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Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 2:29pmSanction this postReply
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Yeah, some were less stellar than others.  Some were interchangible, the inbreeding jokes, for instance.  "Se habla Ingles" would work for several other states, as well as Texas.  I'm not sure what I would come up with for Ohio and Michigan and those are my homes.  All in all, though, this was not half bad.  Usually these lists get painful, but this one held up all right.

Thanks.

(For the Objectivist spin, I question whether "states" are objective entities or only reified geographies.  What is the ontology of statehood?  I mean, if you look at them from orbit, there are no lines.  Michigan is about the only state that is really a place in a physical sense without imaginary lines.)


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Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 5:19pmSanction this postReply
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No, you can't have a 3-line "motto."

New Jersey:

"Swim with the Fishes."

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Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 9:16pmSanction this postReply
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I thought the Jersey slogan was "New Jersey: Where only the Strong survive."

Joe
South Jersey born and raised
(Edited by Joe Maurone
on 3/24, 10:46pm)


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Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 9:02pmSanction this postReply
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Regarding this one:

North Dakota
We Really Are One Of The 50 States!

 
... I just have to mention, when I lived in Alabama, we had a friend from North Dakota who went to the Alabama DMV to get her driver's license, and the clerk told her, "You're from North Dakota?  You'll have to get in the International Line."


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Thursday, March 24, 2005 - 9:59pmSanction this postReply
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A few from my home state of Louisiana:

-You come here and you gon have a good time you!

-Nous parlons l'anglais aussi bon que vous tout

-Don't worry about what it is, it tastes like chicken don't it?

-We got it all; readin, ritin, and uh...whats that last one?

-That's creole food, not cajun! Get out of here you goddamn yankee!

We finally got this whole racial thing settled, blacks, whites, creoles, and cajuns now work together to kick out the mexicans.

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Friday, March 25, 2005 - 1:41pmSanction this postReply
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NJ is awesome, this list sucks, not much more to be said.

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Friday, March 25, 2005 - 3:53pmSanction this postReply
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Yo, Word Up...you're from Jersey? What exit?

Joe
The Homegrown Jersey Tomato

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