Will Shortz’s entry in the Journal reports on a creative competition: write a sentence using only the letters of any particular U.S. state, repeated as often as necessary. I won’t share the winner or runnners-up here: gotta save something for the but I will preview a few of the honorable mentions:
Minnesota: Moisten onion-tomato samosas in a mint-sesame miso to attain an intense taste, sans meat. — Carl Benson
Colorado: Load a car o' Coca Cola! — Isabel Urrutia
Texas: Texas axes estate taxes. — Charvaka Duvvury
Vermont: Never remove even one voter; no more venom. — Jenny Gelfan
Maryland: A randy lad may dally. A manly man may land a lady and marry! — Michael Holmes
Minnesota: St. Simon sees no mists. [note: a palindrome] — Em Blair
Michigan: Man, I am a mahi mahi chimichanga maniac! — Brett Hunkins
Washington: Nothing is showing tonight (hashtag: ghost town). — Sam Levitin
Rhode Island: Does she sell seashells on Rhode Island’s seashores, or in Idaho and Ohio? — Carl Huber
Minnesota: Sometimes emotion is a man's nemesis. — Bill Piccinni