For the last month both this sign on Kershaw Road and we at TownDock.net have asked:
What's your Caption for this Pamlico County picture?

It started life as a billboard that read "Buccaneer Bay". The neighborhood up off of Kershaw Road is still with us, but most of the sign is gone, perhaps carried away by some of the Winds With Names that blow through here now and again. Part of the sign however, has withstood time and wind. Your challenge this month was to take that remaining "Buc" and come up with a caption or poem or limerick for it.

So many entries came in --- both terse and in verse --- that it seemed only fair to divvy things up in to a few categories. There will be a Buc Poets Division, and a Buc Caption Division.

And one more.

Some of you took the challenge a step beyond. We received entries that not only worked in the word "BUC" but also some of the other words "WATER" and "AVAIL." that can be seen amid the overgrowth. The judges here at TownDock.net conferred and decided this third category was in order.

So, the TownDock.net Hat Trick Award For Finding Lyricism In Real Estate Signage goes to Joshua Edward Potter of Minnesott Beach:

Where is this "buc(ket) o' water avail."?
In the bush, in the ditch,
Or in the house in a pail?


Honorable Mentions:

BUCKLED ONCE THE WATER BECAME AVAILABLE.
-- Nancy Kress

"Half a buck spotted on the water near Kershaw Rd"
--Gordon Pickett

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We received a slew of entries, many of them playing on the theme, "The Buck Stops here" However, our winner in the Buc Caption Division thought some deer might not stop:

Wacky deer hunters try anything when the camo and dogs don't work. But the does are too smart to fall for this one... Cheryl Huff

We received a variety of views about what attracts deer:

Newest gimmick to attract male deer during hunting season. John Hinners

The Buck stops here, Doe to follow. Patricia DeBaise

From the Old West, Bill Marlowe suggested: "A used buc board"

Real estate was on some minds:

No Mr. Deeds, we hardly ever get any hurricanes here in this area, honest!

-- Gary Mastrodonato

"Partial Blurb for Parcel in Suburb"
Joshua Edward Potter

Reduced! Buccaneer Bay lots for sale- 75% off
Susan Conley

Susan emailed us on a Sunday evening, close to the time, we noticed, that "The Sopranos" comes on. The TownDock.net judges couldn’t help but wonder if that influenced Susan’s other caption entry:

Oh buc! What happened to the rest of the bucing sign?

Moving on….

One stop shopping... everything here is less than a buck!
---- Don Southwick Beach Haven, NJ (soon to be Oriental)

Slam on those brakes…

The buck stopped here Larry Doyle Reidsvllle, NC

$ The buck stopped here $ Susan Fishman, Morris Co, NJ
(new property owner, Oriental)

The Buc stops here Doug Sligh and Mary Ann Parham
and Carol Dixon and George Williams

Buck Stops Here Gus McDonald

The BUC really stops here Linda Turlington

The buc stops, hear! Bill Youngblood

The Poetic Justices at the TownDock.net had some tough deliberations in the Buc Poet division, but finally declared a winner. It is Gene Greathouse of Plano, TX and the Pamlico High School class of ’63. Gene actually sent us two limericks and self-censored the first asking instead that we consider this one.

I once saw a sign that said BUC
I saw it while driving my truck
That sign was a mess
so all I can guess
Is that BUC was down on his luck


There were some other excellent Pamlico Poets:

Act now before they're all gone,
The agent whispers in your ear.
When you wonder if he's right or wrong,
For years and years, the Buc stops here...

Buck Loy (extra points for his first name)

The sky may be bluer,
And still very clear,
But we are still surer
The Buc stops here.

Bob Clyburn

Home, home on the bay
Where the buc and the caneer may roam
Where seldom is seen,
Any signs such as these
And the bushes grow higher each day.

Susan Conley

To our lasting disappointment, we didn’t receive any haiku that worked in the word, ‘Nantucket". This limerick however came closest.
Consider yourselves warned.

Tim and I a camping went
And found three maidens in a tent
They was three and we was two
So I BUC one and TimBUCtwo

(I* should be ashamed of myself.)
Keith and Judy Moore...FYTC/RRYC/GYC

(Ed: We’re not sure who "I" is)

Next week we unveil our Caption Contest for December. Send in your comments, captions, and Pamlico Poetry to captions@towndock.net


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