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01-17-2007, 05:45 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Jan 14th, 2007 Location: Connecticut
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Hey, I'm the first Nutmegger to post in this forum!!! I consider myself a CT citizen even though I grew up in Idaho. Spent 20 years in Idaho, then went to college in Utah (Utah State). Then, maybe because I'm nuts  , I went from Texas to DC to Colorado to Georgia to CT. So I've been around, seen lots of things, and have a lot to offer this forum...Been in CT for three years but we plan to stay FOREVER...  Don't want to bore anyone so I'll keep this short... Just wanted to be the first!
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01-17-2007, 06:44 PM
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From Wikipedia... Nutmegger is a nickname for people from the state of Connecticut. The official name for Connecticut is 'the Constitution State', as voted in 1958 by the Connecticut state legislature; however 'The Nutmeg State' is also an unofficial name for the state, hence the nickname 'nutmegger'.The origin of the appelation is unknown. One theory is that it comes from Yankee peddlers selling nutmegs in colonial times. These nutmegs may have been the real thing, i.e. the hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), an East Indian evergreen tree, or counterfeit wooden nutmegs; or, as has been suggested, they were the real thing but customers unfamiliar with the native form of the spice might have decided they had been sold a counterfeit after futilely trying to grind the unusually hard seed.
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01-17-2007, 06:56 PM
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| Slave to Sir Azi  Join Date: Jan 14th, 2007 Location: Western Washington
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Wow too cool... I never did hear that or remember hearing it.. but my memory is bad these days... Think I fried it when I was younger! 
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