This is totally not church related.
But it is just too funny.
We may be lazy at work
We may live longer
But don’t shove us!
In my continuing efforts to show pride in my state, here you go.
Here is a link explaining why Missouri is called the “Show Me” state, but the bottom line is that nobody really knows for sure. I have lived here for 3 years and I have yet to find a definitive answer to the question of what does the slogan mean and where did it come from. One explanation is:
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.”
Another legend says it began in Leadville, Colorado.
A miner’s strike had been in progress for some time in the mid-1890s, and a number of miners from the lead districts of southwest Missouri had been imported to take the places of the strikers. The Joplin miners were unfamiliar with Colorado mining methods and required frequent instructions. Pit bosses began saying, “That man is from Missouri. You’ll have to show him.”
As a Missourian, the first explanation sounds better, however, for the record, I did grow up in Colorado, not too far from Leadville as a matter of fact, and my wife and I lived out there for a couple of years after we were married, so that might explain why the second explanation sounds reasonable.
Take it for what it’s worth and consider this your Missouri history lesson for the day!