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Date: Mar 10, 2005

Welcome Hattiesburg Business Gurus

Date: Mar 10, 2005

I think it is really strange that so many of the businesspeople in Hattiesburg will so blindly take the word of the USM administration over hundreds of faculty members who have been their customers, patients, neighbors, fellow church members, etc., for many years.

It's a shame that you have to be told to come here to see this board and get a feel for what faculty are saying. I guess it would have been too easy to just ask someone you know who works at USM why the faculty and staff are so frustrated.

Date: Mar 11, 2005

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Date: Mar 11, 2005

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Date: Mar 11, 2005

Kicking for Walt Whitman!

Date: Mar 11, 2005

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Date: Mar 11, 2005

Fak-uhl-tee, dem aka-dem-hicks, day scart me. I needs me a gun in my Ford. Like I sed, dem hippees can turn violent, memberin the sixtees. I'm scart.

Date: Mar 11, 2005

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Originally posted by: I'm scart...
"Fak-uhl-tee, dem aka-dem-hicks, day scart me. I needs me a gun in my Ford. Like I sed, dem hippees can turn violent, memberin the sixtees. I'm scart. "

This is why a liberal arts background is important.

I can catch lightening in a jar, and I still don't have a clue as to what you just said.

Date: Mar 11, 2005

Just wondering if they had invited the businessman who was busted for running that prostitution business downtown.

Date: Mar 11, 2005

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Originally posted by: Shelby Hattiesburg Ranger
"Just wondering if they had invited the businessman who was busted for running that prostitution business downtown."

Or, perhaps, they should have invited that Thompson fella. You know, the one who's son owned the photography studio on Hardy Street? Surely you remember? All of that mess about secret, hidden cameras in the bathrooms and dressing rooms? Videotapes of underage girls being transported across state lines (to Atlanta)?

As I remember it, it was the sheer multitude of civil lawsuits that forced Thompson to sell his interests in the local Coca Cola Bottling Plant.

Date: Mar 11, 2005

These business people very well may be coming on this site to get a feel for the types of topics being posted and a feel for the types of posters on your board...At the risk of taking this board too seriously, the flippant and assine responses so far in this thread will only alienate people on the other side of your issues...Some could easily print out some of this pap and use it as ammunition against you in the community...Fun is Fun but don't let your Fun be turned against you...

Date: Mar 11, 2005

I doubt that very many people will be paying attention to this thread. If they can't see that 75%-90% of the topics discussed are serious topics, then they aren't looking very hard. I believe intelligent readers will see this as a joke and will move on to the next thread. Unless they want to get a real sense of how free speech works, in which case they'll read this and think about it, then post a response, humorous or not.

Date: Mar 11, 2005

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Originally posted by: Italian Feast Fan
"I doubt that very many people will be paying attention to this thread. If they can't see that 75%-90% of the topics discussed are serious topics, then they aren't looking very hard. I believe intelligent readers will see this as a joke and will move on to the next thread. Unless they want to get a real sense of how free speech works, in which case they'll read this and think about it, then post a response, humorous or not."

Some may just come to collect ammunition. The serious threads don't supply that. People "having fun" praticing there "creative writing" skills do. Do forget " Loose lips sink ships". Guess which war that was from.

Date: Mar 11, 2005

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Date: Mar 11, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Italian Feast Fan
"I doubt that very many people will be paying attention to this thread. If they can't see that 75%-90% of the topics discussed are serious topics, then they aren't looking very hard. I believe intelligent readers will see this as a joke and will move on to the next thread. Unless they want to get a real sense of how free speech works, in which case they'll read this and think about it, then post a response, humorous or not."

The problem with the fun is that the people who are named have familes and kin who might not see this as so funny . . . they may not necessarily like that their relations did bad things but they also might not like people from outside holding them up for ridicule . . .

Date: Mar 11, 2005

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Originally posted by: stephen judd
" The problem with the fun is that the people who are named have familes and kin who might not see this as so funny . . . they may not necessarily like that their relations did bad things but they also might not like people from outside holding them up for ridicule . . . "

Excellent point; in general it is better to refrain from ad hominem arguments (except in the case of Shelby and Roy Klumb, who indulge in it themselves and thus deserve it. Besides, I am not quite sure that either is a hominid).