“We don’t have any way of taking care of a dog,“ an officer told the dog’s owner, Bryan Pennington.

  • @[email protected]
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    2110 months ago

    Actually, Missouri is a native American word meaning “This place sucks”

    Incidentally, “Mississippi” is Iroquois for “most racist and generally awful state”

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        True! In fact, their unofficial state motto is “Thank God for Mississippi (making Alabama look less awful in comparison)!”

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      310 months ago

      What a lot of people don’t know is that a la bama in spanish means “to the borders as quickly as possible even fucking Arkansas is an improvement on this shithole”

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      They’re right, my home state does suck >-< but I don’t see myself moving out any time soon

    • Liz
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      310 months ago

      I heard Florida was Spanish for “we’re sorry, no really, sorry. So sorry. We messed up pretty bad. It’s your problem now, we’re just so done with this shit.”

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      -1010 months ago

      This is false on both counts.

      The word “Missouri” often has been construed to mean “muddy water” but the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology has stated it means “town of the large canoes,” and authorities have said the Indian syllables from which the word comes mean “wooden canoe people” or “he of the big canoe.”

      Mississippi, meaning “great river” or “gathering-in of all the waters,” sometimes referred to as the “father of waters,”.