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re: Let’s share stories from our time in SEC country...
Posted on 10/27/17 at 2:49 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Posted on 10/27/17 at 2:49 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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Seriously?? you do realize that most on here live in SEC country, so you want people to give their life stories?
I grew up in S.E.C country. I'll tell you about my 4 years as undergrad outside of the Country.
I went to school at a university in an English speaking country outside of the U.S. They didn't have large collegiate sports and kids had no school spirit. They treated the place like high school (this is top rated school in this country). Also KFC didn't serve biscuits. The only American BBQ joint didn't know what sweet tea was.
This could have been dark times, but life was okay.
Drinking Age was 19, mass transit was a thing, clubs were good and even average girls knew how to do make up and dress like models.
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Posted on 10/27/17 at 2:57 pm to Hugh McElroy
I had a business trip that took me to the Rio Grande Valley once. The whole place was Mexico. Poverty, garbage in the streets, nobody spoke English. That area is just depressing and sad. Smelled like tortillas and pine sol and butthole everywhere.
Posted on 10/27/17 at 2:59 pm to Numberwang
How do you know the scent of butthole so well? Just curious.
Posted on 10/27/17 at 3:00 pm to Hugh McElroy
You took a road trip to Arkansas????
You poor arse bitch
You poor arse bitch
Posted on 10/27/17 at 3:03 pm to Capo Losi
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Didnt realize all you Arekansyannes were so insecure about your states name. Seems weird.
Ar-Kansas.
Ar-Kansas.
Ar-Kansas.
Lousy-ana is a slightly better play on a state's name.
See, because it says "Lousy" right there in the word. I have never understood why I was supposed to be offended by someone saying Ar-Kansas. LSU and Mizzou fans like to do it. I have nothing against Kansas, apart from it being a long straight-stretch on the way to Colorado. It seems better than Oklahoma.
Posted on 10/27/17 at 3:05 pm to songbird
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I went to school at a university in an English speaking country outside of the U.S.
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KFC didn't serve biscuits. The only American BBQ joint didn't know what sweet tea was.
sounds like a country that is stuck in the Dark Ages
Posted on 10/27/17 at 3:07 pm to Carolina_Girl
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How do you know the scent of butthole so well? Just curious.
Because I have one and I poop out of it every day.
Posted on 10/27/17 at 3:08 pm to Numberwang
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I have never understood why I was supposed to be offended by someone saying Ar-Kansas.
That's the funny thing, it's not offensive at all just ignorant sounding which Les was the king of that type of thing.
I don't know why anyone would copy that and repeat it gleefully but whatever floats their boat I suppose.
Posted on 10/27/17 at 3:11 pm to Vecchio Cane
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Decided to wait and stop in West Memphis, where I felt safer
Posted on 10/27/17 at 3:21 pm to Numberwang
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I have nothing against Kansas
Missouri does.
Posted on 10/27/17 at 3:54 pm to Hugh McElroy
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A few years back, I got a ticket on a road trip through Arkansas. It was in Arkansas, but it was pretty close to Tenn, and not that far from Mississippi. I was driving toward Memphis on a country type road and the fattest cop you can imagine pulled me over. Parkin, AR. 47 in a 45. I shite you not. I was so pissed I drove to court later that month (over 5 hours) to contest it. It got thrown out because the cop didn’t show up to the once per month court date, but the judge made sure to tell me that speeding was speeding, and he was having mercy on me, and how I better change my ways. But I wasn’t even mad, because by that point, sympathy for the people of Parkin, and the delta more generally, dominated my emotions. Words can’t describe the odd country poverty of this place. Court was a busted up old, old, old school. Literally, with hand written signs for some of the rooms, on typing paper, taped to the doors. This building was the totality of their municipal buildings. And my fellow ticketed citizens were such a pathetically sad lot. I despair of describing them. Not city poor. City poor is rich to these folks. Country poor. Uneducated. Optionless. So anyway - any other stories from yall’s time in SEC country?
I got the opposite in 1985. Driving a 1960 MGA to Auburn from Huntsville. Back then the road went into Dadeville and was uphill. I won't claim I wasn't doing more than 55 but local cop said I was doing 82 uphill in a car that only did 90 new from factory in 1960.
Posted on 10/27/17 at 4:03 pm to Hugh McElroy
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And my fellow ticketed citizens were such a pathetically sad lot.
Next time they should bow, your highness.
Posted on 10/27/17 at 4:33 pm to Hugh McElroy
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Words can’t describe the odd country poverty of this place. Court was a busted up old, old, old school. Literally, with hand written signs for some of the rooms, on typing paper, taped to the doors. This building was the totality of their municipal buildings.
I lived for 9 months in the Arkansas Delta in the early 80's. The landowners were Ok financially but the rest of the people there were dirtass poor. Riceland foods ran a big grain terminal there and when it was harvest time and the big grain trucks lined up outside some of the townspeople would sweep up the grain off the side of the road. It was nothing to see 20 people living out of a shotgun house that had no paint on it and one light bulb in it.
This post was edited on 10/27/17 at 4:34 pm
Posted on 10/27/17 at 4:35 pm to Hugh McElroy
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Let’s share stories from our time in SEC country...
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh....tell us about that time that aTm beat LSU in a SEC game...oh wait
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