On 6/18/13 3:14 PM, Eisboch wrote:
"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 6/18/13 1:38 PM, Eisboch wrote:
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On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:01:10 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:
Back in the day, before the entire country went nutso, my parents and I
used to joke about the fact that *all* the reported UFO landings and
alien sightings seemed to take place in Florida, Mississippi, and the
swamps of Louisiana.
My mom, a native of Boston, said, "We'll believe these tales when a
flying saucer lands on the MIT campus and a little green man comes out
and says "take me to your leader."
These days, of course, whatever craziness infected the south
(referencing the "Florida trait") has spread across the nation. But I'm
not going to believe in aliens until there is a landing on the campus of
the University of Chicago.
Most Florida residents came from one of those northern states you hold
in such high regard.
I certainly see a lot of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut people here. (mostly on the east coast) On the west coast
we mostly get mid westerners.
That is basically a I-95 vs I-75 thing
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I happened to stumble upon a re-run of this show the other day. For
the gullible it was pretty convincing, especially with all the
"scientific" evidence and skeletal remains:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/mermaids-real-mermaids-caught-camera-animal-planet-documentary-19286637
I suppose you don't believe in the tooth fairy or the easter bunny,
either. 
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Wasamatta .... you never watched "Miracle on 34th St."
Absolutely, both the older and the more recent versions. I see no reason
*not* to believe in Santa Claus. I like Christmas, too, to the extent it
upholds the value of good deeds, helping others, and basic human
decency. I'm not a fan of the commercialization attached to the
observance and, of course, I really dislike the never-ending attempts to
use it to push a religious agenda on a society that is supposed to be
religiously neutral, but there is nothing negative about the positive
thoughts attributed to Jesus, whether or not he said them.