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VMF-124_Gramps
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posted 02-14-2002 09:49 PM       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
A friend of Kim's sent these to her tonight. We got a kick out of them.
Alabama: Hell Yes, We Have Electricity
Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!
Arizona: But It's A Dry Heat
Arkansas: Literacy Ain't Everything
California: By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda
Colorado: If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother
Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy's Don't Own It Yet
Delaware: We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water
Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids
Georgia: We Put The "Fun" In Fundamentalist Extremism
Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, But Leave
Your Money)
Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes ... Well Okay, We're Not, But The Potatoes
Sure Are Real Good
Illinois: Please Don't Pronounce the "S"
Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free
Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn
Kansas: First Of The Rectangle States
Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names
Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign
Maine: We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster
Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It
Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden's (For Most Tax Brackets)
Michigan: First Line Of Defense From The Canadians
Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes... And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes
Mississippi: Come And Feel Better About Your Own State
Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work
Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies, And Very
Little Else
Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest
Nevada: Hookers and Poker!
New Hampshire: Go Away And Leave Us Alone
New Jersey: You Want A ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right Here!
New Mexico: Lizards Make Excellent Pets
New York: You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have The Right To An
Attorney ...
North Carolina: Tobacco Is A Vegetable
North Dakota: We Really Are One Of The 50 States!
Ohio: At Least We're Not Michigan
Oklahoma: Like The Play, Only No Singing
Oregon: Spotted Owl... It's What's For Dinner
Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal
Rhode Island: We're Not REALLY An Island
South Carolina: Remember The Civil War? We didn't Actually Surrender
South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota
Tennessee: The Educashun State
Texas: Si' Hablo Ing'les (Yes, I Speak English)
Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus
Vermont: Yep
Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix?
Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds And Slackers!
Washington, D.C.: Wanna Be Mayor?
West Virginia: One Big Happy Family... Really!
Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese
Wyoming: Where Men Are Men ... and the sheep are scared!

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posted 02-15-2002 05:36 AM     Profile for cobraj   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Also for the Massachusetts state motto almost voted in. "Massachusetts.. Love it or shove it"

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posted 02-15-2002 06:50 AM     Profile for Donster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote

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posted 02-15-2002 10:00 AM       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Yep,

That's me, a slacker-nerd! LOL!!!


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posted 02-15-2002 10:18 AM     Profile for Donster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I love the Wisconsin one! Hee hee!

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posted 02-15-2002 11:18 AM     Profile for Lady Z   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Thanks for the laugh! (Michigan better be real scared too. Yep)
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posted 02-15-2002 11:48 AM     Profile for Bismarck   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I thought the Iowa one was overdone. They really don't do all that much with their corn.
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posted 02-15-2002 12:12 PM     Profile for Donster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
quote:
I thought the Iowa one was overdone. They really don't do all that much with their corn.

Depends on what you consider "all that much."

Just a few things made with Iowa Corn:

Corn Babies

Packing Peanuts for shipping
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
Whole Kernel Corn
Corn on the cob
Corn off the cob
Canned and frozen corn
Popcorn Shelled Corn for livestock feed
Cracked Corn for livestock feed Hominy Grits
Corn meal
Corn bread
Tortilla Chips
Starches

Corn Starch
Industrial Uses

Abrasive paper and cloth
Adhesives
Batteries (dry cell)
Board (corrugating, laminating, solid fiber board, cardboard)
Bookbinding
Briquettes
Ceramics (as clay binder)
Chemicals
Cleaners, detergents
Coatings on wood, metal and paper
Cork products
Crayon and chalk
Dressing, surgical
Dyes (as a bodying agent, carrier diluent, etc.)
Fireworks
Insecticide powders
Insulating material
Lubricating agents
Oilcloth
Paints (cleaning compounds, cold-water and latex paints, poster lacquers, etc.)
Paper and paper products
Plastics (molded)
Plywood (interior)
Printing
Textiles
Tile, ceiling
Tires, rubber
Wallboard and wallpaper Cornstarch
Food, Drug or Cosmetic Uses

Antibiotics
Aspirin
Baby foods
Bakery products (bread, rolls, cakes, pies, crackers and cookies)
Baking powder
Beverages, brewed
Chewing Gum
Chocolate drink
Confectionary
Cosmetics
Desserts (puddings, custards, etc.)
Drugs and pharmaceuticals
Flours, prepared (including prepared mixes)
Gravies and sauces
Meat products
Mustard, prepared
Pie filling
Precooked frozen meals
Salad dressing
Soaps and cleaners
Soups
Sugar, powdered
Vegetables, canned Dextrins
Industrial Uses

Adhesives
Bookbinding
Briquettes
Candles
Ceramics
Cork products
Crayon and chalk
Dyes
Envelopes
Fireworks
Inks, printing
Insecticides
Insulation, fiberglass
Labels
Leather
Linoleum
Magazines
Matches (on head and side of box)
Paints
Paper and paper products
Plastics
Plywood
Sandpaper
Shoes (counter pastes, polish, etc.)
Soaps
Straws, drinking
Textiles
Twine
Wallboard and wallpaper
Window shades
Dextrose
Industrial Uses

Acids, commercial
Adhesives
Amino acids
Chemicals
Citric
Dyes
Enzymes
Leather tanning
Lysine
Mannitol
Paper manufacturing
Rubber
Textiles Dextrose
Food and Drug Uses

Antibiotics
Baby foods
Bakery products
Berries, canned and frozen
Beverages brewed
Beverages, carbonated
Breakfast foods
Caramel color
Cheese foods and spreads
Chewing gum
Chocolate products
Citric acid
Citrus juices
Coloring, pure food mix
Condensed milk
Confectionary
Cordials
Cream, frozen
Dairy products
Desserts
Dietetic preparations
Distillation products
Doughnuts
Drugs (fermentation process)
Eggs, frozen or dried
Fish, pickled
Flavoring extracts
Food acids
Fruit juices
Fruits and vegetables, canned
Fruits (candied, frozen)
Gelatin desserts
Ice cream, water ices and sherbets
Infant and invalid feeding
Jams, jellies, marmalades and preserves
Lactic acid
Meat products (bacon, bologna, hams, sausage, frankfurters, mincemeat)
Medicinal preparations and intravenous (injections, pills, tablets, drugs, etc.)
Mixes, prepared
Peanut butter
Peas, canned
Pectin, fruit
Pickles and pickle products
Powders (ice cream, prepared dessert, pudding, etc.)
Sauces
Seasoning mixes, dry
Seasoning mixes, dry
Sorbitol (in candies, toothpaste, etc.)
Soups, dehydrated
Spices and mustard preparations
Syrups (table, fountain, medicinal)
Vinegar
Wine
Xanthan gums
Yeast Ethanol

Alcoholic beverages
Industrial alcohol
Octane enhancer
Oxygenate found in motor fuels

Sorbitol

Mouthwash
Toothpaste

Hydrol
Corn-Sugar Molasses

Leather tanning
Livestock feed
Organic acids
Organic solvents
Tobacco
Syrups

Corn Syrup
Industrial Uses

Adhesives
Chemicals
Dyes and inks
Explosives
Leather tanning
Metal plating
Paper, glassine and parchment
Plasticizer
Polish, shoe
Rayon
Textiles, for finishing
Theatrical makeup
Tobacco and products Corn Syrup
Food, Drug Uses; Liquid or Dried Form

Baby foods
Bakery products (bread, rolls, biscuits, doughnuts, pies, cakes, cookies, pretzels, etc.)
Beverages, brewed
Beverages, carbonated
Breakfast foods
Catsup, chili sauce, tomato sauce
Cereals, prepared
Cheese spreads and foods
Chewing gum
Chocolate products
Coffee whiteners
Condensed milk, sweetened
Confectionary
Cordials and liqueurs
Desserts
Eggs, frozen or dried
Extracts and flavors
Frostings and icings
Fruit butters and juices
Fruit drinks
Fruits (canned, candied, fillings, frozen, etc.)
Ice cream, water ices and sherbets
Jams, jellies, marmalades and preserves
Licorice
Malted products
Marshmallows and related products
Meat products
Medicinal preparations
Mixes, prepared
Peanut butter
Pickles and pickle products
Salad dressing
Sauces
Seafood, frozen
Soups, dehydrated
Syrups
Toppings
Vinegar High Fructose Corn Syrup
Food Uses

Bakery products
Canned fruits
Canned juices
Condiments
Confectionary products
Frozen desserts
Jams, jellies and preserves
Soft drinks
Wine
Yeast
Maltodextrins
Food Uses

Bakery mixes
Beverage powders
Condiments
Dehydrated foods
Dry soup mixes
Gum confections
Icings and glazes
Instant teas
Instant breakfast foods
Low calorie sweeteners
Marshmallows
Nougats
Pan coatings
Sauce and gravy mixes
Snack foods

CO-PRODUCTS
Solubles Gluten and Hulls
Steepwater

Antibiotics
Chemicals
Pharmaceuticals
Yeast Products Used by
Livestock, Poultry and Dairy

Corn germ meal
Corn gluten feed
Corn gluten meal
Corn oil by-products
Corn sugar
Hydrol (corn-sugar molasses)
Steepwater for feed (condensed fermented corn extractives)

Steepwater for Feed

Gluten Feed and Meal

Oil Meal

Corn Germ Meal, Corn Gluten Feed, Corn Gluten Meal
Other Uses
Amino acids
Fur cleaner
Zein and other protein products

Germ

Corn Oil Corn Oil, Refined
Food, Drug Uses

Carriers for vitamins and other medicinal preparations in capsule form
Cooking oil
Margarine
Mayonnaise
Potato chips
Salad dressings
Sauces, seasoning
Shortening
Soups Corn Oil and Free Fatty Acids
Industrial Uses

Chemical and insecticides
Lecithin (for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, linoleum, printing inks, etc.)
Paint and varnish
Rubber substitutes
Rust preventative (surface coatings)
Soap
Soluble oil (leather and tanning use)
Textiles

HEE HEE HEE

Donster

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posted 02-15-2002 12:36 PM       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Our very own Donster is going to co-star in Forrest Gump Returns as his friend that knows 1,001 uses for corn.
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posted 02-15-2002 01:31 PM     Profile for Donster   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Just call me "Bubba Corn Stalk"!

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