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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
A late former girlfriend was a librarian, and was happy at it. But she worked as a civilian employee of the Department of the Army, and had some odd postings. One was Enterprise, AL, noted for a statue of the boll weevil. It seems the original settlers in the area tried to grow cotton like everyone else. The boll weevil cleaned them out, so they shifted to peanuts, and did pretty well, thank you. They decided in retrospect that brother weevil had done them a favor in forcing them to change crops, and put up a statue to commemorate it. 
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So
that's what Tom Lehrer was singing about in
I Wanna Go Back to Dixie:
"
The land of the boll weevil,
Where the laws are medieval,
Is callin' me to come and nevermore roam.
I want to go back to the Southland,
That "y'all" and "shet-ma-mouth" land,
Be it ever so decadent,
There's no place like home."