# Hi! where ya'll from? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248 "2000-03-01T15:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f9b8f/32.png) [@eden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eden)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/21 "2000-03-01T17:31:00Z")
Born in Mountain View, CA Grew up some in Gainesville, FL Grew up some more in Villa Maria, Argentina Went to college in Northfield, MN Did a semester in Moscow, USSR (was back then!) Worked in Washington DC Went to grad school in Bloomington, IN Worked in Chicago, IL Now living in Tampa, FL _whew!_ ---
**Author:** ![Cheese\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cheese\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheese_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/22 "2000-03-01T17:38:00Z")
Wisconsin. “Eat cheese or die!” ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/23 "2000-03-02T06:07:00Z")
New Jersey ## “Whadda you lookin’ at!” …but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/24 "2000-03-02T06:15:00Z")
'Nuther Georgia boy here, living in the suberbs east of Atlanta. State motto: Liberty, Justice, and Moderation State nickname: The peach state State bird: Brown Thrasher State flower: Cherokee rose State tree: Live Oak State song: “Georgia on My Mind” (doubles as State tourism slogan) State quarter: Peach Butt (well, have you _seen_ it?) * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/25 "2000-03-02T06:16:00Z")
“suberbs”? Geez… ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/26 "2000-03-02T06:21:00Z")
Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle (although Seattlites won’t acknowledge the fact – we’re sort of country cousins). Grew up across the state in Spokane. Went to school in Provo, Utah. Worked for five years in Peoria, Illinois (wonderful people, horrible town). Have lived and worked in Seattle area since 1985. ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/27 "2000-03-02T06:21:00Z")
Permanent residence: Chicago, IL Going to school in: St. Louis, MO Motto: Gateway to the Midwest ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/28 "2000-03-02T06:23:00Z")
Oh, and our state motto is “Alki!”, which is an Indian word meaning “We couldn’t think of a motto!” Our state bird is the geoduck and our state flower is the umbrella. * * * he sleeps on that pile/of newspapers/in the corner/and when he takes off his/shoes you cannot/smell his breath “king nicky”, _archyology_ Don Marquis ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/29 "2000-03-02T06:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by TheUnforgiven: > \*\*Permanent residence: Chicago, IL > > Going to school in: St. Louis, MO > > Motto: Gateway to the Midwest > > \*\* ## I was at the arch last year! Up your butt and around the corner. ---
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/30 "2000-03-02T06:34:00Z")
Pittsburgh (motto:we’re not as polluted as we used to be) Washington DC (motto: the bitch set me up) Umtata(RSA) (motto: nothing like an undeclared civil war to make your life interesting) Goshen IN (motto: yes, you’ve never heard of Goshen) Ghaborone, Botswana (motto: Pula! (only real slogan presented in this post)) Lancaster, PA (motto: the locals are nicer than the tourists. but not much.) Northfield, MN (motto:have you heard about Defeat of Jesse James Day?) That about sums it up… ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/31 "2000-03-02T06:44:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by pluto: > \*\*Oh, and our state motto is “Alki!”, which is an Indian word meaning “We couldn’t think of a motto!” > > Our state bird is the geoduck and our state flower is the umbrella. > > \*\* Thats a good one pluto! And I am pretty sure the state motto is “Seattle and Alabama!” ## BTW, I am in Seattle…the real Seattle…not Kent or the eastside with the yuppies! =) -Frankie I’m a wholesale dealin papa, but I retail on the side.-Brownie McGhee ---
**Author:** ![eden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f9b8f/32.png) [@eden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eden)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/32 "2000-03-01T19:06:00Z")
Hey Nu Vo, when/why were you in Northfield? Anything to do with Carleton? Not that it’s any of my business… ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/33 "2000-03-01T19:12:00Z")
Having ahieved extinction of desire and of individual consciousness, I am posting from the transcendent state of freedom known to you poor souls, condemned to dukkha, as **nirvana**. But in obedience with the precepts of karuna, this bodhisattva remains here to help with your own personal enlightenment. ---
**Author:** ![melanietarrant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@melanietarrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melanietarrant)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/34 "2000-03-01T19:28:00Z")
I’m in southeastern Pennsylvania in a suburb of Philadelphia. for some ridiculous reason it is traditional for the governor to change the state motto everytime a new one is elected i think it’s “you have a friend in Pennsylvania” for a short while it was “the UNcommonwealth of Pennslyvania” ## our state nickname is the Keystone state I am D.B. Cooper ---
**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/35 "2000-03-01T19:35:00Z")
Born in Texas (The Lone Star State) Lived in: California Oregon Florida Ohio Kansas South Dakota Arizona Kentucky Back to Florida to grow old and die. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/36 "2000-03-01T20:14:00Z")
Houston, Tejas ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/37 "2000-03-01T21:28:00Z")
Okay, here goes. Being a military brat(some say still a brat), I was raised all over the world, except China, Russia, and Australia. I have lived in or been in every state, including Alaska and Hawaii. Been to Canada and Mexico bunches of times, spent a week in Panama, lived in Germany, Philippines, and Chile. After I got married(to an AF guy who was SUPPOSED to take me to see the rest of the world) I’ve lived in San Antonio, Tx. and Omaha, Ne. And, San Antonio, and Omaha, and back to San Antonio again. Here I sit, having just bought a house. It was here, or up in the COLD of Ne. I chose here, my bones don’t like that much cold anymore, though I still do. Still wanting to get to Paris… * * * Changing my sig just 'cause… To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.—Anon. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/38 "2000-03-01T21:29:00Z")
I was born in St. Louis, MO, them moved to Alexandria, VA, then on to Minneapolis, MN, for 6 months, then back to Alexandria, then on to Cincinnati, OH, for 9 years, then down here to Sanibel Island, FL (hence my name), whose motto is “Do Enjoy, Don’t Destroy.” And for Arnold: _Bodhisattva, won’t you take me by the hand? Bodhisattva, won’t you take me by the hand? Can you show me the shine of your Japan, The sparkle of your China, Can you show me? Bodhisattva! Bodhisattva! I’m gonna sell my house in town… Bodhisattva! I’m gonna sell my house in town… And I’ll be there to shine in your Japan, To sparkle in your China, I said I’ll be there, Bodhisattva! Bodhisattva! Bodhisattva!_ (Thanks to Steely Dan) * * * _SanibelMan_ - [My Homepage](http://members.macconnect.com/~jonkleinow/) “All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.” ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/39 "2000-03-01T21:33:00Z")
I was born in Iowa City, Iowa, lived in various boring towns in Iowa, and spent a few years in a boring town in Colorado before moving back to the biggest boring town in the state of Iowa, which is Des Moines, where I currently dream of living elsewhere. (But not too far elsewhere…Midwestern Doper bashes are too good to miss.) * * * “I like toast.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248/40 "2000-03-01T21:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Nu Vo Da Da: > \*\* > > Goshen IN (motto: yes, you’ve never heard of Goshen) > > \*\* Yes, I have! My wife is from New Haven, and we spent ten years in Peru, stationed at Grissom AFB. We have three not-so-little-anymore Hoosiers born in Logansport. Me: Born in Ruislip, England of a British mother, Grew up in: England France Germany Italy Arizona Colorado Ohio Oklahoma Texas Lived as an adult in: England Idaho (Current) Illinois Indiana South Carolina ## To hell with state mottos etc; I couldn’t keep track of’em! 🙂 VB Cowabunga Buffalo Bob! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-where-yall-from/14248.md?page=3)