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Hey! Get your own animal!
And the trilobite is ours too ffs... |
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! |
what state's bird is the mosquito?
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Minnesota.
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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. |
Nope. But we have a state boat: the Chesapeake Bay deadrise
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our Texas legislators get bored when their not out shooting something, apparently
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I thought our state animal was the construction horse.
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Pennsy Fish is the Brook Trout
Game Bird is Ruffled Grouse |
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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. |
Consensus doesn't make it official, legislatures do.
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It seems that some legislatureshave a lot of time on their hands...
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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. |
Looks like Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all intended different trilobite species.
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