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Can someone explain the whole "Starkvegas" thing?
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:15 pm
Yes, I know I can google it but I want to hear from real fans of the SEC on the reasoning behind this stupid name.
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Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:16 pm to GTSwarms
Moo St tried to make their town seem "hip and cool"
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:16 pm to GTSwarms
It's the complete opposite of Vegas...I think it has to do with an ironic thing
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:16 pm to GTSwarms
This happens with every city name that ends with "ville"
E.g. East Carolina fans call Greenville, "G-Vegas"
E.g. East Carolina fans call Greenville, "G-Vegas"
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:17 pm to GTSwarms
Any town with the suffix "ville" will have it replaced by "vegas" for shits and giggles.
Huntsvegas
Ashevegas
Winchestertonfieldvegas
Huntsvegas
Ashevegas
Winchestertonfieldvegas
This post was edited on 9/11/15 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:17 pm to GTSwarms
Don't think there's really a story behind it. It's just not uncommon to replace "ville" with something more catchy.
See, Fayettenam
See, Fayettenam
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:17 pm to GTSwarms
Knoxvegas, Starkvegas, there are some other stupid ones. Does Fayetteville use Fayettenam? I know the actual Fayettenam does, I think I've heard Ark's version referred to such
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:19 pm to Pettifogger
Theree is absolutely NOTHING to do in Starkville
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:20 pm to Lithium
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Theree is absolutely NOTHING to do in Starkville
People shite on Starkville all the time, and sure, it may not have AS MUCH to do as other SEC towns, but if you can't have fun there, you're a stick in the mud or functionally retarded.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:21 pm to DBU
Nashvegas.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:21 pm to Lithium
quote:You can say that again, but yet I go once a season
Theree is absolutely NOTHING to do in Starkville
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:23 pm to HempHead
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Huntsvegas
countsville
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:23 pm to Lithium
Thanks for letting us know
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:26 pm to GTSwarms
I thought it was coined by Skip Bertman talking about going there for a baseball series. Obviously, he meant it sarcastically because it is the opposite of Las Vegas.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:36 pm to GTSwarms
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Can someone explain the whole "Starkvegas" thing?
A misspelling of Starkghanistan.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 1:41 pm to BugaPainTrain7
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It's the complete opposite of Vegas...I think it has to do with an ironic thing
This. There's a small college town in Missouri called "Kirksville", which is in north central Missouri (a.k.a the middle of nowhere) and has a population around 15,000. The students refer to it as "K-Vegas" for what I imagine is the same reason kids call Starkville "Starkvegas".
Posted on 9/11/15 at 2:04 pm to KCM0Tiger
There has got to be a cousin Eddie Vegas Vacation link somewhere.... 
Posted on 9/11/15 at 2:14 pm to GTSwarms
Everything you have seen posted in this thread so far is crap. Actually, Starkville has a long history of LARGE sports betting and other gambling and got nicknamed StarkVegas. I know this first hand.
The rest of you outsiders don't know shite, but thanks for your participation.
The rest of you outsiders don't know shite, but thanks for your participation.
Posted on 9/11/15 at 2:53 pm to GTSwarms
Las Ville
Posted on 9/11/15 at 3:01 pm to Pettifogger
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Does Fayetteville use Fayettenam?
Yep. Students would get a deferment from the draft during Vietnam, hence, they were going off to Fayettenam.
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