# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/101 "2004-01-03T05:38:07Z")
[ **Tennessee** - We Mean Well ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/102 "2004-01-03T15:37:12Z")
Missouri - Missouri loves company Arkansas - 1st state, alphabetically Alabama - Where Forrest Gump Alaska - Pitch dark for three months a year Mississippi - 11 characters, 4 different letters California - {oldie but goodie} land of the fruits and nuts Vermont - Could 500,000 cows be wrong? Vermont - We’ve outlawed the right turn signal Montana - We’ve outlawed the left turn signal ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/103 "2004-01-03T15:43:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by notfrommensa \* > **Arkansas - 1st state, alphabetically** I give up: is this meant to be a reflection on Arkansans or on your user name? ---
**Author:** ![Sonyadora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sonyadora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonyadora)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/104 "2004-01-03T16:07:42Z")
**California** Our Govenor can beat up your Govenor! Land of fruit and nuts. There’s a whole bunch north of LA…really! Where driving is worth your life. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/105 "2004-01-03T17:54:42Z")
The State of education in Arkansas is not known to be the best in the country. I know Alabama, Alaska and Arizona are ahead of them alphabetically. I live near Arkansas in Missouri, they get the wrath our jokes constantly. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/106 "2004-01-03T19:29:43Z")
Just checking. ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/107 "2004-01-04T02:05:16Z")
South Carolina Now with more Strom Thurmond memorials per square mile South Carolina (When Strom Thurmond was on the Senate Armed Forces Committee) All your bases belong to us. South Carolina Living proof that ignorance is bliss. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/108 "2004-01-04T05:28:57Z")
**New York** - Now with THREE levels of taxation! - We’re nice once we know you, we swear to God. - BROOKLYN! Feel the magic! - Visit Manhattan, where the folks are just like you except with more money than your whole family made or ever will make. - Try driving the whole Thruway from Yonkers to Buffalo and you’ll SEE how goddamn big Upstate is, smart guy. - Visit our Capitol District on your way to the Berkshires! PLEASE!! - You haven’t lived until you’ve seen the OTHER Rome. **Florida** - We’re sorry for 2000. We’re sorry for 2000. We’re sorry for 2000. - God’s Waiting Room. **Guam** - Yes, it’s part of your country. - Yes, we’re citizens. - Past Hawaii–look at a goddamn map! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/109 "2004-01-04T05:48:15Z")
**Wisconsin** : How 'bout dat Brett Favre? Oooh, he’s good, aina? ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/110 "2004-01-04T06:02:32Z")
**Quebec** : Official home of the Quebec seperatist movement. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/111 "2004-01-04T23:41:51Z")
:eek: no one’s used the “Whose Line” nevada motto? _clears throat, sings_ “Whores and Gamblin’, Whores and Gamblin’, that’s Nevadaaaa” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/112 "2004-01-04T23:45:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chaoticdonkey \* > \*\*:eek: no one’s used the “Whose Line” nevada motto? > > _clears throat, sings_ “Whores and Gamblin’, Whores and Gamblin’, that’s Nevadaaaa” \*\* From page 1: > [@](#): > > **Nevada** - Home to Whores and Gambling and Proud of It! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/113 "2004-01-04T23:49:07Z")
**Illinois** - One big city and a lot of rednecks! Whoohoo! **California** - Now, with more stereotypes! **Michigan** - I live _here_. :: points at hand :: ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/114 "2004-01-05T00:03:23Z")
**Massachusetts** - You want roads? Oh, yeah - we got roads. Sorta. **Massachusetts** - We still got most of the Kennedys! **Massachusetts** - You’ve been speaking wrong all your life. and finally **Massachusetts** - We want Maine back. Also, **Vermont** - Please don’t move here. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/115 "2004-01-05T00:08:00Z")
**South Carolina** - Too small to be a country, too large to be an asylum. ---
**Author:** ![Anduin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Anduin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/116 "2004-01-05T00:56:10Z")
North Dakota - 40 below keeps out the riff-raff. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/117 "2004-01-05T06:27:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rooves \* > \*\ ***Pennsylvania** Where even the Amish deal drugs \*\* Heh, I could tell some stories…but I won’t. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/118 "2004-01-05T08:58:47Z")
**Rhode Island** - Home of one of the oddest blue laws: no playing music on a Sunday. **Rhode Island** - We’re not really an island, we’re actually a peninsula. **Delaware** - At least we’re bigger than Rhode Island. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Babbington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Mr.Babbington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Babbington)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/119 "2004-01-05T09:27:20Z")
North Dakota- It’s not you. There really **is** nothing here. Alabama- Not housebroken yet, but close. Ohio- Hey, we cleaned up Cleveland. What the hell else do you want? Indiana- Stay away from Gary. It smells there. West Virginia- Two Words: Dueling Banjos. by the way: > [@](#): > > Our Governor can beat up your governor It was ours first. ---
**Author:** ![danixa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@danixa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danixa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rejected-state-mottos/219788/120 "2004-01-05T10:42:42Z")
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