Another tip for newbies,wanting exercise

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Another tip for newbies,wanting exercise
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Tue, 08-31-2004 - 6:03pm
Today is Primary Election Day and the polls are open 7-7 in Florida. If it's election day in your state, get out there and vote. Take a walk to the polls (it's good physical exercise) and perform that other "exercise" of your right to vote as you best see fit. Our polling places, some of them anyway, also have an area where people can *elect* to give blood afterwards. Now I can't promise that it uses up massive amounts of calories, will cause any weight loss, but it sure will make you feel good (and it will help someone else) if you can see your way clear to do both: vote AND give blood. A two-fer! What a deal.

Forte

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Registered: 04-02-2003
Wed, 09-01-2004 - 5:45pm
"Are you proud of yourselves yet?"

I've been proud of myself for a long time, thank you very much.

"If Hurricane Frances makes landfall in Florida (and all the models show it will) it would be the worst double strike hurricane on a state in at least a century."

What does that have to do with the election?

"So you respond, in advance of that hurricane, by taking this opportunity to attack the state of Florida and all Floridians."

The hurricane and my joke about the election have nothing to do with each other. Stop making mountains out of molehills.

"I started the thread, to suggest posters take an opportunity to walk to their polls to vote in Primaries"

Florida was the only state that had a primary yesterday. Besides, not all of us can walk to our primary to vote. Your friend Astri certainly can't. I can't either, but not because of disability.

"Exercising one's right to vote, after all, burns calories"

Punching out those chads IS pretty challenging. Wait, did you mean physically challenging, or mentally challenging?

"(this is a 100 lbs board),"

Ah. Your favorite refrain. We know what this board is for.

"I also said that in Florida (and likely your states too) . . . ."

My state doesn't have physical polling places. Oh well. Guess I'll just have to go the gym.

"I hope there **really and truly IS ** a God, and that ** each of you** posting these slams at Florida get to explain that to Him."

I think God would find it amusing as well. After all, it's just an election. But He might not find jokes about misdirecting tourists in the face of an oncoming hurricane funny.

"That brand of meanness doesn't start overnight, and as Lucy Ricardo (a good comedian) use to say....' you got some 'spla'nin to do.'"

Oh, lighten up. I hate Californians too! Besides, I didn't even tell you my favorite memory of the 2000 election. On a sign held by a pro-Bush protester: "If you can read this, you must be a Republican."

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Registered: 07-28-2003
Wed, 09-01-2004 - 5:54pm
Not that you'll answer this, because you never respond to logic, but how can you say this:

"In the meantime, as we await the inevitable, FLORIDA LOCALS, please STAY SAFE. My prayers and positive thoughts are with my fellow ***FLORIDIANS*** who live here in Florida right now. "

And yet start your post with this:

"Are you proud of yourselves yet? "

FU and your **local** friends.


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Registered: 03-29-2003
Wed, 09-01-2004 - 6:01pm
Uhhhh,I think the subject was that Floridians don't know how to vote....not that no one cares for their safety.You are trying to blow this whole voting joke out of proportion so that you make yourself out to be the goodie goodie.Get over yourself already.No one else but you are Astri have wanted people in harms way(remember the thread where YOU laughed at tourists getting wrong directions during a hurricane...thought so!).

Oh,and you know what!?I have family and friends in Florida,and even though I joke that they don't know how to vote...a hurricane is no laughing matter.So keep you s&*ts and giggles to yourself!!!

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Registered: 05-08-2003
Wed, 09-01-2004 - 6:25pm
Again, this is NOT the attitude of someone born and raised in Florida. It is the attitude of someone who doesn't know the true, caring nature of Floridians. A transplant is a transplant, and you don't speak for the good people who have lived there all their lives. Never would they steer a tourist in the wrong direction, in fact, they'd offer them shelter.

I WILL be talking to Him when my time comes. I think He knows the difference between a Florida VOTING joke and your tourist slams. I actually think YOU will be the one doing some spla'nin (as you put it. don't think the Hispanic contingent in Florida would be too happy with you there, Forte). You are the one who wants to DIRECT THE TOURISTS to the storm.....no one here does.

Your own posts have bitten you back, Forte. You and Astri started this, now you want to place blame elsewhere. I think you better go back and read your posts re: tourists.


Edited 9/1/2004 6:39 pm ET ET by two_kids

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Wed, 09-01-2004 - 7:07pm

HERE, HERE! Let's not forget those who live in Virginia either! They have been seriously hit by some major flooding too over the hurricanes recently. My thoughts and prayers also go out to those who are traveling in Florida and Virginia and those who live in trailers and all those living along the Atlantic coast. How devasting! Let's not forget those poor people in Cuba who were first devastated not just the locals in Florida....


Let's all not forget to have a sense of humor about ourselves, because that is a good thing! Life is just too short.


Shawn and Heather Thornton 7/16/04


Heather and Shawn 7/16/04

 

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Wed, 09-01-2004 - 7:46pm
Half of my family lives in Florida and I have another aunt/uncle who will be moving there within the next month.
 
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Registered: 04-26-2003
Wed, 09-01-2004 - 10:26pm
Forte, in another thread you said to me:

"It's a Buffett song, oonagh. Don't make mountains out of molehills."

Now I say to you:

"It's an election joke, forte. Don't make mountains out of molehills."


Irony.

Erin

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Registered: 04-08-2004
Tue, 09-07-2004 - 1:31pm
As a CL on a support board, aren't you supposed to support all posters? When a hurricane is coming to Florida and some posters from your board are living there, it's not the time to join in the attack on Floridians. It's in very bad taste, and says a lot about board members and CLs when they attack Floridians, and Florida, when a hurricane is coming. Doesn't a CL from Michigan get that much? I would think you could do better for the board than to let that slide, and encourage the attacks on Floridians while a hurricane was on it's way to them. Shame on you. I had thought better of you than that, but perhaps not.

Shame, for shame.

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Registered: 05-08-2003
Tue, 09-07-2004 - 1:36pm
As I recall, Forte and Astri and maybe you were the ones joking about sending tourist straight into the hurricanes and on the most crowded, one-lane roads possible. Not going to go back and copy them to here, but they are easy enough for you to find.

Jokes about voting are nothing compared to joking about sending people into danger during a hurricane--no matter how much you dislike tourists.

So, I think you need to rethink your rant......your friends were doing quite a bit of attacking in regards to Floridians (non-native and tourists).

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