HA, 3/7/06: Chivalry is alive, well in South - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Mar 7, 2006

HA, 3/7/06: Chivalry is alive, well in South

Date: Mar 7, 2006

Suzanne...learn how to change a _______ tire!!!

Date: Mar 7, 2006

It wouldn't surprise me if Suzanne is 6'9" tall and was bouncing a basketball on the pavement beside her car when those gracious gentlemen stopped to help change her tire.

Date: Mar 7, 2006

a remote, rural Mississippi road. After being stranded for quite a while with no way to call for help - so remote that there was no cell-phone signal . . .

That sounds like something out of a Grisham novel. What an odd place for those 2 characters to be.

Date: Mar 7, 2006

So, the campaign for another term has begun. Yes, indeed.

Date: Mar 7, 2006

Emma wrote:

...a remote, rural Mississippi road. ... What an odd place for those 2 characters to be.

I'll take a wild guess. They were en route to campus following their regular weekly visit to one of Forrest County's little backwoods bordellos. Just a couple of red-blooded Amurcan males doing a little, uhh, bonding.

Date: Mar 7, 2006

Outside Observer wrote:

Suzanne...learn how to change a _______ tire!!!

This is really one of the oddest things -- I even looked at the HA's website directly to make sure it wasn't a spoof.

However, in the lady's defense, let me say that I know how to change a tire but doubt that I am strong enough to do so.

Date: Mar 8, 2006

Austin Eagle's Major-domo wrote:

I'll take a wild guess. They were en route to campus following their regular weekly visit to one of Forrest County's little backwoods bordellos. Just a couple of red-blooded Amurcan males doing a little, uhh, bonding.

Huh? I didn't know I had a major-domo? I do have a list of things you could do for me.

AE

Date: Mar 8, 2006

Austin Eagle wrote:

Huh? I didn't know I had a major-domo? I do have a list of things you could do for me. AE

I'm hurt. Have you forgotten that you volunteered my services to Mlle. de Guerre?I've been busy reorganizing her carriage house, an unpleasant chore on par with Hercules cleaning the stables of Augeas. Keep your list. My back is killing me and I'm contemplating an early retirement.

Date: Mar 8, 2006

info wrote:

http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060307/OPINION03/603070311/1014/OPINION

Chivalry is alive, well in South

...I recently experienced a tire blow-out on a remote, rural Mississippi road....

...I will always be indebted to you, University of Southern Mississippi President Shelby Thames and USM Athletic Director Richard Giannini, for your willingness to stop, give up your valuable time and get me on the road again....

How many college professors would have done the same? Probably not many.Thank goodness for Dr.T and Mr. G

Date: Mar 8, 2006

With his heart? Maybe not a smart thing to do, dearie. Did anybody ask what the good gentlemen were doing out roaming the back roads? Of course, that could possibly be none of our beeswax.

Date: Mar 8, 2006

Little old lady wrote:

With his heart? Maybe not a smart thing to do, dearie. Did anybody ask what the good gentlemen were doing out roaming the back roads? Of course, that could possibly be none of our beeswax.

Why were those boys meandering through the hinterlands? I think that was answered in an earlier post. Think "Chicken Ranch," and I'm not talking about Sanderson Farms. It's sweet of you to worry about Shelboo meeting the same fate as Nelson Rockefeller. You've gotta admit it would be a heckuva way for him to go, with his little elevator boots on.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

Heidi Fleiss wrote:

Little old lady wrote: With his heart? Maybe not a smart thing to do, dearie. Did anybody ask what the good gentlemen were doing out roaming the back roads? Of course, that could possibly be none of our beeswax.

Why were those boys meandering through the hinterlands? I think that was answered in an earlier post. Think "Chicken Ranch," and I'm not talking about Sanderson Farms. It's sweet of you to worry about Shelboo meeting the same fate as Nelson Rockefeller. You've gotta admit it would be a heckuva way for him to go, with his little elevator boots on.

Did anyone ever determine whether the HA letter was a spoof? Little Old Lady raises a good point concerning Shelboo's heart condition. I doubt he's even physically capable of changing a tire. I guess Giannini could have pulled it off. Or Angie D, with one hand tied behind her back.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

The letter was real, even though the situation was surreal.

I thought about a couple of things -- for one thing, it's not safe for a woman alone to stop out in the hinterlands like that. Better to ruin the tire. Also made me think I need a can of that quickie flat fixer stuff in my trunk. It's really not safe to stop for people either, though I did stop one night on Hwy 11 for a woman who was off the road. But it was heavily travelled that time of evening. Generally I would not stop, but I would drive on to the nearest place and call the sheriff or HP.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

Sorry, I see that she said it was a blow-out.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

Bob Woodward wrote:

Heidi Fleiss wrote:

Little old lady wrote: With his heart? Maybe not a smart thing to do, dearie. Did anybody ask what the good gentlemen were doing out roaming the back roads? Of course, that could possibly be none of our beeswax.
Why were those boys meandering through the hinterlands? I think that was answered in an earlier post. Think "Chicken Ranch," and I'm not talking about Sanderson Farms. It's sweet of you to worry about Shelboo meeting the same fate as Nelson Rockefeller. You've gotta admit it would be a heckuva way for him to go, with his little elevator boots on.

Did anyone ever determine whether the HA letter was a spoof? Little Old Lady raises a good point concerning Shelboo's heart condition. I doubt he's even physically capable of changing a tire. I guess Giannini could have pulled it off. Or Angie D, with one hand tied behind her back.

Shelby' is a man .He'd take it to the liberal arts girlie men.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

LVN wrote:

The letter was real, even though the situation was surreal.

That letter probably originated from one of Dan Rather's "reliable sources." Let's send it to the crack CBS document examiners for authentication.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

Someone does something nice and another person takes the time to thank them publicly for it and all most of you can do is belittle it. I would not expect most who post on this site to give any kind word or thanks to Thames but to go out of your way to detract from a good deed (when you could just be quite) is really sorry.

To someone looking from the outside in comparing your actions/words here with those spoke of Thames in the paper, it is no wonder many of you come across as a bunch of whining elitist who think that their opinions are the only ones that count because they have the letters PhD behind their name. If you got a bone to pick with Thames, pick the bone but do not go around putting down everything he might say or do just because you feel you must be on the opposite side from him. It only makes you look foolish and that perhaps Thames is not the gnome you try to make him out to be.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

Coast Resident wrote:

Someone does something nice and another person takes the time to thank them publicly for it and all most of you can do is belittle it. I would not expect most who post on this site to give any kind word or thanks to Thames but to go out of your way to detract from a good deed (when you could just be quite) is really sorry. To someone looking from the outside in comparing your actions/words here with those spoke of Thames in the paper, it is no wonder many of you come across as a bunch of whining elitist who think that their opinions are the only ones that count because they have the letters PhD behind their name. If you got a bone to pick with Thames, pick the bone but do not go around putting down everything he might say or do just because you feel you must be on the opposite side from him. It only makes you look foolish and that perhaps Thames is not the gnome you try to make him out to be.

Hey, don't be to quick to paint us all with that brush. Son of Arnold already complimented Shelby on being a man, and went on to say that "He'd take it to the liberal arts girlie men." If that isn't high praise, I don't know what you'd call it.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

Shelboophile wrote:

Hey, don't be to quick to paint us all with that brush. Son of Arnold already complimented Shelby on being a man, and went on to say that "He'd take it to the liberal arts girlie men." If that isn't high praise, I don't know what you'd call it.

I did not say "all." I qualifed my statements with "most" and "many" not "all" and "everyone", and this in reference to those who have posted under this thread. However, it only takes a few to make the whole of the group look bad. My apologizes if my statements gave offense to anyone who had not belittled the good deed done.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

Coast Resident wrote:

Someone does something nice and another person takes the time to thank them publicly for it and all most of you can do is belittle it. I would not expect most who post on this site to give any kind word or thanks to Thames but to go out of your way to detract from a good deed (when you could just be quite) is really sorry. To someone looking from the outside in comparing your actions/words here with those spoke of Thames in the paper, it is no wonder many of you come across as a bunch of whining elitist who think that their opinions are the only ones that count because they have the letters PhD behind their name. If you got a bone to pick with Thames, pick the bone but do not go around putting down everything he might say or do just because you feel you must be on the opposite side from him. It only makes you look foolish and that perhaps Thames is not the gnome you try to make him out to be.

I agree Coast Resident. I must congratulate you for not using the word "liberal" when mentioning the whining, elitist faculty.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

Is there a reason for the giant dark text? Or even for the really big text one or more other posters have been using lately (not counting the sports threads)?

Date: Mar 9, 2006

Is there a reason for the giant dark text? Or even for the really big text one or more other posters have been using lately (not counting the sports threads)?

Maybe it is equivalent to talking louder.

Date: Mar 9, 2006

LVN wrote:

Is there a reason for the giant dark text? Or even for the really big text one or more other posters have been using lately (not counting the sports threads)?

I was wondering about that myself.

AE

Date: Mar 9, 2006

AE, you behave.