re: Steven Godfrey rips Starkville apart

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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.

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