Oh come on Boston---Lighten up--- Sheeeit---I'm from Florida.

[trumad]

Try to endure that.

[The Count]

1. RECOMMENDED!

[graywarrior]

2. RECOMMENDED #2

[LSK]

3. I will be thinking of you come Monday

When it is 5 degrees in Chicago.

[trumad]

4. ouch

That's the only redeeming value of Florida---that and maybe Jimmy Buffet.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. They make a kick-ass seafood salad at Margaritaville.

Very well priced too.

[LSK]

7. The Conch Republic is not part of the FL

:rofl:

[trumad]

15. They'd succeed from the Union if they could...

that's for sure.

[5X]

23. That would be our success. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

11. Hey

Jimmy Buffet is a redeeming value of the Big Easy.

And the recent crime spree(s) in New Orleans and the correponding key stone cops response(s) make Boston's day seem like a day in the park.

[americanstranger]

19. Oh, God. The margarita I had there...

...left me incapable of walking back to the hotel.

Thank Koresh I wasn't driving - and that my lovely wife puts up with me when I'm smashed. :)

- as

[Gayla]

21. B-U-F-F-E-T-T

Jimmy Buffett (two t's) please!

[trumad]

22. No---there's a singer in Orlando called Jimmy Buffet.

you never heard of him?

;-)

[originalpckelly]

5. "Lighten up"

:spank:

:rofl:

:spray:

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[AlCzervik]

8. i wish we had a florida tag

ala Fark.

[JeffR]

9. Me too... sigh...

Hard to believe I used to feel smug about not being from Alabama.:eyes:

[Virginia Dare]

10. Sheeit, that's like Boston, only wahmah....

some of my old Boston Irish relatives used to invade Flahridah every wintah.

[bullimiami]

12. jesus talk about losing your sense of humor and inflating your sense of

importance to mammoth proportions.

lighten up no doubt. i guess instead of admitting they are so inept they cant distinguish a joke from terrorism they have to prosecute the jokesters as ... terrorists.

[trumad]

13. well said.

[Marrah_G]

14. Boston didn't panic

Most folks went on about their business, unless stuck in traffic. The media freaked out, not your average Bostonian. People here just let the cops do their jobs. The endless slams and taunts against Boston and Bostonians today is disgusting. We are probably the most liberal state in the country. The ONLY place where same sex couples can get married and still people can't help but act like internet assholes.

It is offensive so YOU lighten the hell up.

Next time a hurricane misses you I'll be sure to remind you what chickenshit pansies you all are when the news covers people preparing for it.

[KittyWampus]

16. I wish you'd start a thread with just such a sentiment. DU disgusts me sometimes

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. Hurricanes actually hurt people.

The mooninites never hurt anybody.

Except for nerds.

[trumad]

18. It's funny how you don't mention your Mayor flipping out.

he is isn't he?

BTW: I've endured several hurricanes since living in Florida. Are you comparing this incident to a Cat 4 Hurricane?

[Marrah_G]

24. I'm comparing it to a missed hurricane

My state/city reacted to something they weren't sure was benign. They acted in such a way as to try and keep the city safe. Yet this board has done nothing all day but insult the city.... a city of Democrats, a State of Democrats.

Yet some choose the side of TURNER BROADCASTING!

Black is white, up is down, left is right...........

[Texaroo]

25. Not the side of Turner Broadcasting...

You misread. There are more than two sides here. Turner hired a subcontractor who hired some Boston locals for an ad campaign (artists to promote a cartoon - I think the minimum of corporate stink in that equation). They create commercial art - no different than the gypsy signs advertising palm reading on every median in Christendom.

The police wayyyyyy overreacted, or at least they did an incredibly lousy job of communicating to the media. The media acted like the competitive 24-hour blood-sucking scum they have become by pouncing on a no-event and blowing it up into headline news and scaring the bejesus out of the locals (which, I am sure, the local politicians just LOVE, since it PROVES that they are tough on terrorism. Or cartooons. Whatever. We take electronics very seriously.

Don't blame Boston. And Bostonians shouldn't feel that they have to apologize for anything but the IQ's of a few who obviously didn't make it to MIT. This coulda happened anywhere. Except, I guess, in Austin, where enough bored Adult Swim addicts got the reference.

Blaming TimeWarner here is kinda funny - media sensationalism over media advertising that got over-hyped. What the hell? The advertising campaign was mildly clever. Or at least more clever than the guy who first mistook a Lite Brite for a threat.

[trumad]

27. Boo

[Virginia Dare]

20. Boston's not immune from Hurricanes..

and I'm sure you're right about most people going about their business, we go through this all the time in D.C., and for the most part, there is no panic, mostly annoyance.

[monmouth]

26. My first reaction was to compliment the police, etc. on their quick

response in Boston. I'm in Florida too, in the county where Ann can't find an election booth.
Boston shouldn't apologize for anything, they should be complimented on their response, if it was for real, it would appear they were pretty well prepared.