State Mottoes

[HairyHarry (imported)]

KNOW YOUR STATE MOTTO

Please bear in mind that I have not visited any of the places in the 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 Kennedy's Don't Own It Yet.

Delaware

We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water.

Florida

Ask Us About Our Grandkids.

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 Cajun Wackos,

But That's Our Tourism Campaign.

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

Michigan

First Line Of Defense 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 Unabomber, Right-wing Crazies, and Very Little Else.

Nebraska

Ask About Our State Motto Contest

Nevada

Poker and Hookers!

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 50 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

The Edyoocashun State

Texas

Se Hablo Ingles?

Utah

Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus

Vermont

Ay, Yep

Virginia

Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix?

Washington

We have more rain than you do

West Virginia

One Big Happy Family...Really!

Wisconsin

Come Cut The Cheese!

Wyoming

Where Men Are Men... And The Sheep Are Scared!

(This is also said about us here in Wales, although I've never fancied a smelly woolie! Incest is not unknown either!)

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Wyoming

Where Men Are Men... And The Sheep Are Scared!

(This is also said about us here in Wales, although I've never fancied a smelly woolie! Incest is not unknown either!)

Oes gafr eto?

(For the Saesneg and the Americanwyr, this translates as "Is there yet goat?",

being a popular song often sung at rugby matches. The song is more commonly referred to in English as "Counting the goats". The official lyrics count Wen (white), Goch (brown) and Ddu (black) goats, but if the crowd is in the mood, they'll get as far as Pyws and Acwamarin...)

Incidentally, if you listen carefully, the sheep in the early scenes of "An American Werewolf in London" baa in a Welsh accent, even though they are supposed to be in Yorkshire. (The whitewashed farm house is also a dead give-away; no Yorkshire farmer would spend money painting stone walls.)

[kb57z (imported)]

PS Sorry about all the goats - they're the left-overs from the burnt offerings in the Leviticus thread over in the Deep, Dark Cellar.

(No goat smilie - 'll have to make do with a cat) :kittygray

[philorchites (imported)]

Bad news to the rest of you who are looking to Michigan to save you from the rampages of the Canadians: our stunningly beautiful Governess, Jenifer Granholm, was born in Canada. Alas! the enemy is within the gates. She is proof that you don't have to be ugly to be a lady Democrat, too. She hasn't a clue as to how to save Michigan's economy from the ravages of "Free Trade," but who does??

However, Michigan's state legislators are belatedly stirring themselves against the Canadian menace by banning the dumping of Canadian trash in Michigan's landfills. The effort may falter when the counties and townships that depend on fees from landfills to fill the gap left by the loss of manufacturing jobs and the tax revenues they used to generate awaken to the fact that Canada pays the same rates as anyone else to dump trash in Michigan.

This effort to save us from Canadian trash is linked somehow to the war on international terrorism. As if there were no good ole' boys in the woods of Michigan who would like to have a go at blowing up the county landfill just for the fun of seeing it go up in a blast of glory.

[A-1 (imported)]

PS Sorry about all the goats - they're the left-overs from the burnt offerings in the Leviticus thread over in the Deep, Dark Cellar.

(No goat smilie - 'll have to make do with a cat) :kittygray

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[Christina (imported)]

A few different motto's....

Alabama: At Least We're not Mississippi

Arizona: Dehyd-rific!

California: As Seen on TV

Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only Dirtier and With Less Character

Delaware: is Delaware a state?

Illinois: Gateway to Iowa

Iowa: Land of James T. Kirk

Kansas: Don't Blame Us, We Voted For Dole

Maryland: A Thinking Man's Delaware

Minnesota: Land of 7,000 Lakes and 3,000 Man-made Ponds

New Jersey: The Garbage State

North Dakota: Um... We've got... Um... Dinosaur Bones? Yeah, Dinosaur Bones!

Ohio: Don't Judge Us by Cleveland

Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds and Slackers!

Washington DC: Wanna Be Mayor?

Wyoming: Forgot about you

[Christina (imported)]

Even more funny state motto's.....

ALABAMA

Literacy ain't everything

Ya want fries with dat?

ALASKA

Come, freeze your butt off

ARIZONA

Winter home to 150,000 snowbirds

ARKANSAS

At least we're not Mississippi

CALIFORNIA

The Granola State

Nobody's actually from here

Fast reloading lanes available

The really long state

COLORADO

Too wimpy to cross the mountains so we stopped here

Official home of the winter ski bunny

CONNECTICUT

Way too close to New York

DELAWARE

You'll need a map to find us

So close to Washington you can smell it

FLORIDA

The Gunshine State

Elephant Graveyard; where the old Republicans go to die

Senior citizen discounts available

Come, enjoy the humidity

The snow capital of the US

GEORGIA

Home of the Rednecks

Gateway to Florida

Confederate money welcome

HAWAII

Sure, we've got Interstates... drive on over

Book 'em Danno

Tom Sellick, Jack Lord, Don Ho - Paradise!

Come, get lai-ed

IDAHO

Ain't nothing here

We don't care if you spell potato with an "e"

Land of a billion "eyes"

ILLINOIS

Land of the voting dead

Gateway to Iowa

INDIANA

Home of David Letterman

IOWA

Just east of Omaha

It's easy to spell

KANSAS

Hayfever capital of the Midwest

Dole slept here

There's no place like home

Ya want flat, we got flat

KENTUCKY

Tobacco is a vegetable

We're all related

Gateway to Nashville

LOUISIANA

Swim the beautiful Bayou

Cancer Alley's just a name, and names will never hurt you

MAINE

For Sale

You can spit on Canada from here

MARYLAND

If it weren't for Washington, you couldn't find us

MASSACHUSETTS

Home of the Kennedy's. Ahhhhh!!!!!

MICHIGAN

Land of the free, home of the Buick

MINNESOTA

Not Sweden, but we try to act like it

Sure beats Canada

MISSISSIPPI

We're lucky we can spell it

Why would you want to come here?

MISSOURI

Gateway to Kansas

Here's mine, Show Me yours

We're better than Illinois

MONTANA

Land of the Big Sky, and very little else

We've got lots of 10'x10' shacks in the woods

It's where you're wanted.

At least our cows are sane.

NEBRASKA

More corn than Kansas

Go to Kansas, turn north

NEVADA

More weirdos than Alaska (warmer too)

2 words - Death Valley

3, you'll leave broke

5, We have our own nuclear testing site

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Like Old Hampshire, only newer

About as exciting as Vermont

NEW JERSEY

You have the right to remain silent,

You have the right to an attorney...

Tell 'em Guido sent ya

NEW MEXICO

Lizards make excellent pets

We have reservations

Alien Welcome Center - Roswell

NEW YORK

At least we're not New Jersey!

We're more than a big city; we're a state

Like we CARE about a motto

English spoken here; sometimes

NORTH CAROLINA

Five million people; Fifteen last names

We're bigger than South Carolina

NORTH DAKOTA

The OTHER South Dakota

OHIO

Don't judge us by Cleveland

Proud polluters of Lake Erie

We're easy to spell

OKLAHOMA

We're OK, you're NOT!

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto

OREGON

As pretty as California but not as weird

We're not named after a musical instrument

You can see the sunset from here

PENNSYLVANIA

Cook with coal

Free lube job with oil change

RHODE ISLAND

Size ain't everything

Nobody famous came from Rhode Island

SOUTH CAROLINA

Just south of North Carolina

SOUTH DAKOTA

Closer than North Dakota

TENNESSEE

The Educashun State

Thank goodness we've still got Elvis

A great fixer-upper

TEXAS

Si Hablo Ingles

See, EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas!

UTAH

Our Jesus is better than your Jesus

At least our sheep can't talk

VERMONT

Bet ya can't name 2 of our towns

VIRGINIA

Please don't confuse us with West Virginia!

WASHINGTON

We like our state, so STAY OUT!

WEST VIRGINIA

Where "family values" has a different meaning

WISCONSIN

Land of funny accents.

Say "Cheeeese"

WYOMING

Where men are lonely and sheep are scared

[Losethem (imported)]

Christina-

I'm sure you got it off the net somewhere, but the last time I checked Death Valley is in California.

--LT

NEVADA

More weirdos than Alaska (warmer too)

2 words - Death Valley

3, you'll leave broke

5, We have our own nuclear testing site

[JesusA (imported)]

I live in California, where the deep hole named "Death Valley" is located. I've driven across Nevada several times. It's a series of north–south trending mountain ranges where every valley could quite appropriately be named Death Valley. Bleak doesn't begin to cover it.

[Slammr (imported)]

I live in California, where the deep hole named "Death Valley" is located. I've driven across Nevada several times. It's a series of north–south trending mountain ranges where every valley could quite appropriately be named Death Valley. Bleak doesn't begin to cover it.

I left Las Vegas one summer, during the day, riding my motorcycle toward Death Valley. I had to stop at every gas station, not for gas, but to wet down my clothes, trying to keep cool. Needless to say, they were dry again before I'd gone ten miles.

Actually, I've lived in both California and Nevada. I love Nevada and her deserts. They are bleak -- but they're beautiful, too. Although I've lived in Las Vegas, I prefer the northern part of the state.

A little test: What's the only town in Nevada that doesn't allow gambling -- and why do you think that is?