Know your State Motto

Post by **JWR** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:10 pm

Do you know your State Motto? If not here's a list....

Alabama : Hell yes we have Electricity.

Alaska : 11,623 Eskimos can't be wrong!

Arizona : But it's a dry heat.

Arkansas : Literacy ain't everything.

California : By 30, Our women have more plastic than your Honda.

Colorado : If you don't ski, don't bother.

Connecticut : Like Massachusetts, only the Kennedys don't own it yet.

Delaware : We really do like the chemicals in our water.

Florida : Ask us about our grandkids and our voting skills.

Georgia : We put the fun in fundamentalist extremism.

Hawaii : Haka tiki mou sha'ami leeki toru. (Death to mainland scum, leave your money.)

Idaho : More than just potatoes...Well, okay, we're not , but the potatoes sure are real good.

Illinois : Please, don't pronounce the "S".

Indiana : 2 billion years tidal wave free.

Iowa : We do amazing things with corn.

Kansas : First of the rectangle states.

Kentucky : Five million people; Fifteen last names.

Louisiana : We're not all drunk cajin wackos, but that's our tourism campain.

Maine : We're really cold, but we have cheap lobster.

Maryland : If you can dream it, we can tax it.

Massachusetts : Our taxes are lower than Sweden's and our Senators are more corrupt.

Michigan : First line of defence from the Canadians.

Minnesota : 10,000 lakes...and 10,000,000,000,000 mosquitoes.

Mississippi : Come and feel better about your own state.

Missouri : Your federal flood relief tax dollars at work.

Montana : Land of the big sky, the Unibomber , right wing crazies and honest elections!

Nebraska : Ask about our state motto contest.

Nevada : Hookers and poker!

New Hampshire : Go away and leave us alone.

New Jersey : You want a ##$%##! Motto? I got yer ##$%##! Motto right here!

New Mexico : Lizards make excellent pets.

New York : You have the right to remain silent, you have the right to an attorney.

North Carolina : Tobacco is a vegetable.

North Dakota : We really are one of the fifty states!

Ohio : At least we're not Michigan.

Oklahoma : Like the play, but no singing.

Oregon : Spotted owl...It's what's for dinner.

Pennsylvania : Cook with coal.

Rhode Island : We're not REALLY an island.

South Carolina : Remember the civil war? Well, we didn't actually surrender yet.

South Dakota : Closer than North Dakota.

Tennessee : Home of the Al Gore invention museum.

Texas : Se hablo ingles.

Utah : Our Jesus is better than your Jesus.

Vermont : Ay, yep.

Virginia : Who says goverment stiffs and slackjaw yokels don't mix?

Washington : Our governor can out-fraud your governor.

West Virginia : One big happy family...Really!

Wisconsin : Come cut cheese!

Wyoming : Where men are men and the sheep are scared!

District of Columbia : The work free drug place.

Zag · Post by **Zag** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:12 pm

Considering OSU beat MSU in the "Big Game" again this year,
that moto sounds like a lot of my redneck-wannabe neighbors.
Yeah, people in Ohio hate Michigan. I'll never understand why.

Elendil · Post by **Elendil** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:27 pm

Zag wrote:Considering OSU beat MSU in the "Big Game" again this year,
that moto sounds like a lot of my redneck-wannabe neighbors.
Yeah, people in Ohio hate Michigan. I'll never understand why.

Just got back from a 3 day trip to Hiroshima and Kyushu to find out that U of M (not MSU..) lost to OSU. Second year in a row too. Good thing I was able to sell my tickets for much $$ though.

But as to why people in Ohio hate Michigan, I can't understand either....

Nikki...lifelone MI resident and U of M student

Blackmegabyte · Post by **Blackmegabyte** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:33 pm

Too good! I wonder if there's a Canadian version somewhere-- really funny stuff JWR---- !

Snakeskii · Post by **Snakeskii** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:33 am

I always liked---

"Montana: How Fast Can You Drive?"

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:33 am

That is interesting: Snakeskii said he liked---

Montana How Fast Can me Drive. Really always?

Lynxa · Post by **Lynxa** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:29 am

LMAO, I just had to point out the two states I'm from (born in Arkansas, live in Louisiana

) because I think they're pretty ironic

JWR wrote: Arkansas : Literacy ain't everything.

Louisiana : We're not all drunk cajin wackos, but that's our tourism campain.

Because it's spelled "cajun"

And for an amusing piece of State Motto history, Arkansas' state motto used to be "Land of Opportunity" but got changed about ten years ago to "The Natural State". Guess they figured one's misleading

Zag · Post by **Zag** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:41 am

Just got back from a 3 day trip to Hiroshima and Kyushu to find out that U of M (not MSU..) lost to OSU. Second year in a row too. Good thing I was able to sell my tickets for much $$ though.

But as to why people in Ohio hate Michigan, I can't understand either....

Nikki...lifelone MI resident and U of M student

You're right. U of M. I was confusing of U of M and Michigan State. Now THERE's a game with heated rivalry in Michigan.
I don't get why people in O act like M is a horrible baby-eating natural enemy type thing. >_< Sports Bar mentallity. All that beer killed off the intelligent brain cells I guess.

zerospace · Post by **zerospace** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:18 am

I was born in MA, but I live in PA... both are good.. hehe.

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:46 am

JWR wrote: California : By 30, Our women have more plastic than your Honda.

This is STRICTLY in SOUTH CA...... (You really do not see these in Bay area

)

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:01 am

JWR wrote: Maine : We're really cold, but we have cheap lobster.

I want to know what drug the writer of this sentence was on, and I want him or her to SHARE.

(Cheap...LOBSTER? not for the last forty years! Oh! unless they were talking about the wicked sharp plastic ones...)

Post by **JWR** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:03 am

kittens wrote:
JWR wrote: California : By 30, Our women have more plastic than your Honda.
This is STRICTLY in SOUTH CA...... (You really do not see these in Bay area )

Your right Kittens, In the bay area it's the Guys....

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:20 am

Lynxa wrote:
JWR wrote: Arkansas : Literacy ain't everything.

Louisiana : We're not all drunk cajin wackos, but that's our tourism campain.
Because it's spelled "cajun"

And it's also spelled campaign. Looks like Arkansas isn't the only one that
can "reed an right reel gud"

In_Gabriel_We_Trust · Post by **In_Gabriel_We_Trust** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:33 pm

Okay.... Can't resist : I'll take it global

The Philippines : Come for the nature, stay till the ransom is paid.

Australia : 90% of the poisonous animals in the world can't be wrong.

The Netherlands : The home of Peter Pan.

klet · Post by **klet** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:56 pm

In_Gabriel_We_Trust wrote:The Netherlands : The home of Peter Pan.

What's wrong with a man in tights?

JWR wrote:Texas : Se hablo ingles.

Apparently, they don't speak Spanish, either. "Se hablo" has absolutely no meaning.

You can say:

"Hablo ingles"--I speak English

or

"Se habla ingles"--Someone ("in the group/institution" is implied) speaks English.

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