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- From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
- Subject: Why my drive to work is more interesting than yours
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- Organization: University of Central Florida
- Distribution: talk
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:53:46 GMT
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- Mile 7: Leave civilization, enter Bithlo. Home of more junkyards
- per capita than any other city. I don't mean to imply that the
- place is "redneck", but I live in morbid fear that my foreign
- car will break down here some day. If you're black, forget it.
-
- Mile 12: Pass a local baptist church bent on ridding the nation
- of the evil scourge of evolutionary theory. They have a road
- sign with replacable letters -- past signs have read "FOSSILS --
- WHAT DO THEY MEAN?", "DINOSAUR MYSTERY EXPLAINED", and "MYTHS
- OF EVOLUTION".
-
- Mile 15: Enter the city of Christmas, famous only for it's post
- office (you can guess why, and you can guess when).
-
- Mile 17: The chicken mailbox. Papier mache monstrosity of a
- chicken, that lasted about 3 days before a drunken redneck took
- a Louisville Slugger to it and knocked off its head.
-
- Mile 20: Pass Gator Jungle, a tourist attraction. Basically an
- alligator zoo, remarkable in that the entire building facing
- the road is shaped like a huge gator. Tourists enter through
- the mouth, which is open to reveal sparkling white fiberglass
- teeth.
-
- Just last week there was an accident immediately opposite Gator
- Jungle where a guy in a Cordoba plowed dead-on into a cow that
- had wandered into the road. They guy's car was totalled, and
- the cow was reduced to a steaming heap of beef.
-
- Miles 22-27: Swampland -- airboat rides, poor people fishing,
- and a boiled peanut stand.
-
- Mile 29: A gas station called "Space Shuttle Fuels". I resist
- the urge daily to pull in and ask the guy to fill it up with liquid
- hydrogen.
-
- Mile 32: Space Camp, featuring a life-size mockup of the space
- shuttle overlooking the road. One day there was smoke coming
- out of the engines, but it turned out it was just a fire.
-
- Mile 33: Cross the Indian River, replete with manatees (sea cows),
- dolphins and guys in clamming boats (who are out there at sunup,
- regardless of the weather).
-
- Miles 35-40: During mating season, alligators can be regularly be
- seen haunting the canals on the side of the road. Once saw a
- tourist (or "touron" as they are known) who had pulled over and
- was taunting a gator, with his young son behind him. He was
- apparently oblivious to the fact that gators can move much faster
- than humans. Natural selection will swiftly weed out this sort
- of stupidity, I hope.
-
- Mile 41: Spaceport USA. Features the multi-million dollar Astro-
- naut Memorial, a black monolith with the names of dead astronauts
- engraved in it, which is supposed to continually rotate to face
- the sun, so that the astronauts names are continually emblazoned.
- It has never worked right.
-
- Mile 43: Work: sit down, telnet back 43 miles to UCF, and bring
- up Usenet.
-
- ----mark
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