Lounge challenge... How quickly can we name the term for people

[salin]

residing in each state of the Union?

Subject line... state name and the term for its citizens....

[Lars39]

1. Tennessee.......Tennessean

[Bonobo]

3. Massachusetts...Massachusite???

[Lars39]

7. Could it be Massachusian?

or Chowdah-head? lol :shrug:

[Bonobo]

LOL! Neither sound too good. Let's go with Chowdah-head!

[Lars39]

31. We better consult the Bostonians here

I don't wanna get flamed. :scared: Besides, Massachusite sounds like a cave formation. :)

[arwalden]

34. "Massholes"

I was born in Mass... so shut up.

[Lars39]

41. Oh, that's bad.

I imagine there's been a lot of fights over that one.

[DS1]

55. It's freakin badge of honah!

You know how hard it is to spend a lifetime driving like that?

:evilgrin:

[arwalden]

27. Mass = Bay Stater

[Bonobo]

38. Thanks...I went blank.

[Lars39]

39. Oh, Ok.

It's hard to pull away from watching Samantha twitching her nose. It's kind of mesmerizing.

[arwalden]

49. Re: Samantha

Thanks! I like her too.

-- Allen

P.S. Did you know that the intro to Bewitched was courtesy of the animation team at Hanna-Barberra? If you didn't... Well now you do.

[Lars39]

53. I should've known it. I don't think I missed an episode.

I remember wishing I could wrinkle my nose and get my room cleaned.:)

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[Lars39]

22. If you're truly interested, lurk and read. A lot.

Go check out the Dem. candidates positions. Learn for yourself, not from Rush.

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[phaseolus]

42. well...

...the stock answer is that there are other places for liberal vs. conservative debates.

Couple years ago Salon's "Table Talk" was a discussion forum largely populated by Liberals, and it had an open policy. Trouble was, as one of the largest explicitly-Liberal themed forums, it attracted conservative trolls, who essentially destroyed the place. Same thing would happen here if we had an open policy especially since Rush and others like to attack us every few weeks.

"Free Republic" is just as exclusive, and I don't begrudge them that. For some forums, it's the only policy that works.

[DS1]

56. Texans = Liabilities

[Fenris]

44. We're not about liberals bating conservatives.

This is OUR site. Meaning that we discuss issues that relate to us and how we feel about those issues. These boards are not set up to facillitate shouting fests between Republicans and Democrats. It's one thing to be middle of the road, it's another to be a Bush supporter on this board. We aren't Bush supporters here, not a goddamn one of us. If you want to be among your own kind, go to Free Republic. This is our site.

[muffin99]

Fair Enough

I have been warned and will only answer questions or help others with problems in my area of expertise. I'll leave B... out of it. Thanks.

I'm not here to debate, I was only trying to understand the board a little better. I figured it out pretty damn quick.

[salin]

54. you know

we do have a few republicans in our midst... they understand the rules of the board and treat us with respect rather than baiting - they stay away from the rightwing talking points and presumptions and sort of treat being here like being a guest... much as most of us would do were we to ask to be welcomed among a committed conservative group that had their own guidelines... and they are valued members of the community (calling prodigaljunkmail ... ) It can happen... just not very common.

[mdmc]

30. welcome to DU

There are plenty of left / right discussion forums, perhaps you could go there.
Did you know that there are many survivers / victims of 9-11-01 that oppose what Bush has been doing?
Did you lose anyone in 9-11? Our local obits are about even regarding the count of local dead from 9-11 and local dead in Iraq.

[mdmc]

35. DU isn't middle of the road

but there are middle of the road discussion groups. DU is for the left to debate the left.

[maxy]

86. Ok I'm left of center

Now I have to go find that cheap wine thread :)

[maxy]

77. Thanks for the Welcome

I will stick to your rules. Moderators, please stop this banning nonsense, I have done nothing to deserve this and it only makes me log in as different person every freakin time.

Sorry for the rant.

[legin]

19. Is the collective noun 'a set' ? n/t

probably that is an old joke.

[salin]

2. Indiana = Hoosier

easy one - am a native Hoosier... But did you know that the term - when used in St. Louis - is a derogatory slur?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

4. Indiana .... Indianaan

[salin]

9. lol... only saw that one time before

also here at DU ;-)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

21. telepathic simulposts

[salin]

29. is that the name for folks from Toledo?

:shrug:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

52. Toledonauts

[salin]

58. and folks from Dayton would be... Dates?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

59. Daytongues

...getting silly....

*getting*?!?

[salin]

63. I think that would refer to folks from Daytona Beach...

:D

Silly... you... never ;-)

While on this role.... what would folks from Detroit be called?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

65. That's Daytona Beaches

Detroiticians

[salin]

66. ah.. and folks from Bloomington would be...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

70. Bloomingtones

I quit while I'm behindian.

[salin]

72. close

we are... Bloomingtonians :D

Okay I will give you a break... but you are very good at this... I was about to give you one more - from one of the places that I have lived... Ypsilanti (Michigan)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

73. OK ... Ypsilanteaters

[salin]

88. now we know what Oscar is!!!

an Ypsilanteater...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

and to understand him we need a ...

[RC]

North Dakota - Nortdakoten

[mdmc]

5. New Yorker / Yankee NY

Right?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

117. No, Knickerbocker

Yankees are from New England

[phaseolus]

6. Wisconsin --> cheeseheads

Illinois = F.I.Bs :evilgrin:
they're also 'flatlanders', perhaps more commonly.

Michigan = 'Michiganders' which sounds like they should be geese or something...
Minnesota = "Minnesot'ns" according to Garrison Keillor

Going up to Canada I've heard of Quebeckers and Newfies, but I'm unaware of any other provinces' appellations

[salin]

12. Friends in Briefs?

or Friends in Boxers? :shrug: :D

[phaseolus]

26. Well... the "I" stands for Illinois...

...but you really don't hear this term very much these days. 20 years ago there seemed to be a lot more hate goin' on back and forth between Illinois and Wisconsin, but it seems to have died down quite a bit. We *all* drive like jerks these days, for one thing. "Cheesehead" used to be an insult when directed at a Wisconsinite by an Illinoisan but we've appropriated the term for our own use.

I gotta say, though, that we look really stupid with styrofoam cheese wedges on our heads.

[salin]

33. *snicker*

I wasn't going to say it... (about the big foam cheddar wedges)

[ScreamingMeemie]

68. ..and sometimes they refer to themselves as Michiganians

:hi:

[salin]

69. when I lived there I was quite taken with the term

Michigander... it is so unique... :D :hi:

[Liberal Christian]

107. Wisconsin -- also Badgers

and the formal term "Wisconsinites"

[flamingyouth]

8. Washington - Washingtonian

[salin]

10. Michigan = Michigander

Not michigoose, but michigander.

[ScreamingMeemie]

67. Yes, and yoopers and lowpers.

:hi:

[salin]

71. I forgot about that... and .... ayup (yooper for affirmative)

:hi:

[meti57b]

11. Delaware .... Delawarian

[Lars39]

13. Kentucky.....Kentuckian

[Terwilliger]

15. California = kali FORnee-uns

RAUSCHE! RAUSCHE!

[Bertha Venation]

80. can everyone stop with the stupid jokes, please?

They are getting very, very old. I'm sure Texans are as tired of being called bushbabies as we Californians (residents and native ex-pats alike) are tired of having the name of our state misspelled and drawn out comically in lousy Austrian accents.

[Terwilliger]

110. I'm in California

SHEESH...relax

[salin]

114. sometimes stupid jokes are what we need

to lighten the mood. Some of us use poking fun at ourselves (as I did with the Hoosier background... its an insult used as an insult of the nth degree in St. Louis)... as a way of alleviating tension in times that are all too tense. I lived in California for five years and loved it... chaotic politics and all (talk about split personality voters - crazy ballot initiatives pass... but the politicians who push them get defeated). Yet through all that time (tech boom) my area (the penninsula of the Bay Area) was the butt of a ton of jokes... it was part of the territory. It in noway detracted from the dynamic experience of living there.

[meti57b]

16. illinois .... illinoisier

[Bonobo]

28. Isn't it Illini? Or is that just the U of I teams?

[TXlib]

90. I'm pretty sure that's just the U of I

I was there for 8 years, and I never heard that term applied to anything but the university.

[scarlet_owl]

109. That's just the team for the U of I.

Here in Champaign, everything is "Illini". The Illini were actually a Native American tribe who lived around here. I think we're "Illinoisans" pronounced "Ill-ee-noy-ans". I'm not entirely sure, though.

[NightTrain]

17. Connecticut = Nutmeggers

n/t

[meti57b]

18. Maine .... Mainiac

[Fenris]

20. Texans = Bushbabies

:)

[corporatewhore]

135. Bush Aint a TEXAN!!!!

he is a blueblooded conneticut legacy child who is a cowboy poser!!!!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

23. Utah ... Utahas

[salin]

36. Or comic Utahahas... or... more properly... Utahans.

[arwalden]

51. ha-ha's... I'm about to wet my pants.

Funny.

[salin]

57. hehe

this thread is much more entertaining than I imagined... thanks to you who helped start the snickering tone :D btw - just what is someone from Maryland called? Marylander? Marylandian? Marryin'kind? EatdrinkandbeMerries (aka as druken sots...) ?

[arwalden]

60. Marylander... It just sounds so.... so... GAY!

Mary-lander... yuk! It's kind of convoluted to pronounce.

-- Allen

P.S. "Mary" is an archaic and seldom used term for a homosexual man... I haven't heard it in ages... but some folks still say it once and awhile. (Isn't that right, Mary?)

[salin]

64. oh my... better not let those fundies in places like

frederick or hagerstown know.... hehehe... actually that is delightful when thinking about how it would flip a few uptight bigoted Marylanders...

[aQuArius]

43. For ONCE and for all , its Utahns!!!!

Utahns, I used to be a Utahn dang it all to heck! Thank god I am not anymore and never will be!

[arwalden]

25. Connecticut = Nutmegger

[meti57b]

32. Iowa .... Iowatchamacallits

[salin]

40. otherwise known as... Iowans... or for sports fans... Hawkeyes.

in big ten state... we often think in terms of big-ten terms :D Buckeyes, Hawkeyes, Hoosiers and Gophers... ;-)

[flama]

37. I'm from Illinois but live in Florida

Most people in Florida came from somewhere else!

Think I used to be an Illini. Now I'm called a Floridian.

I'd prefer the name Democrat for both.

[TNDemo]

45. How about a city? Tampa = Tampons - oops, I mean Tampans.

[salin]

48. on a similar note... Frankfort Indiana... highschool mascot=

frankfurtors.... yep the frankfort hotdogs...

[arwalden]

111. Family Born And Raised In Tampa... A Full Blooded Tampan?

[Mikimouse]

112. You Moran! hahahaha

:evilgrin:

[Lars39]

46. Alaska....Alaskans

[salin]

47. Virginia = Virginians.

[arwalden]

50. Not VIRGINS??? Damn!

[salin]

103. West Virginians

could that be read to be a double entendre that I don't understand?

[salin]

61. Ohio... Ohioans (?)... or... OhHighens (for those who partake

in Kentuckies growing agricultural crop that is replacing tobacco)...

[travisleit01]

62. Colorado=Coloradan

[LiviaOlivia]

129. No, no ....Colorado=Greenies

Taken from traditional liscense plate.

[salin]

74. Folks we are falling down on the challenge... many states not yet

named... Vermont, NewHampshire, Alabama, Mississippi, South Dakota, Wyoming and many others....

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

75. Alabamians. Wyomians??

Fuck if I know!

[salin]

83. Wyomingers? Whyohmers?

[Zomby Woof]

130. Wyomingites

That is official. 2 generations on my Mom's side are from Wyoming.

[salin]

131. good to know... but

is that like stalagtites? Are they calcified formations that are solid in content (but sometimes hanging upside down?)

[Zomby Woof]

132. You're calling my Mom a calcified formation???

:o :o :o :o :o :evilfrown:






































;-)

[salin]

136. only in the sense that her heritage

was named for their "rock" solid foundations... :D

[Zomby Woof]

137. Ah, got it!

I guess I took your reply for granite! :D

[salin]

139. lol

can't even think of a comeback for that... so on that fossilized note... Goodnight! :hi:

[Zomby Woof]

140. Good night!

:hi:

[salin]

76. Vermont = Vermonter (?), Alabam = Alabaman (?),

[salin]

78. Georgia = Georgian; Rhode Island = Rhode Islander (?)

does some one getting a scholarship at U of RI = a Rhodes Scholar?

[salin]

81. New York = New Yorker... but what is someone from Pennsylvania

??? Pencilheads? :shrug: (family roots from philly - but I really have no idea as to what folks from the state are called...)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

84. What are people from Delaware?

and what did Delaware?
Did Niagara fall?
Is Victor Mature?

[salin]

85. covered above... Delewarans

sounds sorta cajun...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

102. Wouldn't Vermont be ...

Vermonteeeeeeaaaaarrrrggghn?!?

Do states have yells?

[salin]

115. it may not have been two weeks ago... but now

I there just might be a new state yell!

[kiahzero]

79. Rhode Island = Rhode Islander

Row Dylander, for the natives.

[salin]

87. does that mean that crew is the state pastime?

all those rowers, afterall...

[kiahzero]

116. That was a horrible, horrible pun.

Bravo!

[salin]

120. its one of those things

can only be done in the right state of hysterical boredom... thanks.

[Lars39]

82. Georgia....Georgian

[salin]

91. now wonder george (*) is so popular

a faux kinship sorta thing? :shrug:

[Lars39]

95. Spelling's involved somehow....

King George! *urk*

[salin]

97. yikes... for a second I was thinking... Tori? Aaron?

were they making a new series... Georgia Beach 20958????

Of course they would have to figure out who to cast as Catwoman, Uly, and Mike Malloy...

[Lars39]

100. Woa. That would be weird.

It could be an animal show, featuring the cats in the mug shots...:)

[salin]

113. lol... they live!

[Lars39]

89. Arizona.....Arizonan

[salin]

92. New Mexico = New Mexican

[LiviaOlivia]

128. I prefer "Zonies"

I am a maricopa county refugee.

[salin]

93. Oregon = Oregonian

Know that from the newspaper that sometimes gets linked to DU lbn

[salin]

94. Missouri = Missouran; Kansas = Kansan; Arkansas = Arkansan

and for the latter either FOB - or EOB - or so we are told.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

96. Idaho ... Idaho

[arwalden]

98. You Ain't Da Ho... SHE Da Ho!

[salin]

99. what a sexist thing to say

*roaring with laughter*... am guessing it is Idahoan? though it could be tatertot...

[salin]

101. North and South Carolinians? Or North and South Carolers...

"Jingle bells...."

[arwalden]

104. North Carolinans and SPLITTERS!

[salin]

106. Splitters?

NEver heard that... refers to... the way Jesse Helms treated Congress????

[arwalden]

108. Oh Noooo They Couldn't Be Happy With One BIG State of Carolina

They had to SPLIT and form their own little state.

-- Allen

[salin]

118. d'oh!

but they got Hilton Head... but lost Nags Head... Hilton or a broken down horse...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

119. Tar Heels for NC.... OldStater's for South

[salin]

121. of course... but as a long time Hoosier

bball fan... that term was subject to a mental block ;-)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

123. Know what you mean.... I went to KU

and incidentally, Kansan have been known as JayHawkers for over 120 years.

[salin]

126. Can I just say

I was shocked when Coach Williams defected to go to Carolina Blue... he was building such a dynasty of his own and had already once turned that job down....

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

127. Shocked was not the word for it... I am not sure there is a word

for it....

Frommmmazzzzled is close

PoleAxed would be too.

Yeah, shock set in a few days later.

[salin]

105. Montana = Montaniac? or more likely.. Montanan

[salin]

122. Louisiana = Louisianan

[salin]

124. Hawaii = Ophi-Hawaiian

come, let us go gather conch shells to discover other state nicknames...

[salin]

125. Mississippi = Missedthesipagains... or Mississippians

[LastKnight]

133. south dakota... south dakotans... nothing exciting...

but nothing much is out here... and i think im the only SD DUer... so i expect this to be a lonley part of the thread...

-LK

[salin]

138. Nothing? Beautiful land

spares you from my smart *ss responses :D

[LastKnight]

141. sure beautiful land...

the space i can achieve between me and the next person is the only thing that keeps me from going crazy in this freeper infested area of the nation.

-LK

[tkmorris]

134. Florida.......Floridiot

Well, at least the ones who drive Hummers on the bloody Turnpike :)

[ironflange]

142. Maine = Mainers

Mrs. Ironflange used to live there, so she knows. BTW, she knows everything else too, and likes to rub that in.

[Catshrink]

143. Arizona -- Stupid. We live in the Valley of the Dumb.

[gator_in_Ontario]

144. Florida="crackers"