And everybody but the Missouri Speaker of the House (R) had exactly zero say in this decision. Because socialisshts.

It's going to be sweet when someone pulls a Jebadiah.

IDiogenes: vernonFL: I have a serious question. How do you pronounce "Missouri"?

I pronounce it Mizz ur EE, but I've heard people pronounce it "Mizz ur UH."

I think the natives prefer the latter.

I think it depends on which part they are from. I had a friend in college who acknowledged the mizz ur ee - mizz ur uh divide, and was adamant that she was from Mizz ur EE.

i was born in Hannibal, but i'm not famous.

just thought i'd share.

When will they nominate Kenneth Lay? He's a prominent business leader and a Missourian.

Missouri = Giedi Prime?

vernonFL: I have a serious question. How do you pronounce "Missouri"?

I pronounce it Mizz ur EE, but I've heard people pronounce it "Mizz ur UH."

I did time in Missouri for about ten years. Some natives say it one way, some the other.

Yes, we know that Obama had no business getting that peace prize. It was silly and indicative of how their little prize distribution system works.

In the case of Limbaugh, I would agree that he does deserve to go into the hall of famous Missourians. He is famous, he's made quite a name for himself, and lets face it, when you're talking about Missouri, a little drug addiction, slut shaming and the other antics he has gotten himself up to over the years are really not going to distance him from much of the population. He fits right in. Hell, he's King of the Missourians and much of the south and midwest as well.

I just hope they are prepared to strike his name and remove that bust in a few years when he does get caught doing something so vile that even the fine inbreds around here have to pause in their worship of him.

/Seriously, I'm calling it here. By 2022 that bust will be out of there and his name removed.

Alphax: I contacted my state rep about this when I first heard about it. Problem, it's up to the speaker of the House, solely, and no one can influence him.
.

impotent, your rage is.

By all means Republicans, enshrine a guy who called a private citizen a slut/prostitute who should publish her sex tapes online because she wants contraception. Who are we to tell you who to honor?

Primus: Missouri, figures. That's where my skinhead ex-coworker used to travel to attend his little White Pride conventions. So now I know TWO things about Missouri.

we have a baseball team too, but yeah, that about covers it.

Weaver95: For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

Memento Mori

yequalsy: vernonFL: I have a serious question. How do you pronounce "Missouri"?

I pronounce it Mizz ur EE, but I've heard people pronounce it "Mizz ur UH."

I did time in Missouri for about ten years. Some natives say it one way, some the other.

You can discern between the rednecks and the regular folk here by listening to their pronunciation.

The rednecks pronounce it "Missouruh", the regular folk pronounce it "I want to move".

What a shame such an attention whore had to receive his honor in what essentially was a bunker.

Don't piss off the sluts.

It will be a cold day in hell before I recognize Missour-ah!

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah.

Gosling: My real focus is to pretty much break the back of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in that regard. All the Nathan Bedford Forrest stuff would have to come down first.

Yeah...CSB time. I attended a Christian private school in west Tennessee for a few (too many) years, and we had a class in Tennessee history. Boy, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a hero as far as everyone there was concerned. We did not once discuss anything bad the man did, and being an ignorant 7th grader in the pre-internet age, I had no idea what the guy and his men actually got up to at Fort Pillow, and our history class certainly didn't touch on it at all. It is pretty wretched to think about the number of memorials and parks and cities around here named after him.

vernonFL: I have a serious question. How do you pronounce "Missouri"?

I pronounce it Mizz ur EE, but I've heard people pronounce it "Mizz ur UH."

It's actually a homophone for "misery."

irockalot: Diogenes: vernonFL: I have a serious question. How do you pronounce "Missouri"?

I pronounce it Mizz ur EE, but I've heard people pronounce it "Mizz ur UH."

I think the natives prefer the latter.

Please, god, no.

I'm not from there but have been through there a LOT on busness. I 70 Corridor pronounces it Mizz ur UH, not just in MO, but also in KS and IL the rest of the state pronounces it Mizz ur EE as do most people from neighboring states other than KS and IL

The US Navy says the ship is Pronounced Mizz ur EE, so I'll go with that one being correct.

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah.

Missouri must be desperate for something "famous'".

ReaverZ: Weaver95: For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

Memento Mori

Memento Mori is what happens when Rush takes photographic evidence of "I got a little too rough" with poor little eduardo.

State House Speaker Steven Tilley (R-Perryville) chose Limbaugh, baseball legend Buck O'Neil and former slave Dred Scott for the distinction this year.

Missouri is weird.

Weaver95: For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph - a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

True Fact: I told this story to my daughter as we walked slowly from one end of the ancient forum to the other, from the arch of Constantine to the Palatine. She was just a little girl at the time. Today, it's the only thing she remembers of the experience.

Also, Rush Limbaugh can EABOD. That is all.

He's such a statewide treasure that the ceremony had to be done in secret with police protection. Sorta speaks for itself.

James!: I'll come in and comment for all the democrats who don't give a shiat.

This. Yes, he's famous. Famous for inflammatory and divisive rhetoric. So, in essence he's just as famous as Fred Phelps. Congratulations.

James!: I'll come in and comment for all the democrats who don't give a shiat.

Not a Democrat, still don't give a shiat.

Paul Baumer: He's such a statewide treasure that the ceremony had to be done in secret with police protection. Sorta speaks for itself.

Yes, its speaks volumes about how some people are uncivilized and precautions need to be taken.

LargeCanine: Paul Baumer: He's such a statewide treasure that the ceremony had to be done in secret with police protection. Sorta speaks for itself.

Yes, its speaks volumes about how some people are uncivilized and precautions need to be taken.

Except the uncivilized was honored with a bust of his head..

LargeCanine: Paul Baumer: He's such a statewide treasure that the ceremony had to be done in secret with police protection. Sorta speaks for itself.

Yes, its speaks volumes about how some people are uncivilized and precautions need to be taken.


A fine example of democractic principles at work - presumption of guilt, government in secret, no public voting, and exclusion of the populace at large. Exactly what the founders stood for.

PC LOAD LETTER:

What a mundane image to trigger the 4chan block at my work over.

On topic has Limbaugh been thanking the government program the add council for filling the dead air his sponsors left him with?

Well, it's a Hall. A Hall of Famous Missourians. And Rushblob is from Missouri. And he's famous. So I guess he belongs in it. No skin off my ass.

Vodka Zombie: If Missouri wants to enshrine drug-addicted, chemically-enhanced sex-addict and bigot who am I to complain?

In fact, it's probably a wonderful statement of Missouri's intellectual progress and worth when one starts at the bust of Samuel Clemens and works their way to the bloated jowls of Rush Limbaugh.

Kind of proof Devo was right, isn't it?

BillCo: Congrats to Rush. Well deserved honor.

Famous? Check.
From Missouri? Check.
Well deserved indeed.

Yeah rush is big. Real big. He's a force that can't be ignored.

He's also a "force" whose audience is so "big" that they cancelled his TV program cause nobody was watching it

Is Twain's bust going to start spinning? Sheesh, we should dig him up and clone him just so he can write a few words on Rushbo.

But yeah, famous is famous.

/you know who else is famous?

Bob16: Yeah rush is big. Real big. He's a force that can't be ignored.

He's also a "force" whose audience is so "big" that they cancelled his TV program cause nobody was watching it

I dislike Rush as much as anyone, but come on man - that ended in 1996. Which means your teenage kids have no idea he ever did a TV show. You gotta contemporize, man!

I bet you're still giving him hell for being on his third marriage.

Diogenes: vernonFL: I have a serious question. How do you pronounce "Missouri"?

I pronounce it Mizz ur EE, but I've heard people pronounce it "Mizz ur UH."

I think the natives prefer the latter.

I was a 16 year old in Michigan, watching the Democratic Convention in 1972, already addicted to politics. Upon the announcement of Senator Tom Eagleton to be George McGovern's running mate, I kept hearing of the meteoric rise of the junior senator from MissourUH. So to be cool, I took on calling it MissourUH even though all the Michiganders called it MissourEE.

Oldiron_79: I'm not from there but have been through there a LOT on busness. I 70 Corridor pronounces it Mizz ur UH, not just in MO, but also in KS and IL the rest of the state pronounces it Mizz ur EE as do most people from neighboring states other than KS and IL

I'm from South Dakota, the river is pronounced Mizz ur EE in Montana, North and South Dakota, so I con't take stock in what the red necks call it.

Dated a girl from SE Iowa, she called it Mizz ur UH, it was a sticking point neither of us would let go of.

robrr2003: It's going to be really hard for anyone to do better then the morons comparing him to Hitler.

I'm sure Hitler's soul, down in Hell, doesn't like the comparison.

This is America. If MO wants to claim Limbaugh, more power to 'em.

Bob16: Yeah rush is big. Real big. He's a force that can't be ignored.

He's also a "force" whose audience is so "big" that they cancelled his TV program cause nobody was watching it

U mad bro?

Which one of your shows have been cancelled because "nobody" was watching it? Or do you realize that shows get cancelled even when lots of people watch it.