Dear Grumpy: Florida is indeed a Banana Republic. It has always been. It also has swarms of huge mosquitos, aligators that will gleefully gobble up your little dogs and cats, insane drivers, high taxes and the bulk of the population is at least 73 years old and heavily medicated. Please pass the word to all your friends: STAY OUT OF FLORIDA. We would also be grateful if you could convince any of your friends that might already be here in Flrida to leave immediately. Maybe, if all you opinionated invaders leave, Florida could return to being the paradise it once was. One can only dream. Mike Meeker >From: " Grumpy" <cavedweller@angelfire.com> >Reply-To: cavedweller@angelfire.com >To: "Trawlerworld" <trawler-world-great-loop@lists.samurai.com> >Subject: TWGL: Florida >Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:50:12 -0800 > >I am beginning to think Florida has become a Banana Republic, what with >their haste to collect taxes. Ok a question of distance, I haven't got any >charts yet of the area. I would like to know how far The Trent Severn Canal >is from Sault St. Marie taking a pretty straight line and keeping within >Canadian Waters. >Grumpy :-) > > > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________ >Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! >Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus >_______________________________________________ >http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawler-world-great-loop _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

John Gill replied: Mike, Boy oh boy, how things have changed. As a native Floridian (how many of you can say that) I remember when: (a) The state motto was "Keep Florida Green - Spend Money" (b) There were two kinds of Yankees. Just plain old Yankees and Damn Yankees - the difference between the two is that the Damn Yankees were the ones that stayed. (c) The young people who couldn't get jobs (because of all the early retirees from the North were willing to work for nearly nothing) and who were forced to move out of the state coined the phrase: "Florida is for the Newly Weds and the Nearly Deads -- and since we are in-between we are outahere" (Has this changed???). John Gill, a proud "Beanpicker" from Pompano Beach High School, Class of '59 _________________________________ michael meeker wrote: > Dear Grumpy: Florida is indeed a Banana Republic. It has always been. It > also has swarms of huge mosquitos, aligators that will gleefully gobble up > your little dogs and cats, insane drivers, high taxes and the bulk of the > population is at least 73 years old and heavily medicated. > > Please pass the word to all your friends: STAY OUT OF FLORIDA. > > We would also be grateful if you could convince any of your friends that > might already be here in Flrida to leave immediately. > > Maybe, if all you opinionated invaders leave, Florida could return to being > the paradise it once was. One can only dream. > > Mike Meeker > > >From: " Grumpy" <cavedweller@angelfire.com> > >Reply-To: cavedweller@angelfire.com > >To: "Trawlerworld" <trawler-world-great-loop@lists.samurai.com> > >Subject: TWGL: Florida > >Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:50:12 -0800 > > > >I am beginning to think Florida has become a Banana Republic, what with > >their haste to collect taxes. Ok a question of distance, I haven't got any > >charts yet of the area. I would like to know how far The Trent Severn Canal > >is from Sault St. Marie taking a pretty straight line and keeping within > >Canadian Waters. > >Grumpy :-) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________ > >Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! > >Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus > >_______________________________________________ > >http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawler-world-great-loop > > _________________________________________________________________ > Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawler-world-great-loop