OLE MISS STUDENTS TO VOTE ON MASCOT. YOU KNOW THE RIGHT CHOICE AND IT'S A TRAP
by Spencer Hall on Feb 18, 2010 5:46 PM EST
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Ole Miss has operated without a proper mascot for quite a while now, something that may or may not continue pending the results of student election next week on the 23rd. The election will decide whether Ole Miss continues operating with the single mascot they have now, an animated, wildly gesticulating character named "Houston Nutt" who plays the part of "their football coach" (wink wink), or whether to adopt a second mascot besides the guy who thinks he's telling everyone what to do on the field.
Colonel Reb is not an option, but even if you could Ole Miss students...you know who the real choice is here.
What better summation of Ole Miss's spirit than Admiral Ackbar, who like Ole Miss is surrounded by talent in the form of a huge JUCO system/ Han Solo and company, but still manages to get himself cornered in the vastness of space/stuck with Ed Orgeron as your head coach every now and then?
Like the residents of Mississippi, he has gills and wears a uniform at all times. Like the residents of Mississippi, he likes alcohol to excess and has relatives who can't read. Like Mississippi, he has had an ugly personal experience with the issue of slavery, having been enslaved with the rest of his people when his home planet of Mon Calimari* was invaded by the Empire. Finally, and most importantly, HE'S A LEADER OF REBELS. One who every now and then gets to blow up the Death Star, as they have done with Grand Moff Meyer and will likely do again.
Join the rebellion here, or on Twitter, or on his Facebook page. IT'S A TARP! A tarp that will cover the entire Ole Miss campus with a protective shield of love and reconciliation, people. Let's start spreading it and give the Rebels the mascot it deserves. Many Bothan spies have died just to get us this far. Don't let their deaths be in vain.
*Seriously. George Lucas is fucking retarded.
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Mississippi has always struck me as a tarp-based economy. It’s West Virginian like that, so I feel right at home.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
A frequently-expressed sentiment in West Virginia is “Thank God for Mississippi.”
by An 'eer with a beer on Feb 18, 2010 8:15 PM EST up reply actions
Huh, that's funny,
because we say the same about you.
/guesswhatwebothhavepoverty
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 18, 2010 8:38 PM EST up reply actions
That is funny
Because people used to say that when I lived in WV and they still say it now that I live in Sakeralina.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Feb 18, 2010 9:18 PM EST up reply actions
I'm honestly getting used to being America's whipping boy by now.
You’re all welcome for Elvis, Faulkner, and Favre, motherfuckers.
Signed,
The ’Ssip.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 18, 2010 9:23 PM EST up reply actions
Join the club. home boy
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Feb 18, 2010 9:25 PM EST up reply actions
I'd rather have
apologies for Faulkner and Favre.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Feb 18, 2010 9:26 PM EST up reply actions
Hard reading Faulkner, when the sentences run for pages. Kids in my high school in WV kept passing out from lack of oxygen.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Feb 18, 2010 9:28 PM EST up reply actions
Call it blasphemous...
…but I prefer Larry Brown myself.
Yes, I live in Starkville...WHO did I piss off in a past life?
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Feb 18, 2010 10:45 PM EST up reply actions
They weren’t reading out loud, just mouthing the words. Me, I never had that problem ’cause I can read without moving my lips.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Feb 19, 2010 7:24 AM EST up reply actions
Holly, you're better than this.
Please don’t tell me you’re in the “I hate Faulkner because he confuses me and my 11th grade English teacher made me read him” camp.
And Favre may be annoying, but the man is living his dream at 40 years of age. If anybody you know can honestly say they’re doing that, yous should be damn happy for them.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 18, 2010 11:51 PM EST up reply actions
"Holly, you're better than this."
There’s absolutely no evidence to support this claim.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Feb 19, 2010 7:00 AM EST up reply actions
You're amazing.
I laughed. A lot. Thank you because, truth be told, I needed a laugh.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 19, 2010 1:01 PM EST up reply actions
um, thanks , 'Ssip
How ’bout somebody still living?
by NCT on Feb 18, 2010 11:39 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Brett Favre died?
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 18, 2010 11:49 PM EST up reply actions
Never liked Favre, either.
People in Hattiesburg say they support him, to strangers, but everyone I knew down there said he was a total prick.
Yes, I live in Starkville...WHO did I piss off in a past life?
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Feb 19, 2010 12:25 AM EST up reply actions
yes, 3 years ago
Unfortunately his undead corpse keeps playing like a kid out there.
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How about...
John Grisham? No, moved to Virginia (and deep down he’s a State fan)
Larry Brown? Nah, dead too.
Eli Manning? Eh, technically he’s from Louisiana.
Leann Rimes? When’s the last time she had a hit?
Faith Hill? When’s the last time she had a hit?
Brandy? When’s the…oh forget it.
Wait, I got it I got it…Morgan Freeman. How’s that work for ya?
Yes, I live in Starkville...WHO did I piss off in a past life?
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Feb 19, 2010 12:24 AM EST up reply actions
Alright Orson...
come clean. Why do you hate Mississippi so much?
I’m only somewhat kidding with that question, btw.
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by Juco All-American on Feb 18, 2010 5:58 PM EST reply actions
I'm trying to get you the most badass mascot in the SEC.
If that’s not love, I don’t know the meaning of the word.
by Spencer Hall on Feb 18, 2010 6:04 PM EST up reply actions
I must admit
If the PC crowd won’t let them have Colonel Reb, this is as good as it gets.
by commodore_dude on Feb 18, 2010 10:04 PM EST up reply actions
The "PC" crowd?
How about the crowd that understands that Colonel Reb brings ridiculous and unnecessary controversy. For me, it’s not a matter of being politically correct; it’s a matter of being pragmatic.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 18, 2010 11:52 PM EST up reply actions
The widdle boys on RCR need to learn not to get their widdle feelings hurt so easily
This is the SEC, brother!
by 4.0 Point Stance on Feb 19, 2010 12:39 PM EST up reply actions
Feelings hurt?
Quips were made, we retorted in kind. That’s the modus operandi of the entire fucking internet, as far as I can tell.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 19, 2010 1:03 PM EST up reply actions
I believe that there are places on the Internet which don’t even understand the concept of “in kind.”
Tracy Porter's gonna score! TRACY PORTER'S GONNA SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (HT Takimoto)
by AllSaintsDay on Feb 19, 2010 5:19 PM EST up reply actions
It's ok everyone.
He’s an LSU fan. I checked.
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Blame the Baptists.
by Juco All-American on Feb 22, 2010 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
I'll say it again
As for getting cornered in space, Ackbar is a goddamn fish. How does a fish fail to understand three-dimensions?
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too soon?
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by thetennesseethumper on Feb 19, 2010 8:57 AM EST up reply actions
As long as we're talking mascots
The Dayton Flyers should jump on the inflatable mascot train by hiring Otto the autopilot from Airplane! as the new captain of the spirit squad. Either him, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Or half the chicks trying to downhill ski last night
only as long as “flying” doesn’t involve “landing.”
big non sequitur of beef chow mein
When Lee Ho Suk was skating the short track last night, I texted all my WSP buddies to tell them that the chinese menu guy from Werewolves of London was REAL and also not Chinese. Then I remembered that the song talks about Lee Ho Fuk. I always get my suk and my fuk confused.
by haveagreatday on Feb 18, 2010 6:44 PM EST up reply actions
and just so we are clear
I know that Warren Zevon was the creative force behind Werewolves of London, but I don’t have anybody to talk about that time we ate mushrooms in Destin and everybody flipped out when we were watching Zevon play it. Or was that Lawyers, Guns and Money? Or was that Bonnaroo? Ahhhh, college.
by haveagreatday on Feb 18, 2010 6:52 PM EST up reply actions
Bonnaroo
The proceedings at Bonnaroo have been expunged from the record.
On a completely unrelated note, buying chocolate bars from hippies in Tennessee = Find yourself at a Disco Biscuits concert at 4:00 AM. Safety first, people.
Brian Kelly says no Burger King at 3 AM.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Feb 18, 2010 7:15 PM EST up reply actions
I stumbled into the resturant
in Soho in the rain, and had a big dish of beef chow mein. The sign was spelled Lee Ho Fook. But then they were British Chinese.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Feb 18, 2010 9:23 PM EST up reply actions
“That’s not flying! That’s falling with style!!!”
by An 'eer with a beer on Feb 18, 2010 8:16 PM EST up reply actions
Wow, that ended up in the wrong place. Can we assume the “reply” function is whimsical?
by An 'eer with a beer on Feb 18, 2010 8:17 PM EST up reply actions
Now that I look at the reply trail, it’s right where it should be. Never mind.
by An 'eer with a beer on Feb 18, 2010 8:18 PM EST up reply actions
An anagram of "Admiral Ackbar"...
..is “Racial Bad Mark.” Embrace it, Mississippi!
by Jack Fact on Feb 18, 2010 6:37 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
An anagram of "ackbar" is
Barack.
EMBRACED!
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 18, 2010 8:40 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Ironically enough
The seafood on Mon Calimari is subpar. You’d do better to stick to beef.
STRONG LIKE BOAR
Admiral Ackbar will always be my mascot.
Always. Who needs a crotchety old colonel when you can have a badass, squiddy admiral.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 18, 2010 8:40 PM EST reply actions
You’re just begging Mississippi State students to show up with boiling pots of water and melted butter, you know.
Wait, that’s for orgies, not football games.
"Cold Harbor is neither" - Schnitzel
by Eric A on Feb 18, 2010 8:42 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Associated Student Body President Artair Rogers of Guntown told The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that Colonel Reb is not an option.
There’s a Guntown, Mississippi?! I smell a field trip.
And looking live! at the Ole Miss basketball game: a shot of Houston Nutt sitting at a table by himself. the broadcaster just asked “how can you be the head football coach of and SEC school and not have anybody sitting next to you?” Giggity, that’s how.
North of Tupelo, M-Fers. BANG
And the website’s even better; turn up the speakers.
Yes, I live in Starkville...WHO did I piss off in a past life?
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Feb 18, 2010 10:43 PM EST up reply actions
Damnit.
Yes, I live in Starkville...WHO did I piss off in a past life?
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Feb 18, 2010 10:44 PM EST up reply actions
John Wilkes Booth is buried there?
And this is what you put on your town’s website? You really can’t just make that stuff up.
The whole JWB thing...
…is not concensus, the last I heard.
I once did a live broadcast from there and talked at length with a smattering of the citizens who say there is a “legend” that Boothe was secreted away to recuperate from his broken leg and lived hidden in an attic of a relative there after he was found burned and presumed dead in that barn post-assassination. Others say it was just a tall tale that has lived on much like the urban legends you find on Snopes.
"Happiness is riches, complaint is poverty, and the worst I ever had was wonderful." Brother Dave Gardner
Yeah, the story's a crock of shit.
Boothe was executed and burnt in a barn somewhere in Virginia. That legend would have us to believe that he did not, in fact, get seared to a crisp and, using the technology of the 1860’s, traveled all the way to North Mississippi to recover.
The day I believe that is the day I start posting on Hogville and believing 9/11 conspiracies.
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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Feb 19, 2010 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
WOO HOO!!! PISTOL CITY!!!
Been there a hunnert times!
"Happiness is riches, complaint is poverty, and the worst I ever had was wonderful." Brother Dave Gardner
Is it just me?
This mascot vote thing sounds exactly like the vote we Georgians got after the old Confederate-based flag design got pushed out (so we ended up with a different Confederate-based flag design).
SONNY LIED!
by NCT on Feb 18, 2010 9:29 PM EST via mobile reply actions
There is a festival somewhere...I think Columbus, MS...
…called “The Possum-Trot Festival.”
"Happiness is riches, complaint is poverty, and the worst I ever had was wonderful." Brother Dave Gardner
Coontown Landing on Sardis Lake.
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Destroying your traditions since [YEAR REDACTED].
by Ivory Tower on Feb 19, 2010 12:24 PM EST up reply actions
I ate at a byob cinder-block steakhouse
about 10 mins outside Oxford where I saw the Coontown sign at the ‘99 bama-ole miss game. Is that steakhouse still there? (sorry can’t remember name)
by EZ on Feb 19, 2010 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
I know exactly where you're talking about
…on the left down College Hill Road (not old Mistilis’, past that). Don’t know if it’s still there, but it went through several owners as I recall.
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by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Feb 19, 2010 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
Honestly, just bring Colonel Reb back
…and make him black, like the original version:
http://www.saveolemiss.com/ (go to the history section)
That can’t be viewed as racist, can it? Maybe a bit confusing…
This must happen
And then when they play Auburn or Miami on the road they can where all white like stormtroopers, and then the bands can play the Imperial march, and the cheerleaders can dress as Leia from Jedi, and I can dress as Bobafett and, and, and AAAAGGHHHHHH.
/nerdgasm
And Miss St. can put Admiral Piett as thier mascot!!!!!!
See its not a rivalry until the fate of the universe is at stake dammit!
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