Post something you hate about Mississippi.

[Shell Beau]

No, really don't. We might be here a while. And I will say it is a lovely state contrary to many opinions here.


So nah!!! :P

[EastTennesseeDem]

1. Oxford is beautiful

I mean it is absolutely therapeutically beautiful.


But I don't hate it. It's the only thing I can think of.

[Shell Beau]

13. I am going to Oxford tomorrow. My brother lives there.

[EastTennesseeDem]

17. Cool. Two of my best friends go to Ole Miss

[Shell Beau]

19. It is a party school. But it is beautiful.

Oxford is small but always lively.

[TZ]

2. Well I hear Biloxi is nice...

My sister went there for a vacation...:)

[jobycom]

5. But can you pronounce it?

the guy who does the audio recording for the Dave Robicheaux novels can't.

[Shell Beau]

14. It is not Bi-LOCKS-i!

[TZ]

21. Oh yeah? huh.

Thats how I've always heard it pronounced. How is it supposed to be pronounced?

[Shell Beau]

22. Buh-lux-ee

Don't ask!

[Jamastiene]

39. Nailed it.

It's so nice to hear someone say it who knows HOW to say it. :hi:

[jobycom]

45. I always kind of said it more like B'LUX-i....

You barely hit the first vowell. What was funny during the Katrina coverage was hearing the media after someone told them they were saying it wrong. It went from bi-lox-i to a sort of Bi-lahx-i, like they knew it didn't sound like box but weren't completely convinced it sounded like luck.

Seriously, though, you'd think most Americans never studied Native American languages.

[jobycom]

3. I have to sing that song to get the spelling right.

[Strong Atheist]

4. It's so hard to remember how to spell it. No mnemonics or anything.

:silly:

[jobycom]

6. Here. Memorize this

The state song. Personally I think they should change it to "Mississippi Squirel Revival," but that's me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVi46okLcbk

States may sing their songs of praise
With waving flags and hip-hoo-rays,
Let cymbals crash and let bells ring
Cause here's one song I'm proud to sing.

Choruses:

Go, Mississippi, keep rolling along,
Go, Mississippi, you cannot go wrong,
Go, Mississippi, we're singing your song,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

Go, Mississippi, you're on the right track,
Go, Mississippi, and this is a fact,
Go, Mississippi, you'll never look back,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

Go, Mississippi, straight down the line,
Go, Mississippi, ev'rything's fine,
Go, MIssissippi, it's your state and mine,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

Go, Mississippi, continue to roll,
Go, Mississippi, the top is the goal,
Go, Mississippi, you'll have and you'll hold,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

Go, Mississippi, get up and go,
Go, Mississippi, let the world know,
That our Mississippi is leading the show,
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

[Bake]

10. Great, but it doesn't do squat about spelling Biloxi ...

:hi:

Bake

[Strong Atheist]

32. I was being

facietious ...

[jobycom]

42. I'm from Mississippi

You'll have to tell me what "facetious" means.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. The weather in summer is miserable.

You're not going to get away with defending the weather.

[Bake]

11. Unless, of course, you LIKE 100 degree heat and 99% humidity!

Not that I do or anything ...

Bake

[BOSSHOG]

16. Hey Bake I agree with both of you

The Summer weather here sucks but I like it. I am totally acclimated to what you have described. I'll take our summers every year over winters in Minnesota.

[Bake]

23. Good point, BOSS!

At least we're not shoveling our driveways!

:hi:

Bake

[Shell Beau]

25. It would be nice once in a while. I like snow. Not enough to live anywhere

like MN though!

[Bake]

30. That's cuz you're not the one who'd be shoveling the driveway!

That crap kills guys my age ... heart attacks, ya know?

Bake

[Shell Beau]

31. Yeah, you are right! That would so be my husband's job!

:P

[Shell Beau]

15. Oh no! It is miserable, no question. Unless you like

steamy, sweaty, take your breath away hot.

[BOSSHOG]

8. Paul's King Cakes - The Arts and Crafts Shops of Bay St Louis

The cost of living.

THINGS THAT I LIKE ABOUT MISSISSIPPI

Its not beautiful Northwest Arkansas, its not funky New Orleans but for now its home.

[Shell Beau]

27. King Cakes! Mmmm!! And it is the time!

[BOSSHOG]

33. Paul's has several locations in the state

they are very, very good. Plus we got a Rouse's right down the highway in Slidell, then there's Randazzo's. And my favorite watering hole starts serving crawfish the friday after Mardi Gras. How the hell can anyone diet around here?

[Shell Beau]

35. My husband is excited that crawfish season is upon us.

It is hard to diet with all of this good food. Crawfish isn't bad though. And since it is served with boiled potatoes and corn, it shouldn't be too bad. Ooh, but you have to add onions and garlic of course. We started adding cauliflower and asparagus to the boil. Quite good. The bad thing is sometimes you get a turtle in the mix. We boiled some last year and my friend said "this is the hardest potato ever". x( It was a poor turtle. I almost cried.

[BOSSHOG]

37. There's a little bar on the bayou near Slidell

that offers up the greatest Crawfish in the universe. Usually very hot but I like it that way. Garlic is the secret, but don't tell anybody. I don't do it justice but I know where to get it.

And you forgot another "addition." Lots of ice cold beer.

[Shell Beau]

38. Oh, beer is a given!! We bought a big boiler just for the crawfish.

My best friend's dad raises them, and we get the big daddys for cheap. I wonder what they will be costing this year.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Natchez is amazing...

Sad though that so much of its beauty was paid for with the blood of slaves. :(

[Shell Beau]

18. It is a beatiful town.

[Bake]

12. Nobody's in much of a hurry. For anything. Especially in the summer.

Bake

[Shell Beau]

29. Tell that to the people on the waterworks curve at 5:00!

x(! That has now become part of my routine since Bella goes to daycare downtown! I used to avoid downtown at all costs. Now I am rolling into downtown at 8:00 am and 5:00 pm! Not to mention Lakeland at those times!!!! x(

[Jamastiene]

20. All those damn letters to type or write or remember.

Good grief! All those "crooked letter crooked letter eye" things really annoyed the fuck out of me. :evilgrin:

[Shell Beau]

24. Crooked letter crooked letter hump back hump back

I know!

[Jamastiene]

26. Oh, God! The humpbacks! How could I forget the Humpbacks?

:rofl:

[Shell Beau]

28. They are crucial!

:P

[RebelOne]

34. Low wages. Mississippi has the lowest per capita income. n/t

[Shell Beau]

36. Yeah, we are always the top in the bad things and the lowest in the

good things.

[SergeyDovlatov]

40. dupe - removed

[SergeyDovlatov]

41. It helps me count

One Mississippi...
Two Mississippi...

See?

[GOPisEvil]

43. I can't say anything negative about MS.

I've never been there to experience it for myself.

[Pierre.Suave]

44. Shell Beau lives there

and is married to some schmuck and not me...

:P

[Shell Beau]

50. .

:P

:hug:

[Zomby Woof]

46. So many great musicians came from there

Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Elvis. Many, many more.

Classic writers like William Faulkner and Eudora Welty also came from there. The state has a rich cultural heritage.

[Shell Beau]

51. B. B. King, Robert Johnson, Little Milton, Tennesee Williams,

Bo Diddley, Jim Henson, etc. Some awesome people from these parts.

[Dr. Strange]

47. It's the letter S.

I mean, come on! FOUR of them?
When you come up with a name for a state, limit yourself to AT MOST 2 Ss. Any more than that looks tacky.

[Shell Beau]

52. So the P is ok?

:P

[Dr. Strange]

55. It's not as bad.

But I think the repetition rule pretty much applies to any letter.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

48. I used to live in Oxford

It was wonderful. :D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

49. You're from there.

Kidding. :P

I used to live in Gulfport when I was a kid. :hi:

[Shell Beau]

53. Boo!

:P

[crimsonblue]

54. I hate the fact that Mississippi exists. n/t

[Shell Beau]

56. Wow! Please tell me you are kidding.

:shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

58. He's posting negative stuff in all the state threads.

Saying he's glad he doesn't live there.

He's acting like an asshole, bless his heart.

[Shell Beau]

59. Sometimes I can't tell when people are kidding or not.

:shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

62. If I had just seen this one post, I would not have drawn any conclusions.

But, taking other posts in the other state threads in total, I've come to the conclusion that he is just a closed-minded elitist about the whole thing.

[Generic Brad]

57. I've got nothing

I've never been there, but the people I know who originated from there are some of the finest people I have ever met.

[Wapsie B]

60. It's a place I'm looking forward to seeing one of these days.

Somehow the prospect of very little if any snow makes the scorching heat of the summer not seem so bad to me.

[RushIsRot]

61. There was this seafood restaurant called The Lucky Fisherman

that had the best seafood buffet near Jackson. I miss that to this day. YUM!

[TieDyedDad]

63. deleted

[TieDyedDad]

64. Mississippi is a beautiful place

Hi Michelle from Oxford, who was in Biloxi...Thanks for an amazing weekend in June of '90..

[old mark]

65. Saw your governor on TV tonight.

He is a real asshole....


mark

[dbt]

66. I hate the darkness in Mississippi.

Son and I missed an exit on the way to the Helena Blues Festival a few years ago and wound up in Northwest Mississippi. The moment we crossed the river, it was as if the sun itself got three degrees dimmer. It was creepy. There were no clouds that day, but it seemed that Mississippi was somehow getting less sunlight.

My Choctaw blood told me it was because of all the death that had taken place there over the centuries, from DeSoto through the slaughter of Native Americans, African Americans, soldiers in the Civil War and the lynchings of the 50s and 60s. I was on a Killing Ground, but had not known that's where I was going. Once I realized that, it was okay.

I guess that's why The Blues came from Mississippi, though any Arkie will claim that it was really Helena. Something powerful--some Big Medicine--HAD to rise up to balance out all the hurt that went on there for hundreds of years. Billy Gibbons nailed it: "When you go to Mississippi, you can just feel The Blues wiggling up out of the ground." John Fogerty went there as well, to get his head together shortly before he began performing the Creedence songs again.

I LOVE Mississippi. I don't like the hurt that happened there. You can pick up on that hurt anywhere in the South, but you can SURE feel it in Mississippi. Hoodoo walks there.

[Roon]

67. I like mississiippi during winter

the summer is another story....

[last_texas_dem]

68. Well, I won't go as far as "hate"...

but, things I don't like? I don't care for this guy too much. At least y'all don't have to deal with him as Senator anymore- although I'm not sure if Wicker is much of an improvement!

[rucky]

69. HALEY BARBOUR