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Crump's brother
Moxahala Park Carnie/ Rehoboth Strangler
My great grandmother lived there. In 1985 she still had an outhouse.
Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
The thread title always reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
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Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
I'm not familiar with Meigs county, but I'll help break it down for you so maybe you can draw your own conclusions.
Louisiana:
New Orleans is the big tourist trap along I-10. Really overrated, over run with criminal filth. Not nearly as clean or pretty as they try to make it seem.
Slidell, next real city/town east on I-10. Much more "blue collar" than NOLA. No real reason to ever go there if you don't live or work there. DESPERATELY wishes to be considered part of NOLA even though they're much closer to being Picayune, MS.
Mississippi:
Gulfport-Biloxi is the big tourist trap along I-10. Ridiculously overrated, overrun with Casinos and the trash that gravitates towards them. Not anywhere near as attractive of a beachfront as they sell them selves as.
Pascagoula. Next city/town heading east on I-10. WAY more blue collar than Biloxi. Absolutely no reason whatsoever to stop in Pascagoula if you're not running on fumes in your gas tank. DESPERATELY wishes to be considered part of that tiny stretch of Mississippi Gulf Coast that brings in tourists, even though they're much closer to freaking Mobile, AL (which has never been a compliment to anyone).
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Went to an Air Force tech school at Keesler AFB (Biloxi) Nov '75 - May '76. It was a swampjack town back almost 50 years ago...
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Nutriaitch
Retired Super Hero
still is.
except now it's full of old ladies yelling at you for cutting lines the Casino Buffett, Rock bands ridiculously past their primes (if they ever had one) and their followers, and Spring Breakers that can't afford the extra tank of gas it would take to get to a Florida beach instead.
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Nutriaitch
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one of those cover bands even calls themselves "Lynyrd Skynyrd"
there is not a single living member of the band that made that album.
but they promote themselves and tour as if they are actually still that band.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
Reminds me of a boss I had in the late 90s. He had a 1939 Pontiac. He drove it around. It was pretty neat. It was a full modern (1990s) Chevy engine, which he totally built, but because the body was a 1939 Pontiac, he got to call it a 1939 Pontiac. I guess if it has 1 part from a 19XX whatever, you get to call it a 19XX whatever.
If there's a line from the original Skynyrd, and they just replaced 1 band member at a time, I guess you get to call yourselves Lynyrd Skynyrd, even if no one is original.
Or... the Socrates thought experiment. Take a ship. Replace one of the planks of wood in that ship. Then another and another and another. And replace all the nails or whatever the Greeks used to hold the planks together. Replace the mast, the sails, everything. Is it he same ship? If so, what if you take the original parts and build a ship out of those parts?
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Nutriaitch
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must have been a late 90's thing.
my boss back then had a '65 Shelby Cobra.
Body was a kit.
Engine was a brand new crate 427 Side Oiler
Rest of drive train was from a '97 Mustang Cobra
but he told everyone it was a '65 Shelby.
Note: I drove that car around the dealership where we worked. To this day, that is the only car that ever scared the shit out of me. It knew only 2 speeds. Stopped at Idle, and pin you back in your seat with your hair on fire. There was no 10mph move through parking lot option. it was AWESOME!
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