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Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:47 pm to GRTiger
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So we all agree, then? Ole Miss came from the term used by slaves to address the master's wife?
agreed
case closed
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:53 pm to GRTiger
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So we all agree, then? Ole Miss came from the term used by slaves to address the master's wife?
The Ole Miss nickname became synonymous with the university in 1908 due to the Old Miss train. Are you actually suggesting that students in 1908 started using this term because it was used in the Antebellum South?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 1:56 pm to Toddy
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Are you actually suggesting that students in 1908
Are you actually suggesting that students in 1908 wouldn't have heard all about the stories, etc from their old relatives? There definitely was no animosity towards those of a darker skin color from any of those good ol' boys in 1908, right?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 2:13 pm to DBU
To say racism and a connection to the old south wasn't ongoing in 1908 is just retardtacular. Sorry it's not a good argument position.
It was in 2009 that your students were fighting to hold on to the stars and bars, Col Reb, and Dixie with the South will rise again chant.
It's the past, gotta be 5 years now. You've changed mascots, and the battle flag is discouraged. I'm sure there isn't much racism on campus now. Let it go.
It was in 2009 that your students were fighting to hold on to the stars and bars, Col Reb, and Dixie with the South will rise again chant.
It's the past, gotta be 5 years now. You've changed mascots, and the battle flag is discouraged. I'm sure there isn't much racism on campus now. Let it go.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 2:17 pm to Toddy
I don't believe a word you say, you jive arse turkey.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 2:22 pm to Toddy
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Toddy
This is a bit off topic for you isn't it?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:07 pm to Toddy
I stated that I did read other links in my first post. Some say it's a wise tail, some say it isn't. Maybe they did name the school after a train that had little to do with the school. And maybe they named it after the school's official yearbook which had been published every year for the prior 10 years. Either way, the term Ole Miss originated as term which slaves used for the plantation owners wife.
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Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:16 pm to Toddy
Not sure I could find a reference, but I remember reading LONG ago, when I was at LSU near last mid-century, the two schools referred to each other as Ole Miss and Ole Lou.
Glad your name stuck!
Oh and go To Hell Ole Miss, Go TO Hell!
To ole farts like me, you will always be a bitter rival.
Glad your name stuck!
Oh and go To Hell Ole Miss, Go TO Hell!
To ole farts like me, you will always be a bitter rival.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:30 pm to LSUCouyon
"Ole War Skule
LSU began in 1860 as the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, shortly before
the beginning of the Civil War. In fact, LSU's first superintendent was Civil War commander William
Tecumseh Sherman. "Ole War Skule" was formerly a popular reference to LSU, as was the term "Old
Lou".
Googled OLE LOU Reference LSU, got this. I knew I read it somewhare, thought maybe the two schools used the names against each other.
Go to Hell Ole Lou just doesn't sound right.....
LSU began in 1860 as the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, shortly before
the beginning of the Civil War. In fact, LSU's first superintendent was Civil War commander William
Tecumseh Sherman. "Ole War Skule" was formerly a popular reference to LSU, as was the term "Old
Lou".
Googled OLE LOU Reference LSU, got this. I knew I read it somewhare, thought maybe the two schools used the names against each other.
Go to Hell Ole Lou just doesn't sound right.....
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Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:32 pm to LSUCouyon
Now there is only one Old Lou:
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:33 pm to LSUCouyon
Good stuff
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:37 pm to Toddy
But your Chancelor says otherwise
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:39 pm to Old Sarge
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But your Chancelor says otherwise
Link ?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:47 pm to Toddy
Obvious photoshops are obvious. ReBearsharks are getting desperate.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:49 pm to Toddy
I'm not going to bump the thread from this morning. It's obvious this thread is a counter to it because it was so upsetting. And I didn't start it to upset y'all I just thought the origin of the nickname was interesting.
The article is linked in it and your Chancelor is quoted in it.
But why not say it's ancient history instead of sticking to a made up train story?
The article is linked in it and your Chancelor is quoted in it.
But why not say it's ancient history instead of sticking to a made up train story?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:50 pm to Old Sarge
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why not say it's ancient history instead of sticking to a made up train story?
Because Ole Miss people would rather lie. You don't know them very well.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 3:52 pm to Old Sarge
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I'm not going to bump the thread from this morning. It's obvious this thread is a counter to it because it was so upsetting. And I didn't start it to upset y'all I just thought the origin of the nickname was interesting.
The article is linked in it and your Chancelor is quoted in it.
I read your link. The chancellor is quoted, but he is only quoted saying that the name is supported (not only by the people of Mississippi, but by the faculty as well). How does that prove a point for you?
Posted on 10/27/14 at 4:01 pm to Old Sarge
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The article is linked in it and your Chancelor is quoted in it.
No where in that article is he quoted saying the university's nickname derived from an appreciation or anything related thereof what a slave master's wife was called.
The ridiculous ends one has to go to to connect a nickname in 1908 becoming attached to a university with what happened in the Antebellum South is beyond ridiculous. Lot's of gullible idiots out there though that love to believe this, no matter how stupid they look.
And I call bs on the reason you started this thread. This has been hashed out a gazillion times on this forum. It's apparent you're wanting to troll Ole Miss people. Be a man and admit it.
Posted on 10/27/14 at 4:06 pm to Toddy
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Are you actually suggesting that students in 1908 started using this term because it was used in the Antebellum South?
The Civil War ended in 1865. It is very likely the parents, uncles, and grandparents of the Ole Miss students of 1908 fought in the war 43 years before. That is like 1971 compared to 2014. It's like forgetting the word 'hippie' existed because the Viet Nam war ended.
Ole Miss was a common term, like massa, used by slaves during the war and then former slaves after the war.
If you don't believe me, google "slave narratives, a folk history of slavery in the united states" and read the words directly from the mouths of former slaves. The slave narratives were taken in the 1930's and the former slaves still referred to the plantation owners wife as Ole Miss, which shows the word was not "forgotten" from antebellum days.
I understand that you don't want this to be true... I wouldn't either... but it is.
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