Is having an official tartan awesome or gay?
So, during my usual lunch-break Wikipediaing (yeah…that’s right…I just invented a word), I decided to checkout the entry for Connecticut.
*Side note – my journeys through Wikipedia usually start somewhere totally random. Like today, I was thinking about nicknames for New Jersey (Such as ‘Dirty Jerz’), and decided to check on Wikipedia. Which led me to Connecticut.
I learned some fun facts about the state that sprung me from its loins that I did not know before – even though my mom is a elementary school teacher, and as such is full of amazing facts about the Constitution State (and of course we all know Wikipedia is 100% accurate):
- “The original [Connecticut] constitutions influenced the US Constitution as one of the leading authors was Roger Sherman of New Haven.”
- “According to Webster’s New International Dictionary, 1993, a person who is a native or resident of Connecticut is a “Connecticuter”. There are numerous other terms coined in print, but not in use, such as: “Connecticotian” – Cotton Mather in 1702. “Connecticutensian” – Samuel Peters in 1781. “Nutmegger” is sometimes used…” – as opposed to Nick Burns’ nickname, “Connecticunt”.
- Connecticut has an official state tartan. Which I think is totally sweet. California’s got Compton? Connecticut has an official tartan. Suck on that.
- “There is, however, a great disparity in incomes through the state; although New Canaan has one of the highest per capita incomes in America, Hartford is one of the ten cities with the lowest per capita incomes in America…”
- The entire Political Corruption section is an interesting read in itself. Yaaaaay Waterbury!
Wikipedia fails to mention Philips donuts, though. I need to edit that.
