# What Nickname Would You Give Your State? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 10, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297 "2015-02-10T15:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [February 13, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/81 "2015-02-13T17:09:17Z")
Arizona - the Packrat State or Arizona - Pointy, Stingy, Venomous, Armed and Hot ---
**Author:** ![OffByOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/45deac/32.png) [@OffByOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OffByOne)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/82 "2015-02-13T17:30:26Z")
Texas – Proud of Willful Ignorance ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/83 "2015-02-13T18:46:32Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Welcome to Massachusetts - the most progressive state in the U.S. Now get your ass out unless you are a student that intends to leave in a few years, a really rich person or a professional athlete (any ethnicity is semi-acceptable for the latter category but Irish and/or Italian is always a crowd pleaser). If you want to be in the land of lily white academics that wring their hands over the theoretical troubles of minorities and poor from some of the most expensive and segregated neighborhoods in the country, this is absolutely the place for you. That will never fit on a license plate. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/84 "2015-02-14T22:52:15Z")
> [@hyperspaz](#): > > Last night, we were joking about how we would change Pennsylvania from the Keystone State to the Pothole State, and Colorado to the Stoner State. We got to thinking that surely people from other places do stuff like this to make fun of their state. > > So, what nickname would you give your state? You are aware, of course, that PA state ('scuse me, commonwealth) law requires that at least 45% of state highway mileage be under construction at any given time. So there’s that possibility, too. Pennsylvania: Where the Road Construction Never Ends (sorry to Kopek, who already used this idea–going back to read the rest of the thread, I just saw his/her response above. Great minds run in the same, um, pothole, I guess.) ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/85 "2015-02-15T02:34:47Z")
North Dakota - Ow ow ow ow cold cold cold!!! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/86 "2015-02-15T02:39:47Z")
Pennsylvania - we’re well armed. In case those folks in Connecticut get uppity again. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/87 "2015-02-15T02:41:21Z")
Florida - “And that surprises you, why?” ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/88 "2015-02-15T02:43:23Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Yeah, but it’s all frozen half the year. eh, still comes out of the tap just fine 😛 edit: also, perch. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/89 "2015-02-15T04:27:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Florida: The batshit crazy state. I thought it was “We’re old and stupid and have an onion on our belts and we’re batshit crazy.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/90 "2015-02-15T05:06:20Z")
> [@sinjin](#): > > I thought it was "We’re old and stupid and have an onion on our belts… \ …which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we… oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn’t have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…" ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/91 "2015-02-15T05:20:31Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I think of it in terms of license plate slogans. > > My current state’s slogan would be “Four Dead In Ohio”. > > . Wow. Why? ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/92 "2015-02-15T20:16:43Z")
Rhode Island: Hopeless ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/93 "2015-02-15T22:06:53Z")
California: We’ve Been Driving for Eight Hours and We’re Still in California. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/94 "2015-02-15T22:13:47Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > That will never fit on a license plate. Pfft! We have MIT. We can make it fit somehow. I am thinking 3D or RFID tags or something. Standard space constraints don’t apply here because we have really smart people that will find a solution to the conventional license plate data limit. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/95 "2015-02-15T23:43:31Z")
New Hampshire: Live Free, Freeze, and Die ---
**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:** [February 16, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/96 "2015-02-16T00:24:55Z")
Nebraska: what Kansas would look like with people living in it ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/97 "2015-02-16T01:23:34Z")
Georgia: The almost good state. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/98 "2015-02-16T01:25:58Z")
Georgia: Are schools have got a lot better. Really, I can do this all night. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/99 "2015-02-28T16:09:08Z")
Arizona - 20th Happiest State (at least we’re not Indiana, Kentucky, or West Virginia) ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nickname-would-you-give-your-state/712297/100 "2015-02-28T18:10:23Z")
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