What Do You Have Against Cherry Limeades?
by The Bruce Dickinson on Jul 14, 2011 10:18 PM EDT
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PrintWe were made aware of an opinion piece by one Steven Godfrey of the Oxford Eagle. It seems ol' Steve didn't take to kindly to Starkville labeling itself "Mississippi's College Town" during a recent rebranding effort.
You threw Johnny Cash in jail. You think "The Client" is a suitable rebuttal to our celebration of "The Sound and the Fury." Your culinary mystique is a tangled web of Applebee’s peppered with so many Sonics that I have to assume there’s a citywide mandate on Cherry Limeade accessibility, lest the native palate go unsatisfied. Your Balkanesque landscape is so devoid of charm that it even depresses the frayed ball-cap, F-150 lift kit crowd from other crappy ag schools visiting for football games. Compared to you, Clemson is a clear spring morning in Barcelona.
Of course he had to throw in jabs at Dan Mullen and Scott Stricklin, and recent marketing efforts by the university.
Then, after two years of taking the finest tuned campaign of propaganda designed to enrage the Proletariat delivered by a breathing id of a quote machine; a smarmy, carpet-bagging braggart hellbent on tactlessly high jumping up the national coaching ladder, you break down and realize that the beauty and simplest truth of journalism is not to ignore your instincts, but to embrace them, empower yourself, and then open fire with an assassin's precision.
Anyway, you can read it for yourself (careful - that's a PDF link. they haven't figured out this new fangled interweb thing yet).
As for our response, we only have one thing to say:
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Ironic...
(apologies in advance for the lengthy post)
As a carpetbagger myself (I moved to MS from CA in HS, and currently live overseas), I continue to find it ironic that Ole Miss blog posters insist on styling themselves as the educated elite, whereas MSU alums are obviously the ignorant, unwashed masses. You would think such worldly and sophisticated individuals would realize that that everyone outside SEC country considers Mississippi to be an agrarian, backwards place populated by either a) racist rednecks or b) racist plantation owners, and Ole Miss, MSU, and USM are all the same university.
I suppose its fine for Ole Miss to pretend to be an elite public university like UVA (the UVA-VT relationship actually is pretty similar to ours, though we sadly do not share VT’s football dominance over UVA), but it does get a bit tiresome at times. It’s cute to maintain the fantasy that Ole Miss students sit around reading Faulkner and having in-depth debates on the state of the US economy while writing reviews about the latest creation from Joel Robuchon, but i think we all know this isn’t the case.
Seriously, everyone who graduated from HS in MS knows people who went to both Ole Miss and State….were they that different? Pretty sure that “the frayed ball-cap, F-150 lift kit crowd” described most of my graduating class, and we split 50/50 between the two universities. Obviously, there are idiot fans on both sides (both in blogs and real life), but I’d like to think the majority of people are a bit more moderate in their views of their rival school.
Again, apologies for the length of this post, and I’m sure there are some that will point to this post as evidence of a) MSU’s inferiority complex and/or b) MSU’s obsession with Ole Miss, which is fine. I’ve been forced to follow MSU sports via internet the past 2 years, and as such, I often come across articles similar to the one above. No, no, i get it…you reference socialism, Barcelona and the Balkans as evidence of your educated worldview…I did the same thing in my post. Annoying, right?
Really, Ole Miss and State fans don’t enjoy the same food? Why, because their backgrounds and cultural heritage are so different? Ah…that’s right…its the same state. I can only hope that the above is the work of a journalism major trying to impress others, and not how most Ole Miss fans see themselves and State.
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