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      Introduction

      Those of you who are reading this book and are not from the South (Georgia in particular) may be somewhat confused by the spelling of one of the words in the title.

      That word would be “Dawgs.” I know the correct spelling for that word is “D-o-g-s,” but in Georgia, where I was born and where I currently live, we don’t spell it that way.

      We spell it “D-a-w-g-s” because that’s the way we pronounce it, and we pronounce it a lot because the University of Georgia, where I went to school and where my heart remains, has had excellent football teams over the past quarter-century and we refer to those teams as the “Dawgs.”

      Georgia’s official nickname is the “Bulldogs,” but nobody says that. What people say is “Dawgs,” as in “How ’bout them Dawgs!,” which also contains some grammatical indiscretions, but it’s an honored phrase by Georgia graduates, who use it after victorious games as a means of implying, “My, but isn’t our team a glorious group of scholar-athletes who have just kicked (hopefully, Auburn’s or Georgia Tech’s) butts!”

      Georgia also once had a coach named “Butts.” Wally Butts, who guided the team in the forties and fifties. As a matter of fact, somebody wrote a book about him and entitled it No Ifs, No Ands, and a Lot of Butts, which should indicate the University of Georgia turns out some top book-titling talent as well as football players.

      One of the questions readers ask me a great deal is, “Lewis, where do you get the titles

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