LynneSin
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Mon Mar-21-05 05:31 PM
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First the Gonzalezes (Elian) now the Schindlers (Terry Schiavo)... |
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..do you folks from Florida have any normal folks living there? Give me some hope!!
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steve2470
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Mon Mar-21-05 05:34 PM
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I'm one. :-) There's only 14 million of us and about 10,000 more per day.
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Mon Mar-21-05 05:35 PM
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2. Now that Misunderestimator is leaving, they're down to about one. |
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Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 05:36 PM by BurtWorm
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Actually, we got a lot of great--if not exactly "normal"--DUers from Florida!
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Mon Mar-21-05 05:36 PM
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I was born and raised here. I thought the world was like this until I moved out of Miami after graduating college.
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steve2470
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Mon Mar-21-05 05:40 PM
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I used to know a mentally ill woman from Ohio that would always say "You people in Florida are just weird". I never understood.
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Mon Mar-21-05 05:41 PM
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5. At least we're not a boring state |
FloridaPat
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Mon Mar-21-05 05:45 PM
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6. Why would anyone want "normal" as the norm. We have sun and |
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beautiful beaches - the ones that weren't ruined by the hurricanes. We beat Texas last year for the most hurricanes in one season! We have no income tax because we get to soak the tourists for everything they can charge. And we have Disney. That measn we have the resources to entertain a growing industry of real real news and not that crappy fake stuff that's on TV. Forget Reality TV - this is much better. Life and death struggles with real people. The more these stories show the hearts and souls of Florida, the more tourists we get. They show all those protestors - in the Florida tropics - not the Boston snow. And down here the crazy people don't have to worry about freezing to death.
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