# Rejected State Mottos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 18, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788 "2003-12-18T17:14:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Blackdragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Blackdragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackdragon)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/41 "2003-12-19T01:05:22Z")
**Nevada** - We have Las Vegas **Maryland** - Visit anywhere but Baltimore **North Carolina** or **North Dakota** - We like being on top **West Virginia** - We’re just east of Virginia **Delaware** - Chickens and beaches ---
**Author:** ![Eman\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/42 "2003-12-19T01:07:37Z")
**California** On the Left Coast, yet Center of the whole freakin’ universe. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/43 "2003-12-19T01:35:06Z")
**Kansas** - The Methbasket State **Iowa** - The road less traveled… **Missouri** - Where the mild things are. **Texas** - Til death do us part **Wisconsin** - Behold, the power of cheese. Alternate: Shoring up the brandy market since 1848. **Colorado** - I burning your beer. **Arkansas** - Relatively speaking, it’s a nice place. **South Dakota** - Four stoned guys and a Wall of Drugs. **Nevada** - Brothels and Casinos. Hey, we’re in a desert, we gotta have _some_ fun. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/44 "2003-12-19T01:38:29Z")
**North Dakota** - We’re windy 'cause Montana blows and Minnesota sucks. **South Dakota** - Hey, we got Sturgis. Tripler Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/45 "2003-12-19T01:38:55Z")
**Texas** Forget the Alamo, we LOST! **Maryland** If you can think of it, we’ll tax it ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/46 "2003-12-19T01:48:07Z")
**Connecticut** - Adjacent to Greatness ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/47 "2003-12-19T02:24:31Z")
**Hawaii** - the pizza state. **Washington** - serial killer country. **Nevada** - where sinning is legal. **Mexico** - not a state but didn’t vote for Bush. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/48 "2003-12-19T02:39:53Z")
**Illinois** - Home of $9.95 drivers license **Wisconsin** - Hold my beer and watch this \*\*Indiana - Cheap Booze, Cheap Gas, and Easy Women. Maine\*\* - If you can’t stand the wintahs, you don’t deserve the summahs. **Alaska** - Home of the 4 pound mosquito **Vermont** - Duude! Mountains! **Alabama** - Y’alll ain’t from round here, is ya? ---
**Author:** ![PlanMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@PlanMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanMan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/49 "2003-12-19T02:59:36Z")
**Michigan** - we look like a mitten **Louisiana** - boot shaped, which is good with all this mud **Oklahoma** - not only a panhandle, but the rest of the pan **Alabama** - the mirror image of Mississippi **Massachusettes** - the state with a hook **Florida** - just think how closer Miami will be to the Northeast if we get excited! ---
**Author:** ![xayoz306](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bc8723/32.png) [@xayoz306](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xayoz306)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/50 "2003-12-19T03:24:23Z")
Not states but… **Saskatchewan** - Confusing spellers since 1905 **Ontario** - We are proof high income doesn’t equal high intelligence **Quebec** - We got you English right here!!! **British Columbia** - Wher pot and snowbaording are synonymous **Alberta** - Where the men are men and the cattle are nervous **Manitoba** - Now with 25% less people **Newfoundland** - Proudly being the butt of Canada’s jokes since 1949 **Yukon Territory** - Alaska’s poor cousin ---
**Author:** ![jweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@jweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jweb)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/51 "2003-12-19T03:38:52Z")
Wisconsin - You’ll Smell The Cows Minnesota - A Whole Lot of Dirt ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/52 "2003-12-19T03:44:46Z")
**Michigan** : cars, bars and lotsa weirdos. **Michigan** Trolls and Yoopers Abound! Hi Athena! **Michigan** Welcome to Michigan, no go home. \*\* **Will the last one leaving Michigan in Winter Please Turn Out The Lights?** **Michigan** Nothing to see here, please move along. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/53 "2003-12-19T03:47:02Z")
Nuts. Welcome to Michigan. Now Go Home. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/54 "2003-12-19T03:55:32Z")
**California** -also known as **North Mexico** ---
**Author:** ![Yumanite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b487fb/32.png) [@Yumanite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumanite)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/55 "2003-12-19T04:27:29Z")
**Utah** : We sell beer now – no, really! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/56 "2003-12-19T04:37:11Z")
**U S Virgin Islands** - If all hurricanes were named after men, they’d never bother the mainland again, what with all the virgins here and all… ya know? **Guam** - you know you want to **Wake Island** - Lots of goony birds and one freakin liquor store. At least we ain’t gettin’ bombed any more. Well, not with just one damn liquor store! ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/57 "2003-12-19T05:24:39Z")
Texas…_That is our motto!_ ---
**Author:** ![Sm\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sm\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sm_e)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/58 "2003-12-19T05:25:59Z")
“Welcome to **Virginia**! You’re late for court.” ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/59 "2003-12-19T06:09:52Z")
“ **Utah** - Our church can beat up your church!” “ **New Mexico** - That’s _New_, no, really, it’s _NEW_” “ **Washington** - The Evergreen State - always green because of the everpresent moss and mold from the rain!” ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/60 "2003-12-19T07:03:10Z")
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