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So Bubbatoo ... Tell Me
Date: 2009-09-16T12:50:37.010
Author: Angie Pratt
Byline: Editor
Editor note: Here's a question I've been wanting to ask bubbatoo for a while now
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Now bubba,
I know you got your under graduate from ASU. You're an Arkansas boy.
I know you spent time in Mississippi.
So ... how is it you've got that obnoxious orange longhorn beside your name?
Well ... you don't have it here on this board but on the old board
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|   | BTW: | | ANGIE | 1372 Days ago |
|  | Did I see you with a tiger avatar?
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|  | | | | Having spent years in the Mississippi Delta ... it has its moments.
Being an early bird I see the sun rise most days. Mornings ... in the middle of a cotton field ... or ... driving down a turn roll .. can make you feel close to creation.
I actually think defoliant smells good.
Of course me and the other kids used to run behind the ddt trucks in Jackson, Mississippi.
The fact that I can walk out into my garden/yard/retreat and not get eaten alive is a big deal.
I have seen flies hauling off whole burgers though.
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| | | | | but ... I don't see it.
Being a morning person -- I see most sun rises. The delta has its moments -- especialy in the morning
I love my mountains though.
And right now I'm in the clouds.
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| | | | | Hadn't thought of that in years! You're right, Angie -- we used to love the smell (which is probably NOT a good thing). But later I learned that the damned stuff was probably doing biological damage even at that early age. Of course, I imagine that I've done a lot more damage to myself in the years since, just through a somewhat questionable lifestyle that includes a serious devotion to Coors Light (the blessed essence of the amber hops).
And nothing is quite as spectacular as a sunrise viewed from a duck blind in the east Arkansas floodways.
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| | | | | I did already post this -- it's just in the wrong spot
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| | | | | our farm down in CHicot county has bunches and bunches of ducks and geese.
Personally ... "duckie weather" is ... well ... for the birds.
I'll be happy to be your alarm clock so you don't miss a second of hunting
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| | | | | Yeah, undergrad and masters degrees from ASU. Started the Ph.D. at Texas, then transferred to North texas to finish it. But fell in love with Austin and the university -- at least as they were in the 1980s. It's all changed so much now, and that's a real shame.
I don't think I ever had a tiger avatar, though there is one message baord used by football officials where I use an animated avatar of a cat dancing -- just because it looks weird.
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| | | | | God's favorite color?? How can that be obnoxious??
You asked also about Mississippi -- I went there as a Department Chair, then became an Associate Dean. Sometime we can talk about the image of Oxford and the reality. They are two distinctly and miserably different things. Not that there are no positives at all -- just FAR more negatives.
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| | | | | And in fact live next door to Ellen Gilchrist
So ... I know my Mississippi
And ... you like Kansas now?
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| | | | | I've become quite taken with Kansas. I already knew about the educational system in the Midwest -- the best in the nation, hands down. The people are warm, open and down to earth. Weather is usually quite good -- not as cold as Iowa, but not nearly as miserably hot as Mississippi.
Now, only a fool would try and compare the scenery in Kansas to that of western Arkansas. But there is a stark beauty to the isolation of the tallgrass prairie that allows a person to slow down and reflect upon the higher values of life. The immensity, the vastness of the plains is a sort of beauty that I am growing to appreciate more with every passing day. Watch some of the prairie scenes from 'Dances with Wolves' -- a good part of this region is a lot like that.
There is much to say for this place.
But I still hate the mosquitoes.
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