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Lost-in-FL

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32. Unfortunately

Reply to libinnyandia (Reply #23)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 07:43 PM

Mar 2012

Did you know that it took >15 years before congress realized that the spelling for PR in all documents related to the island was Puerto Rico, not Porto Rico?

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At NCAA Tournament, Southern Miss Band Chants ‘Where’s Your Green Card?’ At (Puerto Rican) Player [View all] Octafish Mar 2012 OP

classy... Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #1

Members Of The Band Represent The University DallasNE Mar 2012 #19

Actually the buck stops at the band director first Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #20

Because some morons acted like morons? onenote Mar 2012 #30

I know every school is different Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #31

I guess you need a post graduate degree before you learn that Puerto Rico is in the USA tk2kewl Mar 2012 #2

I get your point. What idiots. southernyankeebelle Mar 2012 #5

Every state south of the mason-dixen EC Mar 2012 #3

I hear ya lukkadairish Mar 2012 #14

I love me some Denis MountainLaurel Mar 2012 #18

Are the bigots being more open in the USA these years, or is it just being reported more? muriel_volestrangler Mar 2012 #4

What's changed is it is young people who are bigots and kiranon Mar 2012 #11

The Palin southern stump speeches made it cool. I cringed when I saw them. freshwest Mar 2012 #16

Palin was just the start atreides1 Mar 2012 #17

My country embarasses me again. Oh yeah, this state also voted for Santorum. alp227 Mar 2012 #6

A green card is a work permit KamaAina Mar 2012 #7

If you even wonder why PR is thorn between becoming a state or not,... Lost-in-FL Mar 2012 #8

There was an Italian-American baseball player named Salvatore Persico who played for the libinnyandia Mar 2012 #23

Unfortunately Lost-in-FL Mar 2012 #32

eejits. geardaddy Mar 2012 #9

How incredibly crass, vulgar and rude! @#$%!!! freshwest Mar 2012 #10

Have fun at band camp, losers. JBoy Mar 2012 #12

I am lukkadairish Mar 2012 #15

You piss some people off and they over perform. Downwinder Mar 2012 #13

There will be a multi-day apology tour over this one Renew Deal Mar 2012 #21

They lost that game. GeorgeGist Mar 2012 #22

Should have been an instant DQ for Southern Miss band members. nt DRoseDARs Mar 2012 #24

SO glad the Wildcats won. That showed SouthMiss. Dont call me Shirley Mar 2012 #25

the embarassing USA!USA! moment 3/8/12 in Texas high school game underpants Mar 2012 #26

Stay Classy South Miss! oh and yeah your bb team LOST!!!!! benld74 Mar 2012 #27

Can the Southern Mississippi University be fined for this? If so then they should be imo. cstanleytech Mar 2012 #28

Stay Classy Misssissippi SpartanDem Mar 2012 #29

This is Mississippi fujiyama Mar 2012 #33

B-b-but you can't judge an entire state just because of the actions of the majority . . . mistertrickster Mar 2012 #40

Southern Miss...even more redneck than Ole Miss. provis99 Mar 2012 #34

Note to racists and xenophobes: Bette Noir Mar 2012 #35

Doh! BootinUp Mar 2012 #36

Puerto Ricans ARE US citizens. But the SMU band shouldn't let their deplorable IGNORANCE PA Democrat Mar 2012 #37

Frank Rich was 100% correct graham4anything Mar 2012 #38

Oh, Lord . . . now another dozen threads on unjustified "south bashing" nt mistertrickster Mar 2012 #39