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re: Steven Godfrey rips Starkville apart
Posted on 7/14/11 at 3:43 pm to Rohan2Reed
Posted on 7/14/11 at 3:43 pm to Rohan2Reed
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You threw Johnny Cash in jail. You think “The Client” is a suitable rebuttal to our celebration of “The Sound and the Fury.” Your culinary mystique is a tangled web of Applebee’s peppered with so many Sonics that I have to assume there’s a city-wide mandate on Cherry Limeade accessibility, lest the native palate go unsatisfied. Your Balkan-esque landscape is so devoid of charm that it even depresses the frayed ball-cap, F-150 lift kit crowd from other crappy ag schools visiting for football games. Compared to you, Clemson is a clear spring morning in Barcelona. frickin boom
Not really. This statement is full of holes.
1. Grisham lives in Oxford.
2. Faulkner lived in Oxford, and served as town drunk until literature figs decided he was great and Oxford embraced him.
3. Starkville threw Johnny Cash in jail, and Oxford tried to kill James Meridith. Any Ole Miss alum will tell you it was the townies not the students who rioted.
4. Both places have chains and red neck douche bags with lift kits and frayed hats.
5. I doubt this guy has been to the Balkans, it looks nothing like Starkville. If Balkan-esque is meant as an insult, it is a terrible one because there are parts of the Balkans that are beautiful. The Barcelona reference is just stupid.
This Godfrey guy really is a shitty writer.
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Posted on 7/14/11 at 3:47 pm to TravelSmartly
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If Balkan-esque is meant as an insult, it is a terrible one because there are parts of the Balkans that are beautiful.
And there are parts that are war torn.
Posted on 7/14/11 at 3:51 pm to TravelSmartly
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1. Grisham lives in Oxford.
-He went to state and State fans claim him. shite, Bundy's done it on this board a few times.
2. Faulkner lived in Oxford, and served as town drunk until literature figs decided he was great and Oxford embraced him.
-And? Your point? That's how celebrities become famous. I'm sure somebody in Brad Pitt's home town hates his fricking guts too.
3. Starkville threw Johnny Cash in jail, and Oxford tried to kill James Meridith. Any Ole Miss alum will tell you it was the townies not the students who rioted.
-Fair enough point.
4. Both places have chains and red neck douche bags with lift kits and frayed hats.
Well sure, but stereotypes are fun, right?
5. I doubt this guy has been to the Balkans, it looks nothing like Starkville. If Balkan-esque is meant as an insult, it is a terrible one because there are parts of the Balkans that are beautiful.
By saying "Balkan-esque" he's making a reference to the infrastructure-crippling, soul-crushing civil war that took place there in the 1990's. Surely you're aware of that. He means "Balkan-esque" as in the Balkan states, not the Balkan Mountains themselves.
The Barcelona reference is just stupid.
I disagree.
Posted on 7/14/11 at 5:31 pm to TravelSmartly
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3. Starkville threw Johnny Cash in jail, and Oxford tried to kill James Meridith. Any Ole Miss alum will tell you it was the townies not the students who rioted.
way back in the thread but this is complete bullshite.
OM alums won't blame the riots on the townies.......they'll blame it on OUTSIDERS who flocked to Oxford upon the news that Meridith would be enrolled. People came from states all over the South to stop it. You're more than welcome to look in the archive sections of the OM Library to actually know wtf you're talking about...
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