1.   Another is the menorah, the Jewish candelabrum that is the official state symbol.

2.   But some people have committed state symbols to memory.

3.   If you want additional evidence that the Florida legislature is not doing its job, you need look no further than our pathetic number of state symbols.

4.   Picking state symbols, such as the official fish or insect, is a big political deal.

5.   Some mailed handwritten notes on postcards featuring state symbols.

6.   State symbols and mottoes are taught in many elementary schools, and your children may be graded on them.

7.   Still, Georgia not only has more state symbols than Florida, its symbols are more imaginative.

8.   The folks in Georgia clearly take their state symbols much more seriously than we do in Florida.

9.   The picture superimposes a ghostly state symbol on the interior of a motel room like those where so many passing tourists sleep.

10.   This year, the Legislature debates a less offensive state symbol, the state bird.