A small green toy alien in a cowboy hat stands beside a cactus on a piece of tan fabric.

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Stevo

If looking the way we did in Utah was unusual, in the state of Wyoming (affectionately called the Cowboy State) we were fucking aliens.

— SLC Punk! · 1998

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker is saying that standing out in one place felt mild compared with standing out somewhere else. Utah made them look odd, but Wyoming, with its cowboy image, made them seem truly otherworldly. The exaggeration and the parenthetical aside give it a wry, storytelling tone.

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