© Copyright _ Bro’s Place 2003 Famous natives and residents of Mississippi Red Barber - sportscaster; Jimmy Buffett - singer and songwriter; Craig Claiborne.

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Famous natives and residents of Mississippi Red Barber - sportscaster; Jimmy Buffett - singer and songwriter; Craig Claiborne - columnist and restaurant critic; Bo Diddley - guitarist; Charles Evers - civil rights leader; Medgar Evers - civil rights leader; William Faulkner - novelist; Brett Favre - football player; Shelby Foote - historian; Richard Ford - novelist; John Grisham - novelist; Barry Hannah - novelist; Beth Henley - playwright and actress; Jim Henson - puppeteer; James Earl Jones - actor; Randy Kiker - purveyor of BS; B. B. King - guitarist; Steve McNair - football player; Mary Ann Mobley actress; Morgan Freeman - Actor; Willie Morris - writer; Elvis Presley - singer and actor; Leontyne Price - soprano; William Raspberry - columnist; Jerry Rice - football player; Jimmie Rodgers - singer; Sela Ward - actress; Muddy Waters - singer and guitarist; Eudora Welty - novelist; Tennessee Williams - playwright; Oprah Winfrey - talk-show host and actress; Richard Wright - novelist; Tammy Wynette - singer. Zig Ziglar speaker and author. Famous natives and residents of Mississippi Red Barber - sportscaster; Jimmy Buffett - singer and songwriter; Craig Claiborne - columnist and restaurant critic; Bo Diddley - guitarist; Charles Evers - civil rights leader; Medgar Evers - civil rights leader; William Faulkner - novelist; Brett Favre - football player; Shelby Foote - historian; Richard Ford - novelist; John Grisham - novelist; Barry Hannah - novelist; Beth Henley - playwright and actress; Jim Henson - puppeteer; James Earl Jones - actor; Randy Kiker - purveyor of BS; B. B. King - guitarist; Steve McNair - football player; Mary Ann Mobley actress; Morgan Freeman - Actor; Willie Morris - writer; Elvis Presley - singer and actor; Leontyne Price - soprano; William Raspberry - columnist; Jerry Rice - football player; Jimmie Rodgers - singer; Sela Ward - actress; Muddy Waters - singer and guitarist; Eudora Welty - novelist; Tennessee Williams - playwright; Oprah Winfrey - talk-show host and actress; Richard Wright - novelist; Tammy Wynette - singer. Zig Ziglar speaker and author.

"All you have to do is go down to the bottom of your swimming pool and hold your breath." Chester Smith (after a few beers, on protecting yourself from nuclear radiation) "All you have to do is go down to the bottom of your swimming pool and hold your breath." Chester Smith (after a few beers, on protecting yourself from nuclear radiation)

Why is the St. Louis baseball team the cardinals, but the Missouri state bird is the blue bird ?

A young ventriloquist was touring the clubs and stops to entertain at a bar in a small town. He was going through his usual run of stupid blonde jokes, when a big blonde woman in the fourth row stood up on her chair and said: "I've heard just about enough of your denigrating blonde jokes, Jerk! What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does a person's physical attributes have to do with their worth as a human being? It's guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in my community, of reaching my full potential as a person... because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blondes but women at large... all in the name of humor." Flustered, the ventriloquist tried to apologize, when the blonde piped up, and screamed at him, "You stay out of this, Mister. I'm talking to that little creep on your knee"!

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