# Mt. Rushmore of your state **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 13, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636 "2014-03-13T19:22:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/61 "2014-03-14T13:09:12Z")
It’s “for better”. You’ll notice that Lee Harvey Oswald doesn’t have his face etched in stone anywhere just for leaving his mark on this country. ---
**Author:** ![AnthonyElite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@AnthonyElite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnthonyElite)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/62 "2014-03-14T13:17:08Z")
Rhode Island Roger Williams ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/63 "2014-03-14T13:22:36Z")
> [@Caffeine.addict](#): > > My list is Marvin Gaye, Chuck Brown, Marion Barry\*, Boss Shepherd, and whoever invented the half-smoke. > > - I may not like him very much, but for better of for worse, he has been a major player in the District for a long time and has left his mark on the District. Remember when he was mayor for so long that the D.C. CityPaper routinely referred to him as “Mayor-for-Life Barry”? 😃 And the joke at the time of Gulf War I that Saddam should have a t-shirt with a pic of Ambassador April Glaspie and the caption “Bitch set me up” - that line, of course, was a steal from Barry at the time of his drug bust. Yeah, his sorry ass belongs on D.C.'s Mt. Rushmore. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/64 "2014-03-14T13:25:06Z")
Can foreigners play? OK, thanks. For the 51st state of England I’ll have: Geoffrey Chaucer, Issac Newton, Ada Lovelace, Emmeline Pankhurst. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/65 "2014-03-14T13:29:03Z")
> [@AnthonyElite](#): > > Rhode Island > > Roger Williams H.P. Lovecraft and the Farrelly Brothers. There’s your four. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/66 "2014-03-14T13:29:29Z")
Except don’t employ me to carve Isaac Newton’s name under his face. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/67 "2014-03-14T14:02:21Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > My wife mentioned Bobby Jones, which I liked. We really don’t have much of a claim to Ray Charles, though. He moved to Florida as an infant. We love him most for the song. > > Do you think Juliette Gordon Lowe is known well enough by the average Georgian? > Also, I’m not sure where the above poster got the idea that Burt Reynolds is Georgian, or that Hulk Hogan spent any amount of time here. Someone else can have those guys. Yeah, I thought of the Ray Charles exception after I posted… As for Juliette Low, I figured she falls in with Crawford Long: you may not know what exactly she’s famous for, but you’re definitely familiar with the result! ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/68 "2014-03-14T14:06:14Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > It’s “for better”. You’ll notice that Lee Harvey Oswald doesn’t have his face etched in stone anywhere just for leaving his mark on this country. I may not like him, but a lot of people in DC still do. He’s still on the City Council. **RTFirefly** , they still refer to him as “Mayor-for-Life”, despite having been out of office for over a decade now. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/69 "2014-03-14T14:31:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Might as well throw in Jennifer Love Hewitt because she’ll count double. > [@missred](#): > > Tennessee: > > David Crockett (he and Sam Houston were ours before going to Texas) > Andrew Jackson > Elvis > Dolly Parton (does she count as a single or double?) Anyone want to start a thread of candidates for Mount Breastmore? ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/70 "2014-03-14T15:01:14Z")
Indiana Larry Bird David Letterman Michael Jackson Abe Lincoln ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/71 "2014-03-14T15:29:56Z")
Oregon Carl Barks Matt Groening Will Vinton Bruce Campbell ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/72 "2014-03-14T15:40:41Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Also, I’m not sure where the above poster got the idea that Burt Reynolds is Georgian, or that Hulk Hogan spent any amount of time here. Someone else can have those guys. Personally, I had always thought Reynolds was born in Florida. But I’ve found out there is apparently a quite heated war being fought at Wikipedia over where he was born. One group says Michigan and the other group says Georgia and there apparently was a major edit battle. The current article (which I believe is locked) has both states listed as his birthplace with no acknowledgment of the discrepancy. Maybe they could pick a compromise state like Kentucky. I generally have respect for Wikipedia but this is the kind of nonsense that its detractors point to. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/73 "2014-03-14T16:28:34Z")
WA already [has one!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Troll) ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/74 "2014-03-14T16:41:28Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > H.P. Lovecraft and the Farrelly Brothers. There’s your four. Nah, you gotta get Ambrose Burnside up there somehow. Just imagine those sideburns at Rushmore scale. Note: Burnside wasn’t born in RI, but his Civil War days started with a RI Regiment and he served as Governor and US Senator of RI, so we claim dibs. ---
**Author:** ![Nauplius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nauplius/32/51_2.png) [@Nauplius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nauplius)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/75 "2014-03-14T16:53:19Z")
Iowa: Grant Wood James Van Allen Henry Wallace Shawn Johnson Alternates - Russel Stover, Corey Taylor, Ashton Kutcher, Hayden Fry ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/76 "2014-03-14T17:13:55Z")
Connecticut: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Keith Richards and …I’ll get back to you. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/77 "2014-03-14T17:14:35Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Bill Gates, Russel Wilson, William Boeing, Dan Savage Same state but four different faces: [ul] [li]\*\*Bing Crosby \*\*[/li][li] **Jimi Hendrix** [/li][li]\*\*Gary Larson \*\*[/li][li]\*\*Edward R. Murrow \*\*[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/78 "2014-03-14T17:17:30Z")
RHODE ISLAND Roger Williams George M. Cohan H. P. Lovecraft S. J Perleman ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/79 "2014-03-14T18:21:54Z")
Donald Barthelme M. Night Shyamalan Jerry Sandusky Taylor Swift Pennsylvania wins. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636/80 "2014-03-14T18:37:36Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > M. Night Shyamalan Didn’t see THAT coming. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mt-rushmore-of-your-state/683636.md?page=5)