New Jersey: only called "The Garden State" because "Oil Refinery and Pollution" wouldn't fit on the license plates.

HAHAHAHAHA.... I love that movie...

Home state: California (more for southern): Where everything is fake!

Current state: Nevada: Uses more electricity than all the other states combined

lol -- I had no idea that was from a movie! one of my friends says it all the time, and I just thought he was being clever... oops!

On the VERY off chance that AGD HQ moves from IN to GA....

Georgia - Official Home of the AGD Head Squirrels

Back - The Perfect Place for Nuts like Us


Honestly, no offense intended!! I love AGD and almost any kind of nuts (peanuts, pecans,....)

REJECTED STATE MOTTOS

ALABAMA
Literacy ain't everything
Ya want fries with dat?

ALASKA
Come, freeze your butt off

ARIZONA
Winter home to 150,000 snowbirds

ARKANSAS
At least we're not Mississippi

CALIFORNIA
The Granola State
Nobody's actually from here
Fast reloading lanes available
The really long state

COLORADO
Too wimpy to cross the mountains so we stopped here
Official home of the winter ski bunny

CONNECTICUT
Way too close to New York

DELAWARE You'll need a map to find us
So close to Washington you can smell it

FLORIDA The Gunshine State
Elephant Graveyard; where the old Republicans go to die
Senior citizen discounts available
Come, enjoy the humidity
The snow capital of the US

GEORGIA Home of the Rednecks
Gateway to Florida
Confederate money welcome

HAWAII Sure, we've got Interstates... drive on over
Book 'em Danno
Tom Selik, Jack Lord, Don Ho - Paradise!
Come, get lai-ed

IDAHO Ain't nothing here
We don't care if you spell potato with an "e"
Land of a billion "eyes"

ILLINOIS Land of the voting dead
Gateway to Iowa

INDIANA Home of David Letterman

IOWA Just east of Omaha
It's easy to spell

KANSAS Hayfever capital of the Midwest
Dole slept here
There's no place like home
Ya want flat, we got flat

KENTUCKY Tobacco is a vegetable
We're all related
Gateway to Nashville

LOUISIANA Swim the beautiful Bayou
Cancer Alley's just a name, and names will never hurt you

MAINE For Sale
You can spit on Canada from here

MARYLAND If it weren't for Washington, you couldn't find us

MASSACHUSETTS Home of the young girls from Nantucket, also the home of Ted Kennedy, hmmmm...

MICHIGAN Land of the free, home of the Buick

MINNESOTA Not Sweden, but we try to act like it
Sure beats Canada

MISSISSIPPI We're lucky we can spell it
Why would you want to come here?

MISSOURI Gateway to Kansas
Here's mine, Show Me yours
We're better than Illinois

MONTANA Land of the Big Sky, and very little else
We've got lots of 10'x10' shacks in the woods
It's where you're wanted.
At least our cows are sane.

NEBRASKA More corn than Kansas
Go to Kansas, turn north

NEVADA More weirdos than Alaska (warmer too)
2 words - Death Valley
3:5 you'll leave broke
We have our own nuclear testing site

NEW HAMPSHIRE Like Old Hampshire, only newer
About as exciting as Vermont

NEW JERSEY You have the right to remain silent, You have the right to an attorney...
Tell 'em Guido sent ya

NEW MEXICO Lizards make excellent pets
We have reservations
Alien Welcome Center - Roswell

NEW YORK At least we're not New Jersey!
We're more than a big city; we're a state
Like we CARE about a motto
English spoken here; sometimes

NORTH CAROLINA Five million people; Fifteen last names
We're bigger than South Carolina

NORTH DAKOTA The OTHER South Dakota

OHIO Don't judge us by Cleveland
Proud polluters of Lake Erie
We're easy to spell

OKLAHOMA We're OK, you're NOT!
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto

OREGON As pretty as California but not as weird
We're not named after a musical instrument
You can see the sunset from here

PENNSYLVANIA Cook with coal
Free lub job with oil change

RHODE ISLAND Size ain't everything
Nobody famous came from Rhode Island

SOUTH CAROLINA Just south of North Carolina

SOUTH DAKOTA Closer than North Dakota

TENNESSEE The Educashun State
Thank goodness we've still got Elvis
A great fixer-upper

TEXAS Si Hablo Ingles
See, EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas!

UTAH Our Jesus is better than your Jesus
At least our sheep can't talk

VERMONT Bet ya can't name 2 of our towns

VIRGINIA Please don't confuse us with West Virginia!

WASHINGTON We like our state, so STAY OUT!

WEST VIRGINIA Where "family values" has a different meaning

WISCONSIN Land of funny accents.
Say "Cheeeese"

WYOMING Where men are lonely and sheep are scared

Illinois: Our Two Seasons: Winter and Road Construction

And one of my professors at IU suggested this in class one day:

Indiana: Bring Something to Do.

*appropriate for today!*

Colorado- if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes!

Re: New State Motos
 

Oh man... so true. Or as Dave Barry says, all drivers in Miami follow the driving laws... of their own respective countries.

Re: New State Motos
 

heh,

that's funny.

I think South Dakota's should be changed, i propose...
South Dakota Third World Country in the Middle of America? Welcome to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Kitso
KS 361

This is so funny.

Pennsylvania is actually having a contest right now to come up with a new slogan. We did a story about the rejected ideas one night on the news. One of the suggestions was "If the pot holes don't kill you, the taxes will."

I forget the others, but there were some pretty funny ones.

North Dakota... world's third largest nuclear superpower! (5th Bomb Wing (B-52s) and 91st Space Wing (Minuteman ICBMs) at Minot AFB and the 319th Air Refueling Wing (KC-135 tankers) at Grand Forks AFB.)

North (and South) Dakota - American Siberia!