Posted on 09/02/2007 6:32:33 PM PDT by chasio649
BTW, Tupelo’s high school ACT scores are over the national average, which is no small feat for Mississippi.
Every time I drive in the Mississippi delta
and see the cotton fields I think about the
Ode to Billy Joe.
Kinda like people going to the beach and hearing
the “Jaws” theme I guess.
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Born and raised out West like I was, I thoroughly enjoyed living in the South while being trained as an Army Radioman at Fort Gordeon GA, outside wonderful Augusta-Land in the mid-1960’s.
What gorgeously green landscape, red clay, historic settings ...much like the beauty I would later see Vietnam’s Central Highlands.
Our South ..a wondrously patriotic land ...giving the rest of our still-Free country a great example to follow in time of war..?
No wonder WALTER CRONKITE has called for the South to secede..?
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Amen to that! American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God- GO SEC!!!!
I’m not so sure Fred’s got it right. Everybody down here in the South knows that the correct spelling is “fahr” instead of “far.”
If you’ve had the opportunity to visit Hilton Head, SC recently you’ll realize that strategy didn’t work.
I thought they were talking about the Kennedy compound in Massachusetts.
They'z like hemm'roids: if they come down and go back up they'z OK: but if they come down and stay they'z a pain in the A$$.
I keep hoping some auto manufacturer will build a plant in South Mississippi! There’s LOTS of open land, and folks could use the good jobs.
My son is a junior this year. I don’t know if there is a
HS-C list but if not we need one.
Well, in a lot of ways, no news is good news.
Yes, Bob Wills IS still the king (LOL).
I like the older country, but this new stuff is just regurgitated pop music.
Being originally from Alabama myself....
Roll Tide!
If there had been a ping list last year, maybe I would have known about the big drug raid up there before my son told us. It made the Richmond news, but not the Raleigh, so I didn’t see it. I can’t believe those young men did such stupid things and have ruined their lives. Federal drug charges and facing 40 years for what?!?!? They didn’t need the money, so why?
Maybe I should do a ping list. ;) Freepmail me if you are interested.
best analogy I’ve heard yet!
(hmm, did I spell analogy right?)
I went on a hell of a good dove shoot Saturday....if you got roots in Dixie you’ll know what I’m talking about.
Eddie Arnold was always my favorite
I like him too. Since I am way out in the sticks (no dialup, only satellite TV) I get to watch the RFD channel a lot. You should check it out if you can get it. Lots of oldtime music, replays of live performances from Eddie Arnold, Porter Wagner’s old TV show with Dolly Parton when she was just being discovered.
I’ve spent my entire life in the South.
Remember all day singing and dinner on the ground at church? Walking barefoot along a paved road when it was so hot it melted/stuck on your feet?
Old country stores that sold coal buckets, ice cold cokes in a bottle?
Remember ice docks (where you could go and buy a big block of ice?
Shucking sweet corn and snapping green beans when they “came in”?
Fishing with a cane pole and bobber?
Getting stung by a wasp and having someone put a chewed plug of tobacco on it to stop the stinging?
That’s the South I remember. It’s changed a lot, nothing like the old days.
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