(Deano, Unk - Are your out-of-state "friends" emailing this crap to you too?)

FLORIDA: Relax, Retire, Re-Vote.

FLORIDA: We don't just cheat in football.

FLORIDA: If you don't like the way we count then take I-95 and visit one of the other 56 states.

FLORIDA: If you think we can't vote, wait till you see us drive.

FLORIDA: We count more than you do. FLORIDA: What comes after 17,311?

FLORIDA: Where your vote counts and counts and counts.

FLORIDA: We're number one! Wait! Recount!

Palm Beach County: We put the "duh" in Florida.

Sign on I-95 : Florida this way, no that way, 5 miles, wait 10 miles.

-- CD (costavike@hotmail.com), December 01, 2000

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LOL...

That last one reminded me of a flight I once took on Mexicana Airlines.

We were heading to Mazatlan, by way of Puerto Vallarta. It wasn't the first time we had taken this particular route, so I was familiar with the Puerto Vallarta airport. We landed on the runway (which, if you think about it, is a pretty good place to land a 727) and we kind of "flew by" a turnoff. I said to my friend, "Wow, he missed the turnoff". She asked me what I was talking about. At that exact moment, the pilot threw the engines into reverse (or slammed on the freaking brakes; who could tell at that point) and began backing up the plane. He then made the turnoff. My friend just kind of looked at me in amazement.

When we were once again airborne, destination Mazatlan, the pilot comes on the loudspeaker and announces, "The weather in Mazatlan is 79 degrees with scattered skies" (which we knew to be "partly cloudy"). "We will be landing in Mazatlan in 50 minutes."....."No wait, 35 minutes."....."Ah, make it 40 minutes."

We're talking about an airline that would board the passengers, count the passengers, and no matter what time it was, as long as the required number of passengers were seated, we'd push back and take off; yet somehow managed to always be late.

We're talking about an airline whose every "morning" flight is a champagne brunch.

We're talking about an airline that would feed you at least twice in a three-hour flight. (And the food was not only edible, it was actually *good*.)

In many ways, I miss that airline.

And in many MORE ways, I don't.

-- Patricia (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), December 01, 2000.

For those of you keeping those new quarters as souvenirs, I saw a picture of Florida's new quarter today:

Patricia: You thought the joke about "Mexican time" was a joke?

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), December 01, 2000.