 'funn'?:lol:

well if kurt would just make the funn thread a sticky....:biggrin:

[Allifunn]

My kids do not get it either. When my sister found out I'd actually "met someone from the internet", she freaked. But then she prefers to vaca in PCB and thinks 30A is boring so her opinions are not filed as important. :D
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: I think I might faint....