Shuqualak, my original hometown, (I now reside in the big metro of Ellisville-Newt Knight anyone?) means pig wallow, and is situated on the Noxubee River, which means stinking water. Apperantly the Indians thought rather poorly of the place. My ancestors were thrilled to get there. Hmmm...

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What, no skeeters?

To be honest, they're not *that bad*. I've heard some rough tales from Alaska, though, and other northern lands. I think the ol' mosquito reaches his prime in mid summer, but by then it's too hot to go outside anyway!

Squirrel hunting up in Sardis and Sanitobia. Kudzu crushing a house over the years. Communities being groups of people that really care about one another (long story there).

Bet you know where Macon is too!

Ive never understood the whole "coke" thing in the south, here in the midwest its pop. So if you go to a resturant do they ask you what kind of coke do you want, and if you want a Mt Dew, you say "yea ill take a coke ill have a Mt Dew? It just seems strange. A Coke is a Coke not a Mt Dew.

Hmmm, my friend *may* have exaggerated.

"... runt of the litter as big as a 747 ..."

Know where Tippo is?

Home of Mose Allison, Jr; father of John Boy!

Ive never understood the whole "coke" thing in the south, here in the midwest its pop. So if you go to a resturant do they ask you what kind of coke do you want, and if you want a Mt Dew, you say "yea ill take a coke ill have a Mt Dew? It just seems strange. A Coke is a Coke not a Mt Dew.

Nah, do you call 'em Band-Aids or bandages? What kind of Band-Aids do you want? Ace or Curad? Used to be the same way with Frigidaire's and Xerox's.

Besides, POP sounds so pansy. Southerners are unlikely to use a word like that.

I've never been to the general store in Pond, but I spent many a summer in Soso. Swam in a creek almost daily near Gitano, and still know folks in Crackers Neck and Stringer.

By the way, did Ronnie Shows win that Congressional seat?

P.S. Did you know Shorty that had the store in Soso?

Kudzu is oddly rare here in South MS-there was less of a problem with erosion down here, hence, it is far less common.

Yup, the folks down here are wondeful, by and large (there are exceptions!). I know many folks who would gladly give you their shirt off their back if you needed it. And everyone, from the checkout lady to the deacon to your neighbor will talk to you, or wave at you, or some other act of kindness. I've heard how vistors are taken aback at folks waving at them from the side of the road: it seems commonplace to us, not to them.

Okay, where is Burbon, Mississippi?

Well, down here in the South, where it was invented by Atlanta druggist Dr. John Stith Pemberton (who was a former Confederate officer) back in 1886, it's a coke. Not a pop, not a soda, not a sodie water...a coke, pure, plain and simple.

Some one might ask ya if ya"want a coke" and one would say "yeah,I'll have a Dr. Pepper".Sody water is also used.

I've never understood the whole "coke" thing in the south.

Not from there, but I've read that years ago one would ask for a "dope." Seriously.

You know where the Tallahatchee Bridge is...

Yeah, Shows got in again. I was rooting for Pickering...a good portion of my church's attendance are relatives of Ronnie's, so I'm rarely to open with criticism of him-there are far worse Democrats and Republicans in the world!

Pond is a great little place. Dozens of waterfalls on the bluffs below (yep real genuine waterfalls!), and the store is a great place-a sign on the mule barn says "Hillary's half brother sleeps here" in big bold print!

Do you know how Cracker's Neck got it's name?

And no, I haven't been in Soso much. I don't recall there being an active store there when I've passed through

Which one?

I live upstream from the Tallahoma Creek bridge at Union (have no idea where that name came from!), and while Billy Joe never jumped off, I've seen some, um, intersting characters plunging in there!