re: The "Missouri Waltz" - how do I square my Yankeehood with our game anthem???

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We laugh at the KU folks talking shite on the state of Missouri but almost 1/4 of their Alumni live here

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So THAT'S what I've been smelling!

Seriously, I've lived in Missouri most of my life, and it is a really good place to live. Being from southeast Missouri, I consider myself southern. People are friendly, and hospitable. It's not flashy, but it's nice here.

As far as the University goes, we're proud that Mizzou is the oldest University west of the Mississippi River, established the tradition of Homecoming, and has been playing football for well over 100 years. The Missouri-kansas game was the 2nd oldest football rivalry in the country. We're not without tradition and pride, and are excited to join the conference with the most of both!

I really am starting to think that Porker may be a Dale Denton alter. Where in the hell did that pig run to anyway, banned?

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How in the hell is a true blue Yankee like me supposed to look myself in the mirror anymore after coming to this realization?

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Ditch the blue pants and jackets, buy yourself some gray threads, sonny. Like it our not, your sorry arse is now part of Dixie, and every ill-informed, uneducated hick from up in Yankee-land will think that Missouri fought with the Confederacy (rather then being a cause of that horribly destructive conflict).

And be sure you understand that the LSU Fightin' Tigers are named after a particularly ferocious, poorly-disciplined group of ragtag misfits from the New 'Awlins area that fought against the Yanks and who Lee's Army of Virginia both admired and hated at the same time. Unlike whatever reason Missouri has adopted the tiger as a mascot (any possibility y'all might change your name to the Missouri "ShowMe's" or something?)

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And be sure you understand that the LSU Fightin' Tigers are named after a particularly ferocious, poorly-disciplined group of ragtag misfits from the New 'Awlins area that fought against the Yanks and who Lee's Army of Virginia both admired and hated at the same time

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Missouri's partisan rangers, especially Quantrill's group, was vicious in fighting Yankees. See: burning Lawrence, kansas to the ground. Missouri's Tiger militia was formed to protect the University from raiders from either side, as it was highly contested territory and both sides were really destructive around here. Our Tigers were more like....military police? Not looking for a fight, but ready to kick arse if anyone started shite.

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Ditch the blue pants and jackets, buy yourself some gray threads, sonny. Like it our not, your sorry arse is now part of Dixie, and every ill-informed, uneducated hick from up in Yankee-land will think that Missouri fought with the Confederacy (rather then being a cause of that horribly destructive conflict).

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I just play up the Yankee thing cuz it results in hilarious threads like this one and we all can get a chuckle. In all honesty, I do come from a lineage of the "Southern" settlers in Missouri on my dad's side - they came through Virginia to Tennessee and then on up into MO. I have a great great great grandfather (not sure on the number of "greats" to put in front of it off top of my head) who lived on a hill above a town in western Missouri and his job was to be the "look out" and warn the town below when jayhawkers were riding in from kansas to come and attack the town. In other words my lineage is tied straight to the start of that dreadful conflict you speak of, and on what would eventually become the "Southern" side. But that's just my dad's side - I'm every bit the half breed that Missouri is as a state. On my mom's side I come from German immigrants who settled outside St.Louis and, though they got here after the War, they nonetheless I have no doubt fit just about every "Yankee" definition that is trotted out on here. Such is the half-breed nature of Missouri, hell it even has to be pronounced two ways ("Missouree", "Missourah") to accomodate its half-breediness. You can either use that dual nature to try to fit in with multiple other regions, or you can just use it to frick with people and stir the pot. I've found, thanks in part to help from Sensei, that the latter is a lot more fun on here.

Oh and as semotruman pointed out above, the Mizzou "Tigers" were likewise named after a Civil War militia of sorts. Really just a home guard though to protect Columbia MO, and although they were ready to defend it, they never actually wound up having to be called into action. The people of Columbia take that as meaning that everyone was so scared of our intrepid "Tigers" home guard that they knew not to frick with us...but that's probably being rather kind. It's also entirely possible, hell likely, that nobody really bothered to attack Columbia from either side cuz they had other business to attend to.

Porker and DudeFish dip their sticks in each other's chocolate syrup...often.

"Right there, DudeFish. That's the spot. Now slap my arse and tell me you hate Missouri."

Anyone is welcome to check my posting history. Just because I efficiently and effectively piss off the Missouri crowd every time I show up in one of y'alls threads doesn't mean that's where I spend all my time.

ETA: Cheers to Missouri for these!

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See lots of people from Arkansas up here, starting to notice more people from Louisiana and Mississippi up here.

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Hi - from Blue Springs

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ETA: Cheers to Missouri for these!

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Hmmm. If we allowed this, must not consider y'all a rival.

Good luck finding one. Really.

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The Missouri Waltz was nearly banned. They had to revise the original lyrics to make it non-racist.

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That is not exactly accurate.

After Harry S Truman became president the state legislature changed the lyrics because Truman did not like them and some believed they were embarrassing to Missouri.