Something funny... yet again

Note: This forwarded email reminds me of college days when, with a good friend of mine, we'd spend the two boring hours of General Linguistics class (on Saturday mornings at 9, now cut me some slack here!) trying to remember and write down all the 50 US States. Sometimes we'd make it harder by trying to remember them alphabetically, which didn't make it any easier. We'd always forget states like Delaware, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Nebraska... The funniest thing was that, after the 10 allotted minutes for our challenge, when we checked who remembered the most States, we'd always end up tied: none of us could ever remember more than 48 states at any given time... Oh, the good ol' days...

State mottos (received as email forward message)
Oregon
Spotted owl; it's what's for dinner
New Mexico
Lizards make great pets
North Dakota
We really are one of the fifty states
Really we're not kidding
Delaware
We were the first damn it!
And don't you forget it
Colorado
If you don't ski don't bother us
Connecticut
Like Massachusetts only the Kennedys don't own it
Louisiana
We're not all drunk Cajun wackos but that is our tourist campaign
Michigan
We're shaped like a glove, that must mean something!
Tell us it means something!
Washington
We're bigger, weÂ’re better
Not really, it rains too damn much
Wisconsin
We're really cheesy
New York
Don't worry be happy
Minnesota
10,000 lakes
10,000,000,000 mosquitoes
Oklahoma
Help!
West Virginia
One big happy family...really!
Rhode Island
We're not really an island
Idaho
More than just potatoes
Well, okay, we're not
Hawaii
Haka tiki mou sh'ami toru (death to mainland scum)
Leave your money
Kentucky
5 million people
Only 15 last names
New Jersey
You want a #%!*#% motto?
I got yer #%!*#%! motto right here
Utah
Our Jesus is better than yours
Mississippi
Come visit, and feel better about your own state
Wyoming
Where men are men and sheep are scared
Ohio
At least we're not Michigan
Washington D.C.
We've got issues
California
Se habla Espanol?
Arkansas
Literacy ain't everything
North Carolina
Tobacco is a vegetable damn it!
Alaska
11,509 Eskimos can't be wrong
Alabama
Yep, we got electricity!
Maine
We're really cold but we got great crabcakes
Texas
Our man is the captain of this ship, so shut the hell up
Pennsylvania
We got a big bell with a crack
Yeah we're # 1
Nevada
Poker & hookers galore