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re: Best thing to come out of each SEC town
Posted on 7/2/14 at 4:53 pm to NawlinsTigah270
Posted on 7/2/14 at 4:53 pm to NawlinsTigah270
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Posted on 7/2/14 at 4:55 pm to beaver
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let's not forget Eric O'Neill who helped bring down a traitor who was selling information to the Russians
That was a really good movie (Breach). Pretty cool that the main character was an Auburn grad.
Alabama has a grad portrayed in a similar CIA related movie in Charlie Wilson's War.
Michael Vickers
Posted on 7/2/14 at 4:56 pm to OBReb6
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If he's from East Tennessee you would have thought he'd be smart enough not to put live oaks with Spanish moss on a plantation in Gatlinburg for Django
Brad Pitt actually hung out in Maynardville preparing for his role in "Inglorious Basterds." Tarantino references E. TN because he's from Knoxville. We also have a lot of stars who regularly visit the area. They know they can stay and/or visit here without anyone harassing them. Harrison Ford, for example, is known to visit a certain lake. There's also a fairly famous director living in KnoxVegas and others.
Central location, great scenery and people who won't bug you and often won't recognize you because they're not looking for stars makes it a great location.
Another in the entertainment industry (comics/movies):
The guy who wrote Men in Black is from Knoxville.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 4:58 pm to madmaxvol
[quote] Posted by Message madmaxvol Best thing to come out of each SEC town Ruby Tuesday started in Knoxville...but who would want to claim that crappy food chain? [/quote
Hey man! Ruby Tuesdays salad bar is top notch!
Hey man! Ruby Tuesdays salad bar is top notch!
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:03 pm to madmaxvol
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"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent." ~ Blood Meridian
Have you read Suttree? It's all about Knoxville when Cormac was growing up.
Per wiki:
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Set in 1951 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the novel follows Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his former life of privilege to become a fisherman on the Tennessee River. The novel has a fragmented structure with many flashbacks and shifts in grammatical person. Suttree has been compared [1] to James Joyce's Ulysses, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and called [2] "a doomed version" of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Suttree was written over a 20-year span [3] and is a departure from McCarthy's previous novels, being much longer, more sprawling in structure, and perhaps McCarthy's most humorous novel.
(linky - LINK )
It's on my to-read list.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:10 pm to Prof
Crap. I forgot to mention James Agee who wrote "A Death in the Family," another Pulitzer winner from Knoxville.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:12 pm to BigOrangeBri
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BigOrangeBri
I want to stick my dick in every possible part of Hendrick's body.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:14 pm to NawlinsTigah270
REM and the B-52's were the best to come out of Athens. /Thread.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:15 pm to BigOrangeBri
Nice rack. Thats about it.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:15 pm to HempHead
Tell us how you really feel. 
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:17 pm to Pavoloco83
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Nice rack. Thats about it.
Tu es muy loco.
She can sit on my face and I'd eat my way to her heart.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:20 pm to NawlinsTigah270
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:21 pm to HempHead
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She can sit on my face and I'd eat my way to her heart.
Ah, the Jon Snuh method.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:22 pm to kingbob
The lordling's kiss is my go-to move.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:22 pm to uncAUght
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Millard Fuller, Founder of Habitat For Humanity.
Bama could claim him as well as he received his JD there...
Certainly impressive. One of the few charities that has my full support and absolute respect (I'm skeptical of a lot of them).
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:23 pm to HempHead
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I want to stick my dick in every possible part of Hendrick's body.
You and every other straight man in America. I'd love to motorboat those bewbs. Well, and everything you said
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:24 pm to Prof
Wait, Prof--didn't Vonnegut go to Cornell? I just assumed he was there for his entire college career, given that he was the pledge educator in a buddy's frat.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:25 pm to Prof
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Crap. I forgot to mention James Agee who wrote "A Death in the Family," another Pulitzer winner from Knoxville.
How about Alex Haley
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:25 pm to BigOrangeBri
Kenny Chesney - born in Knoxville, raised in Luttrell/Maynardville and went to HS in Knoxville. Not a big fan of his music but he is kind of a big deal.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 5:27 pm to NawlinsTigah270
Doubt it is the best thing "ever", but it's damn good: Edam
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