# Suggest a New National Motto!! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2000, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428 "2000-07-22T02:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/21 "2000-07-23T18:57:11Z")
“America - at least we’re aren’t France.” (Sticks and stones may break my bones, but please, don’t throw sticks and stones, please!" ---
**Author:** ![jayron\_32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jayron\_32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayron_32)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/22 "2000-07-23T19:03:49Z")
“America: Good enough for me!” “America: Tastes filling. Less Great.” “America: Land of the gun nuts, home of the christian right.” ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/23 "2000-07-23T20:51:57Z")
America: We say more arrogant things before 6am than most other countries do in a whole year! Consume. Reproduce. Obey. Land of the fee, and home of TV ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/24 "2000-07-23T21:12:40Z")
Civil War Free Since {1865} Home of Hollywood Vacancy ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/25 "2000-07-23T22:08:12Z")
America: Love it or Leave it (oldie) America: No thanks, we have enough poor refugees. America: Land of the lawsuit slinging, television watching, dumb as shit, careless as hell, trend following morons. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/26 "2000-07-23T22:12:25Z")
This motto brought to you with your tax dollars. (We also sent the Senate to Cancun on a five-week vacation with it, but hey…) ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/27 "2000-07-23T22:45:38Z")
America- Laser-Guided Bombing Guaranteed, or the next one’s for free! ---
**Author:** ![Zinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e95f7d/32.png) [@Zinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zinger)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/28 "2000-07-23T23:32:31Z")
America- PLEASE DON’T SEND ANY MORE STUPID BOY BANDS! America- The land where the fat lady sings that second to last line so loud that everyone in the stadium must clap their hands to their ears and scream, “What did we do to deserve this torture???” The latter is a bit lengthy, but, well, so is that note on which the fat lady sings FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/29 "2000-07-24T00:34:28Z")
“In Money We Trust” “Kick Me” “We Love Fireworks!” “Despite What You Think, the People on the Jerry Springer Show Are Considered Freaks Even in the US and Are Not Indicative of Our Whole Country.” ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/30 "2000-07-24T00:49:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wevets \* > \*\* > Consume. Reproduce. Obey. > \*\* I nominate this one as the best so far, “Civil War Free (since 1865)” by Jophiel second. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2000, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/31 "2000-07-24T01:08:09Z")
“Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold–We’d Kill Our Own Children For A Bag Full Of Gold!” ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/32 "2000-07-24T01:11:43Z")
I like that one proposed by **UncleBeer** next door. A bit wordy, though. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/33 "2000-07-24T09:16:45Z")
America - home of Baywatch, though it’s not nearly as popular here as everywhere else. We do have some standards after all. Well, we did until Springer showed up. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/34 "2000-07-24T13:55:02Z")
We’ve fallen and we can’t get up! ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/35 "2000-07-24T13:56:18Z")
Oh wait, that’s Bob Dole’s slogan. Sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sweet\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/36 "2000-07-24T14:05:34Z")
I propose : “Why Wait?” As in: “Why wait for the smog to kill you - just suck on that tailpipe or move to Los Angeles! (same thing.)” “Why wait for your arteries to _slowly_ clog with plaque - eat at McDonald’s from childhood and get heart disease at 35!” “Why wait for real relationships to develop in your life, when you can just get some porn?” Etc… ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/37 "2000-07-24T16:36:44Z")
OK, not funny, not even currently accurate, but it could help if we gave it a try. “Make more, take less.” Tris ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/38 "2000-07-24T17:13:30Z")
I propose that the current motto be re-vamped for todays times… something like: In some diety that may or may not exist,but you have the right to choose to worship or not at your discresion, as long it doesn’t infringe no the right of others to worship their dieties, we trust, while officially recognising a legal separation of said diety with the State. ---
**Author:** ![wacky\_ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/58956e/32.png) [@wacky\_ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wacky_ninja)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/39 "2000-07-24T17:37:15Z")
you want a motto? i got yer @!#$! motto right here! –i got that from a random email ---
**Author:** ![PowerpuffKue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@PowerpuffKue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PowerpuffKue)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428/40 "2000-07-24T17:42:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragwyr \* > \*\*In some diety that may or may not exist,but you have the right to choose to worship or not at your discresion, as long it doesn’t infringe no the right of others to worship their dieties, we trust, while officially recognising a legal separation of said diety with the State. > \*\* LoL, I nominate this one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-new-national-motto/26428.md?page=3)