NationStates Jolt Archive

REJECTED STATE MOTTOS

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

Lmao!

MASSACHUSETTS - Where any idiot can be a senator.

California - As seen on TV

California - No seriously, we're a state full of Mexicans with a minority of whites represented by an Austrian

wwo,thats halarious!

Louisiana: We're Not All Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Ad Campaign

the only acceptable one for Oregon and Washington is

"Free Cascadia"

New Jersey, You want a motto, I got your freakin' motto right here

I've always liked these two.

Washington: No, the other one.

-Or-

Washington: Its not pronounced Warshington!

NEBRASKA More corn than Kansas
Go to Kansas, turn north


The first one is funny because it is true, the second one is funny because that is how most people who aren't from Nebraska tell other people who aren't from Nebraska where Nebraska is. *takes breath*

I've always liked these two.

Washington: No, the other one.

-Or-

Washington: Its not pronounced Warshington!

Who pronounces it Warshington?

New Mexico: Filled with rednecks, but still voting Democrat.

EDIT:
We're all from California.
Where all the old people go if they're not going to Florida.
At least we're not as fucked up as the other states.

MICHIGAN Land of the free, home of the Buick

It wasnt rejected.

Us, the absolute morons from Tennessee

yes, I am a Tennessean. no, I'm not a redneck, although the majority of the people not living in at least moderately sized cities are.

lots uh folk round these har' parts aint got no grammar and aint wastin ar' tahm makin no cerecctshuns ta pernunciation awn thangs lahk worshinton

Translation: Many of the people who live in rural Tennessee don't use any grammatical sense and do'nt want to use their precious time correcting their pronunciation, for example, with our "worshington"
(pronounced war-shing-tun)
-_-; sorry about ranting there, I needed to type something

Florida:

"Making the simplest things Difficult"

"Two votes for the price of one"

"Spanish: Required, English: Optional"

"Further South than the South"

"The Sunshine State (Only applicable December through April-terms and Conditions apply)"

Alabama - Yes, we have electricity

I liked one from Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Florida: Where everything hangs a little lower


or one from The Simpsons

Florida: America's wang

New York: We are, in fact, the center of the universe. Get over it.

"Further South than the South"

I like this one.

seen on t shirt

DELAWARE IS LIKE SEX THE LOWER AND SLOWER YOU GO THE BETTER IT GETS
Sussex County Board of Tourism

New York: We are, in fact, the center of the universe. Get over it.

Massachusetts: Don't call us Yankees, damnit.

Massachusetts: Don't call us Yankees, damnit.
but you are

go soxs

but you are

go soxs

Yeah, but we hate it. We don't see "Yankees" as meaning Northerners or Americans.

OHIO Don't judge us by Cleveland

:eek: Why you no good....

Proud polluters of Lake Erie

Hey, we've cleaned up.

We're easy to spell

Yes, though it does make for some trouble when telling Japanese where we're from.



IDAHO: Hey, at least we're not Utah.

FLORIDA: Where'd my house go??

(sorry Floridians, its mean, but I'm don't mean it to be.)

Yeah, but we hate it. We don't see "Yankees" as meaning Northerners or Americans.
well ya'all did fight for the north

Yeah, but we hate it. We don't see "Yankees" as meaning Northerners or Americans.

Thats right. New Yorkers are the original Yankees (root: Dutch janke and New York was originally a Dutch colony). Go Yankees!

I liked one from Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Florida: Where everything hangs a little lower


or one from The Simpsons

Florida: America's wang

LMAO It is, isn't it?

well ya'all did fight for the north

But that's not what "Yankees" means in Massachusetts.

But that's not what "Yankees" means in Massachusetts.

IF you ever win another World Series, I might just give a damn. :D

OHIO:

Land of eternal road work.

In Orange Barrel we trust.

Our flag, thinking outside the box!
http://www.theodora.com/flags/state_flags/oh.gif

Hey I am Canadian, I must say I do have a fair amount of knowlage of the USA please dont be dissing my country we have done jack shit since WE burnt your white house in that little war we have way back about 150 years ago and in response you burnt Tronto big fucking deal its a hole if you dont belive me look it up I am right just a little history lesson form your Canadian Neighour

[QUOTE=Keljamistan]



MISSOURI Gateway to Kansas
Here's mine, Show Me yours
We're better than Illinois


so, true. (i'm from Missouri by the way)
Here's one: Missouri, at least St.louis,: Sure we'll give you money after we're done counting our paychecks.

IF you ever win another World Series, I might just give a damn. :D

Hey bitch, give us 14 years, would ya?

In New York, YANKEE means "An intellegent person of the highest regard"

in Massachusetts, YANKEE means "Know-nothing car-washing asshole" ;)

Go Sox!!!

And no one noticed what's wrong with "U.S. States" yet?


MASSACHUSETTS Where any politician can be senator, provided he isn't Conservative (Don't even ask me how Mit Romney became Governor)

TEXAS Where any politician can be Governor, despite I.Q., provided he hates Liberals

Oregon:
Doug Fir.
(its an in-state joke :P)

Arizona:
Home of the REAL Area 51.

Here's some for the Canadian Provinces:

Alberta: Home of the One-Party State
Saskatchewan: Cruise Control Heaven
BC: You mean you need snow tires?
Manitoba: Land of blizzards and mosquitoes.
Ontario: You mean you're supposed to breathe clean air?
Quebec: We're too poor to separate.
PEI: We have Anne of Green Gables. Yeah, we do. We're famous, woohoo!
Nova Scotia:We have the Bluenose. Yeah, we do. We're famous, woohoo!
New Brunswick: We're truly Canadian. We're bilingual.
Newfoundland & Labrador: We're all on EI.

TEXAS: We're big.
ALASKA: We're bigger 'n Texas. :p

Florida: God loves us, but not this year
Texas: There's oil in thar hills and Iraq

Texas: Hey, at least it's not France

Rhode Island: We're a fricken STATE!

Hey I am Canadian, I must say I do have a fair amount of knowlage of the USA please dont be dissing my country we have done jack shit since WE burnt your white house in that little war we have way back about 150 years ago and in response you burnt Tronto big fucking deal its a hole if you dont belive me look it up I am right just a little history lesson form your Canadian Neighour

We don't blame Canada for burning the White House. It was the British. Back then you guys were still under the rule of the British, so we were not at war with you. We tried to invade you, but only because of the British.

Rhode Island: We're a fricken STATE!

You just keep saying that to yourselves.

How about this one!

Wisconsin- Smell our dairy air!

TEXAS: Keeping brains out of Washington DC since 2000.

Hey I am Canadian, I must say I do have a fair amount of knowlage of the USA please dont be dissing my country we have done jack shit since WE burnt your white house in that little war we have way back about 150 years ago and in response you burnt Tronto big fucking deal its a hole if you dont belive me look it up I am right just a little history lesson form your Canadian Neighour

So the White House was burnt in 1854 by the Canadians? Stupid me, I always thought it was set abaze by the British in the War of 1812. ;)

California - Everthing causes cancer here.

Hey bitch, give us 14 years, would ya?

In New York, YANKEE means "An intellegent person of the highest regard"

in Massachusetts, YANKEE means "Know-nothing car-washing asshole" ;)

Go Sox!!!

And no one noticed what's wrong with "U.S. States" yet?


MASSACHUSETTS Where any politician can be senator, provided he isn't Conservative (Don't even ask me how Mit Romney became Governor)

TEXAS Where any politician can be Governor, despite I.Q., provided he hates Liberals

-I would if you hadn't already wasted 86 years. hahhahahah :D

-How true.

-A Sox fan talking about know-nothing? Well, they would know :D

-Ummm no, the Sox sux. Go Yankees!

damn that Bush. he's ruining our reputation!
oh well, politics aside...

TEXAS: We're better than you and we know it. Now have a steak.

Florida: Duct tape solves everything (inside joke)
Florida: We hate Fidel
Florida: We have George's brother here, so shut up.
Florida: Home of America's nude beaches
Florida: Future nuclear testing site for Cuba

Eh.

Florida: Duct tape solves everything (inside joke)

Eh.

i thought that was the worlds motto...

California: By age 30 our women have more plastic than Barbi.

This one's based on an inside joke between me and some guy a know form Wisconsin (He still doesn't believe the Lower Pennisula looks like a mitten).

Wisconsin - We're shaped like a mitten!!!
Michigan - WTF have you been smoking Wisconsin?

Some other mottos:

Idaho - We put the hoe in Idaho
California - Don't breath that! It isn't air!
Maine - Welcome to the middle of nowhere
Vermont - Yes we're a state....barely
New Mexico - Land of Aliens (Illegal and extaterrestial) and A-Bombs
Michigan - Yes we're shaped like a mitten! Haven't you looked at a fricking map before?!?

Maryland:
Almost 150 years and we still don't know what side we fought for in the Civil War.

Just because we're close to Washignton, doesn't mean we're all fat, bald, liars too.

We have more crabs than a Vegas hooker.

North Dakota: Yes, we do exist!
North Dakota: No, we're not South Canada.

Conneticut: Where'd all the Mexiacans and Black people go?
OR
Conneticut: New York City's OTHER Suburb
OR
Conneticut:Like Massachusetts, only dirtier and with less character

Hey I am Canadian, I must say I do have a fair amount of knowlage of the USA please dont be dissing my country we have done jack shit since WE burnt your white house in that little war we have way back about 150 years ago and in response you burnt Tronto big fucking deal its a hole if you dont belive me look it up I am right just a little history lesson form your Canadian Neighour

Uh, please check your history book because I think it was the british who burned washington in the war of 1812. As for toronto i'm not sure but I don't doubt it.

Florida: The only southern state not in the south
Louisiana: A drinking state with a football problem
Mississippi: If you can read this, you're a tourist

I just want to remind people that there is a whole other half of a state of Cailifornia that doesn't resemble the lower half, or the shallow end of the pool. Some of what is put applies up top (Granola state, particularly), but it is true that there is no longer a majority in this state, up north there are more asians than mexicans, plastic surgery isn't that previlant, and we don't know anyone famous. Northern California is used by the film industry when they want to depict the rest of the country. No, it's not fair, but we've got stable weather and that matters when making shooting schedule. Not that any of this matters. We're a big state, thats all.

Texas:
We import more Mexicans than anyone.
Where you don't need to own a cow to be a cowboy.

Hey I am Canadian, I must say I do have a fair amount of knowlage of the USA please dont be dissing my country we have done jack shit since WE burnt your white house in that little war we have way back about 150 years ago and in response you burnt Tronto big fucking deal its a hole if you dont belive me look it up I am right just a little history lesson form your Canadian Neighour

what?

I think he's just a little confused

and slightly incoherent

First: British Regulars, not Canucks burned D.C.
And they retreated because their supply lines were over extended and it was raining.

There were no, count 'em, no Canucks amongst this 10,000 man force.

Kansas - First of the rectangle states.
Kansas - At least we aren't Nebraska.
Arkansas - The "S" is silent.