Fifty years later, does America need a stupider motto?

The BBQ Pit
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[QUOTE=The The]
Oh dear, too many good ones!

America - Fuck YEAH! is great, however I would like to submit a more ‘hip’ alternate. “America-Hells Yeah!” Could resonate with the youth, but runs the risk of being embarassingly unhip in a few years.

Or Drewbert’s “Trust us; we know what we’re doing.” could be Jack Bauer’d up as, “We don’t have to me to explain, you’re going to have to trust us!”. . .a bit wordy, but will perhaps save a great deal of time at the U.N.
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“We don’t have **TIME ** to explain, you’re going to have to trust us!”.

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I thought “He who smelt it dealt it” would be a better motto. I’ve actually thought about this before.

I was under the impression that “Advance Australia” had been changed to “Australia to King’s Bishop Four” in the early 70s.

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Consider the possibilities that would be opened up by having Mr. T on all the currency.

Then, of course, the motto would be “PITYING FOOLS SINCE 1776”

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[QUOTE=Kimstu]
You forgot Ulysses S. Grant’s Secretary of State.
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He may have, but I didn’t. Check Post #71. :wink:

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We Have Always Been at War with Eastasia

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[QUOTE=The The]
Or Drewbert’s “Trust us; we know what we’re doing.” could be Jack Bauer’d up as, “We don’t have to me to explain, you’re going to have to trust us!”. . .
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Or millions of people will die!

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[QUOTE=Zakalwe]

[QUOTE=Captain Amazing]
I need to correct my previous post. In it, I said that Secretary of the Treasury Chase was a Catholic. He was not. He was an Episcopalian. He was also the only cabinet secretary to be named after a fish.
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Is there no end to the ignorance?
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Yeah, but he wasn’t named after a fish, he was named after fish in general. It’s completely different.

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[QUOTE=betenoir]
We Have Always Been at War with Eastasia
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Oh great, so we have to replace all the currency every time we go from being at war with Eastasia to being at war with Eu

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[QUOTE=MEBuckner]
Yeah, but he wasn’t named after a fish, he was named after fish in general. It’s completely different.
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But what about Edmund Muskie?

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I’ll pile on for “America, fuck yeah!” I think it kind of sums up the zeitgeist.

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[QUOTE=drewbert]
“Trust us; we know what we’re doing.”
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We ARE the police force.
We don’t watch the news, we make it.
Guns don’t kill people, we do.

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[QUOTE=jsgoddess]
Or millions of people will die!
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That should be “…AND millions of people will die!”

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[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons]
Yes.

And since, as noted above, we have a tradition of “testing out” new mottoes on coinage before making them official, I’d like to propose the following New Motto Coin.
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I think the coin should be one of these:

“America: We do not sleep. We wait.”
“America’s chief export: pain.”
“There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures we have allowed to live.”

Chuck Norris facts are still funny, dammit!

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[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons]
Yes.

And since, as noted above, we have a tradition of “testing out” new mottoes on coinage before making them official, I’d like to propose the following New Motto Coin.
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Ponder Stibbons, did you make that up especially for this thread, or what? That’s just awesome.

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Some of the ones out there are already pretty good.

Austria’s old one: “It is Austria’s destiny to rule the world” So how did that work out for you?

Botswana: “Rain” I think someone has a problem with the weather there.

Quebec: “I Remember” That sounds seriously stalkerish.

Kenya: “Let’s work together” It’s like one big hippy commune.

Luxembourg: “We want to stay what we are” Sort of the whiny little kid of mottos.

Scotland: “No one provokes me with impunity” Nice words to say, “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”

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[QUOTE=flight]
Some of the ones out there are already pretty good.
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That’s handy. It sounds to me like the Isle of Man is the place to go for lawn jarts.

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Yeah, but how else can we guarantee that the tongue of a Kohm will burn with fire if he dares attempt to say the holy words?

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Let’s just cut to the chase and get our current admin’s motto out there:

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc
(We gladly feast on those who would subdue us)

And the current admin seems to feel that if you’re not sucking up to us, you’re trying to subdue us. IMHO.

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[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan]
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc
(We gladly feast on those who would subdue us)
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Reminescent of Caligula:

“Oderint dum metuant”
(Let them hate so long as they fear. )

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“Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges…”