A thread on the Boston board asked about what song from a debut album that, when you first hear it, you realize you're listening to a star. Although he was already a star, I picked Enrico Caruso's US debut album from 1904 and the track Questa o Quella (This [women] or that.] and I added the suggestion that it might even be the TER Theme Song:  
   
 “Questa o quella” English Lyrics  
   
 This girl or that girl are equal  
 to the all the others I see around me,  
 the core of my being I will not yield  
 to one beauty or another  
 their attractiveness is what they are gifted  
 from fate and embellishes life  
 Perhaps today this girl welcomes me  
 perhaps tomorrow another girl will demand me.  
   
 Then it occurred to me that many US States have an Official State Song, State Bird, State Tree or Plant, State Mammal, and so on.  
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_United_States_state_symbols  
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_birds  
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_songs  
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_trees  
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_insects  
   
 What should be TER's official (by public acclimation) song, bird, mammal, tree, ... and so on?  
   
 I'll suggest the Saltmarsh Sparrow, currently recognized as the world's most promiscuous bird.  
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8473000/8473161.stm  
   
 I'll suggest the pineapple as the TER plant for all the reasons espoused by mrfisher.  
   
 I'll suggest Rigoletto as the official TER opera.  
   
 Make a separate thread for each category or just mishmash things together here?  
 

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