'Miss me' wars

Posted at 10:18 AM on March 25, 2010 by Bob Collins (8 Comments)
Filed under: Surveys and trivia

Texas -- Ennis, Texas to be exact -- fires a new salvo in the "Miss Me Yet" billboard war.

I've taken the liberty of anticipating the next "shot." This is for you, Texas:

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Comments (8)

Although I wasn't alive at the time, I miss Eagle Scout Presidents...

Posted by Ben Chorn | March 25, 2010 10:30 AM

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On the other hand, I got a Millard Filmore dollar coin at the Post Office yesterday. I don't recall anyone ever saying, "Boy, I miss Millard Fillmore." Ever. Like, even during the Buchanan Administration. It'd be like missing the Rich Yett Era.

Being in Texas, what I miss most is fact-based textbooks. But that's just me.

Posted by Steve Buffum | March 25, 2010 11:02 AM

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Yesterday driving on eastbound 94 near Monticello I saw a billboard with a picture of Ronald Reagon (with cowboy hat) that said something like 'remember real hop and change.'

Posted by Peter | March 25, 2010 1:16 PM

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Bob, you went too far back. I think you want Andrew Jackson first.

Millard Fillmore! In my college bowl days that was the stock answer for any American President question you didn't know. (One time somebody threw it out as a joke at it was the correct answer.)

Here's an ABC news story on the Reagan billboard.

Posted by JackU | March 25, 2010 1:29 PM

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I went back to Jefferson because the Texas board has determined that its students don't need to be learning about him anymore.

Posted by Bob Collins | March 25, 2010 3:45 PM

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I've seen a little about the Texas board influencing what is and isn't in textbooks for U.S. schools in general. I wonder how much of a national impact their decisions will have in the next few years, if indeed most schools drop printed textbooks in favor of multimedia tools like tablet computers. How awesome would it be for a history teacher to be able to add new content on the fly to students' digital textbooks!

Posted by LK | March 26, 2010 1:08 AM

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How cool would it be to allow teachers to add content on the fly? NOT COOL at ALL!

I don't trust our under-educated, liberal teachers to add anything- they do enough damage as it is.

And P.S.- I live in Texas, the state with the best schools in the country (check the stats!); that created more jobs in 2008 than all other U.S. States combined...

The rest of the country might want to take heed to how prosperous we are and how we got there...but of course you're state is doing great, right?

Posted by Tim | March 26, 2010 1:24 PM

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//but of course you're state is doing great, right?

We do OK; not great. But OK. The ACT scores for Minnesota are higher than Texas in composite, English, math, and science.

Our unemployment rate, 7.3% is slightly lower than Texas' 8.6%

Would be nice to have not budget deficit as Texas does. On the other hand, there's a reasonable chance kids here will grow up knowing who the 3rd president of the United States was, so that might be a push.

And we don't have South by Southwest.

Posted by Bob Collins | March 26, 2010 1:50 PM

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