The Family Foundation » Terrapene (Terrapin) Carolina http://familyfoundation.org Just another WordPress site Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:43:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Quote Of The Day http://familyfoundation.org/2009/02/quote-of-the-day-14/ http://familyfoundation.org/2009/02/quote-of-the-day-14/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:27:07 +0000 admin http://www.familyfoundation.org/?p=1308 Just a few minutes ago, on the House floor, Delegate Frank Hargrove (R-55, Hanover), on the debate on making the Eastern Box Turtle the state reptile, whose Latin species and sub-species name both include “Terrapene (Terrapin) Carolina,” and which … Read more>

]]> Just a few minutes ago, on the House floor, Delegate Frank Hargrove (R-55, Hanover), on the debate on making the Eastern Box Turtle the state reptile, whose Latin species and sub-species name both include “Terrapene (Terrapin) Carolina,” and which is the state reptile for North Carolina:

“Why would we make one of these things our state reptile when at the first sign of trouble it shrinks back into its shell — and we run over them on our roads all the time anyway!”

And later, from Delegate Steve Shannon (D-35, Fairfax), sensing growing resistance for the bill from the ribbing his colleagues couldn’t resist giving him:

“I will remind the body that this is a Senate bill. … Yesterday Delegate Bulova carried it. Today I drew the short straw.”

The bill failed 28-69.

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