In Memoriam - Dixie, Iconic Poster and original p.com crew, passed away 1/22/2018

[MAGA MAN]

A good old-fashioned exorcism will cure you of that nasty habit.

[cawacko]

Wouldn't Dixie start posts saying things like "Morning Pinhead..."

Makes me laugh thinking about it

[Mott the Hoople]

"Pinhead" was his favorite insult.

Yes, he could get mean, but within limits.

I knew a lot of guys like Dixie when I lived in the South. Hard as nails on the outside and old softies on the inside. Good men all. I have to admit I often played devils advocate with Dixie cause I loved his rants and enjoyed provoking him. . Given time and the mood I can write a pretty good rant but just not in Dixie’s off the cuff extemporaneous manner. There he was the Judo master.

[MAGA MAN]

I'll admit right here that I didn't read a lot of Dixie's posts. To me he was almost like Faulkner, another Southern intellectual whose prose was far over my head.

[PostmodernProphet]

can we add these posts to In Memorium, or if that is solely for Beefy, create a parallel forum?......

[WinterBorn]

I knew a lot of guys like Dixie when I lived in the South. Hard as nails on the outside and old softies on the inside. Good men all. I have to admit I often played devils advocate with Dixie cause I loved his rants and enjoyed provoking him. . Given time and the mood I can write a pretty good rant but just not in Dixie’s off the cuff extemporaneous manner. There he was the Judo master.

I too can write a decent rant. But Dixie's were epic.

Part of that is southern culture. But a large part was just Dixie.

[J Craft]

In memory of my friend. We both loved this stuff.

[Mott the Hoople]

I'll admit right here that I didn't read a lot of Dixie's posts. To me he was almost like Faulkner, another Southern intellectual whose prose was far over my head.

I used to think that about Faulkner too. Then I met this law professor from U of A at Little Rock at a small book store in Blytheville Arkansas. She said don’t over think Faulkner. He’s writing the characters thoughts as they ( or rather Faulkner) thinks them. This style is called “stream of consciousness”. I read “The Sound and the Fury” after she told me that and it made a lot more sense.

[Minister of Truth]

I too can write a decent rant. But Dixie's were epic.

Part of that is southern culture. But a large part was just Dixie.

Writing is a part of southern culture?

[MAGA MAN]

I used to think that about Faulkner too. Then I met this law professor from U of A at Little Rock at a small book store in Blytheville Arkansas. She said don’t over think Faulkner. He’s writing the characters thoughts as they ( or rather Faulkner) thinks them. This style is called “stream of consciousness”. I read “The Sound and the Fury” after she told me that and it made a lot more sense.

My college lit. prof. made Faulkner entirely optional. "Either you get it or you don't." Me, I like punctuation and paragraph organization. It's the way my mind is.

[WinterBorn]

Writing is a part of southern culture?

Southerners have a long tradition of storytelling. It goes back to the Celts. Even before they were writing them down, the gift of language was there.

[evince]

In memory of my friend. We both loved this stuff.

great video

[MAGA MAN]

Writing is a part of southern culture?

When we're not makin' moonshine, spittin' tobacco, wavin' the Rebel Flag, racin' cars...

[Damocles]

Sometime this coming weekend I'll work to find all of Dixie's old posts and get them in the right area so we can peruse and remember.

[tinfoil]

Hey, can one of you mods pull up the 1/3 thing? I’ve heard a lot about it, and would like to see his position on it.

Dixie's point was that when dividing one whole unit into thirds, the math says there is a repeating decimal and thus the leftover portion produces a remainder which must be placed with one of the portions and it creates one portion that is larger than the other two. He therefore concluded there were no such thing as equal thirds


He wasn't wrong in a precise mathmatical sense, but our mathletes here at the site all ignored it and got silly with it. It was funny.