# For US Citizens, here's YOUR STATE MOTTO\* \* **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675 "2005-05-06T13:00:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![biddee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@biddee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biddee)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/1 "2005-05-06T13:00:09Z")
_Alabama Hell Yes, We Have Electricity._ \* _Alaska_ 11,623 Eskimos Can’t Be Wrong!\* \* _Arizona_ But It’s A Dry Heat. _Arkansas_ Literacy Ain’t Everything.\* \* _California_ By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda.\* \* _Colorado_ If You Don’t Ski, Don’t Bother.\* \* _Connecticut_ Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy’s Don’t Own It Yet.\* \* _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, 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 Amazing 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 _Michigan_ First Line Of Defense From The Canadians\* \* _Minnesota_ 10,000 Lakes…And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes\* \* _Mississippi_ Come 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 Very Little Else _Nebraska_ Ask About Our State Motto Contest\* \* _Nevada_ Hookers and Poker!\* \* _New Hampshire_ Go Away 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…\* \* _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_ The Edyoocashun State\* \* _Texas_ Se Hablo Ingles\* \* _Utah_ Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus\* \* _Vermont_ Ay, Yep\* \* _Virginia_ Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don’t Mix?\* \* _Washington_ We have more rain than you do\* \* _West Virginia_ One Big Happy Family…Really!\* \* _Wisconsin_ Come Cut The Cheese!\* _Wyoming Where Men Are Men… And The Sheep Are Scared_ \*\* ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/2 "2005-05-06T13:12:37Z")
And the motto of Antigua, W.I. is “Kiss my asterisks.” ---
**Author:** ![biddee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@biddee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biddee)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/3 "2005-05-06T13:13:36Z")
LOL, yep 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/4 "2005-05-06T14:16:52Z")
**biddee** , them’s some funny stuff. I can’t wait to see the first indignant tightass response before this thread goes down like a locomotive on meth in the mountains. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/5 "2005-05-06T14:25:26Z")
> [@biddee](#): > > _Louisiana_ > We’re Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, > But That’s Our Tourism Campaign.\* \* Hee hee hee! Must share this with my boss. She will crack up. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/6 "2005-05-06T14:34:37Z")
I thought that the Louisiana motto was “Show us your tits and get some cheep plastic beads”. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/7 "2005-05-06T14:41:21Z")
I love the Kansas motto! Very fitting. We WERE the first of the rectangle states, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/8 "2005-05-06T14:53:18Z")
> [@biddee](#): > > _New Jersey_ > You Want A ##%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##%##! Motto > Right here!\* \* Hey! What, you think this is fuggin’ _funny_? Whaddaya sayin’ over dere? That we Jersey peoples gotta fuggin’ attitude? I’ll give ya a fuggin’ attitude! Come ova here and say that to my fuggin’ face, Mr. Funny Guy! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/9 "2005-05-06T14:54:14Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > I thought that the Louisiana motto was “Show us your tits and get some cheep plastic beads”. Only at certain times of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/10 "2005-05-06T15:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Michigan > First Line Of Defense From The Canadians You scoff now, but just wait till those mounites come a’trottin on down. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/11 "2005-05-06T15:06:54Z")
> [@](#): > > _Louisiana_ > We’re Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, > But That’s Our Tourism Campaign.\* \* Actual T-shirts I saw in New Orleans: \*\*Louisiana: Third World and proud of it! It’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/12 "2005-05-06T15:08:11Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > You scoff now, but just wait till those mounites come a’trottin on down. I, for one, _welcome_ our red-jacketed overlords. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/13 "2005-05-06T15:40:26Z")
> [@biddee](#): > > _Illinois_ > Please, Don’t Pronounce the “S”\* \* 😕 …and I _live_ in Illinois. What does this mean? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/14 "2005-05-06T15:48:59Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > 😕 > …and I _live_ in Illinois. What does this mean? It means the state name is pronounced “Ill-annoy”, not “Ill-a-noise.” ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/15 "2005-05-06T15:56:56Z")
Florida’s motto is right on, unfortunately. WAY to many elderly. And yes, it’s pronounced “Ill-a-noi”…no “s”. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/16 "2005-05-06T16:11:13Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Hey! What, you think this is fuggin’ _funny_? Whaddaya sayin’ over dere? That we Jersey peoples gotta fuggin’ attitude? I’ll give ya a fuggin’ attitude! Come ova here and say that to my fuggin’ face, Mr. Funny Guy! You know how doctors treat heart attacks in Jersey, right? ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/17 "2005-05-06T16:12:54Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > I, for one, _welcome_ our red-jacketed overlords. Red-jacketed my ass. I saw some of them come out of an office and walk across the street to a coffee shop way back in 1946. Three middle-aged guys, two bald and one fat, wearing green suits. In the little Crimsen Manual it’s written plain and clear, That those who wear the scarlet coat shall say good-by to fear, Shall be a guardian of the right, a sleuth hound of the trail- In the little Crimons Manual there’s no such word as “fail”- Shall follow on though heavens fall, on bleeding hand and knees, It’s duty, duty first and last the Crimson Manual saith, The Scarlet Rider makes reply, “It’s duty to the death.” _Clancy Of The Mounted Police_ - Robert W. Service ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/18 "2005-05-06T16:20:23Z")
Ah yea, The Royal anadian Mounted Police. Greatest feat of taxidermy ever! ---
**Author:** ![PigBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@PigBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigBoy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/19 "2005-05-06T16:23:05Z")
> [@](#): > > _Ohio_ > At Least We’re Not Michigan\* \* Yup, sounds about right. Ohio’s worst nightmare would be to wake up one morning and realize that it has become Michigan. I imagine Michigan feels the same way about Ohio, when it’s not busy fending off the Mounties. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675/20 "2005-05-06T16:24:22Z")
They all seem funny, except the one for my state. 😃 I mean, there are far better thing to criticize MD for, besides tax, and 5% does seem that high to me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-us-citizens-heres-your-state-motto/302675.md?page=2)