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06-09-2010, 10:19 AM
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Come on, cat.
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area
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Hey! Get your own animal!
And the trilobite is ours too ffs...
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06-11-2010, 07:07 PM
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California's: State Animal: Grizzly Bear, Ursus californicus. So designated decades after the last native one had been killed in 1922. Bird: California Quail (Lophortyx californica) Fish: Golden Trout (Salmo agua-bonita). They've been more successful with the trout than with the bear, cultivating more of them in hatcheries and extending their range even into other states. Maybe it would be easier if bears laid eggs. Flower: Poppy (Eschsholtzia californica) orangey-yellow in color. Fossil: Sabertooth (Smilodon californicus) State (Gold Rush, mind you; there's a Silver Rush one too) Ghost Town: Bodie. "Man from Bodie" is a regionalism for "really bad dude." Benitoite is a very rare blue rock, and the state gemstone. State mineral is gold. It's all listed here.
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06-12-2010, 01:39 AM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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Looks like Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all intended different trilobite species.
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06-12-2010, 02:09 PM
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Touring the facilities
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Location: The plains of Colorado
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Here's Colorado:
State Motto: Nil Sine Numine - Nothing Without the Deity State Nickname: Colorado / Centennial State State Animal: Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep State Bird: Lark Bunting State Fish: Greenback Cutthroat Trout State Flower: White and Lavender Columbine State Folk Dance: Square Dance State Fossil: Stegosaurus State Gemstone: Aquamarine State Grass: Blue Grama Grass State Insect: Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly State Song: "Where the Columbines Grow" State Song: "Rocky Mountain High" State Tree: Colorado Blue Spruce State Mineral: Rhodochrosite State Rock: Yule Marble State Reptile: Western Painted Turtle Last edited by kerosene; 06-12-2010 at 02:23 PM. Reason: formatting |
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06-09-2010, 10:22 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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I want the Irish Wolfhound!
Ha! Wonder how many states have trilobites? I know about 7-8 have the damn cardinal as their bird. Oh crap, we have a state gemstone: Flint!
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06-18-2010, 11:29 AM
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Snowflake
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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06-09-2010, 11:22 AM
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I can hear my ears
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what state's bird is the mosquito?
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06-09-2010, 12:05 PM
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
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Location: above 7,000 feet
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Minnesota.
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06-09-2010, 02:20 PM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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Location: Austin, TX
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Ffft. When it comes to meaningless symbolism, those other states ain't got nothing on Texas:
Bird: Mockingbird Mammal (large): Texas Longhorn Mammal (Small): Armadillo Flying mammal: Mexican Free-tailed bat Insect: Monarch butterfly Reptile: Horned Lizard Fish: Guadalupe Bass Shell: Lightning Whelk Flower: Bluebonnet Plant: Prickly Pear Cactus Tree: Pecan Grass: Sideoats grama Shrub: Chinese crepe myrtle Fruit: Red grapefruit Vegetable: Sweet onion Fiber: cotton Dinosaur: Pleurocoelus Stone: Petrified Palmwood Gem: Blue Topaz Any of you other guys got a state fiber? Didn't think so. |
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06-09-2010, 02:25 PM
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Location: Arlington, VA
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Nope. But we have a state boat: the Chesapeake Bay deadrise
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06-09-2010, 04:45 PM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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06-09-2010, 03:59 PM
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our Texas legislators get bored when their not out shooting something, apparently
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06-10-2010, 02:49 AM
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Professor
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I can understand that for animals, tree and stones, after all your country is vast and with a lot of diversity. But a dinosaur? I thought those things were designated by general consensus.
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06-10-2010, 04:54 AM
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The future is unwritten
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Consensus doesn't make it official, legislatures do.
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06-10-2010, 01:08 AM
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lobber of scimitars
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I thought our state animal was the construction horse.
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