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12/04/13, 02:26 PM
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Murphy was an optimist ;)
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Ponce De Leon was such a fool!
So... we drove down to the sunshine state to eat our turkey this year, had a great time while there visiting with Yvonne's folks and our boy. (more about the trip in an upcoming thread) Its a pretty good ways, about 16 hours one way, which gave me some "thinking" time. As my mind wandered through a myriad of different subjects I got to thinking about ol Ponce, and what a nightmare that journey must have been. Then I asked myself just what sort of idiot he had to have been.... looking all over Florida for a fountain of youth! One glance around any parking lot and he shoulda known for sure that was pure nonsense.... There is nothing but old folks in Florida!
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12/04/13, 02:39 PM
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Thanks for the laugh. 
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12/04/13, 05:05 PM
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Don't ask me why, but there's a town 5 miles from here called Ponce De Leon. Everyone calls is "Poncey". How a town in literally the middle of nowhere got that name I'll never know.
Didn't old Ponce end poorly? I believe with an arrow in him? Probably shot by a 300 year old Indian trying to keep the location secret.
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12/04/13, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Yvonne's hubby
So... we drove down to the sunshine state to eat our turkey this year, had a great time while there visiting with Yvonne's folks and our boy. (more about the trip in an upcoming thread) Its a pretty good ways, about 16 hours one way, which gave me some "thinking" time. As my mind wandered through a myriad of different subjects I got to thinking about ol Ponce, and what a nightmare that journey must have been. Then I asked myself just what sort of idiot he had to have been.... looking all over Florida for a fountain of youth! One glance around any parking lot and he shoulda known for sure that was pure nonsense.... There is nothing but old folks in Florida!
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Please keep this between you and me, but, decades ago, I once lived just outside of Orlando for a not-brief-enough period of time, before I activated my escape and evasion plan.
While there one of the local radio stations was having some kind of faux contest to replace the existing state motto. If I remember correctly the winning motto was something like:
"Florida! Where America's retiring come for expiring!"
It caused quite the stir among some of the local, elderly citizens.
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12/04/13, 06:22 PM
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Ha! We live outside of Gainesville, a university town in FL so if it's not the elderly traffic mess it's the just got my dorm room so I must text and chat and be cool while I drive university kids jamming up the road.
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12/04/13, 08:02 PM
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I made the mistake of buying down the street from an outlet mall. Every ancient, shouldn't be driving anymore person in a 40 mile radius is heading to the outlet mall for a little dinner and shopping. Between 4 & 7 every evening. Right about the time I'm trying to get past the mall on my way home from work.
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12/04/13, 08:14 PM
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You all know that some day you will be old too! 
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12/04/13, 09:04 PM
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YES!!! But not in Florida!!! 
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12/04/13, 10:00 PM
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Makes sense for old folks to go to Florida if there is a fountain of youth hidden there.
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12/04/13, 10:50 PM
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Ha! We live outside of Gainesville, a university town in FL so if it's not the elderly traffic mess it's the just got my dorm room so I must text and chat and be cool while I drive university kids jamming up the road.
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Of course they need young people to do most of the work.
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12/06/13, 07:32 AM
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A few months back, I was making a deposit at a bank I don't visit very often and on glancing at the very attractive 20s-something red-headed teller's name tag, noticed it was (Marilyn? whatever) "Ponce de Leon." I suppose like every person and his cousin crossing her path, I had to make some sort of lame witticism about looking for the fountain of youth. She very graciously filled me in that she was in fact a direct descendent of his with family roots mostly in Spain. Since I grew up in Florida, I had to look up his history with a Wikipedia visit soon after that. Yeah, he got offed in Cuba by an Indian's likely poisoned arrow, but his wife and some kids had stayed in Spain and not been relocated anywhere to their colonies.
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12/06/13, 01:45 PM
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Murphy was an optimist ;)
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Originally Posted by DryHeat
A few months back, I was making a deposit at a bank I don't visit very often and on glancing at the very attractive 20s-something red-headed teller's name tag, noticed it was (Marilyn? whatever) "Ponce de Leon." I suppose like every person and his cousin crossing her path, I had to make some sort of lame witticism about looking for the fountain of youth. She very graciously filled me in that she was in fact a direct descendent of his with family roots mostly in Spain. Since I grew up in Florida, I had to look up his history with a Wikipedia visit soon after that. Yeah, he got offed in Cuba by an Indian's likely poisoned arrow, but his wife and some kids had stayed in Spain and not been relocated anywhere to their colonies.
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I heard that his wife Marilyn actually did come to Florida later, and wound up getting a job as a bank teller.
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12/06/13, 01:53 PM
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If I came to a fork in the road and the sign said Left for Fountain of Youth and Right for Fountain of Margaritas, I would not hesitate to get in the right lane. I was at the Fountain of Youth once and I liked it. I wouldn't go back to stay. Everyone I knew moved away.
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12/06/13, 07:58 PM
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Why on earth would you want to grow up when you can play the naked hiker game? DH has taken to wearing a head lamp to bed. He claims that even if he's sleepwalking it helps him find his way to the bathroom. I won't argue with him about this since he does sometimes go outside. I can't help but think it's going to be rough when he gets his days and nights mixed up though.
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12/07/13, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by TRellis
...While there one of the local radio stations was having some kind of faux contest to replace the existing state motto. If I remember correctly the winning motto was something like:
"Florida! Where America's retiring come for expiring!"
It caused quite the stir among some of the local, elderly citizens.
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I have heard Florida called God's Waiting Room.
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