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2015-11-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-08 03:43|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Oh boy, oh boy, wait until Zenobia sees this!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-11-08 04:16|| 2015-11-08 04:16|| Front Page Top

#2 ‘dating down the food chain.’

... where neigh sometimes means yes.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-11-08 05:50|| 2015-11-08 05:50|| Front Page Top

#3 population of Holmes Co in 1940 ~40k; today ~20k

4 bd, 3 ba, 3200 sqft with carport on 1 acre ~ $60k

Posted by lord garth 2015-11-08 08:41|| 2015-11-08 08:41|| Front Page Top

#4 They viewed Mississippi as a backwater, at best, and more commonly as a byword for ignorance and bigotry.

Rich coming from New York that now is in low level insurgency conflict between blacks and police.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-08 08:50|| 2015-11-08 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Their take on rural Mississippi reads as very New York Timesish.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-11-08 09:44|| 2015-11-08 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 "amazingly, many of the residents walked upright and communicated via a strange language"

Posted by Frank G 2015-11-08 10:09|| 2015-11-08 10:09|| Front Page Top

#7 I met a young (late 20's) couple at a the Hale Spring Inn in Rogersville, Tennessee a few weeks ago. It's a bed and breakfast built in 1824 and still in operation as an inn, restaurant, and tavern. They were from Los Angeles and had found out about the inn on Facebook. They told me all their friends pleaded with them to not come here as, being a bi-racial couple, they would be lynched at the worst and beat up at the least. They came anyway and told me everyone they met was very friendly and welcomed them to East Tennessee. They were mildly surprised. When I was working in Boston I had to continually disabuse people of the belief the Beverly Hillbillies was not a documentary. Goebells himself couldn't have done a better job than our "media" at convincing people that the south is a bad place to go.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-11-08 12:37|| 2015-11-08 12:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Aller yawl overlookin Missipuah way a life, which means partially you sayin Ima forum Missipuh what do you want to drink?

So youz got Ermest Hemmingway who blowed off his own head (but did have a Muriel) but we got William fucking Faulkner, Nobel damn prize winner who kept chunging 'em down until the end. You got Joe Montana. We got MFing Archie Manning who would have kicked his ass in college.

Wymens? Don't geter me started.
Damn Yankees.

Posted by Shipman 2015-11-08 13:00|| 2015-11-08 13:00|| Front Page Top

#9 That was classic Mr Shipman.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-11-08 13:41|| 2015-11-08 13:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Deacon, ditto on the Boston bigot front.

Have a Harvard friend who warned black students about going to NC. Told him to look at Boston's history with bussing and to stop being a bigot.

I had a number of clients in the south and race relations always seemed easier there than anywhere north of the Mason Dixon Line.

Posted by AlanC 2015-11-08 14:27|| 2015-11-08 14:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Drove through the Pluto area a few years ago on the way to an ongoing weather damage repair project near Yazoo City. It's very 'Delta'.

Inexpensive housing, good food and nice people.

It does tend to flood occasionally and gets quite humid in relation to the northern climes. Y'all can live with that.

All in all, Mr. Grant and 'Mariah' made a decent choice.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-11-08 15:05|| 2015-11-08 15:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Whel my oRganik ehgs r'at 60 miles out, but it dont takk mur than 40 minutes to'gettm.

When I lived in the city, 40 minutes was called getting out of the parking lot.

My Manhattan (tm) ear plugs. That is EAR. plugs.

Glenlevit. Borrow the car. Here is some furniture. Hate their political views. Fn yanquis. Still welcome to the real world. Grow your own damn eggs then.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-11-08 17:34|| 2015-11-08 17:34|| Front Page Top

#13 @ Lord Garth: Nice post. The real estate link definitely made your point. I was born in KC and now living in Tucson. Toured the south for 5 weeks in '98. 2000 Dotcom crash (and an excellent set of doctors) prevented me from moving to either Natchez or Vicksburg. And yes, the MSM + limo liberals still think of the south as it was in the '50's.

Posted by borgboy 2015-11-08 17:40|| 2015-11-08 17:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds like Richard Grant must have read Fred's Phoebe Clayton. Good move.

Posted by KBK 2015-11-08 19:25|| 2015-11-08 19:25|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry, grom, ship. Gut nuthin. See if I'm lying.

He libbed where the libbin' ain't zippy,
Till, lo and behold, no more chippy.
Now sing, Tin Pan banjo,
Your droll Yankee canto,
"His missus'll miss Mississippi!"

In Pluto where everything's rotten,
And all ob us darkies picks cotton,
A sentence of Pynchon
Can set off a lynching
And Sundays de Times can't be gotten.

Okay, lemme go duck Shipman over in that other thread...

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-11-08 22:31|| 2015-11-08 22:31|| Front Page Top

#16 That's a whole lot of nothing you got, Mr. F. Nicely done!

Posted by trailing wife 2015-11-08 22:35|| 2015-11-08 22:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Pynchon?
Slowly I turned...

Posted by Shipman 2015-11-08 23:56|| 2015-11-08 23:56|| Front Page Top

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