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Date: Jul 6, 2005

town and gown golf

Date: Jul 6, 2005

How exciting. Right up there with the Dvorak Family Feud on my list of things to Never Think About Again.

Give it a rest.

Date: Jul 6, 2005

They have to stage these contests on the weekend and on holidays because the college professors monopolize the links during the week.

Date: Jul 6, 2005

Weekend golfer wrote:

They have to stage these contests on the weekend and on holidays because the college professors monopolize the links during the week.

I dont know who you are...but you are officially my hero.

Date: Jul 6, 2005

And what percentage of professors at USM have the time or the money to belong to Hattiesburg Country Club?
How come nobody complains about seeing their doctor or their lawyer or their CPA out on the golf course?

Date: Jul 6, 2005

Third Witch wrote:

How exciting. Right up there with the Dvorak Family Feud on my list of things to Never Think About Again. Give it a rest.

Oh, come on, you've gotta admit that the saga of the dueling Dvoraks makes great copy. I'm trying to get them on my show along with Hanbury and Malone, and maybe Mader. Can't you just see them all screaming profanities, hurling furniture, ripping off clothes, shouting threats? What's that? You've already seen it? While they worked at USM? Oh well, never mind.

Date: Jul 6, 2005

Jerry Springer wrote:

Third Witch wrote: How exciting. Right up there with the Dvorak Family Feud on my list of things to Never Think About Again. Give it a rest. Oh, come on, you've gotta admit that the saga of the dueling Dvoraks makes great copy. I'm trying to get them on my show along with Hanbury and Malone, and maybe Mader. Can't you just see them all screaming profanities, hurling furniture, ripping off clothes, shouting threats? What's that? You've already seen it? While they worked at USM? Oh well, never mind.

But Jerry, why leave out Shelby and Dana? After all, Shelby is MD's mentor, and Dana is his, uhhh, special friend.

Date: Jul 6, 2005

Third Witch wrote:

And what percentage of professors at USM have the time or the money to belong to Hattiesburg Country Club? How come nobody complains about seeing their doctor or their lawyer or their CPA out on the golf course?

I can count on two hands the number of faculty members I know at USM who play golf. I know of only two in my medium size department who play it. They play on weekends and holidays.

Date: Jul 6, 2005

Liz Smith wrote:

But Jerry, why leave out Shelby and Dana? After all.....Dana is his, uhhh, special friend.

Huh? Are Dana and MD an item now?

Date: Jul 6, 2005

No way. MD is not even living here anymore. You are out of date.

Date: Jul 6, 2005

While some of you may not know many profs who play golf, I happen to know quite a few. They used to play at Canebrake, Timberton, Shadow Ridge, the Airport, and (until it closed) the Hook. However, I know of at least ten who refuse to play in the greater Hattiesburg area, so they go to the Coast to play some of the nice Casino-related courses down there. At $50+ per round and one round per week, that's a reasonable money that won't be roosting in the 'Burg. Just based on these ten, that would be at least $20,000 gone.

Date: Jul 6, 2005

And, if you apply a multiplier of 5, that's $100,000 that is lost. I would say, then, that Hattiesburg is dormy.

Date: Jul 6, 2005

Bad News wrote:

MD is not even living here anymore.

You should change your screen name to Good News.

Date: Jul 7, 2005

If it was true about the USM faculty not playing in Hattiesburg, you would not have all the congestion on the courses during the week. The working people can only play on weekends. The "ivory tower elite" play during the week an noon!!! Go to the HCC and observe an lunch.

Date: Jul 7, 2005

Remember: don't feed the trolls.

Date: Jul 7, 2005

Stickin' It! wrote:

While some of you may not know many profs who play golf, I happen to know quite a few. They used to play at Canebrake, Timberton, Shadow Ridge, the Airport, and (until it closed) the Hook. However, I know of at least ten who refuse to play in the greater Hattiesburg area, so they go to the Coast to play some of the nice Casino-related courses down there. At $50+ per round and one round per week, that's a reasonable money that won't be roosting in the 'Burg. Just based on these ten, that would be at least $20,000 gone.

The profs love the casinos.One even wrote a nice article in the "New Yorker" about his gambling.USM could support a full time casino-golf resort for use just for faculty members.It would be busy seven days a week. They could train their casino management students at this facility.

Date: Jul 7, 2005

The trolls are out this afternoon. Don't feed the trolls.

Date: Jul 7, 2005

Whoa, wonder if the trolls know how prestigious (and how hard) it is to get published in the New Yorker?

Date: Jul 7, 2005

Ace of Spades wrote:

USM could support a full time casino-golf resort for use just for faculty members.

USM already has its own casino, Ace. Just being at USM is a big gamble. Snake eyes, please

Date: Jul 7, 2005

Being taught by a USM professor is a bigger gamble. Your chances of learning something other than anti-SFT is equal to betting at CRAPS.

Date: Jul 7, 2005

JoJo wrote:

Being taught by a USM professor is a bigger gamble. Your chances of learning something other than anti-SFT is equal to betting at CRAPS.

Remember, don't feed the trolls.

Date: Jul 7, 2005

JoJo wrote:

Being taught by a USM professor is a bigger gamble. Your chances of learning something other than anti-SFT is equal to betting at CRAPS.

Trolls are out tonight. Don't feed the trolls.

Date: Jul 8, 2005

Troll Alert wrote:
. Don't feed the trolls.

Good job.If we can't furnish a rebuttal to his argument ,we can always call him a troll.It's alot easier than having to come up with facts.

Date: Jul 8, 2005

Friend of Troll Alert wrote:

Troll Alert wrote:. Don't feed the trolls. Good job.If we can't furnish a rebuttal to his argument ,we can always call him a troll.It's alot easier than having to come up with facts.

One of us has to improve our reading skills. All I have seen from the trolls are unsubstantiated assertions. It is begging the question to ask, “Have you stopped molesting children?” When the trolls present arguments, evidence and logical reasoning then they won't be called trolls, and everyone here can have a discussion.

Date: Jul 8, 2005

Troll Alert wrote:
When the trolls present arguments, evidence and logical reasoning then they won't be called trolls

Well put.

Date: Jul 8, 2005

Good point, T.A. Several of us tried to give evidence and arguments to A the M, and then it was clear he wasn't even reading the responses. Towner is more of the same. It's pretty obvious who's here to talk and who's here to cause trouble. The troublemakers never actually discuss.

Date: Jul 8, 2005

3rd Which,

Argumenation works in the academy, but I guarantee you not a word of this board has changed people's minds--almost like the euthenasia or abortion debates. People are entrenched in their assumptions. Actually, no one really cares what goes on at USM, people in the Burg are mostly just scraping by, got their own worries.

This board serves its purpose to dissemanate information, especially when the admin is up to something on the sly. Other than that, it is a b*tch fest, call it community or whatever, that's all it is.

I don't really hate y'all, that would mean I care. No one does.

Date: Jul 8, 2005

Towner Who Hates Gowners wrote:

3rd Which, Argumenation works in the academy, but I guarantee you not a word of this board has changed people's minds--almost like the euthenasia or abortion debates. People are entrenched in their assumptions. Actually, no one really cares what goes on at USM, people in the Burg are mostly just scraping by, got their own worries. This board serves its purpose to dissemanate information, especially when the admin is up to something on the sly. Other than that, it is a b*tch fest, call it community or whatever, that's all it is. I don't really hate y'all, that would mean I care. No one does.

Now Towner makes a reasonable statement. Towner the purpose of this board is not to change the minds of people in the community. As you correctly state it is to exchange information and b*tch. It’s important to exchange info and even the Hattiesburg American keeps up with this board to get leads to stories etc. B*tching is good for the spirit after smiling all day saying nice things so the powers above think you are happy.

A few questions for you: If no one cares (and why should they) why are you here? Let us b*tch, exchange information, debate with evidence and logical argument and have fun shooting down poor arguments of trolls. But why are you here? What do you offer? How do you justify your existence on this board to yourself? Or maybe you are just bored?

Date: Jul 8, 2005

Bad News wrote:

No way. MD is not even living here anymore. You are out of date.

I hope your information is correct but I thought someone reported seeing MD downing a few cold ones at the Hog last week. Did he vamoose after that?

Date: Jul 8, 2005

I seem to have lost my program. Who again is the DM in Dana and DM?