To My Brother, Carl Delery

NEW ORLEANS (Gazette) — Carl, I am scraping along today having a busy, rough day. However, when you were in my corner years ago everyone thought that I was a bad Motor Scooter. NOT TRUE!! I was only hanging in YOUR shadow; and people thought that I was 007, THE secret agent man. NO! I was only Agent 006. I ran across your post below, and I am now ready to go back out there on another mission. You sparked a dormant flame with the mention of two magical words. Yes: PARIS AVENUE!! 🙂

TO: Ferd  FROM: Carl

@Carl Delery >>Thank you for the memories. Today was such a hectic, busy day that after I ran across your post a smile came across my face. YOU were DA’ MAN. I was only a worshiper at your altar. Now that you live way up in New Jersey, I am left to the wolves. Only the lessons that I learned from you keep my Caribbean Pirate vessel afloat. Thank you!

I re-Posted here my comment to your memories about our Paris Ave. apartment when we were leaving our teen years entering into our 20’s. Your words made my day :).

REPOST: Yes, Carl. Our Paris Ave. days need to be made into a movie. 3D & IMAX to add to the #shock&awe. Women will run out of the theaters screaming at the site of such awe. J/K ..lol. We weren’t that awesome, were we?  Carl, you know that I’m just/kidding because you were DA’ MAN; I was only a soldier in YOUR army.

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Dominique Batiste Wins Award

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From: Ferd (@ferdiewerdie)
Sent: Sun 8/11/13 10:55 PM
To: Teams in My League
Cc: delerygazette@hotmail.com

by Ferdie Werdie
Yahoo! awarded its Best Draft Award 2013 tonight after a totally heated, knock down, dragged out draft this evening. My daughter Dominique Batiste flat out swiped Drew Brees from my grasp in Round 1. I finagle Drew Brees EVERY year. Today, he was there on the table one minute; gone the next.  The Yahoo! Best Draft of the 2013 season goes to… Dirty Dawgs Manager: diamonique (Dominique Batiste). Best Draft is awarded to the team with the most projected season points based on weekly optimal starting lineups.
YAHOO! SPORTS FANTASY FOOTBALL
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Blogs Kill WHITE HOUSE DOWN Opening

NEW ORLEANS (Gazette) — Obi-Wan Kenobi is probably who was needed to help WHITE HOUSE DOWN and Jamie Foxx in its opening weekend. It opened 4th with $24M while Monsters University took in $140.9M at #1 for second week in a row. Conservative bloggers hurt the opening because they denounced its central theme of US withdrawal from Iraq. US military veteran Kurt Schlichter at Townhall.com wrote, “Repeat after me, conservatives: not one damn cent.” WHITE HOUSE DOWN’s plot centers on an assault on the White House by a paramilitary group angry at US withdrawal from Iraq, a storyline that has gone down like a lead balloon with those on the right. Schlichter wrote to conservatives, “Do not spend one damn cent on this crap.”

By the way, I saw MONSTERS UNIVERSITY because my grandkids were waiting on it for weeks. So, I actually helped propel WHITE HOUSE DOWN to its lowly #4 rating. This was truly a disappointing opening for the movie which was expected to be a huge summer blockbuster. The kids came out en masse for the monsters ..so did the grownup kids like me :).

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Nelson Mandela

NEW ORLEANS (Gazette) — As of right now (7:05 a.m. New Orleans time) they say that Mandela is still with this world. My prayers are with Mandela, his family and the whole world. God is watching over us. My opinion: the whole world is about to go to hell in a hand basket. I’m saying this just from all the craziness I read about every day. I pray to the good Lord to keep the world around just long enough for another Saints Super Bowl, a Pelicans NBA Championship and for me to make just 1 more baby (J/K). Another lil’ Ferd? ..hahaha.

Mandela’s eldest daughter: ‘It doesn’t look good … but he’s still there’

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PRETORIA – Members of Nelson Mandela’s family thanked well-wishers around the world for their support on Thursday as a relative said the anti-apartheid icon remained in

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Favorite Vacation Spot

Andrea Crosses Florida

Andrea Crosses Florida

FLA (Gazette) — I just remembered how much I like Florida. Until I turned on the news this morning, I even forgot that Hurricane Andrea crossed through Florida yesterday and overnight. I was enjoying how pretty it is where I am in FLA (more West). Then, a few minutes ago I decided to turn on the Weather Channel. The hurricane crossed clean across Florida while I was enjoying where I am.

Lockheed used to fly me into FLA to Cape Kennedy to work on the Shuttle.

@Tim Daniels >>I realized today that this is my 1st time in Florida since I retired. One of my favorite things about working at Lockheed was going to Cape Kennedy. I must have been vacationing in other spots and forgot about how much I like Florida.

P.S. @Tim Daniels >>I took more pics that I want you to see. I will post more today or Saturday… There is plenty “wild game” lying out here on the beach with their “toes” all out. Some of ’em have more than just their “toes” out. haha …I won’t show you those kinds of “feet” pictures. By the way, the wildest animal out here right now is ME!!!

Now that I am a truly wholesome guy I only look at the ladies’ feet. I do not allow my eyes to travel any higher than that because …well, let’s just say that I do not want people to think that I am an animal. If my eyes do wander any higher than that in the next few days, I will try to keep my mind as pure as “the driven snow.”

Another pic from my #Florida #vacation: pic.twitter.com/8va7oHH2AS

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#RunningBack is anti- #GayMarriage

NEW ORLEANS (Gazette) — Mixing sports with politics (the gay-marriage issue & the coming-out issue) is once again in the news. Top NFL #runningback voices opposition. Vikings’ Adrian Peterson is probably the best r/b in the league. He has now come out on the side of not liking gay-marriage. I looked up the definition of marriage. There are 2 definitions now in dictionary.com: a) union between a man & woman; b) gay marriage.

Adrian Peterson says he’s ‘not with’ gay marriage – NFL – SI.com

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – NFL MVP Adrian Peterson says he has family members who are gay whom he loves and respects. But on gay marriage, the Minnesota Vikings running back says “that’s not something I believe in.”
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My readers are probably looking for a clearer opinion from me. I must admit that I have to study the issue further. That is why I looked up the definition of marriage. I thought that looking up the definition would give me a clear-cut, black-and-white answer. However, now-a-days even vaunted institutions like our dictionary have changed to reflect modern mores/customs. Which, I must say, is actually the definition of a dictionary. Our dictionaries change, mend and bend with time.
The encyclopedia, however,  tells a different story. I subsequently looked up the word “marriage” in the encyclopedia. This definition is it my friends. This encyclopedia definition is how I roll! haha: MARRIAGE; socially sanctioned union that reproduces the family. END OF SUBJECT. CASE CLOSED! Adrian Peterson seems to be CORRECT.
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Buy Lottery in Florida

Exactly where to buy next Powerball lottery ticket is revealed by location of the current winner of the entire $590 Powerball jackpot. Florida!! I will drive to the closest corner of Florida to me to buy my next Powerball ticket.

(ABC NEWS) — “This would be the sixth Florida Powerball winner and right now, it’s the sole winner of the largest ever Powerball jackpot,” lottery exec Cindy O’Connell told AP. “We’re delighted right now that we have the sole winner.”

She said Florida has had more Powerball winners than any other state.

Hey, y’all, that is all I need to hear. Florida, I am headed there soon to get my next Powerball ticket. hahaha

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ME and MY MAMA

Me and My Mama

Me and My Mama

I had a grand day on Mother’s Day in celebration of all mothers of the world. I hope that my mom had a lovely, fine Mother’s Day. All you mothers make the world go round.

P.S. (New Orleans) From: Ferdie Werdie >>To Gail (my little sister). I re-read your post below; your comment is magnanimous. You may now climb aboard mama’s bandwagon. I was not fair to “hog” mama to myself. WELCOME ABOARD! UPDATE: You, Gail, have now been upgraded to “onboard” as a true MARIE OUR-MAMA WHO DAT!!

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to Marie Cates Delery from her favorite child (Ferdie Werdie)!! Love you, mom!!

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Gwen Vandergriff >>Great picture & a great person…love to you too Ms. Marie…

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Carolyn Demery >>oh you added favorite child. Because I know she did’nt. Hmmm

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Michelle Johnson Delery >>Yeah right….from Alan!!!

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Ferdie Werdie >>I fell asleep watching the Knicks game; but, I thank y’all for the thoughts. Plus, @Alan >>mama half-way likes y’all (her other children) too. Don’t worry; y’all are ahh-ight ..HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all.

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Anita Fredieu-Hightower >>Happy Mothers Day to my cousin Marie and God Bless You.

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Wanda Cook-Delery >>Happy Mother’s Day to Mama Marie !

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>>Happy Mother’s Day to my mama! From one of your other favorite children

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Ferdie Werdie >>LMBO …hahaha!! @ Gail Sabathia >>You are too funny. Marie is MY MAMA! U must have forgotten. I’ll let y’all go by Marie once in a while, but ya’ need to walk lightly in my realm (ME&MYmama). P.S. I sent you the above P.S. explaining that I re-read your comment. Sorry!! You may now climb aboard the bandwagon.

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Grow Old With Dignity?

On frequent occasions, my daughters have told me that I have to learn how to grow old with dignity. They are too funny! I am not pushing up daisies yet; I’m still breathing and kicking. On Thursday night, while I was out to dinner with her and her mom, my middle daughter told me to “stop flirting” with a certain attractive gal. I am laughing about it right now. A long-haired, pretty-eyed girl who worked at the restaurant kept hawking tourist ideas at me as we walked by the front desk several times. I guess the girl thought that we were tourists.

My daughter said, “Stop flirting, daddy!” Nikki is absolutely funny. First of all, the girl was doing her job. She is a greeter at a New Orleans restaurant on the river in a tourist destination near the French Quarter. She is supposed to push tourist stuff. My eyes must bug out when I see pretty ladies ..which I cannot control. I dunno’; it is innocent. Nikki says that I look at young women like a dog looks at a ham bone. In fact, I thought that the young thang was flirting with me. However, with Nikki’s mom walking right there with us I would be insane to flirt with someone else. That is rude! Plus, I would not want to have my family jewels ripped off right there in the public.

I am actually still laughing about that situation right now, and cannot stop laughing. I get such a “kick” out of my daughters’ attempts to keep me regulated and under wraps when it comes to fine, lovely young ladies. I guess that is what daughters are supposed to do. It is just that I am so “harmless” and “retired” when it comes to the flirting game. However, to be 100% honest, I think that the young, fine ladies cannot help themselves. In my mind, I truly think of myself as 007, James Bond. Yes …Bond; James Bond ..LOL. The ladies pick up on this vibe, and initiate the flirting on their own without any help on my part. My daughters say, “Dad, you need to learn to grow old with dignity.” My question is: “What’s dignity got to do with it?” hahaha.. LOL.

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What a Lovely Dang Morning!

I feel like saying the F-word. In fact, I did say it; but I will not say it here because I am a gentleman :). I am aggravated this morning ..and COLD!! Pollen must be in the air, or something. I am about to totally break something. My head itches; and I feel like wrapping my hands around somebody’s throat. Too bad no one is around! I must have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed. In fact, I did not even sleep in the bed. I fell asleep on the “effing” sofa, and woke up itching like a motor scooter. Whew! Dang pollen! Maybe, if I stop and smell the coffee (as they say) I will feel better. You know, things can get on your nerves every now-and-then. I’m going off for a bit to make some coffee. See y’all later, alligator!

Okay! God bless y’all. Have a fine and blessed morning!  hahaha…

P.S. I came back online for a minute to add the below. Before making my coffee, I passed by my desk; and look what I stumbled upon. Now, I feel a little bit better:

Psalm 23

King James Version (KJV)

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

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