Comments on: Appreciating Bisher

By: Furman Bisher « Chamblee54

Furman Bisher « Chamblee54 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:40:21 +0000

[...] Live Apartment Fire weighs in today with an appreciation of Furman Bisher. For those who don’t know, Mr. Bisher writes about sports for the AJC, and is the former Sports Editor. The man is still producing at the age of 90. Growing up in Atlanta meant reading his column in the Atlanta Journal. He managed to be somewhat controversial. Bear Bryant and Lewis Grizzard were not fans. In those days, the Constitution was a separate paper, with a sports editor named Jesse Outlar. PG called on Mr. Outlar one time,while selling little league raffle tickets. Over the years, this reporter has read the fishwrapper less and less. Today, with the slow demise of dead tree journalism, the Cox monopoly paper struggles to survive. Mr. Bisher might even outlast this institution. Furman Bisher ends his columns “selah”. Wikipedia says “Selah may be the most difficult word in the Hebrew Bible to translate.” The psalms were originally sung with musical instruments playing, and breaks in the narrative were noted with selah. [...]

By: locutus of borg

locutus of borg — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:12:30 +0000

As a long time Atlantan, I remember the days of the Constitution in the morning and the Journal in the evening. And I remember what always seemed to be the friendly rivalry of Jesse Outlar at the Constitution versus Furman Bisher at the Journal. An old relative of mine hated Bisher so much, he would refer to him as that “Pisher Bisher.”. But he read him religiously. As we all did. Bisher is our last link to the glory days of newspaper, so I hope he will be with us for many more years and keep that tradition with us.

By: Ciambellina

Ciambellina — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:22:33 +0000

Quoting Mark Twain is always a good way to go. Thanks for the tip.

By: AJC’s Mike King writes final column | Fresh Loaf

AJC’s Mike King writes final column | Fresh Loaf — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:38:06 +0000

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By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:19:02 +0000

Love Bisher! He has a few collections and books that you can find used. You know, I read the first part of the Mike King piece in the paper but didn’t get down to the important part. Wow, this is stunningly bad news. On the heels of Charles “Wild Georgia” Seabrook getting his walking papers in November things are not looking good at the AJC.