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I can't ever see myself living below the Manson-Nixon line :ninja

Fixed it for ya! :lol

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:rotfl Hilarious.

 

One of the things I like about living in the south: drivers are very patient and rarely use their horns. :thumbup

One of the things I hate about living in the south: drivers never use their turn signals! :realmad

 

You've obviously never driven in Florida. Nobody is patient and nobody uses their horns. And nobody uses their turn signals. And street signs and lights are just a suggestion to most people.

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You've obviously never driven in Florida. Nobody is patient and nobody uses their horns. And nobody uses their turn signals. And street signs and lights are just a suggestion to most people.

 

Actually, you're right. Never driven in Florida, but my students tell me south Florida is not really part of the south. North Florida, yes. Where are you again?

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Actually, you're right. Never driven in Florida, but my students tell me south Florida is not really part of the south. North Florida, yes. Where are you again?

 

True, South Florida is either South Bronx or North Cuba depending on where you are...

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Actually, you're right. Never driven in Florida, but my students tell me south Florida is not really part of the south. North Florida, yes. Where are you again?

 

i think driving in atlanta is hell on earth.

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I was born in Florida, grew up in South Carolina, moved to Idaho and then Oregon for several years and thought I would never leave the great Northwest, especially with my wife working on a masters degree in Forest Hydrology. I loved it there, but I always missed Southern people. Oddly, my wife got a job in Atlanta, and I reluctantly came with her. We have been here ten years now and I hate the DAMN traffic and Smog and Heat, but I still love Southern people. You can say what you want about the South being full of racists and rednecks, they are here in abundance, but I haven't lived or visited too many places yet that don't have their share of equivalently misinformed and idiotic people. I call myself Southern, and proudly so, but not because I am loyal to the Confederacy. I love the people and the food (grits, sweet sweet tea, greens and BBQ), I love seeing people say Grace before eating, I love the hospitality and the person in front of me walking through a door looking back to see if someone else is coming. I don't hate the North, some of my best memories are visiting by crazy ass uncles in Maine and making fun of my cousins in Ohio for calling Coke Pop, but I love the South, and if I ever leave again, which is always a possibility, I know I will miss it.

 

I have to stop now, my eyes are blurring from my sentimental tears.

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I was born in Florida, grew up in South Carolina, moved to Idaho and then Oregon for several years and thought I would never leave the great Northwest, especially with my wife working on a masters degree in Forest Hydrology. I loved it there, but I always missed Southern people. Oddly, my wife got a job in Atlanta, and I reluctantly came with her. We have been here ten years now and I hate the DAMN traffic and Smog and Heat, but I still love Southern people. You can say what you want about the South being full of racists and rednecks, they are here in abundance, but I haven't lived or visited too many places yet that don't have their share of equivalently misinformed and idiotic people. I call myself Southern, and proudly so, but not because I am loyal to the Confederacy. I love the people and the food (grits, sweet sweet tea, greens and BBQ), I love seeing people say Grace before eating, I love the hospitality and the person in front of me walking through a door looking back to see if someone else is coming. I don't hate the North, some of my best memories are visiting by crazy ass uncles in Maine and making fun of my cousins in Ohio for calling Coke Pop, but I love the South, and if I ever leave again, which is always a possibility, I know I will miss it.

 

I have to stop now, my eyes are blurring from my sentimental tears.

 

 

:cheers a sense a place makes you feel good........don't it???

 

-Robert.

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I can't ever see myself living below the Mason-Dixon line :ninja

 

 

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My South

by Robert St. John

 

 

Thirty years ago I visited my first cousin in Virginia. While hanging out with his friends, the discussion turned to popular movies of the day. When I offered my two-cents on the authenticity and social relevance of the movie

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Mississippi is still burning.

 

Times have changed, but the incendiaries won't quit. Mississippi, statistically, could shame most of our states with its

minimal per-capita crime, its cultural maturity and its distinguished alumni.

But Mississippi has enough residual gentility of the Old South not to rub

our noses in our own comparative inadequacy. The pack-media could not wait to remake the movie MISSISSIPPI BURNING into a TV version called MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI. Thus yet another generation of Americans is being

indoctrinated with indelible snapshots which are half a century out of date.

 

The very idea that anybody from New York, D. C., Chicago or L.A. could launch stones from those shabby glass houses toward anybody else is patently absurd.

 

Lilliputians have a psychological need to make everybody else appear small

and Mississippi, too nice to fight back, is such an easy target.

 

The International Ballet Competition regularly rotates among four citadels

where there is a sufficiency of sophisticated art appreciation: Varna,

Bulgaria-Helsinki, Finland - Moscow, USSR and Jackson, Mississippi.

 

Only Mississippi has a satellite art program in which the state Museum of Art

sends exhibits around the state for the enjoyment of smaller communities.

 

No state can point to a richer per capita contribution to arts and letters.

William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Willie Morris,

Margaret Walker Alexander, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Harris

(Silence of the Lambs) and John Grisham are Mississippians. As are Leontyne

Price, Elvis Presley, Tammy Wynette, B.B. King, Jimmy Rogers, Oprah Winfrey

and Jimmy Buffett.

 

Scenery? The Natchez Trace is the second most traveled parkway in our nation. With magnolia and dogwood, stately pines and moss-draped oaks, Mississippi is in bloom all year 'round. And the state stays busy-manufacturing more upholstered furniture than any state...testing space shuttle engines for NASA...building rocket motors. Much of our nation's most monumental medical progress has roots in Mississippi.

 

The first heart transplant in 1964. The first lung transplant in 1963. The most

widely used medical textbook in the world, THE TEXTBOOK OF MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY, reprinted in ten languages, was authored by Dr. Arthur Guyton of the

University of Mississippi.

 

The Case Method of practicing law, the basis of the United States legal system, was developed at the University of

Mississippi. Nationally, educators are chewing their fingernails up past

the second knuckle anxious about the disgraceful rate of dropouts and

illiterate graduates... In Mississippi, the state government and two philanthropic organizations have teamed up to put a computer-based literacy program in every elementary school in the state.

 

Maybe Mississippi is right to downplay it's opportunities, advantages and refinement. The ill-mannered rest of us,converging, would surely mess it up.

 

---Paul Harvey

 

I realize this one is specific to MS but that is where I was born and raised and it probably has one of the worse stigmas.

 

Ryman, I couldn't agree more.

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this seems the appropriate thread for this question:

 

um, what the hell was barbara mandrell putting peanuts in her coke when no one was looking for?

 

is it like mentos in a coke or something? i don't get it.

 

My dad has always eaten peanuts with Dr. Pepper. He just pours them right in. I don't get it.

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My dad has always eaten peanuts with Dr. Pepper. He just pours them right in. I don't get it.

 

i don't either, but dammit. i'm going to try it.if it's good enough for barbara mandrell, george jones and your dad, it's good enough for me. but why the hell was she doing it when no one was looking? like she was embarrassed of it or something. i'm convinced this is a southern thing. where is your dad from??

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We hail from Arkansas.

 

i'm going to try this tonight. i don't like dr. pepper, so i'm going to try it in a diet coke. do you know what variety of nuts i should use? salted, whole, chopped, etc. i hope this doesn't kill me or make my mouth foam up and explode carbonation out on everyone. that would be embarrassing, which might explain why she did it when noone was looking, i guess.

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i'm going to try this tonight. i don't like dr. pepper, so i'm going to try it in a diet coke. do you know what variety of nuts i should use? salted, whole, chopped, etc. i hope this doesn't kill me or make my mouth foam up and explode carbonation out on everyone. that would be embarrassing, which might explain why she did it when noone was looking, i guess.

 

Salted and skinless, The ones that are in a plastic sleeve. Pour the whole thing in there. That's how daddy does it.

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Salted and skinless, The ones that are in a plastic sleeve. Pour the whole thing in there. That's how daddy does it.

 

 

"That's how daddy does it" should be a country song.

 

Salted and skinless, in a plastic sleeve.

Put it on in and count to three

That's how muh daddy does it.

That's how muh daddy does it.

 

um, wait.

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