William Faulkner and Football in Oxford - Of Parties, Prose and Football

[Coach Hank Crisp]

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Great read.

“CIVILIZATION begins with distillation,” William Faulkner wrote, and in Oxford, Miss., his adopted hometown, it’s possible for a literary pilgrim to visit what’s left of his liquor cabinet.

Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s family home, is open to visitors, and in a glass case you will find a bottle of Four Roses bourbon, which he liked because it was inexpensive and easy to find. There’s his metal mint julep cup. There’s also a bottle of Harvey’s Fine Tawny Hunting Port, which he used for cooking game birds while a second bottle, for drinking, warmed in the ashes of the fire. And there are a few bottles of fine French wine, which he could afford to imbibe after winning the Nobel Prize in 1949.

Tailgating in the Grove has been a tradition at Ole Miss since the 1950s, its rituals closely attended to. This is not a land of face- and chest-painters. Many male students wear coats, ties and loafers; female students mostly wear brightly colored cocktail dresses and more makeup than one is accustomed to seeing on a human face in daylight.

The polite din is shattered, every so often, when a hoarse voice cries out, “Are you ready?” This is the beginning of the Ole Miss cheer, known as “Hotty Toddy.” Everyone within earshot yells back: “Helllll yes! Daaamn Right!” The batty, but catchy, cheer rolls on:

Hotty Toddy, Gosh almighty

Who the hell are we, Hey!

Flim Flam, Bim Bam

OLE MISS BY da#@!  

Otherwise sane adults are unembarrassed to holler this out every 10 minutes or so.

[BAMAWV]

Glad the Bama fans showed up or VHS would have looked like South Panola was in town

They just can't manage to get that drunk azz party to the stadium.

[Chechem]

I saw that article this past weekend.  Well done. 

Oxford is a fine little town, and I hope the Yankees don't decide to move down South for retirement (and ruin it).

[BAMAWV]

I saw that article this past weekend.  Well done. 

Oxford is a fine little town, and I hope the Yankees don't decide to move down South for retirement (and ruin it).

2 for 1 deal on those dresses?

[Chechem]

I saw that article this past weekend.  Well done. 

Oxford is a fine little town, and I hope the Yankees don't decide to move down South for retirement (and ruin it).

2 for 1 deal on those dresses?

Walmart.  $10 each (no straps).

[BAMAWV]

I saw that article this past weekend.  Well done. 

Oxford is a fine little town, and I hope the Yankees don't decide to move down South for retirement (and ruin it).

2 for 1 deal on those dresses?

Walmart.  $10 each (no straps).

I think those are guys!

[Chechem]

I saw that article this past weekend.  Well done. 

Oxford is a fine little town, and I hope the Yankees don't decide to move down South for retirement (and ruin it).

2 for 1 deal on those dresses?

Walmart.  $10 each (no straps).

I think those are guys!

I changed the photo just to help you save face.

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