# It's Billie Joe McCallister Day (2nd Annual thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227 "2011-06-03T18:13:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/1 "2011-06-03T18:13:33Z")
Kinda surprised that no one appears to have started a thread this year. It is definitely the third of June, and my contacts in the Delta suggest that it is, indeed, both sleepy and dusty… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/2 "2011-06-03T18:19:32Z")
Good of you to remember this - just stopped in to start the thread myself. I’ve got to get back to choppin’ cotton, though - my brother’s baling hay. We’ll probably stop and walk back to the house at dinnertime. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/3 "2011-06-03T18:25:05Z")
Water’s a little muddy, but today might be a good day to jump in the river for a swim. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/4 "2011-06-03T18:32:23Z")
Y’all remember to wipe your feet before coming into this thread! ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/5 "2011-06-03T18:34:16Z")
Got some news today from up on Choctaw Ridge… ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/6 "2011-06-03T18:36:00Z")
Pass the biscuits, please. (Seriously, I could really go for some biscuits right now). ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/7 "2011-06-03T18:36:10Z")
Crap, I forgot to make the black-eyed peas. Well, there’s some left over from last year. And plenty of biscuits. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/8 "2011-06-03T18:38:02Z")
I’d like some peas as well, please. By the way, today Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahassie Bridge. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/9 "2011-06-03T18:39:24Z")
Billie Joe never had a lick of sense anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/10 "2011-06-03T18:42:47Z")
Holy cow, has it been a year already? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/11 "2011-06-03T18:49:21Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Holy cow, has it been a year already? Yup. Brother married Becky Johnson, they bought a store in Tupelo. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/12 "2011-06-03T18:56:54Z")
Yes. And there was a virus going around. Pappa caught it and he died last Spring. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/13 "2011-06-03T18:59:02Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Holy cow, has it been a year already? And he is still falling? That boy can’t do nuttin right. Any decent folk would a be durn wit their falling in 2 or 3 seconds. Fer seconds if dey stop to chat with Miss Emily on the way down. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/14 "2011-06-03T19:02:53Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Kinda surprised that no one appears to have started a thread this year. Eh, we’ve all been spending a lot of time picking flowers and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/15 "2011-06-03T19:04:52Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Eh, we’ve all been spending a lot of time picking flowers and stuff. And dropping them in the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Momma doesn’t seem to wanna do much of anything, though. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/16 "2011-06-03T19:09:44Z")
Whatever happened to Bro. Taylor? That nice young preacher hasn’t been around much lately… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/17 "2011-06-03T19:51:12Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Whatever happened to Bro. Taylor? That nice young preacher hasn’t been around much lately… Don’t know. He mentioned that he’d seen someone who looks a lot like you along with Billy Joe McAllister, though - throwing something off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Was that you? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/18 "2011-06-03T20:58:41Z")
Nah…wasn’t me. Nothing ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/19 "2011-06-03T21:05:30Z")
Fair enough. Bizarre, though - I just saw Billy Joe McAllister up at the sawmill, and now I learn he’s gone and thrown himself off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Meh. Anyway, could I have another slice of pie? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mccallister-day-2nd-annual-thread/584227/20 "2011-06-03T21:15:15Z")
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