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Sister Toldja
01/16/09

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I mean, it sounds like big city snob disses little town. But what if a Memphisian (?) said the same thing about New York? Which I could defintitely see happening, because those are such vastly different places and attract people who seek very diffrent things from a home. This is out of line. FedEx is out of line. He didn't even really diss Memphis that hard, he just said it wasn't for him.
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DavidWatts
01/15/09

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"We do not know the total millions of dollars FedEx Corporation pays Ketchum annually, but it is enough to pretend you like the soul-deadening hell hole where we have inexplicably chosen to headquarter our major international corporation.'
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fileunder
01/15/09

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Back in 1999, Memphis taught me about the singular magic of fried pickles. For that, I am forever grateful.
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crookedE
01/15/09

@fileunder: ooh I love fried pickles. Also, Memphis has the most delicious tap water I have ever tasted. I think they are on some kind of spring or something.
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CaptainFantastic
01/16/09

@crookedE: It's called the Mississippi River. St. Louis is often ranked as having the best tap water. The source: the same river.
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garybridgman
01/16/09

@CaptainFantastic: Wrong. Artesian wells 1,000 feet below Memphis, with water that's been there for millennia.
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CaptainFantastic
01/16/09

@Gary Bridgman: Huh. They get it from the river up in St. L and I figured everyone else would too. Seems like the cheapest way.
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Quilt
01/15/09

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The truth. Shameful.
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gladys_kravitz
01/15/09

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This is reminiscent of the Sienna Miller Shittsburgh fiasco.
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FracturedAcetabulum
01/15/09

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What's the deal with Beale?
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Hydroceph
01/15/09

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Many of my peers and I feel this is inappropriate. We do not know the total millions of dollars FedEx Corporation pays Ketchum annually for the valuable and important work your company does for us around the globe.

Translation: you're a whore, now down on your knees.
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saythatscool
01/15/09

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Alternative hed:

Twitterin' From My Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
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J. Henry Waugh
01/15/09

@saythatscool: Commie nominee.
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uninspired
01/15/09

@saythatscool: You are quickly becoming my favorite commenter.
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saythatscool
01/15/09

@J. Henry Waugh: @uninspired: Thanks guys! You are two of my favorite commenters too.
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SidAndFinancy
01/15/09

@saythatscool: Thirded.
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nirreskeya
01/15/09

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What a wonderful touchy-feely politically correct world we've wrought that allows such whiners to operate without compunction. A bit of sibling/city/state rivalry is good for us, helps build character. NYC has always looked down on the sticks, and I think not without some reason. Grow up and deal with it.
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Hamilton Nolan
01/15/09

@nirreskeya: GOOD COMMENT.
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DikkiAnjensen
01/15/09

@nirreskeya: I have always been baffled at what point having some manners and not insulting wide swaths of people became "politically correct" as opposed to simply "not dickish." Don't get me wrong, if your career is in satire or trenchant social observation, it is of course in your job description to make pointed comments about wide swaths of people...for the rest of us, is it really such a loss to refrain from vomiting out every negative thought your lizard brain produces regardless of what it is saying about other people? I simply can't decide if I find oversensitivity about what people say more annoying than people who are not, say, George Carlin or someone else who's earned the right through actual talent whining about being asked to show some grace in public discourse.
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nirreskeya
01/16/09

@DikkiAnjensen: Your comment gave me serious pause, and I'll probably be considering it for weeks. The latent elitist in me does like the idea of leaving the insults and the snark to the professionals (which certainly includes the late Carlin). The Internet has, of course, opened the floodgates on being dickish. Maybe we're all practicing and trying out for the professional jobs, which obviously most of us don't deserve. Or maybe it's just because, as MVS observed, it hurts.

And hey, everybody danced for Greg Brown at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, so the place can't be all that bad.
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Shivery.McPickles
01/16/09

@nirreskeya: @DikkiAnjensen: An adult, cohesive, sentient discourse on the internet?

My brain essplode.
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nirreskeya
01/16/09

@Shivery.McPickles: That's what we're all here for, even if some of us don't know it yet. "Sentient", though. Interesting choice of word. Bordering on solipsism, which I thought was passé.

@DikkiAnjensen: Thanks. No matter the source of the snark though (professional or wannabe twitterati), I still stand by my assertion that we could all use thicker skins. And probably, on the other end, better manners.
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StonedAndDethroned
01/15/09

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The internet is one of those things like cigarettes where one day they'll realize it's not good for anyone, even adults, and they'll get rid of it. Trust me.
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MrInBetween
01/15/09

@StonedAndDethroned: They'll get rid of it the way they got rid of cigarettes? Or booze? Or gambling? Or whores? Or anything else that isn't good for anyone, even adults, but feels good? What crap.
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J. Henry Waugh
01/15/09

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I love my annual trip to Memphis and have found that people who take pleasure in shitting on the Little Places they visit are generally unhappy and unlikeable.
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shostakobitch
01/15/09

@J. Henry Waugh: Totally.
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TedSez
01/15/09

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Reverend Green'll be glad to see him

When he hasn't got a prayer
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gladys_kravitz
01/15/09

@TedSez: God how I hate that song.
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Midwesterner in NYC
01/15/09

@TedSez: Boy, he's got a prayer in...
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tunamelt
01/15/09

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In PR you shouldn't have opinions, and you sure as hell shouldn't share them with randoms over the internet.
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CaptainFantastic
01/15/09

@tunamelt: He forgot his diary is on the internet for all to see. What is he, 13 years old?
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CaptainFantastic
01/15/09

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Memphis is a fun town. Please keep staying away.

Also, James isn't getting in trouble for speaking the truth, he's getting in trouble for being stupid.
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Krashstar
01/15/09

@CaptainFantastic: Exactly - his whole job is to spin the truth. Now he's just making himself part of the problem.

It the Army, it's known as 'friendly fire' (which it never is).
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miss_msry
01/15/09

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Flack? Truth? He's obviously in the wrong business.
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