Hey man that poem's fine... for everywhere but coast Mississippi. As long as the coast gets their own poem and they take out the line concerning Ocean Springs... I mean whatever. Point is that it doesn't help Mississippi's image, especially for the ones who are trying to improve it (coasties).
We just don't seem to be helping ourselves out here. I mean we passed a resolution to make a Dale Enheart Day in this State. There isn't even NASCAR racing in this state. Yet we stupidly honor a guy who got paid to race around a track and we act all surprised when he winds up dead.
I hope I am "racing to die" when I grow up.
Mississippi might not be stupid but I don't see any effort to convince anyone else that we're worth a damn. It makes me and my education look bad.
The Ocean Springs part is one of the best lines of the poem I think. I think it paints an accurate picture of Miss, and it's not a bad image. But yeah, the Coast is a separate part of Mississippi altogether.
Very true. It really isn't a big deal at all, so I think people should accept the way things are and appreciate it. I think the poem paints a pretty cool picture of Miss. Except for the Hush Yo Mouth part.
i like it. i love how it says " i'm the south" because...that's what a lot of people, me included, think...very ignorantly...but that mississippi is the south. hehe get back southern states...it's all us. =) i mean the LA one is better...it's more cultural gone with the wind didn't even take place in mississippi... who is paul ott anyhow? and what is the poem for??
I'm sorry, you would have missed all of this uproar, I should've explained better. Earlier this year, the Mississippi legislature tried to adopt that poem as the pfficial state poem, and several students from around the state protested because they thought it really showed the rest of the nation our ignorant side. The only part that may show that is the "Hush yo' mouth" part, but I like it because it's very Southern. It's something you may hear down here and not from some damn yankee.
The LA one is definitely better. We just adopted it as our state cultural poem. Mississippi never passed the resolution because of the uproar.
I don't like the "Hush yo mouth" part. To me, that sounds more ghetto than quintessential Mississippi. The poem pretty accurately captures Mississippi's aesthetics, but it really does no justice to anything but the superficial. To a non-Mississippian, the poem probably evokes everything they associated with Mississippi: rich food, beautiful plantation homes and Southern belles. At least they didn't mention the Ross Barnett Reservoir or some of our other crazy landmarks and people.
haha. This is the first time I've read the infamous soon-to-be official state poem, and I really don't like it either. What about our state's Southern hospitality? I mean, I can think of at least a handful of ideas and people and places that would be worth mentioning in the official Magnolia State poem. Who wrote that anyways, do you know? And what the heck is a cathead biscuit? I love Misssissippi, and I'll gladly embrace that. However, some of the stuff mentioned in MS's poem is a stretch, even to me. And LA's is definitely better, which just sucks, because, you know, it's LA. And one more thing: While I appreciate wholeheartedly everything Stennis did for the state of MS, is he really worth mentioning in the official poem? Oh well. At least they didn't mention hurricanes, barefoot women, KKK rallies, lynchings, the Ole Miss/James Meredith scandal, and toothless smiles.
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We just don't seem to be helping ourselves out here. I mean we passed a resolution to make a Dale Enheart Day in this State. There isn't even NASCAR racing in this state. Yet we stupidly honor a guy who got paid to race around a track and we act all surprised when he winds up dead.
I hope I am "racing to die" when I grow up.
Mississippi might not be stupid but I don't see any effort to convince anyone else that we're worth a damn. It makes me and my education look bad.
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I'll be back on Sunday... Sorry I didn't think you would be needing them b/c you've already seen them.
I can mail them if you want.
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i mean the LA one is better...it's more cultural
gone with the wind didn't even take place in mississippi...
who is paul ott anyhow? and what is the poem for??
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The LA one is definitely better. We just adopted it as our state cultural poem. Mississippi never passed the resolution because of the uproar.
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unfortunately......
coonasses are illiterate. (and the ones that can read do not read poetry).
maybe paul ott will tour louisiana and read the poem so everyone there can appreciate it.
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"Up in Oxford town, where the Rebel flag flys on the Square
Or the Ross Barnett Resevoir, named for a racist bear."
I couldn't think of anything else to rhyme. But you get the idea.
I think the poem should be Mississippi's Cultural poem, like it is in La.
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