Our state bird is a jerk

[Nixon]

Mockingbirds are jerk birds.

Some other awesome entries:

state slogan: "Don't Mess With Texas"

state snack: tortilla chips and salsa

state reptile: Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum), commonly called the "horny toad" AWWWWWWWW YEAH

state dish: chili con carne

state dinosaur(!!!): Brachiosaur Sauropod, Pleurocoelus

state cooking implement: Dutch oven (tee hee)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_state_symbols

What are some of the crazy state/province/country/nation symbols for your area or birthplace?

[highwind]

all of those things are pretty awesome....

[American Hero]

State bird is a Cardinal.

State Flower is Goldenrod.

American's National bird was almost a crow and not an eagle.

[Adrian Foley]

State muffin: Blueberry

State fruit: Honeycrisp apple (Created at the University of Minnesota)


Yeah, we're boring.

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

Our state bird is a cockfighting Blue Hen. He's pretty sweet.

http://www.kevinquinlanphotography.com/Images/ImgCommercial/Unpublished/WebSizes/YouDeeAtCrackerBarrel1.jpg

[Caciss]

Our state motto is: Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice

talk about gay.

[Sejon]

Why isn't Tex-ass' state bird a roadrunner??

Our national bird is the keel-billed toucan:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/sejon/Photos/keel_billed_toucan5_large.jpg

And our national animal is the tapir:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/sejon/Photos/tapir1.jpg

[1ce]

Our state animal is the marmot. With how often you see it in commercials and in the paper, you'd think it was the frickin' mascot of Spokane or something.

[Big Rick Cook]

http://www.state.ok.us/osfdocs/stinfo.html

There's a peace pipe on Oklahoma's state flag. That's pretty win.

State flower is mistletoe. Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it. But a kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.

The rest are boring.

[Funk]

This is our state bird:

http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/robin.jpg

[Perversion]

And our national animal is the tapir:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v500/sejon/Photos/tapir1.jpg


I've always been a fan of the tapir.



Also, @ American Hero above: The wild turkey was almost the national bird, not the crow.

[Marc M.]

Our national bird is the keel-billed toucan...
And our national animal is the tapir...
Wait: the National Bird failed to grab the National Animal spot as well?!
Talk about a downer~

[Sejon]

I guess we really wanted to throw the tapir in somewhere. :p

[Jamos]

State muffin: Blueberry
Yeah, we're boring.
Nothing boring about a blueberry muffin, woman. :upset

[Goufunaki]

# Beverage: Wine
# Bird: California Quail (Callipepla californica)
# Colors: Blue, which represents the sky and Gold, which represents the color of the precious metal found by forty-niners in the state's hills.
# Dance: West Coast Swing
# Fife and drum corps: California Consolidated Drum Band
# Fish: Golden trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita) (fresh water), Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus) (salt water)
# Flags:

* Flag of California (since 1911)
* Flag of the California Republic (1846)

# Flower: California poppy (Eschsholzia californica)
# Folk dance: Square Dance
# Fossil: Saber-toothed cat (Smilodon californicus)
# Gemstone: Benitoite
# Gold Rush Ghost Town: Bodie
# Grass: Purple Needlegrass (Nassella pulchra)
# Historical Society: California Historical Society
# Insect: California dogface butterfly (Colias eurydice)
# License plate: "White with "California" in a red script across the top."
# Mammal: Grizzly bear (Ursus californicus)
# Marine mammal: Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus)
# Military Museum: California State Military Museum
# Mineral: Gold
# Motto: Eureka
# Nicknames: Golden State (official), El Dorado State, Golden West, Grape State, Land of Milk and Honey, Land of Fruits and Nuts (derisive), Entertainment State, Land of the Fires, Movie State
# Poet Laureate: Carol Muske-Dukes
# Prehistoric artifact: Chipped stone bear
# Reptile: Desert tortoise (gopherus agassizi)
# Rock: Serpentine
# Seal: The Seal of California: "The seal features Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom; a California grizzly bear (the official state animal) feeding on grape vines, representing California wine production; a sheaf of grain, representing agriculture; a miner, representing the California Gold Rush and the mining industry; sailing ships, representing the state's economic power; and San Francisco Bay or the Sacramento River. The phrase "Eureka," meaning "I have found it!" is the California state motto."
# Silver Rush Ghost Town: Calico
# Slogan: Find Yourself Here
# Soil: San Joaquin
# Song: I Love You, California
# Tall ship: Californian (schooner)
# Tartan: California State Tartan
# Theater: Pasadena Playhouse
# Tree: Sequoia (California redwood): Sequoiadendron giganteum (Giant Sequoia), Sequoia sempervirens (Coast Redwood)

[Dreamknight]

New York is surprisingly boring, state bird is a bluebird and most other things involve apples (go figure~) or simply the word "New York" in it somewhere.

Except for New York's State Motto:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v252/149/42/84102836/n84102836_30944685_2953.jpg

[Perversion]

The topic's title reminded me of this song. I was only able to find it with someone playing Doom for the video portion.


Mild language.

TRr0yV5k3ik

[Adrian Foley]

# Dance: West Coast Swing


East Coast is where it's at.

[Goufunaki]

I challenge you!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/Gouki22/Emotes/techno_viking.gif

[Nixon]

Some states have a state toy.

WTF.

Tex-ass needs an official state toy!

I nominate the bag o' glass.

[Goufunaki]

Cali state song is kinda catchy.

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I.
I love you, California, you're the greatest state of all.
I love you in the winter, summer, spring and in the fall.
I love your fertile valleys; your dear mountains I adore.
I love your grand old ocean and I love her rugged shore.
Chorus
Where the snow crowned Golden Sierras
Keep their watch o'er the valleys bloom,
It is there I would be in our land by the sea,
Every breeze bearing rich perfume.
It is here nature gives of her rarest. It is Home Sweet Home to me,
And I know when I die I shall breathe my last sigh
For my sunny California.
II.
I love your red-wood forests - love your fields of yellow grain.
I love your summer breezes and I love your winter rain.
I love you, land of flowers; land of honey, fruit and wine.
I love you, California; you have won this heart of mine.
III.
I love your old gray Missions - love your vineyards stretching far.
I love you, California, with your Golden Gate ajar.
I love your purple sun-sets, love your skies of azure blue.
I love you, California; I just can't help loving you.
IV.
I love you, Catalina, you are very dear to me.
I love you, Tamalpais, and I love Yosemite.
I love you, Land of Sunshine, Half your beauties are untold.
I loved you in my childhood, and I'll love you when I'm old.

[Bones]

This is a list of state symbols for the U.S. state of Georgia

State Amphibian- American green tree frog (Hyla cinerea)
State Bird- Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)
State Wildflower- Azalea
State Marine Mammal- North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
State Butterfly- Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
State Fruit- Peach
State Insect- Honeybee
State Flower- Cherokee Rose (Rosa laevigata)
State Prepared Food- Grits
State Fish- Largemouth Bass
State Crop- Peanut
State Tree- Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana)
State Vegetable- Vidalia Onion
State Reptile- Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)
State Game Bird- Bobwhite Quail
State Seashell- Knobbed Whelk
State Gem- Quartz
State Fossil- Shark Tooth
State Mineral- Staurolite
State Agriculture- Poultry
State Art Museum- Georgia Museum of Art in Athens

State atlasState Atlas- The Atlas of Georgia
State Ballet- Atlanta Ballet
State Beef Barbecue Championship Cook-off- The Hawkinsville Civitan Club’s “Shoot the Bull” barbecue championship
State Center for Character Education- Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum
State Folk Dance- Square Dance
State Folk Festival- Georgia Folk Festival
State Folk Life Play- “Swamp Gravy”
State Frontier and Southern Indian Interpretive Center- The Funk Heritage/Bennett Center at Reinhardt College, Waleska
State Historic Drama- “The Reach of Song” presented on the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds near Hiawassee
State Musical Theatre- “Jekyll Island Musical Theatre Festival”
State Peanut Monument- Turner County on the west side of Interstate Highway 75 within the limits of the city of Ashburn
State Pork Barbecue Championship Cook-off- The Dooly County Chamber of Commerce’s “Slosheye Trail Big Pig Jig”
State Railroad Museum- The Central of Georgia Railroad Shops Complex, Savannah
State School- Plains High School
State Song- Georgia on My Mind, lyrics by Stuart Gorrell and music by Hoagy Carmichael


I love grits!(state food!)

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

up here in canada land we got some kool shiz for symbols.

coat of arms: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Ontarms.gif

motto: Ut incepit fidelis sic permanet
Loyal she began, loyal she remains

provincial flag: http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/1/5/9/4/i/4/8/6/o/2008_02_18_ontario_flag.jpg

The Great Seal of the Province of Ontario: http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4346/omggia4pp.jpg









er, maybe not that one, this one: http://www.onzone.ca/images/symbols/seal.jpg

Bird: loon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Loon.jpg

Tree: eastern white pine

Gemstone: amethyst

Flower: white trilliam - its illegal to pick these http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/White_Trillium_Ontario.JPG

Provincial Licence plate slogan: "Yours to Discover" replaced the earlier slogan "Keep it Beautiful c.1973; 'Tant a decouvrir was added in 2003"

[orius]

Some states have a state toy.

WTF.

Tex-ass needs an official state toy!

I nominate the bag o' glass.

Hell, Texas had a state molecule listed. WTF indeed. ;)

Here's the stuff for Pennsylvania. It's shorter when compared to some of the other lists. I think the state legislature has been debating making some kind of turtle or something the state reptile, but they're mostly busy being a bunch of lousy crooks.

[Adrian Foley]

Hell, Texas had a state molecule listed. WTF indeed. ;)

Here's the stuff for Pennsylvania. It's shorter when compared to some of the other lists. I think the state legislature has been debating making some kind of turtle or something the state reptile, but they're mostly busy being a bunch of lousy crooks.

. You're right, that is short.