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minus-squareCurious_Canid@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoI was born in South Carolina, but my parents moved to Iowa when I was four, rather than put me into that school system. They tell me that whenever someone pointed out that their schools were 49th in the country, they would smile and say, “Thank God for Mississippi!”
minus-squarejtrek@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThere’s a whole Wikipedia article on that phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi
minus-squareCurious_Canid@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThat’s wonderful. Thanks for pointing that out to me. My rather will appreciate it too.
I was born in South Carolina, but my parents moved to Iowa when I was four, rather than put me into that school system.
They tell me that whenever someone pointed out that their schools were 49th in the country, they would smile and say, “Thank God for Mississippi!”
There’s a whole Wikipedia article on that phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi
That’s wonderful. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
My rather will appreciate it too.