Defend the Indefensible: Mississippi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

There are a lot of place-names in Mississippi that I love to just roll around in my mouth -- Noxapater...Splunge...Tombigbee...Itta Bena...

I guess I have no sense or moxie. ;_;

I said "most", not "all". ;-)

I was born in Bratwursterstizen, germany on an army base. i cost something like a dead seahorse in a jar to be born. plus the doctor told my mother to drink two pints of Octopus blood a day while pregnant with me

xp Itta Bena came up just the other day. Can't remember the context.

Re place names, also like Nanih Waiya. Noxapater's cross-county rival. Cool native American mound there too.

Itta Bena came up for me too. UAPB's traveling there to play against MVS this year.

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written in the Sargasso sea of Missisisipi

Last time I attended the King Biscuit Festival in Helena AR, sometime in the 90s, my buddy got to chatting up Junior Kimbrough pretty well. He invited us to see him play at his juke joint in Chulahoma, but that would have been a far drive for two drunk northerners. Still wish we could have pulled it off.

I was born in Bratwursterstizen, germany on an army base. i cost something like a dead seahorse in a jar to be born. plus the doctor told my mother to drink two pints of Octopus blood a day while pregnant with me

― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:38 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I enjoyed nailing your mother. I didnt realize anything came from it, however. Nice to meet you.

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You are King Mermaid!! At last give me your nectars!!

hahahahaha

i really enjoyed the two times i went to mississippi, kinda would like to go back.

plz describe said enjoyments, of what they consisted.

We should trade houses for a month. xpost

the one time I went to Mississippi was the first time I heard some use the word "jew" as a verb and the only time that the person saying it was being serious

on the same trip, after I told this one dude how nice his house and neighborhood was and how I'd like to live someplace like that someday, he told me that that was nice but they liked to make sure only the right kind of people moved into their neighborhood, after which he stared at me and asked, "Do you understand what I am saying?"

not too many positive impressions of Tupelo, MS

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the one time I went to Mississippi was the first time I heard some use the word "jew" as a verb and the only time that the person saying it was being serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97nAvTVeR6o

I wasn't counting ppl I haven't actually met but that came afterward

xo Dan, good friend is currently great with Junior Kimbrough's grandbaby. Sometime ILXOR Ai Lien is busy planning a baby shower. Weird, eh?

that made sense, right?

uhhh...

http://hanlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mississippi

D4vid Kimbrough and my friend are having a kid. We're handling baby shower duties. That's what I meant.

Tupelo is The Worst. it's like the shittiest aspects of Mississippi distilled.

Don Wildmon territory IIRC

em-eye-ess-ess-eye-ess-ess-eye-pee-pee- eye <<fun to spell!

its most important use in life is helping with counting time

on the same trip, after I told this one dude how nice his house and neighborhood was and how I'd like to live someplace like that someday, he told me that that was nice but they liked to make sure only the right kind of people moved into their neighborhood, after which he stared at me and asked, "Do you understand what I am saying?"

― DJP, Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:23 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

'i was just being nice, i would not actually like to live here at all'

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(xpost) Ah, "is currently great' -- I feel like I'm doing cryptic crosswords. That's very cool.

I still look back at that Junior Kimbrough show with such amazement. It wasn't on the main stage at King Biscuit, we sat along the levee at some farm implement dealership amongst backhoes and such, whilst Kimbrough droned psychedelicly. Bizarre and awesome.

lets face it, its a hot dump

Dr. Dirt used to be the cohost of a gardening/horticulture radio show on MS Public Broadcasting. The host is a southern-horticulture expert and a real dick. (I used to work with his brother at Ole Miss; unsurprisingly, he too was a dick.)

Will otm about Tupelo. But somebody has opened a new bar there with 20 taps and 100+ bottled beers, which is real progress for that John Birch Society Southeast Regional HQ.

srsly, visiting that town pretty much killed any vestigial desire I had to live someplace that wasn't a large, major city

wait I thought you lived in boston

parse the sentence, iatee...

oh come on at least we're SUBTLE about our racism up here in the mid-atlantic suburbs

oh wait, I see what you did there (maybe) xp

like, maybe I don't know 95% of my neighbors, but on the flipside they aren't organizing a mob to run me out of town so I'm basically all good

several xps: lol NYC, how ya doin'

yeah the drive dang perry out of somerville chapter i attempted to launch never really got off the ground :/

Mississippi is one of twelve states in which I've had sex.

D. Kimbrough used to come kick it in Oxford and jam with some of my musician friends. he was a good-looking, smooth-talking SOB (circa 95-96). used to bring us moonshine, too. saw Junior in his old juke joint Junior's Place before it burned.

Mississippi, the state where things like this still happen

I mean jeez at least in Oakland we make sure the racists murdering black guys wear uniforms

I bust out the same schtick every time there's an "I hate Texas!"/"I hate Florida!"/whatever thread so I'll just do the abbreviated version here: there are good, wonderful, creative people everywhere, and if it makes you feel awesome about yourself to go "well in [Texas, Florida, Mississippi, whatever] they're the EXCEPTION, most everybody there is horrible and you know it" etc., knock yrself out but I'd rather live in Mississippi than in a house full of people who puff themselves up by hating on places like Mississippi instead of finding some way to add to the available fund of good in the world

This thread is an invitation to Jonah Goldberg to whine about liberal east coast bias.

I mean jeez at least in Oakland we make sure the racists murdering black guys wear uniforms

you actually said this

referring to recent case where BART cop shot an unarmed, handcuffed black man in the back of the head, yes

also for the record I big upped Fat Possum already in this thread, and only posted the story here cuz it seems like the most recently active, relevant thread

there is lots of great stuff from Mississippi

also donated to available good fund earlier but am kinda in a bad mood at the moment