Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:58:49 -0500 From: Baobei Subject: BLAGUES-L: New state mottos Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 21:25:23 -0500 From: Guru Subject: New state mottos Alabama: At Least We're not Mississippi Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can't be Wrong! Arizona: But It's a Dry Heat Arkansas: Litterasy Ain't Everthing California: As Seen on TV Colorado: If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only Dirtier and with Less Character 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, but 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: Two 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 Cajun Wackos, but that's Our Tourism Campaign Maine: We're Really Cold, but We Have Cheap Lobster Maryland: A Thinking Man's Delaware Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower than Sweden's (for Most Tax Brackets) Michigan: First Line of Defense from the Canadians Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000 Mosquitoes Mississippi: Come 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: Hookers and Poker! New Hampshire: Go Away and Leave Us Alone New Jersey: Ya Wanna ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! 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: We Wish We Were in Michigan Oklahoma: Like the Play, Only 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? We Didn't Actually Surrender South Dakota: Closer than North Dakota Tennessee: The Educashun State Texas: Si, Hablo Ingles (Yes, I speak English) Utah: Our Jesus Is Better than Your Jesus Vermont: Yep Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs and Slackjawed Yokels Don't Mix? Washington: Help! We're Overrun by Nerds and Slackers! Washington, D.C.: Wanna Be Mayor? West Virginia: One Big Happy Family -- Really! Wisconsin: Eat Cheese or Die Wyoming: Wynot?