Just give me one reason

[Lady Maven]

::sticks fingers in ears:: LALALALALALALA I can't heeeeaaaaarrrrrr you.

[MoP]

Of course not, silly. We're on the other side of the ocean.

[Lady Maven]

Yes you are. The WRONG side

[MoP]

Awww, I didn't know you really REALLY want to meet me.

[Lady Maven]

Dude, you just be glad you are on the other side of the world. You make me feel like a dirty old lady.

[MoP]

Finding me attractive isn't dirty. It's a natural thing, you can't blame yourself for it. I just have that effect on women

Being old is natural too. Well, maybe not as old as you are, but still. It's not your fault either. So nothing to feel bad about! Except perhaps the driving at the highway at 30 mph, or storming the store when it's about to open, clawing out other elderly people's eyes to be the first inside.

[Lady Maven]

hmmm.. suddenly you are a lot less attractive..

[MoP]

Good. I'm not very fond of grannies hitting on me

[Kenos]

hmmm.. suddenly you are a lot less attractive..

that's what we call moral qualms about the age difference

[Nagash]

Narrow escape, master MoP. You were one step away from her grabbing you in the crotch and doing un-granny-like stuff.

[Gerien]

I wouldn't be caught dead in Alabama or Mississippi. Oh wait - I probably would.

[Wretch]

Alassippi isn't all bad. Early on, it was all one state.

A lazy jaunt through the southern part of MS can be entertaining, with assorted second and third tier sorts of performing artists frequenting the casinos along the coast. Stennis Space Center (near the Louisiana border) is a nice diversion. It's certainly a flashpoint for controversy, but the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis is located near Biloxi. Pleasant beachgoing can be had there as well as in southern Alabama (Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are good Alabama beach stops). If you're looking for other sorts of nature interests, the Tombigbee River along the MS/AL border can be an interesting trek. Northern Alabama is temperate in fall and spring, and the geology up there is surprisingly complex, with heavily metamorphic facies at the southern terminus of the Appalachians as well as voluminous fossil bearing sedimentary deposits. There are other things I'm not remembering off the top of my head, but there's plenty to do in both MS and AL.

Although it's true that in AL/MS the advance of progressive cultural mores is perhaps charitably described as glacially slow, progress is creeping forward. The food is good and the land in places is stunning. Though it's probably not where you would want to send your kids to school (consistently low ratings for schools in both states), this region is not without its rough jewels.

I'm in the second to last semester of a degree odyssey at the present, but after I finish that out, I'd be up for playing northern Alabama tour guide (I live in the Florida Panhandle). I try to get up that way with the family at least once a year or so.

[Lady Maven]

Nagash, THAT won't stop me from inappropriately grabbing men's crotches. I can't wait until I am 75 so i can just randomly grab whatever seems funny at the time.

[MoP]

Nagash, THAT won't stop me from inappropriately grabbing men's crotches. I can't wait until I am 75 so i can just randomly grab whatever seems funny at the time.

What do you mean, "wait till you're 75" ?

[Nagash]

She means when she's 75 for the 75th time.

[Lady Maven]

We don't call them "times" we call them anniversaries.

sheesh, men.

[Kenos]

She means when she's 75 for the 75th time.

5625 years is a long time to go without any MoP

[MoP]

No woman should be without a mop!

[Immigrant]

is Vermont part of the States?

Don't they have a republic of their own??? *weg* (have a Vermont note from my travels to prove it - bummed they didn't stamp my passport though)

[Silverwolfe]

I personally grew up in teh country of Alaska.. Its about one fifth the size of the Continental U.S. Larger than most countries in europe and umm..... we dont have the population it takes to dirty the landscape. The most beautiful landscapes in the western hemisphere.