Wednesday, June 03, 2015

The Things I Find Through Twitter

Yesterday, as I browsed through Twitter, I found this tweet about the University of Wisconsin and its financial situation.



Today, revisiting his Twitter, I saw this tweet which includes the hashtag #Wississippi.



https://twitter.com/hashtag/Wississippi?src=hash

Apparently, #Wississippi is a portmanteau of Mississippi and Wisconsin, meant to imply that Wisconsin is becoming more like Mississippi in governance.

2 comments:

Hattie said...

UW was once a fine school and where Terry got his doctorate. We lived in Madison forfive years.

Poppa Zao said...

The Dictionary of American Regional English is based at the University of Wisconsin. DARE has funding through summer 2016 but can use more donations.
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Wisconsin and Mississippi, I realize, are both along the ninetieth latitude. In some ways the two states are almost opposite each other, geographically and culturally.