I liked Strongbad's pronunciation - "Eel-in-wah"

Only the boys make noise in Illinois

/weird things your parents taught you while growing up

Illinoise/Missour-uh

eh, it happens

Kansas - the fair has been here twice!

or

oklahoma oklahoma - there, i said it twice!

Most of those are great but WTF is up with this one...

Florida: Home of the headless drivers

Dear God they couldn't come up with anything better than that for Florida? Seriously how hard is it to make fun of Florida?

These are hilarious though

Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds And Slackers!
Arkansas: Literacy Ain't Everything
Tennessee: The Edjucashun State
Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese

i saw a flash version of this somewhere....

Actually, Strong Bad's pronunciation is pretty much correct... Illinois is a French word...

Ohio: Home of Lake Erie and the Mistake By The Lake (Cleveland)

As a resident of Ohio, I resent this statement. Everyone knows that Dayton is the real mistake, not Cleveland.

Ahhh, so true about Illinois. But I think a better one for Arkansas would have been "Nothin' says lovin' like kissin' your cousin."

BTW, I'm not around for a couple of weeks and the comments format changes again, what's up with that?

There's more than corn in Indiana.

While not technically a slogan, all of Pennsylvania's license plates have the official state website on it. And on the few times that I have actually needed to visit it, I have never remembered it correctly. I always get the order of state, pa, us, and gov mixed up.

I thought the California one was pretty funny, however sadly true.

The Oklahoma one was stolen from a comedian - Anthony Clark (CBS' "Yes Dear")

But they are still funny.

In sixth grade, our classroom's class of penpals in Idaho sent us a video introducing themselves. ALL OF THEM said hi to us here in "Sparta, Ill-in-noise."

We sent them back a video talking about how great we figured eye-dah-hoe was.

Florida: home of the headless driver

little old person driving the car in front of me appears to have no head.

it's funny, jackass.

Actually, Alabama's motto is "Thank goodness for Mississippi."

jesus christ this is an email that was going around back in the mid 90s

Yeah, this was real funny.

...when it was posted on Usenet 10 years ago! Suckers!

"Maine: We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster"

Why does everyone think Maine is some farking Arctic wasteland? I nearly sweatted (sweat?) my balls off yesterday.

Michigan: First Line Of Defense From The Canadians

It's funny because it's true.

Just_the_Claps

Hey fark you, its still farking lame. Ya jackass. I've never heard of old people bing called headless drivers anyway.

*flags Just_the_Claps off*

Interesting Fact: The word "ILLINOIS" is the French form of the Algonquin name ILLINI which means "superior men." It is how some native Americans in this area referred to themselves.

On another note, I've seen this motto list circulate through my email several times. I guess we're down to submitting spam to be read on Fark. Woo!

Uh....where's vermont? We've got cows, maple syrup, some ice cream and civil unions. Yea, that's 'bout it

MINNESOTA "10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes"

I know this girl from MN. and she said they get as big as SOFTBALLS!!! Holy Chit!!!!

Maybe it was hail.....

Anywho....VIKINGS SUCK!!! j/k love ya sweetie =)

Uh...I guess it's on the same line as Utah. My bad. even still..

Vermont: Yep seriously, who writes this crap?

2003-06-27 01:08:22 AM jerrytroll

Uh....where's vermont?

Here you go, it was lumped in with Utah

Vermont: Yep

these are ancient.. I couldn't tell you how old they are...

anyways.. Massachusetts containing a tax joke, is just soo.. predictable.. I guess it was either that, or something about the Kennedy's huh?

North Carolina: "Tobacco is a vegetable."

So true, so true--that's the ONLY crop I ever see around here.

New Hampshire's was just... perfect...

/wipes away tear, smiles at beauty of it all

i thought IL was named after some indian tribe. i mean native american... i mean american indian... i mean... those guy in dances with wolves.

LazarusMP: Actually, Strong Bad's pronunciation is pretty much correct... Illinois is a French word...

Don't you mean a Freedom word?

/tired of politically correct asshats who change food names

KANSAS: Spend a year here, in one week ...

I live in Illinois, and I pronounce it wrong now because I always read it and see the S. damn you internet.

The word "ILLINOIS" is the French form of the Algonquin name ILLINI which means "superior men."

Yes. Yes, we are.

Once the pronounciation of Illinois is corrected, we can work on Des Moines (which my Grade 11 education insists on translating as "of the less.") Stupid gaps in my vocabulary, cheese-grater memory and inept French teacher.

Ah, the fightin' Illini. Now I gets it.

Gee, I expect more from Fark than something (that wasn't too funny then) my girlfriend's mom forwareded to me -- oh about 4 years ago...

How did this get past total fark to the main screen?

/grumpy farker lite

Hell yes we are superior men.

I'd have a hard time coming up with a better one for Texas. Likely the only state in the union where it's possible to walk into a McDonalds and not have a single worker speak English. (yes, it HAS happened to me. "I want a double cheeseburger!" "Uno cheese-e-burder?" "No! *Double* cheese! TWO!" "Oooohhh! Numero dos!" "AAARRRGGGHHHH")

Yeah, but the great thing in Illinois (or eel-in-wah) is we have a city named Des Planes, and we pronounce it just as its spelled.... dess planes

Cook with coal? How is that funny???

It would have been funnier if they had done all of the states.

/average American

Florida drivers on I95 here in VA are your worst nightmare. I hate you all....

Bondith

Actually, "moine" is a French word meaning "monk." So Des Moines is actually "of the monks." The word that means less is "moins," without the E.

/French major

Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars Hard At Work

Uh, the big flood was in 1993. This thing's so old it's got liver spots.

how silly!

Yah boiz, we from Illin Noize

Florida: home of the headless driver
little old person driving the car in front of me appears to have no head.

I always thought they called those Q-tips anyway.