The Sunshine State

I just read something funny about Florida. It was in today’s Florida Trend Newsletter.
According to this article, Florida’s motto is, “We’re cheap, and we’re proud of it!”
That means we have mediocre colleges for bargain tuition. Doesn’t that make you proud?!

More about Florida:

They call it the Sunshine State. We do have a lot of sunshine, but we also have a lot of humidity, snakes, and insects. There are hundreds of kinds of ants and we have them in abundance, especially the venomous kinds. We have fire ants, but they aren’t the only ones that sting. You’ve probably heard of fire ants, because they use a military strategy to overcome the enemy (you), by attacking en masse and then stinging all at once creating a strong burning sensation. It happened to me one day outside by the pool. They crawled on my leg and whoa! I tried to shake them off and then ran and put my leg in the pool. This didn’t bring immediate relief, but cooled the sensation somewhat. I have heard that rubbing alcohol is good for this type of sting.

Other small ants sting, too. Their sting just doesn’t burn as much and they don’t always attack as a group. One tiny isolated sting is easier to deal with and it’s easier to deliver the death penalty to the lone perpetrator.

By the way, we do have the death penalty in Florida. Another thing to be proud of?