Sounds almost like something that would happen in Clinton.
She had the curves of Venus de Milo, but her bare bosom drew an icy reception.Cops ordered a New Jersey family to cover up their saucy snowlady after receiving a complaint that the frosty front yard figure was X-rated.While neighboring snowmen were allowed to flaunt their nudity [...]
I had hoped that he wouldn’t sign it.. I had hoped that intelligence would prevail..
I should have known better.
Of course, I guess you wouldn’t know about how much it hurts the little guy when you can just “rent” the whole hospital & staff at your convenience.
Twitter / Haley Barbour: Plan to sign HB 512. I [...]
I heard about this earlier today, but just saw an ‘official’ news story with some details.
“It s a small price to pay for a little better control of the ingredient that we need to have a better handle on ” said Forrest County Sheriff Billy McGee.
McGee joined a handful of other law enforcement officers [...]
They got some real sharp cookies over at the Vicksburg Post..
“Business is slow, and I think that’s due not only to the influx of rooms but obviously the overall economy as well. We’re bracing for the winter months to be pretty bad,” said Paul Patel, regional director of operations for Southern Hospitality Services, which operates [...]
I can’t wait to see what happens at MSU if this passes.. They can’t keep cowbells out, how in the hell do they think they can stop cellphones twittering & facebooking.
Earlier this month, the conference informed its schools of the new policy, which reads: “Ticketed fans can’t “produce or disseminate or aid in producing or [...]
Where do they find these idiots?
When Tommie Pullins went to pick up his grandchildren from the YMCA on Fortification Street on Thursday, another child and his 10-year-old granddaughter told him his grandson had been taped to a chair.
“I asked her well, what was he doing? She said, well, he was in time out and they [...]
This weekend, while walking through the Bonita Lakes Mall in Meridian Mississippi, I was shocked to see a sign advertising that a bike made for Peavey Electronics (based in Meridian) from the guys at Orange County Choppers would be on display Saturday. If the "Orange County" name rings a bell, they’re the guys behind "American Chopper" on the Discovery Channel.
I went back on Saturday and gawked for a bit. My first reaction was that the bike is friggin huge. I never realized just how big a "chopper" is, but it’s easily twice the size of the normal motorcycles I see running up and down I20. I didn’t have a camera, but I managed to snap some pics with my Cell Phone and uploaded them on my blog in the Peavey Chopper gallery.
Some interesting quirks about the bike:
It’s a real beauty of the bike, and evidenty there is a 2-part episode of American Choppers showing it’s construction which has already aired. I’m gonna MythTV it and see how it went. One interesting tidbit from my Peavey Insiders: In the episode they trick Hartley by smashing a cheap replica of the "Inspirational OCC Guitar" he gave them. The episode was edited so that Hartley laughs through it all, but I’ve heard that in real life he was Livid for a few minutes before they let him in on the joke.
Update: Looks like I forgot to turn on Comments & Ratings in the Gallery. Fixed now.
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As happens every year, Spring is coming upon us. For most of the US it’s a time of frolicking through meadows of freshly bloomed flowers and flying kites in the park. For us in Mississippi, it’s a fight for survival and control of the skies as the giant yellow menace descends upon us: Pollen.
Folks arise in the morning to find their red trucks turned Green as the yellow pollen simply coats everything in sight with a miserable yellow powder that can send even the most hearty sinuses into clogged sneezing frenzies. The putrid yellow powder doesn’t discriminate as it sends hundreds of Mississippians into sneezing and sniffling fits, and the Doctors rake in the dough as they prescribe antihistamine after antihistamine.
Of course, I’m suffering through this as well. I sit here at my desk constantly sniffling and coughing, woozy in a Dayquil-induced waking coma, barely aware of what’s going on around me. I feel like my head is wrapped in a towel, barely able to breath and hardly awake. It’s a miserable time, and it seems noone is immune. To compound the problem this year, Mississippi is in a drought. If you don’t understand the signifigance, it means 2 things. First, the rain does an excellent job of pulling the pollen from the air and sticking it back to the ground and trees where it belongs. Second, it means that us citizens must not only ciontend with Pollen, but simple Dust as well.
Hopefully the old Adage will come true and April Showers will bring May Flowers.
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I saw this article from the Consumerist linked from Gizmodo today, of all places, and couldn’t help but link it here. “Dirt Cheap” is the new name for what alot of us in Mississippi remember as Hudson’s. They moved into Meridian’s old Service Merchandise building (Does anyone else remember that old place?) a few years back, and have enjoyed monumental success ever since. Every time I drive past there on I20 the parking lot is full. I’ll admit, I’ve even been there a few times myself. I’m somewhat proud to say my HP48G came from there, from someone who thought it was a low-end PDA.
I was somewhat surprised to see this article written by a fellow Mississippian, Kate Bingaman. She’s an assistance professor of Graphic Design at Mississippi State, with her own website Obsessive Consumption.
One of my favorite quotes about her purchases:
| Lillian Vernon Monogrammed Pencils: $2.00 for a pack of 20 My name is not Julius. I don’t even know any Juliuses but I own twenty pencils that should belong to someone with that moniker. |
Update – I noticed that the www.servicemerchandise.com website is actually just a Yahoo! Store. Since I’m not really sure how safe, or legal, it is, I replaced the link instead to Wikipedia’s entry.
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