Questions that I have had since I moved here.
1. Why don't y'all have Homecoming Mums? {The big mum with streamer and the famous cowbell that every girl wore on Homecoming night?}
2. Why doesn't the band play songs during the game? Like Rockin' Robin?
3. Why are some roads just letters? And if you take A in Phelps County why won't it be the same road in Crawford County?
4. Why don't all schools have air conditioning? When I first moved here I couldn't figure out why they would let school out early in Aug. and Sept. I finally got the courage to ask someone and they told me the schools don't have air. Being from South Texas that is the craziest thing I had ever heard of. I mean it was 1995! No Air!
5. Why do all the roads have to be so curvy?
6. Why is it called the Show-Me state?
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1. What the heck is a homecoming mum - find me a pic of what in the world you are talking about -
Maybe you texans are just weird ;o)
2. Lots of bands play songs during the game, they used to when I was in HS, just not now?! Don't know why????
Someone we played this year was playing we will rock you, mj, lots of cool stuff (maybe school of the osage?)
3. no idea = who knows - what are they in TX?
4.Schools don't have air??? What school??? IDK??!!! I know there is somewhere (bourbon maybe that still doesnt??? is that right??? That is just weird - because we are poor up here - that is my answer! Don't have those big oil tycoons that have to pay taxes?!)
LOL - you know I am just joking right????
5. Curvy roads are cool - I am sure there is an explanation, sometimes it is about acquiring property. Hills - you have to find a spot you can build a road..... IDK!?
6.This is what I always heard about Show - Me state
The most widely known legend attributes the phrase to Missouri's U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1897 to 1903. While a member of the U.S. House Committee on Naval Affairs, Vandiver attended an 1899 naval banquet in Philadelphia. In a speech there, he declared, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me." Regardless of whether Vandiver coined the phrase, it is certain that his speech helped to popularize the saying.
but there is another story here too:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/slogan.asp
I will find a picture of homecoming mums and "show you" And in Texas the Road have names or numbers! When I first moved here the school that got out were in Houston, Mo. And in my area of Texas we don't have oil tycoons we have water tycoons(we have a huge waterpark in our town, Schliterbahn) And only you would have memorized why Missouri is called the show me state. Did you have to look that up? I think that is too funny. And yes I know that you are joking and I know you would give me a smart @$$ remark! Which made my morning. Thanks I need a good laugh!
The oil tycoons pay state taxes though :o)
I guess we have wine tycoons ;o)
and weird about the no - air.....
who knows?????
LOL - about show-me state, I remembered the story from school, but not the guys name so I googled it until I found the story w/his name!!!
I am kind of a dork!
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