# Lovecraftian state nicknames **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 14, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374 "2011-06-14T00:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/41 "2011-06-16T14:54:35Z")
If it has to fit on a license plate, Virginia = Dominion of the Old Ones ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/42 "2011-06-16T15:12:25Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > If it has to fit on a license plate, Virginia = Dominion of the Old Ones Old Ones = Grand Olde Patriarchs. . . ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/43 "2011-06-16T17:54:26Z")
Virginia is for Livers ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/44 "2011-06-16T21:45:43Z")
Washington: Realm of Buh’Na’hna Sluh’g and Ghoo Y’Dhuch ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/45 "2015-01-23T05:15:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > ETA: Make it “The **Scorched** Province,” don’t wanna use “Blight” twice. Or perhaps “Sultry and Fetid.” No, wait, make that “Sultry and Foetid.” ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/46 "2015-01-23T05:37:50Z")
The Straight Dope: Fighting the revenant Eaters of Flesh since 1973 ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/47 "2015-01-23T19:30:28Z")
That _was_ a very late edit. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [Here,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_nicknames) to work with, is a list of official (and other, abominably heretical and esoteric) state nicknames. Wow, Kentucky is way ahead of everyone, and already has an official one, “The Dark and Bloody Ground State”. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/48 "2015-01-23T22:54:38Z")
> [@Jaguars](#): > > Disclaimer: I’ve never read Lovecraft, just going off his internet presence. Apparently no one else in this thread has, either. It’s the longest string of Lovecraftian prose ever written that doesn’t contain the words “non-Euclidean” nor “cyclopean”. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/49 "2015-01-24T05:27:44Z")
North Dakota remains “Land of the Frozen Dead.” Colorado: “Land of the Mountains of Madness.” (Manitou Springs is pretty Lovecraftian, but they aspire to more of a Stephen King vibe.) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/50 "2015-01-24T05:34:44Z")
Hawaii: “Our last–and least effective or enthusiastic–vanguard against the Lurking Horror that is Dagon of the Depths!” Wyoming: “We know what awaits within that supervolcano beneath Yellowstone. Soon, you will too!” Connecticut: “Arkham if they can’t take a joke!” “The moon dripped blood over the Miskatonic River!” ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/51 "2015-01-24T15:22:49Z")
Wisconsin, Foward into the abyss where the old gods await to feast on your agony ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/52 "2015-01-24T16:58:37Z")
> [@TimeWinder](#): > > Apparently no one else in this thread has, either. It’s the longest string of Lovecraftian prose ever written that doesn’t contain the words “non-Euclidean” nor “cyclopean”. Washington D. C.: The place where we erect all our cyclopean monstrosities. (The non-Euclidean monstrosities are in the MOMA) North Carolina: First in Flight… from the Eldrich horrors. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/53 "2015-01-24T19:06:56Z")
Indiana: The Crossroads of the Cosmos. Its capital of Naptown is an ancient city of incomprehensible geometry abandoned by its creators and forgotten by time. Those foolish enough to linger will be reduced to a death like trance, their minds filtered into a kaleidoscope of ichor and arrayed before the local horse gods as sacrifice in a [temple of pitch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Oil_Stadium) overseen by the [Priest of Fortune](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Luck). Those strong enough to resist will lose themselves in endless seas of corn, never to be seen again. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/54 "2015-01-24T21:13:43Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Washington D. C.: The place where we erect all our cyclopean monstrosities. (The non-Euclidean monstrosities are in the MOMA) Monstrosities? A shoggoth could eat all those [tiny buildings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Washington,_D.C.). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/55 "2015-01-24T21:29:27Z")
It’s not the buildings - it’s what lies beneath \*What Lies Beneath! 'fhalma-agl hupadgh grah’n-or’ai!! \* ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/56 "2015-01-24T23:16:18Z")
More abysmally soul-ravaging than the vast empty chasm of the Total Reality Vortex of Frogstar World B, where in the void the last faint glimmer of hope is consumed in the hungry hellfires of Halliburton as venomous, indifferent claws scrape at the trembling, tortured Tartarous desolation that fades into abject surrender, here withers the last wisp of a suggestion of the Fargone spirit. I actually like that state, it is the red-headed-step-child of the nation. Or maybe its plucky comic relief. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374/57 "2015-01-24T23:59:45Z")
Tennessee–the Volunteer State. What they volunteer for…_I dare not name…_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraftian-state-nicknames/585374.md?page=2)