So, speaking as a Missourian, your taxi driver was full of shit. People from the greater KC and St. Louis areas (i.e. roughly 5/6 of the population of the state) typically say Missour-ee. Missour-uh is only particularly common in the rural areas of the state. And, as a bonus, it’s not a “Confederate” pronunciation…

For what it’s worth, it would probably be more accurate to say “Kansas City” instead - his Wiki bio says his parents moved to Overland Park (a suburb of KC located on the Kansas side of the state line) when he was two, but then goes on to say he grew up in the “Kansas City area,” which suggests that they probably…

Kansas City native here. I didn’t go to Rockhurst (I’m the wrong gender), but I had friends there when I was in high school (and still have friends among its alums). It was a school full of teenage boys, so yeah, plenty of them were douchebags, because literally every large group of teenage boys will contain plenty of…

I do know some people from the most rural and southern parts of the state that say it that way, but it’s definitely not something you’ll hear in KC or St. Louis. I don’t really understand where the “Missouruh” pronunciation even came from - when the heck else does one pronounce an “I” at the end of a word as “uh”?

McCaskill tends to be our rare spot of light on that front. She’s generally pretty great.

I have no idea why I only got a notification for this now, but if your standard for friendship is such that not immediately jumping to perform any unimportant task that you hint you would like done renders someone a “really unkind” friend-in-scare-quotes, I suspect you will have a very lonely existence. Again, if my…

Hahahaha, I actually posted my comment upthread regarding this exact practice before reading this. It’s so very silly.

My favorite has always been the “shabbos goy.” Because God will be mad if you flip a light switch, but he won’t be mad if you get someone else to flip a light switch for you, because reasons.

Yup. My mother had a heart attack in front of my whole family a couple of years ago. None of us, including her, had any idea what was happening - she was noticeably tired, and she said her throat hurt and she felt a little sick to her stomach, but she figured she was just a bit sleep-deprived and having some…

Speaking as another musician who has to practice in her apartment: seriously, don’t worry about it if you are (a) reasonably competent and (b) practicing during hours when you can reasonably expect the other occupants of the building to be awake. (I would add (c) playing an instrument that is not continuously super…

Yep. I have a good friend who has a blonde, Caucasian mother and a relatively dark-skinned Arab father. She and her younger sister often provoke double-takes when people see them together, because they look so much alike that they could almost pass for identical twins - except for the fact that my friend is blonde and…

Love her! I worked for her campaign in 2012, and she is pretty much the best. (I don’t agree with her completely on every issue, but she’s smart, sane, and willing to say things like this, and that puts her head and shoulders above the vast majority of her colleagues. And god knows she was better than the alternative…

I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but if you are: you know that baseball teams have more than six players, right? When the joke is “they have several notable white dudes with beards,” they probably weren’t going to put the many Royals who aren’t white dudes with beards here.

Lifelong Royals fan here, who spent the night in the middle of the throng in the Power & Light district, cheering myself hoarse. The truth is, while Harvey staying in may have sealed the deal, the real clincher was the simple fact that the Kansas City Royals are the best team playing baseball today. I honestly believe…

Is your actual argument that the Royals management should have ignored what Volquez’s wife asked them to do, because she’s “just his wife”? WTF.

I mean, if it’s true that he didn’t know because his wife specifically asked people not to tell him, I’m willing to defer to her judgment on what her husband would want (and what his dad would have wanted for him), until and unless Eddie himself says otherwise. It’s a sad situation no matter what, though.

“Royals fans are close enough to Cards fans, both spiritually and geographically, that they could become just as annoying if the Royals win it all.”