State Mottoes That Just Didn't Make It

[Arkana]

Texas: Capital Punishment Rocks!

Mississippi: We Do TOO Have All Our Teeth!

[Solon]

1. Missouri: The Drive Through State n/t

[Left Is Write]

2. Minnesota: Land of Ten Thousand Lakes and Ten Billion Mosquitoes

[dflprincess]

67. Minnesota: Many are cold but few are frozen

[underpants]

77. Mosquitoes are God's way of telling some people not to wear shorts

-Garrison Keiler

[underpants]

78. Rhode Island: Why?

[WoodrowFan]

154. Minnesota

Minnesota: Land of Many Cultures, Mostly Throat.

Minnesota: Land of Two Seasons, Winter is Coming, Winter is Here.

Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes and No Sharks!

[no name no slogan]

178. Minnesota: Land of two seasons: Winter and Road Construction (nt)

:hi:

[NightTrain]

3. Massachusetts: the Silly Accent State!

[Arkana]

5. Florida: Home State of Katherine Harris

[Zuni]

64. Florida---a little of the third world, at home

[Telly Savalas]

124. Not Massachusetts: The Wicked Hahdcore State?

[JVS]

167. The Wicked Hahdcore Pissah State

[Dookus]

4. North Dakota: The OTHER Dakota

[Arkana]

7. Wyoming: Eighteen Zillion Acres, Eighteen People

[ChoralScholar]

Wyoming: Nooo, not THAT square state.... the OTHER one!!!

[leftofthedial]

53. Wyoming

Land of 10.000 Scared Sheep

[Hi Peak Dancer]

182. It's SOUTH Dakota that's the "other" Dakota!

:)

[da_chimperor]

6. California: Dude, Where's My Bong?

:smoke:

[Wickerman]

Iowa: Plenty of free parking

[unblock]

8. wisconsin: eat cheese or die

a classic!

[NoPasaran]

9. Arkansas: Yer gonna squeeeeel like a pig!

[Art_from_Ark]

26. Especially if you're a Razorback fan!

Woooooooooooooooo! Pig sooie!

:crazy:

[drdtroit]

10. New York: Fuggeddaboutit

[Swede]

11. Vermont: The other white state.

Wisconsin: Beer,it's not just for breakfast anymore.

[Allenberg]

12. Pennsylvania: Potholes Add Character

[pres2032]

70. LOLOLOLOLOL

funniest. thing. ever. :D

[democracyindanger]

13. Oregon: You Guys Pay Sales Tax? Suckers!

[Zuni]

14. Washington State

"Home of Ted Bundy AND the Green River Killer."

[AntiCoup2K4]

137. OK, but we sent you guys the DC snipers!

:evilgrin:

[Zuni]

15. Delaware---Easily Forgettable

[Zuni]

16. Montana---Where Wingnuts Roam

[CO Liberal]

17. NJ; "You Wanna Motto? I Got Yet Motto RIGHT HERE....."

:-)

[Zuni]

18. Indiana: Home of Michael jackson

[ChoralScholar]

19. Arkansas: Not Quite as Bad as Mississippi

Not a personal idea, I've heard it all my life. I personally like Mississippi.

[CO Liberal]

20. Wisconsin: Come Smell Our Dairy Air

:-)

[Catfight]

175. BAWHAAAAAAAAhAAAA....diary air....heehee

[CO Liberal]

21. Colorado: We're California East Now

:-)

[drdtroit]

22. Michigan: We got all the water, nah nah nah na na!

[Salviati]

23. Wisconsin: Do ya want that with cheese?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Hawaii: Consonants Not Needed

[Left Is Write]

25. Idaho: No, Seriously, We Eat More Than Potatoes

[Zuni]

27. Texas---The Tractor Pull State

[CO Liberal]

28. Rhode Island: "We Are TOO A State!"

:-)

[democracyindanger]

29. Texas: Emphasis On The "Ass"

[aQuArius]

30. Utah: Ya can't marry the same sex....

but ya can marry as many of the opposite sex you want!

[aQuArius]

40. Utah: THE RED STATE

THE REDDEST STATE IN THE NATION!

[AwakeAtLast]

31. Illinois - May as well just call us Chicago.

:evilgrin:

Having grown up in So. IL, I know that is what it is like there.

[Zuni]

32. Massachussetts---Satan's home state

[Art_from_Ark]

33. Arkansas:

"Thank God for Mississippi!"

[American Tragedy]

43. I thought that was Alabama's motto?

[Zuni]

51. Tennessee--Where Moonshine flows like water

[CO Liberal]

34. Kansas: Baja Nebraska

:-)

[Left Is Write]

35. New Mexico: Yes We Really Are Americans

[Arkana]

46. New Mexico: We're Those Brown People George Was Talking About

[leftofthedial]

58. New Mexico

The Land of Enchanted Drivers

[Zuni]

36. Oklahoma: Boring as fuck

[democracyindanger]

37. Puerto Rico: Yeah, We Know, You Exclusionary Bastards

[WoodrowFan]

155. Washington D.C.

We may not be a state, be we control the nukes!

[CO Liberal]

38. Alaska: "What The Fuck Are We Doing Up Here?"

:-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

39. Illinois: We're useless classless assholes and Chicago is a shit stain

[ProfessorGAC]

143. We're Not Useless, Though

If the other stuff had been in there, but they left out "useless" it'd probably have made it as the state motto. No?
The Professor

[JVS]

169. Illinois: We really need to hurry up and rename the state Lincolnia

[CO Liberal]

41. Maine: "Ay-yuh!"

:-)

[Zuni]

42. Ohio---armpit of a nation

[Name removed]

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[calico1]

100. Oh, nice.

:grr:

[Zuni]

45. Utah---Saudi Arabia of the west

[aQuArius]

52. Hillarious!

I think I am one of the few DU Utah natives. I just love it when liberals pick on my home state. LOL!

[Ophelia Rising]

47. Children of the Corn, Signs, and Twister-

make your movie fantasies come true in Iowa!

[Radical Activist]

48. Tennessee: Because Good roads are better than good schools

[Endangered Specie]

115. Actually I think that should be North Carolina's

;)

[CO Liberal]

49. Kentucky: 15 Million People, 15 Last Names

:-)

[CO Liberal]

50. Nevada: "Ya Wanna Bet?"

:-)

[PittPoliSci]

54. Pennsylvania: Our Road's Craters are bigger than the Moon's

or perhaps this

Pennsylvania: Where you can get lost IN a road.

[kodi]

55. Mississippi: "At least we're not..............oh, never mind"

.

[Zuni]

56. Maryland----Not all of us have crabs

[Zuni]

57. Virginia---Where We use EVERY part of the pig

[democracyindanger]

59. North Dakota: North, South, Same Difference

[Parrcrow]

60. Kansas: Kansas City's someplace else.

[Zuni]

61. South Carolina---Where you can buy any fireworks imaginable

[Zuni]

62. Florida---Penis shaped swamp

[Aristus]

63. Washington State:

"Rain? This is good old liquid sunshine!"

[RevolutionaryActs]

66. LOL!!!

But it doesn't rain anymore. :o

[Aristus]

72. Look out your window, RevActs!

:-)

[Name removed]

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[Ophelia Rising]

65. Iowa: Pleanty of farm chemicals to support your meth habit!

[MrModerate]

68. California: The Golden Tan State n/t

[democracyindanger]

69. California: Strictly Speaking, We Don't Really Need You Guys

[Parrcrow]

71. Oklahoma: The Un-Texas

[A HERETIC I AM]

117. Oklahoma! Just cause we voted for Pat Robertson doesnt mean

we're nuts!

(Oklahoma was the ONLY state that Robertson carried when he ran for Pres)

[carpetbagger]

125. I thought it was the Uber-Texas. n/t

[JimmyJazz]

73. Pennsylvania: Under Construction

[carpetbagger]

126. That's what the keystone is. Head-on view of median barrier

Of course, you'll never actually see a head-on view of a median barrier, because that would imply the last or first concrete barrier. The construction has no beginning nor end. It is infinite.

[Blue-Jay]

74. OHIO!: "Hey, at least we're not Kentucky"

[Burma Jones]

75. NJ - Baby this town rips the bones from your back

It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we’re young
`cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

[khashka]

76. Missouri Loves Company n/t

Khash.

[underpants]

79. Virginia: You know all this used to ours...no really it did

[WoodrowFan]

156. LOL

I like, I like!!!! :thumbsup:

[underpants]

80. North Carolina: Where generations live side by side

[jmowreader]

139. North Carolina: Smoke 'em if you got 'em

[underpants]

81. West Virginia: We build highways for no particular reason

Sorry that actually is a RW slam on Sen.Byrd. Forgive me

[nuxvomica]

95. West Virginia: Not part of Virginia. Seriously, we're not.

[MrSandman]

107. Just not well...nt

[underpants]

82. MAryland: We love our crabs..go ahead have some...no they are the BEST....

[MrScorpio]

83. Virginia - Now with 20% More Fudge!

n/a

[underpants]

85. Virginia: Don't MAKE US attack you

[underpants]

84. Tennessee:None of those pesky dentists to bother you

[underpants]

86. New Jersey: Gas pumper's paradise

[Cuban_Liberal]

87. Illinois: At least we're not Indiana!

:P

[bugslsu9]

88. Wisconsin, More than Just Dahmer

[Touchdown]

89. Colorado: John Denver moved here uninvited, OKAY?

[blondeatlast]

90. Arizona: We ignore our state legislature, but they don't go away. nt

[immoderate]

144. LOL. Are they still afraid to show the legislature on TV?

--IMM

[name not needed]

91. New Jersey: Get the fuck outta my state!

[RetroLounge]

92. Wisconsin: Eat Cheese or Die!

RL

[RetroLounge]

93. Wisconsin: Where Illinois Comes to Play

RL

[MrScorpio]

94. Alabama - God, Guns And Incest Is The Purest Form Of Government

n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

96. Georgia: Hey, We Aren't Alabama!

[MrScorpio]

97. New Jersey: State Police Brutality For Fun And Profit

n/t

[ironflange]

98. Alabama: Gateway to Mississippi

[Redstone]

99. Rhode Island--Try to Find It!

Redstone

[calico1]

101. Connecticut--Born free, taxed to death! n/t

[LeftyMom]

102. Ohio: Even more boring than Kansas.

California: Making Missisippi schools look good.
Nedada: We're really glad Californians can't do math.
South Carolina: The huge fucking cockroach state.
Georgia: Well, Atlanta's okay.

[MrSandman]

110. Don't you go through Atlanta when....

You die and go to your reward?

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

114. Ohio: The State of Mindless Conformity

[LeftyMom]

120. Ohio: Like the fifties, but without all the jobs. nt

[Zuni]

140. Ohio---sit and watch it rust

[maveric]

103. NH: "We're no Massholes"

[strategery blunder]

104. Arizona: Welcome to the furnaces of Hell (n/t)

[Endangered Specie]

105. North Carolina: The Notorious D.O.T.

[MrScorpio]

106. Indiana: Assholes r' Us

[MrSandman]

108. West Virginia...All Mountaintops are ready for removal

[MrScorpio]

109. Florida: Not Enough Shoes For Everybody

[Endangered Specie]

111. North Carolina: our BBQ will kick your ass!

(unless its western)

[Redstone]

112. Connecticut: The New Jersey of New England

(As in a place people use primarily to drive through in order to get from one significant place to another. New Jersey: Philadelphia to New York. Connecticut: New York to Boston.)

Redstone

[Radical Activist]

113. Arkansas: What's a mottoe?

[calico1]

116. Connecticut--Grinder Capital of the World. n/t

[Endangered Specie]

118. North Carolina: and you thought Montana didn't care about speed limits!

[Endangered Specie]

119. North Carolina: ACC, or NASCAR, that is the question...

[maveric]

121. Delaware:"If it weren't for the pollution we'd be totally invisible".

[A HERETIC I AM]

122. Montana; "Speed limit? What the hell is a Speed Limit?

Montana; Yeah, we're large and full of gun toting survivalist nutjobs but you can drive through us REALLY FAST!

[calico1]

123. Connecticut--Birthplace of both Nathan Hale

and George W. Bush--Go figure!

[NervousRex]

127. Wisconsin

Hey der..where's da remote?

[slackmaster]

128. California - We're Not New Jersey

:D

[RedstDem]

129. Virginia, Where The Fundie Asshats Play

We Got Jerry Falwel, Bob Jones & Pat Robertson....Ack

[Dastard Stepchild]

130. New York: Ticks and Traffic - It's All We've Got For Ya!

something like that. Pataki just proposed it. :P

[Dastard Stepchild]

133. Indiana: We can see Chicago if we squint hard enough!

that's it.

[RagingInMiami]

131. Florida: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled lunatics

[RedstDem]

132. Virginia-Only 20 Minutes To Ground Zero !

[ScreamingMeemie]

134. Alabama: America's Armpit.

:hi:

[Xithras]

135. California: The Weather Rocks! (and so does the ground!)

[thestatusquo]

136. Pennsylvania: come bother the Amish!

[rockymountaindem]

138. Colorado: Can't top our mountains

Another famous also ran was "We got mountains... what you got, Kansas?"

[LynneSin]

141. Delaware: First State because our Syphillis infested signer got there 1st

Seriously!

[underpants]

147. Delaware: Yeah we know it is an odd place for a toll booth

but we don't care.

[LynneSin]

153. HEY - Maryland has them too on 95 - blame those fuckers too

get over it!

[underpants]

161. Delaware: We don't put our screendoors on our toll booths

we save them for our submarines...you know to keep the fish out.

:bounce:

Richmond had them right in the middle of the city until the mid 80's

[Zuni]

168. Delaware: Where there is a chicken in every yard

[kwassa]

142. Maryland: Where the heck is that?

[BigMcLargehuge]

145. New Hampshire: North of the Mason/Dixon Line, but you'd never know it

[Parrcrow]

148. Delaware: Dela-why?

[alarimer]

149. Texas: Mississippi with good roads

Courtey of Molly Ivins.

Also Texas: National laboratory for bad government.

[Parrcrow]

150. North Carolina: The Carolina Top

[WoodrowFan]

151. Mississippi: Colored Welcome! (NT)

[Ron Green]

152. Oregon: We'd love Negroes if we had any!

[Parrcrow]

157. West Virginia: Better than East Virginia

[WoodrowFan]

158. Ohio: We Count MOST of the Votes

[WoodrowFan]

159. Delaware: Charge Card Capitol of the World!

[WoodrowFan]

160. South Carolina: Making North Carolina Look Progressive Since 1860!

[underpants]

162. South Carolina: ANYONE can be a bartender here

:beer:

[Zuni]

165. South carolina---where explosives are plentiful

:nuke:

[Zuni]

163. Iowa---we are in the midwest here somewhere

[no name no slogan]

179. Iowa: come for the corn, stay for the.......aw hell, don't stay.

[Parrcrow]

164. Connecticut: Just spell it anyway you like.

[underpants]

166. South Carolina: THE Charleston (West Virginia?Seriously)

[underpants]

170. Florida: We CAN count if you don't like it go to one of the other 45states

[Zuni]

171. New Jersey: Come and see lovely Newark

[LynneSin]

172. Texas: Don't break the law or we'll have you executed

:D

[Zuni]

173. Florida: A Drug Runner's paradise

[NewJeffCT]

174. Connecticut...

"We're close to New York and Boston"

"Home of America's Worst City - Hartford"

"Birthplace of George W. Bush"

"Former home of George H.W. Bush"

"Got Casinos?"

"Need Insurance?"

[underpants]

176. Virginia: the politician machine we have 5 living former Governors

[BiggJawn]

177. "There's more than Corn in Indiana...Really, there's BASKETBALL!"

Corn, Basketball, and people who "go home" to Hazard for the holidays...

[Zuni]

180. Washington DC---Come for the museums, stay for the hi-grade crack

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

181. South Dakota: We've got mountains! (Unlike North Dakota)

Addendum: okay, so they're more hill-shaped, but they're very, very old mountains!

[elshiva]

183. New Jersey's Got It!

A real failed slogan. I saw a sticker with this slogan on NJ trash can. Begs the question What's it got? Lime disease...