Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Your State Motto ...AGAIN
#1Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:46am
Alabama
Hell Yes, We Have Electricity.
Alaska
11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!
Arizona
Yes, But It's A Dry Heat.
Arkansas
Lituracy Ain't Everythang.
California
By 30, Our Women Have More
Plastic Than Your Honda.
Colorado
If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother.
Connecticut
Like Massachusetts, only smaller.
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 Amazi ng 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 And Our Senators Are More Corrupt!
Michigan
First Line Of Defense From The Canadians
Minnesota
10,000 Lakes... And 10 Zillion Mosquitoes
Mississippi
Come visit 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 Honest Elections!
Nebraska
Ask About Our State Motto Contest
Nevada
Hookers and Poker!
New Hampshire
Go A way 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...
And No Right to Self Defence
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
Home of the Al Gore Invention Museum
Texas
Se Hable Ingles
Utah
Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus
Vermont
Too liberal for the Kennedy's
Virginia
Who Says Government 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 the Cheese!
Wyoming
Where Men Are Men... And The Sheep Are Scared
Home of Brokeback Mtn..
The District of Columbia
The Work-Free Drug Place!
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Updated On: 4/17/07 at 11:46 AM
#2re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:47amYAY..it worked this time !!!
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:51am
Just one of the many reasons I'm proud to be a Jersey Girl. 
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson
#3re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:51am
Actually Massachusetts' is
"Ense petit plecidam
sub libertate quietem"
Translated
"By the sword we seek peace,
but peace only under liberty"
(Hey I use to be a tour guide at the State House, I have to know stuff like that!)
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
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#4re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:51amI was born in Arkanas, grew up in Tennessee and currently live in Georgia and those three mottos are pretty accurate.
#5re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 11:57am
Virginia's real motto is:
Virginia is for lovers.
Make of that what you will.
....but the world goes 'round
#6re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 12:01pm
and California's is EUREKA, or "I found it"
(although I've stepped in it often)
The expression is also quoted as the state motto of California, referring to the momentous discovery of gold near Sutter's Mill in 1848. The California State Seal has included the word "Eureka" since its original design by Robert S. Garnett in 1849; the official text from that time describing the seal states that this word's meaning applies "either to the principle involved in the admission of the State or the success of the miner at work". In 1957, the state legislature attempted to make "In God We Trust" the state motto, but this attempt did not succeed, and "Eureka" became the official motto in 1963
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#7re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 12:08pm
Actually, Illinois is
Please, Don't pronounce the S, but do pronounce the I (I know so many people who say "Ellenois"
<--Sometimes it's easier to get out of a jam than into one
#8re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 12:14pm
and Ohio's is really:
"With God All Things Are Possible"
why are we the only GD state with the G word in it's motto? slackers!
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
#9re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 12:15pm
New Jersey's is "Liberty and Prosperity" but I do prefer....
You Want A ##$%##! Motto?
I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right here!
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 12:17pm
Truthfully, I'd prefer "At Least We're Not Michigan" too.
off-topic...you know how to get to Michigan from Columbus to Ann Arbor without a map?
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
#11re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 12:18pmfunny, I had a bumber sticker on my car when I lived in Michigan that said "at least I'm not from Ohio"
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#12re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 12:20pmAs an OSU alumni we used to always say to the freshman who wanted to drive to the UofM campus, to get there you just "go north till u smell it and west till you step in it"
"Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears."
CLAYTON HAMILTON, "Theory of the Theatre"
"I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's -- there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is."
TOM STOPPARD
#13re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 12:23pm
"There is no official designation of a "State Motto". The motto "In God We Trust" is widely used but has never been formally adopted by the Florida Legislature."
How original of us.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson
#14re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 12:23pm
WA state's is perfect! Very apropriate.
I had to look what WA state's motto was, 'cause I'd never heard it:
The state motto is Al-ki or Alki, a Chinook Indian word meaning "bye and bye" or "hope for the future."
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#15re: Your State Motto ...AGAIN
Posted: 4/17/07 at 1:13pm
Virginia's real motto is:
Virginia is for lovers.
That's not VA's motto; it's just a slogan they came up with for a tourism campaign. In 2004, when VA was in the process of adopting the most restrictive anti-gay-marriage state constitutional amendment to date, there was a boycott campaign launched called "Virginia is for haters."
Virginia's official motto is "Sic semper tyrannis," which means "Thus always to tyrants." (Some witnesses reported John Wilkes Booth shouted this after assassinating Lincoln.)
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