EtolonelColonel Wrote:Ole Miss alum Fred Smith sends his regards and hopes you enjoy the fantastic FedEx Forum...

Now you've gone from being the black hole of stupidity to an intentional lackwit. Fred Smith was an ungrad at Yale, not Mississippi. So best just get out of the foreman's office and return to your urine goodhandler position in the plant.

The snakes are out and they are scared, (as you can see by the empty attacks on our city and university) so they will be biting until Sept. 4 around, oh, lets say 10pm cst. Because thats when reality will set in that they were beaten by a lowly CUSA team 2 years in a row(let the excuses begin?), they will never admit that we have a good team, but let me assure you that deep down they are scared, the snakes are biting, and they only bite when SCARED!! Come visit us after the game, and lets share a beer or two in the Sad Pad parking lot, and then maybe, just maybe, you will be able to admit that Ole Piss just flat out SUCKS!!! AND HERE COME THE TIGERS!! WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Tigers2B1 Wrote:

EtolonelColonel Wrote:Ole Miss alum Fred Smith sends his regards and hopes you enjoy the fantastic FedEx Forum...

Now you've gone from being the black hole of stupidity to an intentional lackwit. Fred Smith was an ungrad at Yale, not Mississippi. So best just get out of the foreman's office and return to your urine goodhandler position in the plant.

No, you idiot. He came up with the FedEx concept in a paper in business school at Ole Miss, you twit.

EtolonelColonel Wrote:

Tigers2B1 Wrote:

EtolonelColonel Wrote:Ole Miss alum Fred Smith sends his regards and hopes you enjoy the fantastic FedEx Forum...

Now you've gone from being the black hole of stupidity to an intentional lackwit. Fred Smith was an ungrad at Yale, not Mississippi. So best just get out of the foreman's office and return to your urine goodhandler position in the plant.

No, you idiot. He came up with the FedEx concept in a paper in business school at Ole Miss, you twit.

You are such an idiot. Fred never attended Ole Miss.

THE YALE TERM PAPER
As an undergraduate Fred had written a paper on an overnight mail service. He received a C for his paper. The professor turned it back with the remark that the idea would never work. With his aviation business in Little Rock, money in his bank account and not really anything else to do, the idea of proving the professor wrong became more and more tempting. Smith himself was a victim of unreliable air-freight service. To repair airplanes his company occasionally needed spare parts. Even for small parts the company had
to wait a long time until they were shipped to Little Rock. Air transportation was unreliable and unfriendly. Most of the time the freight forwarders could not tell Smith where his shipment was.

Between the pick up point and the point of delivery, air-mail was lost in a huge black hole. Fred had pointed out the substantial weaknesses of the air-freight transport industry in his Yale paper including the fact that air transportation was only thought of as an add-on to passenger service.

The air carrier market was heavy regulated. In 1960 airlines had entered the air freight market. They wanted to utilize the unused space in the bellies of aircraft to transport goods. However the oil crisis in the early 70s changed the airline business. Boeing built larger planes. These large planes did not fly on small margins. They could make money just by carrying passengers. During the oil crisis the government also tightened the supply of fuel and airlines had to cut back on night flights and on routes. “Passengers were day animals and mail was a night animal

From: EtolonelColonel:

""Ole Miss alum "Fred Smith sends his regards and hopes you enjoy the fantastic FedEx Forum...""

""No, you idiot. He came up with the FedEx concept in a paper in business school at Ole Miss, you twit.""

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It's not often that I can get the pleasure of uncontrolable laughter twice in one day. First we get the comment about the Tiger and Col. picture....and now these two comments about Fred Smith.

These guys are a laugh a minute.

oldtiger Wrote:From: EtolonelColonel:

""Ole Miss alum "Fred Smith sends his regards and hopes you enjoy the fantastic FedEx Forum...""

""No, you idiot. He came up with the FedEx concept in a paper in business school at Ole Miss, you twit.""

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It's not often that I can get the pleasure of uncontrolable laughter twice in one day. First we get the comment about the Tiger and Col. picture....and now these two comments about Fred Smith.

These guys are a laugh a minute.

Forget it, if it makes EtolonelColonel feel better to say that Fred Smith actually turned in his famous paper at Mississippi rather than Yale - maybe we should just let it pass.

Now for the rest of us - who arern't little sphinctertots like EtolonelColonel -- here are Fred Smith's own words -

Quote:How I Delivered the Goods

by Fred Smith

"I guess you could say that business is in my blood. My father was an entrepreneur and an executive. He was in the bus business shortly after World War I, and then he diversified into restaurants. He started a nationwide chain called Tottlehouse, which was one of the very first short-order fast-food restaurants, really the predecessor of McDonald's. But my father died when I was only 4, so when I started Federal Express, I wasn't able to get any entrepreneurial advice from him.

FedEx was actually developed in two stages: The first was recognizing that there was a demand for the service; I didn't start the second stage, actually launching the business, until some years later. The first phase really started when I was an undergraduate at Yale in 1965. I wrote a term paper for an economics class in which I simply observed that as society became more automated, companies like IBM and Xerox that sold early computer devices needed to make sure that their products were dependable. They had to be 100% reliable, or the efficacy of the device was in question.

So to build dependability into the product, you'd need to have a vastly different type of logistics and delivery system to keep that type of installed computer base running. IBM made its computers in Armonk, N.Y., which made it very easy for it to get repairmen and parts to Chase Manhattan in New York City. But what if you're the First National Bank of Amarillo? How do you get your computer parts quickly when your system goes down? You couldn't depend on the post office. I believed you'd need a faster, more dependable, and more far-reaching kind of delivery system. That was what the paper was about; it was not a full-blown business plan.

Today that paper is kind of famous, and it's because of a careless comment I once made. I was asked what grade I got on it, and I stupidly said, 'I guess I got my usual gentlemanly C.' That stuck, and it's become a well-known story because everybody likes to flout authority. But to be honest, I don't really remember what grade I got. I probably didn't get a very good one, though, because it wasn't a well-thought-out paper. ….

<a href='http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fsb/specials/innovators/smith.html' target='_blank'>http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fsb/special...tors/smith.html</a>

And I am just curious, but where does any of the following mention the University of Mississippi at Oxford?

FREDERICK W. SMITH
Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer

Frederick W. Smith is chairman, president and chief executive officer of FedEx Corporation, a $25-billion global transportation and logistics company.

Smith is responsible for providing strategic direction for all FedEx Corporation operating companies, including FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight, FedEx Kinko's, FedEx Custom Critical and FedEx Trade Networks. These companies serve over 215 countries with operations that include more than 645 aircraft and about 71,000 vehicles. Approximately 245,000 employees and independent contractors worldwide handle more than five million shipments every day.

Since founding FedEx in 1971, Smith has been an active proponent of regulatory reform, free trade and "open skies agreements" for aviation around the world. FedEx has continued to strengthen its industry leadership over the past 30 years with its total commitment to quality service. FedEx Express was the first service company to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1990.

Smith has served on the boards of several large public companies and is co-chairman of the U.S. World War II Memorial Project and the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Professional Advisory Board. He was formerly chairman of the Board of Governors for the International Air Transport Association and the U.S. Air Transport Association. Smith is also a member of the board of the Business Roundtable, the Business Council, the CATO Institute and the Mayo Foundation. He served as chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council and is the current chairman of the U.S.-France Business Council. Smith has been named Chief Executive magazine's 2004 "CEO of the Year."

Born in 1944 in Marks, Miss., Smith attended Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in 1966. Smith served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1966-1970.

Tigers2B1,

Do not confuse missippi fans with facts.

They are all southern gentleman and you may offend thair ahnar.

Quote:Nice tries, all of you, except you can't get past a few basic truths:

1. People of class in Memphis send their kids to Ole Miss, UT or Bama. Memphis State is for kids with scrubby goatees who go to 616 or some other place that is a "club" rather than a "bar."

2. People of class in Memphis went to Ole Miss, UT or Bama, not Memphis State.

3. Despite your myths, it's not 1962. We're not racists. The fact that you all wear hip-hop gear, gold chains and moon-boot basketball shoes does not make you any more "enlightened" than we are.

4. Make no mistake about it: You are rednecks. We simply are not.

5. Despite your ignorant statements about Oxford, everyone in the nation except you knows it's one of the best towns in America to live in. I like Memphis and go there often, but MSU is a stone DUMP. I have been to MSU and been on your campus and in your buildings. It flatly sucks.

6. 42-9-2

If that and your unscholarly attempt at criticism of the Memphis Culinary community is the best you can do; then maybe you should just stick to criticizing Starkville, New Albany, or some other Mississippi small town!

like i said earlier, this guy makes himself look dumber with every letter he types. i have never, ever seen anyone as owned as that guy, what a complete idiot. i hope he keeps responding actually, we havent dominated a complete moron like this in a while.

Quote:The fact that you all wear hip-hop gear, gold chains and moon-boot basketball shoes.

Actually stereotyping the hip-hop genre is a racist comment, in and of itself.

uofmwalton Wrote:

Quote:The fact that you all wear hip-hop gear, gold chains and moon-boot basketball shoes.

Actually stereotyping the hip-hop genre is a racist comment, in and of itself.

Yeah I gotta get out and get some of those "moon-boot"{?} shoes.

These Nike and New Balance tennis shoes I've been wearing just don't make me feel hip-hop enough. :laugh:

"hip hop gear" is not a race, idiot

RebelJon Wrote:"hip hop gear" is not a race, idiot

nope, but its a stereotype often associated with young black males.

I'm glad someone else was smart enough to put it together.

This is the only Fred Smith that went to Ole Miss:

Anyone who remotely has any sense knows good and dayum well that the Ole Miss faithful are sleeping with each other. Sisters with Uncles... Fathers w/ nephews.... Mothers w/ grandsons... Brothers w/ cousins.. so make no mistake about it, the next time an OLD MISS person comes to this board with "the redneck quotes"... remind them that the DOUBLE-WIDES can't have spinners on them.

Derby Wrote:

EtolonelColonel Wrote:

Tigers2B1 Wrote:[quote="EtolonelColonel"] Ole Miss alum Fred Smith sends his regards and hopes you enjoy the fantastic FedEx Forum...

Now you've gone from being the black hole of stupidity to an intentional lackwit. Fred Smith was an ungrad at Yale, not Mississippi. So best just get out of the foreman's office and return to your urine goodhandler position in the plant.

No, you idiot. He came up with the FedEx concept in a paper in business school at Ole Miss, you twit.

You are such an idiot. Fred never attended Ole Miss.

THE YALE TERM PAPER
As an undergraduate Fred had written a paper on an overnight mail service. He received a C for his paper. The professor turned it back with the remark that the idea would never work. With his aviation business in Little Rock, money in his bank account and not really anything else to do, the idea of proving the professor wrong became more and more tempting. Smith himself was a victim of unreliable air-freight service. To repair airplanes his company occasionally needed spare parts. Even for small parts the company had
to wait a long time until they were shipped to Little Rock. Air transportation was unreliable and unfriendly. Most of the time the freight forwarders could not tell Smith where his shipment was.

Between the pick up point and the point of delivery, air-mail was lost in a huge black hole. Fred had pointed out the substantial weaknesses of the air-freight transport industry in his Yale paper including the fact that air transportation was only thought of as an add-on to passenger service.

The air carrier market was heavy regulated. In 1960 airlines had entered the air freight market. They wanted to utilize the unused space in the bellies of aircraft to transport goods. However the oil crisis in the early 70s changed the airline business. Boeing built larger planes. These large planes did not fly on small margins. They could make money just by carrying passengers. During the oil crisis the government also tightened the supply of fuel and airlines had to cut back on night flights and on routes. “Passengers were day animals and mail was a night animal