Just exactly what makes a Mississippian a Mississippian?

DJournal.com ^ | 7/14/02 | Danny McKenzie

[stainlessbanner]

Let's hear it Mississippians - what are you made of?

[Black Agnes]

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice!

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

If Trent Lott is any kind of an indicator, I'd say a Mississippian doesn't have all that much of a backbone.

[mykej]

"If Trent Lott is any kind of an indicator, I'd say a Mississippian doesn't have all that much of a backbone."

All the calcium has gone to his hair.

[AppyPappy]

The heat index is 103 in Biloxi right now. You people are mad for living there.

[TomServo]

Thanks for the ping! Hats off from Tennessee to our Southern Brothers and Sisters!

[Black Agnes]

A lot of us don't claim Trent Lott. (Vacant Lott, Empty Lott, Not-A-Lott...etc)

[Salman]

I had a magnolia in my front yard in the Hudson Valley region of New York.

Or are Yankee magnolias like Yankee biscuits, not the real thing?

[epluribus_2]

PALEOZOIC ERA

Life was largely confined to the sea from the Silurian Period back through the Cambrian and beyond. Plants and amphibians colonized land during the Devonian. The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian were noted for exotic coal forests; Europeans group them together as the Carboniferous Period.


Permian Period (286-245 mya)
The supercontinent Pangaea began to break up.

Pennsylvanian Period (325-286 mya)
Lush, moist forests inhabited by giant amphibians and

Mississippian Period (360-325 mya)
insects produced vast coal reserves.

Devonian Period (410-360 mya)
The first vertebrates conquered land during this "Age of Fishes."

Silurian Period (440-410 mya)
Fishes with jaws and insects evolved.

Ordovician Period (505-440 mya)
The first vertebrates appeared.

Cambrian Period (544-505 mya)
An "explosion" of life produced the first hard-shelled creatures.


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PRECAMBRIAN EON



Precambrian Era (4,500-544 mya) This immense time span stretches back to the birth of Earth!

[sheltonmac]

Actually, I would think Mongolians would be more common in New York than Magnolias.

[Gaston]

"Basically, we've only paid lip service to the Native Americans in our state (until Philip Martin got everybody's attention)"

Seems they are still afraid of saying the C word (Choctaw) in Mississippi. Philip Martin sounds white enough but, let's not mention that C word.

http://www.choctaw.org/

[SGCOS]

Just exactly what makes a Mississippian a Mississippian?

An IQ equal to the amount of teeth you have.

[Catspaw]

The heat index is 103 in Biloxi right now. You people are mad for living there.

I met someone last week who's going to Biloxi next month. I said, "are you nuts? Do you know how hot it is down there?" He assured me that they wouldn't be leaving the casino.

[craqed]

Yes We Are!

Could I get you a glass of TEA while I'm up?

[craqed]

you forgot to mention that of the people voting to keep the flag, approximately half (dont' remember the figures off hand) were black.

[craqed]

then beware the bite i have with 139 (or 159 depending on teh test) teeth i have.

[Sub-Driver]

http://www.drbukk.com/gmhom/park.html

[varon]

Just exactly what makes a Mississippian a Mississippian?

Being able to spell Mississippi backwards, faster than frontwards?