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Should anyone be added to Mt. Rushmore?

Yes dammit, do it do it do it!!
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No, to do so would be blasphemous!
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Unsure, but may consider it
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Unsure, but not likely
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What's Mt. Rushmore?
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Tear it all down and let's drill for oil in T. Roosevelt's head a la Simpsons
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Additions to Mount Rushmore?

Postby Lancaster of Wessex » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:15 pm

Well it's a Sat. evening and I'm bored, so here's a few stupid questions for y'all:

1). Should any presidents - if funding were available and it were geologically possible to do so - be added to the facade of Mount Rushmore?
2). If so, whom?
3). If not, why not?

Personally I'd think if that if anyone were to be added, it'd be FDR, although I'm sure neo-Cons would want Reagan's image plastered on there - if Reagan were placed, then add Clinton too. 8)

However, given the amount of partisanship that would arise from such a debate, I don't think anyone, not even FDR, should be added - America is and always will be forevermore too politcally polarized to honour anybody else.

And besides, if it ain't broken, don't fix it, and Mt. Rushmore is at least a symbol of America most everyone can enjoy and "agree with," so to speak.

What sayest thee and thou?
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Postby Mad Monarch » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:17 pm

Your not supposed to change a landmark. It kinda defeats the purpose.

On top of that, do you know how it expensive it is to clean Lincoln's nose?
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Postby The Akkadian Empire » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:17 pm

no
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Postby Cosmopoles » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:17 pm

Build a stovepipe hat on Lincoln.
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Postby Lancaster of Wessex » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:19 pm

The Akkadian Empire wrote:no


Why not?
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Postby Lancaster of Wessex » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:20 pm

Mad Monarch wrote:Your not supposed to change a landmark. It kinda defeats the purpose.

On top of that, do you know how it expensive it is to clean Lincoln's nose?


That's why I said "if funding were available." And if it's supposed to represent America's first period of history, why not those who have since contributed greatly? Maybe they should just make "another Mount Rushmore," instead of altering the present one.

All hypothetical of course. :)
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Postby Blazedtown » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:20 pm

If you have to add to it, Nixon or Eisenhower.
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Postby Lancaster of Wessex » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:22 pm

Blazedtown wrote:If you have to add to it, Nixon or Eisenhower.


Add a man who was going to be impeached and was likely guilty of crimes if he wasn't pardoned by Ford?

M'kay...
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Postby Biop » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:22 pm

No, I havent sen a worthwhile president in most of US History.
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Postby TheIncorporation » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:22 pm

Why add a president? Mount Rushmore would be much more of a tourist attraction if they added my handsome visage to it.
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Postby Meowfoundland » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:22 pm

Give the funding to the Crazy Horse memorial, if there is any. Mt. Rushmore at least looks finished.
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Postby Natty Narwhal » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:23 pm

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Postby Mad Monarch » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:24 pm

Lancaster of Wessex wrote:
Mad Monarch wrote:Your not supposed to change a landmark. It kinda defeats the purpose.

On top of that, do you know how it expensive it is to clean Lincoln's nose?


That's why I said "if funding were available." And if it's supposed to represent America's first period of history, why not those who have since contributed greatly? Maybe they should just make "another Mount Rushmore," instead of altering the present one.

All hypothetical of course. :)

They should make a Mt Monarch.

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Postby Lancaster of Wessex » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:24 pm

Natty Narwhal wrote:FDR


I'd agree. I think any president after him may be too "politicized" to be considered, even JFK.
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Postby Ashmoria » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:24 pm

i dont think there is enough good granite left to add anyone.

i suppose we could do rushmore 2 someplace else.
whatever
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Postby The Akkadian Empire » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:26 pm

Lancaster of Wessex wrote:
The Akkadian Empire wrote:no


Why not?

Because no.

We don't need our monuments raped and screwed up. It already has THEODORE FUCKING ROOSEVELT on it.

The Crazy Horse Memorial is still not finished. Finish that, then do something else. Don't fuck up completed monuments...
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Postby Blazedtown » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:26 pm

Meowfoundland wrote:Give the funding to the Crazy Horse memorial, if there is any. Mt. Rushmore at least looks finished.


Fuck Crazy Horse. Why should we give a memorial to someone who lost?
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Postby Episarta » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:26 pm

Let's slap Andrew Jackson right up there. The Native Americans would love it.
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Postby SaintB » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:28 pm

Mount Rushmore was never technically finished.
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Postby Napkiraly » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:30 pm

Blazedtown wrote:
Meowfoundland wrote:Give the funding to the Crazy Horse memorial, if there is any. Mt. Rushmore at least looks finished.


Fuck Crazy Horse. Why should we give a memorial to someone who lost?

Vietnam War memorial. Just saying.
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Postby The Akkadian Empire » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:32 pm

Napkiraly wrote:
Blazedtown wrote:
Fuck Crazy Horse. Why should we give a memorial to someone who lost?

Vietnam War memorial. Just saying.

Comparing Crazy Horse, a war leader of Oglala Lakota in the 19th century, to American Servicemen in the 20th century, doesn't really work.
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Postby Anitgrum » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:33 pm

Blazedtown wrote:
Meowfoundland wrote:Give the funding to the Crazy Horse memorial, if there is any. Mt. Rushmore at least looks finished.


Fuck Crazy Horse. Why should we give a memorial to someone who lost?


We aren't paying for the Crazy Horse memorial it is privately funded.
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Postby Lancaster of Wessex » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:33 pm

Napkiraly wrote:
Blazedtown wrote:
Fuck Crazy Horse. Why should we give a memorial to someone who lost?

Vietnam War memorial. Just saying.


All of this ^ is not what this thread is about anyway people. ;P *nudge nudge*
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Postby Blazedtown » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:34 pm

Napkiraly wrote:
Blazedtown wrote:
Fuck Crazy Horse. Why should we give a memorial to someone who lost?

Vietnam War memorial. Just saying.


That's different. Its remembering our men who never came back. You don't give a memorial your enemies. Crazy Horse was the enemy.
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Postby Gauthier » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:43 pm

Blazedtown wrote:
Napkiraly wrote:Vietnam War memorial. Just saying.


That's different. Its remembering our men who never came back. You don't give a memorial your enemies. Crazy Horse was the enemy.


Might want to tell a few states to tear down their fucking Confederate War Memorials then... unless you want to nudge the goalpost some more.

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