You Want Mottos? We Got Mottos

Maxine Knowsall, my candidate for President, dropped in to see The Old Folks Down Home yesterday. Very brief visit. She came to collect some needlework done by Claudia Tat that depicts what the campaign is all about: This work showed that Maxine's campaign symbol is a baby chick, and her motto is "Of, By and For the Peeps."

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Continuing with the revisionist State mottos, as perverted by your buddy Ol' Hoss:

Hawaii: "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness." Hoss: "The hell you say!"
Idaho: "It Is Forever." Hoss: "Diamonds Are Forever."
Illinois: "State Sovereignty-National Union." Hoss: "See, You CAN Have It Both Ways."
Indiana: "The Crossroads of America." Hoss: "A Train Wreck in the Making."
Iowa: "Our Liberties We Prize, & Our Rights We Will Maintain." Hoss: "Jimmy cracked corn."
Kansas: "To the stars through difficulties." Hoss: "Touring Hollywood in a broken-down school bus."
Kentucky: "United We Stand, Divided We Fall." Hoss: "Go forth and Multiply, Add and Subtract."
Louisiana: "Union, Justice and Confidence." Hoss: "Union, Justice and Confidence Men."
Maryland: "Manly Deeds" and "With Favor Wilt Thou Compass Us As With a Shield." Hoss: "A Stud Shows Us the Way to Go Home."
Massachusetts: "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty." Hoss: "Excalibur looks for the Goddess of Peace, and finds her under Liberty Valance."
Michigan: "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you." Hoss: "Is that a peasant's penis I see before me?"
Minnesota: "The North Star." Hoss: "What's a good name for a hockey team?"

That's enough preversion for today. This is hard work.

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Go get your lunch, sit it down by your computer, and read this passage from Archaeology Magazine about Egyptian King Shehonq: "...Derry was able to determine that the king had been mummified in the traditional manner, with the organs having been removed and the brain extracted through the nasal passages."

Enjoy your lunch.

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My favorite word today is verbose, which I think means "sweet verb," as in bananaed. I.E., "Jack was bananaed on Jill," which may be translated as: "Jack bananaed Jill." (This only works if your doctorate is in nursery rhyming.)