XPost: pdx.general, or.politics, alt.politics   
   From: merlyn@stonehenge.com   
      
   >>>>> "Bill" == Bill Shatzer  writes:   
      
   Bill> Bah! When I was in school, we had a state bird and a state flower and a   
   Bill> state song. That should be enough for any state.   
      
   Bill> Fie on the Official State Dance (square), the Official State Drink   
   Bill> (milk), the Official State Rock (the thunderegg), the Official State   
   Bill> Tree (Douglas fir), the Official State Mollusck (the banana slug!) and   
   Bill> all that other silliness!   
      
   Unless you're significantly older than me, I remember going to OMSI (the real   
   one, not the fake one on the waterfront) as a young'un and seeing the   
   Thunderegg cut open, with a little sign saying "Oregon's Official State Rock".   
   I think it was near the display that when you pushed the button, played the   
   State Song, "Oregon my Oregon", which I have sung on the radio on Craig   
   Walker's Morning Show back in 1980 as I was driving to work listening to Stump   
   The Jock.   
      
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