babbs’ list < list of departing USM talent (beginning with the ‘03-‘04 school year) submitted daily (by babbs) to geocities.com/fireshelby.

IHL yahoo < a crude or brutish IHL Board member (e.g., Roy Klumb).

Martin, Chief Phillip < 1. Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; 2. created scholarship program (in 1994) for Mississippi Choctaws attending USM; 3. in Fall of 2002, Chief Martin gave USM President Shelby Thames a handwoven basket in exchange for a golden eagle painting at a meeting where the two discussed the future of the program and increasing the number of participants (part of Thames’ goal to take USM enrollment to 20,000). "We pointed out to the chief the number of world-class programs we have on campus," Thames said after the meeting; 3. word to Chief Martin: don’t trust the white-man Thames.

Thames plantation < Robbie Ward’s reference to USM President Shelby Thames’ 19th Century-style (mis)management of USM.