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RedXIII Donating Member (749 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 02:45 AM
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REJECTED STATE MOTTOS{Vanity}
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 Selik, 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 young girls from Nantucket, also the home of Ted Kennedy, hmmmm...
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
3:5 you'll leave broke
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 lub 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
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 02:52 AM
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1. LOL
:rofl:
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Nothing Without Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 03:04 AM
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2. Hilarious! I think it was WI or MN that had a contest and one of the
Edited on Thu Nov-17-05 03:07 AM by Nothing Without Hope
popular - but rejected - suggestions for license plate slogan was

EAT CHEESE OR DIE


As a person living in New England, I appreciate not only the funny support of the state dairy industry but also the tongue-in-cheek allusion to the actual New Hamshire license slogan:

"Live Free Or Die"
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TimeChaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 03:10 AM
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3. ?
Edited on Thu Nov-17-05 03:10 AM by TimeChaser


:D
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RedXIII Donating Member (749 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 03:19 AM
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4. ..
yes my username is after the character from FFVII.
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TimeChaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 03:22 AM
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5. Have you seen Advent Children yet?
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RedXIII Donating Member (749 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 03:27 AM
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6. ..
not yet because i'm not sure it's playing in Hawaii or not.
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TimeChaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 03:29 AM
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7. Well, it's not playing anywhere at the moment
It was released on DVD in Japan and should be released in the US eventually. At the moment, I have a fansubbed version, although I will buy it once it comes to the US.
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