🏈 In honor of us not having much of a rivalry.... WPS!

[psychojoe]

:lol: you may be right.... I may be crazy.... But you may just be the ......

:lol:

Ohhhh, and....View attachment 1964

Quoting Billy Joel?

I'll lapse into Don Henley.

"Take it easy, take it easy.
Don't let the sounds of your own wheels make you crazy."

 

[Bo]

Alabama gets a bad rap, really. For whatever reason there was legislation passed many years ago that all roads where mail is delivered (which is pretty much everywhere) must be paved.

This is incorrect. I know a lot of rual dirt roads that have a lot of mail boxes on them.

 

[planomateo]

and we wonder why our government is broke...jeeze.

 

[RollTideinGA]

Having lived all over the south, I understand where you are coming from, but I do want to say that people are a LOT different in terms of mentality. Alabama and Mississippi are not that much different, but there is more racial tension and subsequent sideways looks in some parts of Mississippi (the Delta in particular). There are some differences, but it is difficult to put a finger on...almost more of a haughtiness in MS, and aggression in Alabama...as I said, hard to explain. Most Mississippi companies are owned by local interests...I think that contributes some...and there is more of a "chip on the shoulder" aspect.

Kentucky is very regional...Northern KY is kind of cold - not mean or hateful...just a lack of interest in others. Southern and Eastern KY tend to be more Appalachian in mindset - wary of outsiders and slow to build trust and relationships. Arkansas can be that way in parts as well, but much of the state has external influence due to outside companies, so there is an interesting dialectic.

Georgia is vastly different between the north and south - and the central area is its own creature. Atlanta is a very cosmopolitan city.

Interestingly, I find Missouri to be the most "Alabama-like" of all the states I have lived in - at least in the case of the Springfield area. The people here have similar attitudes and interests.

Not exactly what I meant in being basically the same. The southern states are the same because they are the butt of stereotype jokes and often portrayed in the media/ entertainment as slow witted people that live in trailers and drive pickup trucks. I just find it funny we as southerners make fun of each other (ie. Ark vs Bama) and the rest of the country makes fun of us all under one blanket.

 

[bigdaddy51200]

[video=youtube;JXRAETpT5IE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRAETpT5IE[/video]

 

[bigdaddy51200]

[video=youtube;U7sEaXNLA04]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7sEaXNLA04[/video]

 

[bamatommy]

I just find it funny we as southerners make fun of each other (ie. Ark vs Bama) and the rest of the country makes fun of us all under one blanket.

Amen. :wink:

 

[BamaFan615]

[video=youtube_share;I8Xgp5vtZAk]http://youtu.be/I8Xgp5vtZAk[/video]

Surprised you didn't add this one yet Rev...

 

[Razorback Reverend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcrU5hd2_Qg

 

[Razorback Reverend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qDUN-_YvMw

 

[Razorback Reverend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzucHiqX_Ng

 

[Razorback Reverend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j_BQFHQITc

 

[Big_Fan]

This is incorrect. I know a lot of rual dirt roads that have a lot of mail boxes on them.

Perhaps it was where the U.S. Postal service delivers it, and not a rural carrier.

Regardless, it isn't entirely incorrect. 20-something years ago massive paving was done to cover mail routes due to legislation or lawsuits or somesuch. Alabama has almost zero dirt roads compared to Missouri where they are everywhere.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Perhaps it was where the U.S. Postal service delivers it, and not a rural carrier.

Are rural mail carriers not USPS employees?

 

[BamaPride]

Are rural mail carriers not USPS employees?

They're USPS employees.

 

[Razorback Reverend]

They're USPS employees.

well, kinda... Many are now simply contract labor contracts without benefite... FWIW!

 

[Big_Fan]

They're USPS employees.

A good friend of mine's wife is a rural carrier and not a USPS employee.

 

[AllieBama]

I'd love to know where exactly Big_Fan's family lives since I live in Sebastian County. We did have a party line when we first moved to a small town called Mansfield in 1986, but that was gone within a couple of years because my mom complained to the phone company. (my cousins lived down the road and had a bad habit of eavesdropping on my conversations). There are some really little towns though so it really might be true. Scott County is very sparsely populated and I could imagine they wouldn't have the population to warrant newer phone lines.

 

[Razorback Reverend]

I'd love to know where exactly Big_Fan's family lives since I live in Sebastian County. We did have a party line when we first moved to a small town called Mansfield in 1986, but that was gone within a couple of years because my mom complained to the phone company. (my cousins lived down the road and had a bad habit of eavesdropping on my conversations). There are some really little towns though so it really might be true. Scott County is very sparsely populated and I could imagine they wouldn't have the population to warrant newer phone lines.

So Allie from Fort Smith is a Bama Fan... Not many of those around this state... Sebastian County is a small area... Try Izard as well.... Yet not problem with technology here.. WPS!

 

[Big_Fan]

I'd love to know where exactly Big_Fan's family lives since I live in Sebastian County. We did have a party line when we first moved to a small town called Mansfield in 1986, but that was gone within a couple of years because my mom complained to the phone company. (my cousins lived down the road and had a bad habit of eavesdropping on my conversations). There are some really little towns though so it really might be true. Scott County is very sparsely populated and I could imagine they wouldn't have the population to warrant newer phone lines.

Wow! Hartford, way out Frazier Road on a goat trail close to James Fork.

My mom was a graduate of Mansfield High.

As I said, they are off the party line now, but the phone lines are still not so good. Your mom may have helped get the ball rolling to get private lines there...that is neat.

Small world.