Talk:List of Oregon state symbols

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Several new ones besides Jory from 2011

After yet another good faith effort to make Oregon have an official state tartan, I was checking the Law of the land© and see there are some new "symbols":

Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show designated as official outdoor pageant and wild west show (see also 1, 2)
Honor and Remember Flag for fallen members of armed forces designated as official honor and remember flag

and my favorite:

Reedsport designated as chainsaw carving capital

They seem to be stretching the definition of what a symbol is a bit, but there you have it.

Valfontis (talk) 21:50, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is why we can't have nice things. --Esprqii (talk) 22:06, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

But I'm glad that the National Honor and Remember Flag beat out the National Remember and Honor Flag as the official honor and remember flag, or it might have been confusing. --Esprqii (talk) 22:09, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Utah has a State Gun... So Utah can kill any of your symbols.

FYI, not all symbols are actual symbols. Some are HJR or SJR (House/Senate Joint Resolution) and other are HCR or SCR (House/Senate Concurrent Resolution). HJR/SJR are laws, if signed by the governor. HCR/SCR are not laws. Rules that the House and Senate are governed by are usually passed by HCR/SCR. However, they can be "special" things such as making May 23 "clown day", Legislature honouring homecoming vets, or my favourite, Utah's yearly resolution that U.S. 17th amendment be repealed. So, technically, a symbol passed by HCR/SCR are not official state symbols. Bgwhite (talk) 05:45, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Huh, then I guess we have to throw out the state tree, the state flower, the hazelnut, the triton, the square dance, and the swallowtail. There goes our carefully researched featured list. Oh well. Sorry Esprqii, it's worse than you thought. Valfontis (talk) 06:37, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, technically they cannot be labeled as an "official state symbol" as there is no law. However, they can be labeled as an "unofficial" ones or however you want to word it. You can list them, but it comes down to the wording. See List of Utah state symbols for an example. btw... I learned something new. I thought User:Finetooth was Oregon's state nut :) Bgwhite (talk) 07:04, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think since several "official" sources (including the ORS and the Oregon Blue Book) list the ones I mentioned as "official", the current list is probably fine the way it is, it seems pointless to make it more complicated. Oregon law may be a bit different than Utah's, I'd imagine. Also note my original posting was a bit tongue-in-cheek. And I think Finetooth is one of the saner members of WP:ORE, actually. Valfontis (talk) 17:52, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Senate votes to designate oregonite, josephinite as official twin minerals of Oregon"

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/04/senate_votes_to_designate_oreg.html

--Another Believer _(Talk) 14:57, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is amusing to contemplate the timeliness of state minerals. —EncMstr (talk) 16:45, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

more excited about the state microbe designation. Can we get Wikipedia declared the state free encyclopedia? --Esprqii (talk) 22:22, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Like --Another Believer _(Talk) 22:47, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

State microbe?

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/04/oregon_house_votes_to_designat.html

--Another Believer _(Talk) 14:53, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's California Milk

The milk bottle pictured is from Strauss Family Farms in Petaluma, California. It is probably hard to tell unless you are a Californian who buys it, but to me it's plan as day (on the full image you can read "Strauss Family Creamery was the first certified organic dairy . . . "). On ither pages I'm sure it's fine, but here it's ironic in a not-good way; someone might consider replacing it with a generic milk bottle picture, or one that is from Oregon. You may want to either exclude any brand logos from the picture, or review the Wikipedia logo use guidelines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morrisjm (talk • contribs) 00:57, 7 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Outdoor Pageant and Pie

I added Osprey. Also in 2017, a state pie (Marionberry pie designated as official pie, HCR 19 (2017)) was adopted and as of 2011 (hint hint) Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show is the official state outdoor pageant. [1] Upon further research, I see there is now a state tartan. I think we should add that and the minerals. I'm neutral on some of those other ones (chainsaw, etc. see above) [2] I am not neutral on boysenberry pie. (and good on the berry lobby for finally finding a way around the pear lobby). Long live the pie. Valfontis (talk) 23:37, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]