People made it in 1929 we can too. ?????ÿ
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We're doin' ah-right.?ÿ Things could be so much worse.?ÿ Just a bad stretch of road that's all.?ÿ
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Heard a funny "Florida" joke today.?ÿ You've probably heard it, but I'll share it anyway:
Two old ladies from Georgia were headed to see friends in Ft. Lauderdale.?ÿ Along the way they get into a discussion about how to pronounce the next town, Kissimmee.?ÿ ?ÿOne said, KISS-a-me.?ÿ The other said Kuh-SIM-me.?ÿ About that time they were hungry and stopped for a bite.
One said to the girl taking their order, "We're not from around here. How do you pronounce where we're at?"
The girl at the counter looked confused and told them slowly, "We call it bur-ger-king".
Kuh-SIM-me
Is the correct pronunciation. ?????ÿ
True story, not from Florida, but Louisiana. In 2004 or 2005, my well-traveled son lived near New Orleans. He invited me down for a week-end of fishing using his first boat, a 12-foot jon boat with a 25 horsepower motor. We had two outstanding days on the bayou. A notable occurrence was a little gator that really wanted my son's top of the water lure. Now even a small gator on a multi-hook lure was not a pleasing picture to us, so my son retrieved it as fast as he could with the gator in chase. When the lure came out of the water the gator sat with his head above water staring at us. My son picked up the paddle and waved it, whereupon the gator, probably having seen such a weapon before, departed quickly.
On the third afternoon of my visit, we went to a New Orleans Zephyrs baseball game. I went to the shop to buy a t-shirt for my other son who is an avid baseball fan. I asked the cashier, a teenage girl, what a zephyr was anyway. She looked away, continued to bag my shirt, and finally replied, "They told me that when I started working here, but I forgot. You can ask any of those people in blue t-shirts, though, and they can tell you."
So, still being employed as a teacher, I made a mental note. Gators in Louisiana can learn, but teenagers can't.
