Oct
30
Scratch my nuts
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Mr. Fab, can you account for your whereabouts on the day this video was taken?
Can you imagine asking a Florida Highway Patrolman to scratch your nuts? I mean, after you’re in handcuffs?
Oct
30
Redneck Rocket Launcher
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Having spent my formative years in rural Florida, I am familiar with the type of gentlemen depicted in this video. I’m not saying I’m initimately familiar or anything, but I’ve woken up in the middle of pastures with cows grazing by my head.
Twice.
So, the only thing in this video that surprised me is that no one said “Hey y’all, watch this!”
Oct
29
Florida Nature Photographer
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Wow.
I like to Stumble through photos. I hit a Florida Nature Photographer Sunday night that just blew me away. His images were so vivid and so unique. I’m not posting any here out of respect for his copyright (there are a couple I’d dearly love to post, though), because these photos are truly works of art. My favorite is in his “Recent Work” category, and is titled “What Lurks Beneath”. Be sure to check out his Journal of Light slideshow, too.
Oct
29
The coolest place to go trick-or-treating around Jacksonville
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We’re making our Halloween plans, figuring out where the best candy will be. There’s a nice neighborhood up the road that has a killer feature: The house of one of the guys that run the Robot Costume company. Last year’s display was awesome, scared the bejeebers out of the kids!
Here’s a link to an article in last year’s paper about their home.
Yeah, we’re those people - the ones that don’t live in your neighborhood but bring their kids around at Halloween. Busted. In our defense, though, we live back in the woods, no streetlights, houses set way back and far apart. Just not safe for the kids, and it kind of creeps me out at night, too.
Oct
28
No one under the age of 30 should be allowed to vote
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From the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, where Recount, a movie about the 2000 election, is being filmed:
OVERHEARD
Don’t know much about recent history
Two 20-somethings chatting in a San Marco bakery earlier this week.
First guy: They’re filming some stuff for that HBO movie Recount today.
Second guy: Yeah, I saw the crew working on signs. Why are they setting up so much stuff to make it look like everything is happening in Palm Beach?
Oct
26
Why you don’t win the Florida Lottery
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You didn’t play the right numbers.
What did you expect, some convoluted conspiracy theory about how Jeb Bush and the ghost of Lawton Chiles got together with a bunch of other He-coons to take pre-dawn walks and figure out a way to screw YOU?
Anyway…
Did you know that the Florida Lottery publishes a frequency chart for winning numbers?
Me neither.
According to the chart, as of today the six most frequently chosen numbers in Lotto are:
28 - 30 - 15 - 18 - 38 - … and then we run into a problem. 27 and 28 are tied. So you’ll have to play two tickets this week, until one of those two numbers makes a move.
Remember, though, it’s all for the kids.
Oct
25
My coworker is telling me her neighbor has the Boardwalk piece to McDonalds’ Monopoly game at her office She apparently is thinking Park Place is the hard piece to get and is offering my coworker a chance to split the prize.
I think she’s mistaken and has Park Place. Hell, I have 2 Park Place pieces.
More on this later, I think someone can’t freakin’ read…
Oct
24
Only in FLA: Underwater Pumpkin Carving
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I’ve seen some crazy contests down here, but this one is pretty tame. It’s just underwater pumpkin-carving,(Link broken) held down in the Florida Keys at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. No animals appear to have been hurt in the process, and there are no reports of nude or topless scuba divers.
So, what’s the point?
Oct
23
There is a space shuttle launch at 11:38 a.m. Tuesday, and history will be made with two women commanding two orbiting spacecraft at the same time. If you’re within 100 miles or so and the weather is fairly clear, look in the direction of the space center to see the shuttle liftoff.
Oct
22
“Our geneology is a little vague…”
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Mr. Fab’s Kentucky cousin has graced us with the UK Fight song - Enjoy!
Go Gators!
