Facts About Connecticut
As compiled by Drew & Amanda, based entirely on vague memories & hearsay. Feel free to add your Facts About Connecticut in the comments.
- It's near New York
- It's where Gilmore Girls is set
- Hartford is the insurance capital of the USA
- The chicks there are not hot
- It's where the yankee in king arthur's court was from
- Some survival story Drew quite liked in elementary school was set in Connecticut
- It's abbreviation is CT
- Yale is there
- It's easy to confuse Connecticut with Chuck Norris
posted by Blogs t r e t c h @ Wednesday, January 25, 2006
6 Comments:
Wasn't the Babysitters Club set there?
Also, home of ESPN.
Connecticut is close to Massachusetts, where I was born. So, you know, that makes it almost important!
Connecticut is home of the University of Connecticut, which usually tends to have a good men's basketball team.
Connecticut was designated the “Constitution State” by the General Assembly in 1959. As early as the 19th Century, John Fiske, a popular historian from Connecticut, made the claim that the Fundamental Orders of 1638/39 were the first written constitution in history.
So basically, they made that shit up. Damn nutmeggers...
The best pizza in the United States can be found in New Haven! I can vouch for it!
On a field of azure blue is an ornamental white shield with three grapevines, each bearing three bunches of purple grapes. The states motto "He who Transplanted Sustains Us" is displayed on a white ribbon. The vines stand for the first settlements of English people who began to move from Massachusetts in the 1630's. These settlements were thought of as grapevines that had been transplanted. Those same English people were also fucking drunks.
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