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Old 06-09-2010, 10:19 AM   #16
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Hey! Get your own animal!
And the trilobite is ours too ffs...
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Old 06-09-2010, 10:22 AM   #17
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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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Old 06-09-2010, 11:22 AM   #18
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what state's bird is the mosquito?
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Old 06-09-2010, 12:05 PM   #19
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Minnesota.
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Old 06-09-2010, 02:20 PM   #20
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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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Old 06-09-2010, 02:25 PM   #21
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Nope. But we have a state boat: the Chesapeake Bay deadrise
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Old 06-09-2010, 03:59 PM   #22
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our Texas legislators get bored when their not out shooting something, apparently
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Old 06-09-2010, 04:45 PM   #23
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Flying mammal: Mexican Free-tailed bat
I hope it's legal.
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Old 06-10-2010, 01:08 AM   #24
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I thought our state animal was the construction horse.
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Old 06-10-2010, 01:12 AM   #25
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Game Bird is Ruffled Grouse
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Old 06-10-2010, 02:49 AM   #26
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our Texas legislators get bored when their not out shooting something, apparently
Are you meaning that those 'state' things are a matter of law?

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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Old 06-10-2010, 04:54 AM   #27
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Consensus doesn't make it official, legislatures do.
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Old 06-10-2010, 07:33 AM   #28
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It seems that some legislatureshave a lot of time on their hands...

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Old 06-11-2010, 07:07 PM   #29
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Hey! Get your own animal!
And the trilobite is ours too ffs...
Oh, be-haaaave! Maybe it's a different species anyway. There were hundreds throughout the long age of the Paleozoic.

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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Old 06-12-2010, 01:39 AM   #30
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Looks like Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania all intended different trilobite species.
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