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re: Ole Miss....why not Ol' Miss????
Posted on 1/31/13 at 7:54 pm to KingBiscuit_IV
Posted on 1/31/13 at 7:54 pm to KingBiscuit_IV
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I will make that claim. This whole thing started because ONE fricking guy in the 40s made the wild arse assumption that Ole Miss and the supposed slave term were related. It is an answer that is made to fit the question. "Where did Ole Miss get its name?" "I don't know, they're racist, so probably something racist."
"Ole" is a derivation of old or ol', which many people use as a term of endearment; e.g. "Ol' Bob sure is a great guy!"
"Miss" is shorthand for Mississippi. That's it. Add to this the fact that several other schools use Ole of Ol' (USC - "Fight on for Ol' SC," LSU was known as "Ole Lou" or "Old Lou" and "Ole War Skule" for many years during the exact same era as the name Ole Miss developed. LINK )
I have a hard time believing that an Ole Miss co-ed, 30 years after the end of slavery, would have suggested a term used by slaves as the name of the student yearbook of all things.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fricking idiot/and or Grinder.
Buuuuuuuuuuulllllsssssshhhhhiiiiiittttt....
There's all kinds of literature out there that states otherwise - two of which I referenced in my post on page 3.
Your entire institution of higher learning decided to associate its image and, yes, nickname, with a sect of people who deemed slavery to be an acceptable way of life - to the point where they lost a damn war over it.
Redneck as hell.
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Posted on 1/31/13 at 7:56 pm to spacecataz
Your obsession with us continues to amaze me. We All IN yo head bruh
This post was edited on 1/31/13 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 1/31/13 at 8:00 pm to spacecataz
frick you. Your "cited sources" all got their information from the same place. This dumbass cites that dumbass who cites that other dumbass. Follow the trail and you get back to the one AND ONLY person who ever made the assertion without citing someone who wrote it previously. You are a bitch and you have proven fricking nothing. Eat my shite, you waste of life.
Posted on 2/1/13 at 5:08 am to spacecataz
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There's all kinds of literature out there that states otherwise - two of which I referenced in my post on page 3.
Literature which all references the same source.
I'm not going to deny that "Ole Miss" could have meant that at one time, but why in the flying frick would someone use that term to nickname a university? That doesn't add up. The name does, however, fit in with a common nicknaming convention of schools and the their teams.
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