Idaho: Kind of Like Saskatchewan, but Easier to Spell
Pennsylvania: Virginia may be for lovers but here we have Intercourse.
“Virginia is for lovers” is Virginia’s official tourist slogan, and Intercourse, PA is a small town in PA famous for its suggestive name and not that far from Virginia.
New Jersey: Pay Toll
Illinois: Where the dead vote early and often
Minnesota: Twine Ball Or Bust!
Montana: World-Famous Dental Floss
Wisconsin: Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
Virginia: What The Hell Is A ‘Commonwealth,’ Anyway? (Ditto Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky)
Kansas: It’s Every Bit As Flat As They Say
Idaho: Addicted to Spuds
Haven’t seen this oldie but goodie yet:
New Jersey: Which Exit?
We’ll if we’re going with oldies: Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, & Alabama in between.
Ohio: only one letter away from Oh No!
Oh good, I get to add a motto for South Dakota: Conform Or Die.
Georgia: I-95 tooooo!
Georgia: No overtaking on the left.
I’m from South Dakota and I don’t get the reference.
Kansas - Home of Leavenworth and Fred Phelps.
Oregon: Washington’s Mexico, California’s Canada & Idaho’s Portugal
Georgia: Atlanta and…the other parts.
Atlanta: A peach surrounded by the pits.
Florida: We’re closer to Havana than we are to Atlanta
Louisiana: Your county is my Parish
Tennessee: Here a holler, there a holler, everywhere a holler
Texas: Walk to the center until you smell it, then walk south until you step in it
Texas: The longest day of your life - drive I-10 across me
California: We’ll check your passport at the state line
Nevada: Dump your nuclear wastes here!
Oregon: Have you hugged your tree lately?
Vermont: In New York’s Shadow
Alaska: Our state bird is the mosquito
West Virginia: Everyone’s down in the coal mine
Missouri: The Show Me state? The Show me outta here state!
Does this thread need an update ten years on?
Hey! We need some posters with real local cred to respond to this. Maybe @Didi44 ?
ETA: if the"pimple" is a reference to Mauna Loa/Kiluaea, that sort of makes sense, but the STATE of Hawai’i is not defined by those geological features; they are part of something larger.
Actually, the Alaska state bird is the Willow Ptarmigan. The Mosquito is the Alaska Air Force.
Washington: The Overgrown State. (I used to say this in regards to vegetation — particularly blackberries and morning glory — but of late it can be used about people as well.)
That post is so old I don’t even remember making it.
I know this is nearly 10 years old, but seriously? It is “What Exit?” not “Which Exit?”.
New Jersey; have your laugh, but hey, we’re better off than most states.
New Jersey; even our shitty schools are National Average.
New Jersey; Never far from the Beach
New Jersey; The Jersey Turnpike no longer smells so bad.
New Jersey; “If Living Here Were Easy, It Would Be Another State.” (this one was offered up as a possible new motto a few years back.
New Jersey; We’re paying for the rest of the country.
Florida: Natural habitat of Trump AND DeSantis
(Or maybe, more simply, Florida: Home of the crazies)
Texas: We may be crazy, but we ain’t Florida
Vermont: Almost Canada
I’m not sure what I was thinking when I made my post - usually I can spot and avoid zombies but not this time. Also, I don’t know why I thought a different motto was required, since they’re all just jokes anyway. I was half asleep, apparently.