130 MISSISSIPPI FACTS

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[WKB]

Ummmmmmmmmmmm...you want me to stay on this thread, until wd answers me, do you?



Only if there is going to be a War Between
the States of MS and where ever you are. :>)

[SuziQ]

Thanks for posting this!! I've been regaling our teenaged daughter with info from her Mom and Dad's home state! Some of it was even news to me!

[WKB]

It's a tough job
but someone has to do it. :>)

[SuziQ]

The test program, called Project Dribble, called for creating an underground cavity, using a nuclear bomb to do so, then later detonating a second nuclear device, as well as two gas explosives, inside the cavity. The purpose of the test was to measure the patterns of the shock waves generated by the explosions, to be better able to detect and calculate yields of similar underground tests that might be performed by the USSR. The first detonation, to form the cavity, code-named Salmon, took place in 1964 using a 5.3 kiloton bomb, placed at the bottom of a sealed 2,710 foot shaft. The second nuclear blast, a relatively small 0.38 kilotons yield shot code-named Sterling, was exploded within Salmon's 110 foot diameter cavity more than two years later.

I don't remember which blast it was, but I was in school in Hattiesburg when one of these went off and we FELT it!! All of a sudden we felt a rumble, and all of our desks just slid a couple of feet from where they had been! It was the wierdest thing. My Mama told me later that it had been some bomb testing at the Tatum Salt Dome.

[SuziQ]

I think you mean Clarksdale. Morgan Freeman, who was born in Greenwood, started a blues club there. I know he was talking about moving back to MS. He may actually have a home in Clarksdale.

When asked by some idjit reporter why he would ever consider moving back to MS, Morgan looked at him like he had three heads and said, "Why wouldn't I? It's my home. I can't think of a better place to live!" The reporter was gobsmacked. It was a delight to see!

[demsux]

I think you mean Clarksdale. Morgan Freeman, who was born in Greenwood, started a blues club there. I know he was talking about moving back to MS. He may actually have a home in Clarksdale.

Exactly right...I think 60 minutes (blech) did a story on his blues club and involvement there.

BTW, I forget the mayor's name, but he reminded me of Mayor Goldie Something in Back to the Future.

[WKB]

She was my great aunt. ;o)



I thought that was Wardaddy's line!!

[wardaddy]

Nobody asked you dear.

[nopardons]

Wanna bet, dear? :-)

[nopardons]

There'll be no "war".

BTW, this really IS very interesting info. Thanks for the thread.

[wardaddy]

damn they sure did....my apologies


anyhoo....you know how I am


just as proud of my peculiar heritage as you are your Hungarian

but ya'll never had slaves...well not since tartars or magyars or whatever..lol

happy new year....

[nopardons]

Apology accepted. :-)

Yes, I do know how you are. LOL

No, it really isn't the same thing at all. I'm not still fighting the damned Turks or the stinking Russians, or whinging over the bloody Hapsburgs. ;^)

Not tartars.......Huns and Magyars! The Tartars never reached Hungary. But if you really want to go THAT far back, didn't your ancestors, in the old country, also have slaves? hehehehehehehehe

Happy New Year to you and yours!

[WKB]

There'll be no "war".


I see that.
Looks more like ya'll need a room
more than a battlefield.

[streetpreacher]

What white flight?

[WKB]

BTW, this really IS very interesting info. Thanks for the thread.


Thanks

[nopardons]

LOL...I told you that wd and I are very old friends.

[nopardons]

Welcome. :-)

[caryatid]

Hey! Wait a minute, Wayne!

Don't leave us in suspense like this!

Was the cow with the window in its stomach one of those unique ol' South diners ... like the diner in the huge skirt of the huge Mammy [seems like I recall this one having been near Natchez]?

[WayneM]

Actually it was a real cow with a real window in it's stomach. I never saw it myself, but years ago I had heard that the Mississippi State veterinary school had equipped a cow with such a feature.

For all I know it never really existed (or perhaps PETA put a stop to this sort of thing).

[girlangler]

Ping for future reference.