LuciusSulla

I've still got it for marketplace and managing stuff related to a side business I'm a part of. Unfortunately, at least in North MS, Facebook works better for selling used equipment than Craigslist, and the audience for the business tends to be easiest to reach on FB for advertising.

I begrudgingly have to admit that, despite being the clown car it is, it has been more useful in keeping up with where things are in Oxford than the city or county has been. That's a whole other can of worms though.

I saw this story going around online, and it was a Mississippi State professor, not an Ole Miss professor. That professor was also just an instructor and made to retract that by the dean of students.

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I am a professor at Ole Miss, and we've been instructed directly by the provost to basically put everything on hold and adjust due dates accordingly. The Lyceum is basically telling us politely to be cool until classes officially resume because things are pretty bad. I

I know the stereotype is that we all have our head up our asses, but you'd find the ratio of problem cases is about the same as any other profession. Granted, we probably overrepresent in having some pretty rough social skills, but the vast majority of us feel the same way the rest of the community does. This is pretty awful, a nasty little reminder of how little control anyone really has, an that, at the moment, homework due dates and quizzes are not the primary concern.

Most of what I heard today from my colleagues was that it was a relief to push this back a week because we don't want to spend next week figuring out who really doesn't still have power and can't get to class vs. who is just using it as an excuse. None of us want to come down on a student in a tough spot, and this will help a lot with that.

Don't believe all the hearsay you hear online. Just cruising the Oxford, MS, Facebook groups is enough to show you that reading comprehension, not to even start with vetting all the bs being tossed around against an official source, is a rare commodity online. I've got a few colleagues who still can't get out of their driveways yet, and others scrambling around trying to figure out what to do with their elderly parents, which is to say, we're just like the rest of Oxford and have been equally fricked by mother nature this week.

Told the girlfriend Friday night while I was washing out old Home Depot buckets and figuring out how to seal them to keep the water clean that I have made to executive decision to just get her pets and get the hell out of there.

Cut off the water lines to our homes, cracked some sinks open just in case for residual water, and we're both hoping that was enough. I have gas at the house, but only in one room and for the kitchen. I was also worried about water (wisely enough).

The hell of it is, we were originally going to go to the old home of my grandparents near Utica that my Dad has been using as a second house since th grandparents passed, but at the last minute, he said he wanted to use that one for him and his gf and redirected us to Brandon.

They lost power out there, and he found out after it was too late that the gas man had not come by to fill the propane tank at the house like he said. Brandon ended up being fine, but they had a rough 24 hours.

He was able to get gas pretty easily Monday, and they've been going up to Vicksburg a little to keep from going stir crazy while waiting for Entergy to get their lines back up.

Meanwhile, from the looks of the pictures coming out of Oxford, I guess we live here now. She has no trees near her house, so she is probably OK. On the other hand, I backup to a lot of loblollies just over the property line in the national forest. I don't think any limbs would hit the house, but if any of those trees came down, all bets are off.

Fingers crossed.

Well, he was pretty trash at UF. He got replaced by Austin Armstrong, for god's sake.

I'm deeply disappointed in this. Hopefully, he learned something

ETA: Word was Toney didn't leave for the Cardinals as much as he was told if he stayed he'd be demoted.

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Exactly. He will always be looking for the "next big thing" to feed his ego. Let's not forget he was ready to bolt for Auburn until his kids talked him out of it. Oxford wasn't going to be his "destination" - it was a means for him to rebuild his public image (same with the ESPN doc) in order for him to get something "bigger and better".

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To be honest, I don't know how much I still believe this. I think it's certainly possible, but I think it's equally possible that someone told him going to Auburn means never being coach at Alabama. The whole "it was all family" may have been more PR spin at the end of the day.

Don't take that to mean I think Alabama would have hired him either way, but I'm not sure that Lane believed he couldn't get back in the door someday. If someone like Saban or Sexton told him going to Auburn all but guaranteed he'd never have a shot at the Alabama job, I can see him deciding last minute not to take it.

This season's drama and his exit really made me wonder about all of that where before I was pretty happy to believe it was the whole family and Oxford thing.

I had just moved to Austin before the start of the 2005 season. Vince Young in that 4th Quarter...

His demeanor after scoring on that 4th and 5, still clutching the ball while that whole place came unglued, was like he was so determined to win that he had exited our plane of existence. I've never seen anything like that before or since.

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But this one tonight was definitely a top 10, maybe a top 5. I'll have to see where it all lands to really know what to think of it.

One thing I love about LSU - whatever they get is always the best, until it's the worst. They start off crowing and dragging nuts and then end up all sniping at each other like a bunch of old women when it goes south.

I bet we could copy and paste the bulk of their posts from the hiring to the firing of Brian Kelly and just replace Kelly's name with Kiffin's and pretty much have what we're going to see the next several years here.

Christ on a cracker.

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Honestly, I don’t love the car. I would take one in exchange for playing football, no doubt. Just not a fan

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Off topic, but I agree. The whole thing about the Corvette was it being a front-engine, RWD, pushrod-driven sports car. It was a very American thing, and that's what made Vettes Vettes. You could love it or hate it, but if you love that technology and driving experience for what it is, Corvettes were close to the platonic ideal.

These new mid-engine C8s - to me all they are now is a Temu Ferrari or Lambo. I love Ferrari's, but I've no interest in a Corvette trying to be one. There are things that make more sense in a modern engine than desmodromic valves, but that's what makes a Ducati and Ducati.

Same to me with the front engine, RWD, pushrod Vette, preferably with a manual. But they threw that all away to make a car that, to me, screams "I really wanted a Ferrari 849, but this is the best I could do."

Anyway, carry on with the trolling or whatever this thread is.

That's not really how endowments work, but even if it was, the state would just sell Lake Charles or something to keep funding football.

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They’re building condos in every square inch of town they can

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And about 50% of them go to people who don't live here.

Last five years around here remind me of living in Austin in the 00s. That was a really cool place to live until...