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This is amusing to me for no real apparent reason... The Mississippi State Tax Commission may have received an unsual number of calls yesterday thanks to a very pleasant woman's voice on the outgoing message with the following greeting: Hello, you've reached the Mississippi State Tax Commission. On Monday, January the 17th, the state tax commission offices will be closed in observance of Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthdays. Tax Comission offices will reopen on Tuesday, January the 18th. Office hours are from eight until five. Thank you. Have a safe and happy holiday. Northerners surprised to learn that the two men are celebrated on the same day in parts of the south wound up zinging the number around the net yesterday on listservs and personal networks, and their southern brethen replied right back that before MLK Day became a holiday, Robert E. Lee's Jan. 19 birthday was what some schools south of the Mason-Dixon celebrated. Today, the rebel general's birthday is celebrated as a state holiday in South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, and -- of course -- South Carolina. That the efforts to honor two men who played such different roles in American history should now overlap is either one of the great ironies of this nation's history, or somehow strangely fitting.
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