hoosier Hoosier Rhin Pronounced "Hoo'zhur". A name tag worn by natives and/or resident's of Indiana for more than 150 years. No researcher has ever been able to pin down, beyond question, the term's origin. Versions and theories abound, but a tongue-in-cheek or ear-on-floor version offered by the famed Indiana poet, James Whitcomb Riley, is often quoted: "These stories about the origin of the word 'Hoosier' are all nonsense. The real origin is found in the pugnacious habits of early settlers. They were vicious fighters...and frequently bit off noses and ears...A settler coming into a barroom on a morning after a fight, and seeing an ear on the floor, would merely push it aside with his foot and carelessly ask, 'Whose ear?'" Whatever it's genesis, the monicker has stuck! 001215 ... sans visage daddy 001215 ... Thyartshallshant *glad he lives in "The Golden State" and not "The Hoosier State". 010106 ... Thyartshallshant correcting himself * 010106 ... nocturnal hoosier love. MU330 rocks. nuff said. 010502 ... Miner I dont think i really have anything to say on this subject... its far to strange... even for the likes of somebody as weird as me. 010609 ... Hoosier Freak I live in probably the most boring town in Indiana. I can't wait to move. 020726 ... squigglybee i live below the hoosier state in the bluegrass state. i go up to evansville indiana all the time though, family there 020726 ... phil today 020729 ... coolz Newburgh is far the worst. 020909 ... CJ i'm not a hoosier but I might as well be since both my parents are and I go to school in Indiana 020910 what's it to you? who go blather from