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Oh, please. You do remember this one. Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, Betty Jo? While you are scratching your head, here are some of the zillions of water towers in Mississippi.  Extra credit for pix of other water towers.  Speaking of water towers, here is a story about a sign, not a water tower. We are…

The Fighting Okra is the mascot of Delta State University baseball or basketball, depending on who you ask. Really. Also Statesmen. Hey, it is the Delta, they can have as many mascots as they want. Don't you wish you had an okra instead of a knight, warrior, cougar or whatever? In…

Out of which our dear Miss Rodhouse says our ticket procurement sprang (sprung? Anyone an English teacher?) Your fearless leader has nubs for fingernails in anticipation of getting tickets to the Angola Prison Rodeo. Or not getting tickets to the Angola Prison Rodeo. Like any popular event, tickets are a bear to score. We have…

When you have Yellow Fever, you probably have black vomit. It is black because it contains blood and other yucky things. Why is it called yellow fever, we do not know. What we do know is that an enormous amount of people in the Mississippi Valley were killed by it in 1878. Bad timing. Emancipation…

A yellowhammer is not a tool, even for a Ghost. A yellowhammer has been the State Bird of Alabama since 1927. Consider that some states have no birds at all, this is pretty good. But we do not care too much about the state bird of Alabama. We care about the state bird of Mississippi,…