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Author Topic: Why is the Mississipi State Tax Commission closed today? James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-17-2005 01:41 PM                     It's a long distance number for most of us, but you get a good laugh. It's like a 2 for 1 deal. 601-923-7000  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-17-2005 01:46 PM                        That's the funniest thing I ever heard!  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 01-17-2005 03:34 PM                     Well, what more do you expect from Mississippi?  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 01-17-2005 04:09 PM                     Yeah, I agree, what kind of moron's would celebrate Martin luther king Jr's birthday. Bunch of frikin idiots.  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-17-2005 11:27 PM                     Haha, I love the reply Chris. Especially with that out of place apostrophe!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-18-2005 12:04 AM                  Oh Oh! I feel a controversy coming on and an ultimate closing of this thread.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 01-18-2005 01:45 AM                        Somebody needs to record whatever is on the other end of that phone line and post it so we can all get the joke. Otherwise we will lock the thread, BAN James AND Thomas Procyk just for good measure.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-18-2005 04:35 AM                     da fone call  |  IP: Logged Christopher Duvall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Denver, CO Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-18-2005 07:14 AM                     Virginia would not ratify MLK Day when it came up for vote unless they could add Stonewall Jackson and Robert E Lee. They call it Lee/ Jackson/ King Day. Only in Virginia can celebrate a black leader's birthday with 2 confederates. You know it is bad when they have a town called LYNCHburg. You gotta love the south...  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-18-2005 07:19 AM                        OK, mystery smaller. Robert E. Lee's birthday (Jan. 19) is a longtime state holiday in GA, MS, & AL (that I know of), & when Martin Luther King's birthday (January 15) was made a state holiday, with the scheme of moving holidays to the nearest Monday, both holidays ironically became observed on the same day. Except GA, which moved the Robert E. Lee holiday to November, ask them why. Generally they're called the Martin Luther King/Robert E. Lee holiday, & it's thought-provoking. In Alabama & Mississippi, it's officially per the wording of the act passed in the state legislatures the Martin Luther King/Robert E. Lee state holiday. Giving Robert E. Lee top billing in the announcement could be either an oversight by the person who recorded or scripted the recording, or a little display of sneering deniable bigotry somewhere in the line.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-18-2005 10:51 AM                     The link Mike posted cuts off after, "Hello, you've re...." Someone should ban Joe Redifer and inform him that Black & White photographs are obsolete and anyone who claims to use them for "artistic effect" is simply cojuring an excuse for being cheap and unimaginative. =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Ed Inman Expert Film Handler Posts: 103 From: Jackson, Mississippi USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 01-18-2005 12:56 PM                        Yes, it is ironic to officially celebrate the King/Lee holidays jointly but I guess it was the best compromise the state Legislature could come up with at the timein the 1980s. Most people today simply know it as MLK day but some Confederate history organizations still celebrate Lee's birthday as well. For whatever it's worth the state still officially celebrates the historic Confederate Memorial Day (we sometimes jokingly call it Confederate Christmas) and Jefferson Davis' birthday as well (which was later combined with "National" Memorial Day). http://www.mscode.com/free/statutes/03/003/0007.htm  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 01-18-2005 12:58 PM                        Why is there a Lee holiday? Didn't he lose the war for the Southern States?  |  IP: Logged Ed Inman Expert Film Handler Posts: 103 From: Jackson, Mississippi USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 01-18-2005 12:59 PM                        .  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-18-2005 03:07 PM                     Thanks, Mike, you just saved my life! Thomas, I was able to download it and play it just fine.  |  IP: Logged

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