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Date: Mar 15, 2006

Business Associates

Date: Mar 15, 2006

If you are still looking for new property in Hattiesburg.....you need to evaluate your professional career. Don't stay there unless it is absolutely necessary. It will take 10 years to rebuild USM after SFT is gone.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

I would go if I could.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Found on a web page..."main office" on Hardy street? How many offices does he have??

John I. Hanbury, P.C.
Law Firm, Contracts

2201 Hardy Street, P.O. Box 15158, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39402, (Forrest Lamar Cos.) (Main Office)

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Many times those "who we recommend" types of things from real estate people are just paid advertisements.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

I suspect the list came from the ADP.

I hate to be this way to my realtor, but also I drink Pepsi now instead of Coke.

No Quarter.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

If you drink Pepsi now instead of Coke because of any USM affiliation, you are truly a shallow individual. That is just being remarkably simple-minded, and is also bad taste.

Perhaps you should just go ahead and take it a step further and boycott all pharmacists because, after all, one invented Coca-Cola and their successive business partners do business with USM. That's the ticket!

No Quarter-Pounders!

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Many of us drink Pepsi now instead of Coke, not to boycott the Coke machines at USM, but because of the actions and statements of the owners of the local bottling company and cohorts. I can vote with my dollars and I do.

If I went to Memphis, or some other city, I would resume drinking Coke.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

And what the heck does Bob Woodruff have to do with it?

Date: Mar 15, 2006

I'm going to make a point to drink twice the number of Maker's & Coke next time I'm in town to make up for your tomfoolery. That's just goofy, man!

Do your homework and you would know that Bob Woodruff not only attended (and flunked out of) one of the best universities in the world...but also at one time, made the largest single philanthropic gifts to said university. As a fan of the academy, you should re-think your position on KO. Believe me, your "thirst-out" doesn't make a hill of beans to one of the world's largest brands. Plus, you'll be deemed a yankee for drinking Pepsi

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Oh, you also said "many of you" drink Pepsi now instead of Coke...

I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT. Got any statistics to back up that research, prof?

Date: Mar 15, 2006

I'm not a prof, I'm just a person in the community. By "many" I mean many of those who post to this board. I reiterate that I am not boycotting the brand Coke, I am boycotting the local bottler.

I have the right to buy or not buy anything I want to.

I do not care if someone else thinks it's foolish.

You drink whatever you want to.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Coke is it wrote:

Do your homework and you would know that Bob Woodruff not only attended (and flunked out of) one of the best universities in the world...but also at one time, made the largest single philanthropic gifts to said university. As a fan of the academy, you should re-think your position on KO. Believe me, your "thirst-out" doesn't make a hill of beans to one of the world's largest brands. Plus, you'll be deemed a yankee for drinking Pepsi

Oh, we're talking about two different people. When you said "Bob Woodruff" I thought of the reporter who was recently injured in Iraq. You meant the former President of Coca-Cola, and yes, a very great philanthropist.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Let's call it a truce and we'll both agree to drink Barq's - how's that?

GO EAGLES

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Since there is consumer sovereignty in this great land, I am free to buy what I can pay for from the business of my choice. I do not eat at restaurants that were (are) pro SFT. I do not recommend realtors who were (are) pro Shelby to incoming faculty or faculty who are buying/selling a house. My wife buys only Pepsi products locally and loads up on Coke products when we go out of town beyond the Hattiesburg bottler's market. If I had magical powers, the SFT supporters would be deaf, dumb, and barely able to see. I might throw in some other medical problems to complete the job. No doubt there are many others who share my feelings. If there are any posters who are not clear how many of us feel about these local businesses that cast their lot with SFT, we will be glad to explain in more depth. Never forgive and never forget, it is great to be of Scotch–Irish descent

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Actually, I'll drink Diet Barq's. Call me a "Yankee sympathizer" for drinking the lite cola.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Cossack,

I am also anti-SFT. However, he is not USM. To cast a company that is pro-USM completely in the lot as pro-SFT is wrong. Some companies have to keep a good public face no matter who is in office in the "dome."

You don't boycott the armed services because of the Commander-in-Chief, do you? Or what about Kmart because of Martha Stewart? Do you boycott Microsoft because Bill Gates has monopolistic tendencies?

Actually, your comment about other health problems leads me to believe you are a very simple person that cannot use reasoning or persuasive skills to argue their position definitively...leading to the ill will of an otherwise common person with a differing opinion.

Petty, don't you think?

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Of course, whatever soda we drink is immaterial -- the true drink of the South is iced tea.

Pardon me if I've told this before. When my son was still living in Atlanta, he made a business trip to Los Angeles. In a restaurant there, he ordered "unsweet tea." There was a long pause, and finally the waiter asked, "As opposed to what?"

Thanks for the back up, Cossack.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Doug Daft wrote:

Let's call it a truce and we'll both agree to drink Barq's - how's that?
GO EAGLES

Barq's is owned by Coke now. (Nothin' goes better with an oyster po boy!)

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Roberto Goizueta wrote:

Cossack,

Actually, your comment about other health problems leads me to believe you are a very simple person that cannot use reasoning or persuasive skills to argue their position definitively...leading to the ill will of an otherwise common person with a differing opinion.
Petty, don't you think?

WHOA, you haven't been reading this board, have you!! Cossack may get my goat, but he's as persuasive and reasoned a writer as we have here.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

qwerty wrote:

Barq's is owned by Coke now.

DRAT!

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Roberto Goizueta wrote:

Cossack,
I am also anti-SFT. However, he is not USM. To cast a company that is pro-USM completely in the lot as pro-SFT is wrong. Some companies have to keep a good public face no matter who is in office in the "dome."
You don't boycott the armed services because of the Commander-in-Chief, do you? Or what about Kmart because of Martha Stewart? Do you boycott Microsoft because Bill Gates has monopolistic tendencies?
Actually, your comment about other health problems leads me to believe you are a very simple person that cannot use reasoning or persuasive skills to argue their position definitively...leading to the ill will of an otherwise common person with a differing opinion.
Petty, don't you think?

Spoken like a true ignorant bystander.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

It's not that they're pro-USM, I'm pro-USM -- it's that they're outspokenly pro-SFT. That's their privilege, and it's my privilege not to support them.

I have to go now, but maybe somebody needs to post a little recap of the events last year, including the attack on Dr. Lares.

We don't just do these things because we're old and grouchy. (Well I am, and Cossack is, but young cheerful people are on our side too.)

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Knoxville Girl,

You are just stuck in the time warp of Sevierville, hon. How's Dolly doing, BTW? Brushed your tooth lately? I heard O'Charlie's on Cumberland shut down. Too bad - it's BW3's or Krystal for fine dining up there now, huh?

It's nice being a Gator. Lombardi did some great things here, and Chuck Young and Bernie Machen have moved us along nicely. And JVL liked USM, BTW! I very much look forward to the Labor Day Weekend showdown in Gainesville...I can't lose! But I hope USM sneaks in an upset.

Sorry you can't understand being recognized as an AAU Public - maybe after UT realizes that an emphasis on a large undergrad population is self-defeating to where it wishes to position itself. Until then, good luck! Hope the Dead Farm doesn't stink too bad on campus

Date: Mar 15, 2006

qwerty wrote:

(Nothin' goes better with an oyster po boy!)

qwerty, I ordered an oyster po boy from the menu at a Hattiesburg restaurant about two weeks ago but was told they not available because of the hurricane. I failed to ask the server if it was because oysters were scarce or because some of them might be contaminated. Your assessment please.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Roberto Goizueta,

I will give you the benefit of the doubt by noting that you either have forgotten or arrived late on the scene. I will not jump to the conclusion that you have chosen to ignore the real agenda behind the Meeting. The big support SFT Meeting was not a pro USM meeting. It was bash the USM faculty meeting. The attendees were clear that faculty were lazy immoral slackers and they wanted SFT to clean up USM. Your statement suggests that faculty are not pro USM. If you hold that view, you are in error. The preponderance of faculty are sad to see this university crumble since they have worked hard over many years to bring it to a point where it was a respectable university. As for you suggestion that I am petty, you have confused being through with pettiness. My position is to boycott these businesses in a through manner.

Date: Mar 15, 2006

Chomp Chomp wrote:

Knoxville Girl, You are just stuck in the time warp of Sevierville, hon. How's Dolly doing, BTW? Brushed your tooth lately?

Chomp Chomp, that reminds me of a joke: The toothbrush was invented in Tennessee. Had it been invented elsewhere, it would be called a teethbrush.

Date: Mar 16, 2006

LVN wrote:

I have to go now, but maybe somebody needs to post a little recap of the events last year, including the attack on Dr. Lares.

What attack on Dr. Lares? I don't know how I missed that, but could someone recap it for us? Thanks.

Date: Mar 16, 2006

You could dig through some old threads. There was a big meeting of "community leaders" designed to show ST's great leadership, etc. Originally set to be held at the Coke plant, it was moved to Warren Paving. In all the uproar, somebody pulled a quote off this board and printed it to be given out at the meeting. The way the quote looked made it sound like Dr. Lares was advocating violence and there was a lot of garbage about that, among the other nonsense. In fact, if I remember, she was chiding somebody else about mentioning violence. A less-violent person does not exist at USM. Anyway, the meeting was less than effective except in strengthening people's resolve not to do business in certain quarters.
Was that when the board started using "Metaphor Alerts"?

Date: Mar 16, 2006

Seafood Platter wrote:

qwerty, I ordered an oyster po boy from the menu at a Hattiesburg restaurant about two weeks ago but was told they not available because of the hurricane. I failed to ask the server if it was because oysters were scarce or because some of them might be contaminated. Your assessment please.

The Mahogony Grilll is serving oyster po boys, but I read just today in the SunHerald that the Mississippi oyster beds are still out of commission from the storm.

I hadn't thought about contamination from the strorm. I guess I should order shrimp for a while.