Oops !!!!!

[floridablue]

One of the twin towers of genius from Oklahoma discovered the Marlins baseball park in one of the bills. Seriously, I have heard one of those two is a Roads Scholar.

[cosmik debris]

1. Careful there, I believe that's Rhodes Scholar n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

8. You're just casting asparagus; the OP isn't a moran. n/t

[shraby]

2. Yup you got that right ROADS scholar.

:rofl: :rofl:

[tabatha]

3. Rhodes Scholar

[Bluebear]

4. Hit the Rhode, Jack! :)

[floridablue]

5. I think I got it right. Roads Scholar.

[Jazzgirl]

9. Uh....no.

You didn't.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. No, it's

Roads Skolar.

What is WRONG with these people?

[madinmaryland]

12. Maybe he's looking for amnety from the grammer natsi's!

[BrklynLiberal]

6. twin towers of genius" lol

[seemunkee]

7. Roadkill scholar

[HamdenRice]

11. Interesting background for "Roads" Rhodes Scholarship

It was founded, funded and created by Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes was a mining entrepreneur in South Africa who managed to take over and monopolize the diamond fields a few years after they were discovered (back when there was really only one main diamond field near Kimberley).

When gold was discovered a few years later on the farm of a Boer (which became Johannesburg), Rhodes used his diamond fortune to build up some of the early gold mines and became fantastically wealthy. The companies he created would eventually become both De Beers and Anglo-American.

Rhodes eventually became Governor of the British Cape Colony, which controlled the diamond fields. But the gold fields were part of an independent Boer republic, the Transvaal or South African Republic, governed by atavistic white Dutch settlers who basically had been living in the bush for a hundred years.

Rhodes did not like paying taxes to the Dutch Boers, so he used his influence to get Britain to declare war on the Transvaal, leading to the long, bloody "Boer War" with Britain eventually winning and taking over the South African Republic, creating the Union of South Africa, as part of the British Empire.

Seeing South Africa as an important part of the Empire and English speaking world -- as important as Canada and Australia -- he set up the Rhodes Scholarship to unify the English speaking world through education of the best and brightest at one of the finest universities of Britain -- Oxford. It was open to White men from South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other British colonies, and the United States.