The state has released copies of the hundreds of replacement flags, seals and state mottoes that people submitted - with the finalists scheduled for a review by an august body of experts starting at 2 p.m. on Thursday.

Nobody at Universal Hub is a member of the Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission, which is probably just as well, since we expect our two top choices - above and below - did not make the list of finalists (for what it's worth, that is no mere dinosaur, it's a Podokesaurus holyokensis, it's named for Holyoke and, yes, of course, it's our official state dinosaur).

The second flag probably wouldn't work because lobsters don't really represent the state west of, oh, 495, we suspect (also, we'd modify our first choice to make that cup an iced coffee).

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