NOT Kamperjons
Decide Hugh Lawson of the Center District of Georgia died final week at 82.
In his self-authored obituary, Decide Lawson defined that “He despised obituaries written by funeral house hacks (he mentioned that anybody who wrote that his reminiscence can be ‘perpetually treasured’ must be shot) and wrote his personal.” It’s a ultimate tour de power from a decide identified for his wit.
However Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution posted maybe Decide Lawson’s best piece of writing, a letter — drafted whereas he served as a Georgia state decide earlier than his nomination to the federal bench by Invoice Clinton — to the Wiles Manufacturing firm to complain about one in all its “Kamperjons” which the decide had bought.
At roughly 6:10 a.m. on Friday, December 4, 1987, my good friend, Fred V. Joiner, Zr., was perched atop a Kamperjon within the Altamaha River swamp. After making a considerable deposit he sat there for a second, admiring the great thing about the brand new day and considering the extraordinary satisfaction of a:profitable bowel motion. The squeal of a number of low flying geese introduced him again to actuality and the enterprise at hand and he reached down for the Charmin. At that second the Kamperjon, abruptly and with out warning, utterly gave method and deposited Mr. Joiner squarely and precisely into the middle of about 4 kilos of shit.
Actually paints an image. Full letter under:
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