Path: utzoo!hoptoad!cpsc6a!codas!killer!jfh
From: jfh@killer.UUCP (John Haugh)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Stereotyping an entire State in one 30sec commerical
Message-ID: <2984@killer.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 17:56:49 GMT
References: <299@flatline.UUCP> <7910@sunybcs.UUCP>
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
Lines: 71
Keywords: this has to end.
Summary: The best thing I ever did was leave that retched state.

In article <7910@sunybcs.UUCP>, ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau) writes:
> In article <299@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:
> >
> >This is depressing.  The state of Louisiana is *not* (contrary to
> >popular belief) one huge swamp; no more than Texas and California are
> >big deserts and New York City is a big place full of drugs and hookers.
> >In the eight years I lived there, I met many people who had just moved
> >to the state.  Before moving, friends of theirs had expressed concerns
> >such as "Isn't Louisiana just a big swamp with a bridge through it?"
> >This is the same sort of problem that the women's movement is having,
> >that minority groups are having, that anyone who isn't white, middle-class,
> >and living in a nice suburb and driving a BMW have:
> >

How?  Louisiana is for all intents and purposes one huge swamp.  The
northern half of the state may have rolling hills and nice scenery,
but the southern half has the people, and the swamps.

I don't see the connection between the women's movement and Louisiana
being a swamp.  The state is corrupt, the people ignorant, the land
sinkings, what could be worse?  My last income tax return for La. was
for a part of a year.  I figured out my `Louisiana Taxable Income' and
it came out to be more than what I earned in La.!  Thank God Texas
doesn't have income tax.

When I was supposed to be a senior in high school the teachers decided
to strike.  Why?  Because the parish didn't want to give them a raise.
Why didn't the parish want to give a raise?  Because the economy was
in a state of depression and the schools were funded with sales tax,
which had fallen way off under the leadership of (then) Govenor Edwards
and President Carter.  So your truly quit school and went to college
instead.  Which wasn't much better because the worst university in the
state, LSU-Baton Rouge got all the money, while UNO suffered.

> 	HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! No offend but do you know what the name
> Louisiana reminds me of? Remeber Live And Let Die? Remember that
> big Louisiana highway patrol sheriff? He's such a fu*king funny
> guy, man. And why do you think they chose Louisiana to shoot
> the speed boat chasing scene? Because they're saying Louisiana
> IS a big swamp! A wedding can be held where there is water
> within 100ft on four sides! I still remember that big sheriff
> goes "my brother got the fastest boat in all Louisiana!"
> Man, does it really mean in Louisiana a fast boat is more
> valuable and practical that a Porsche?
> 	No offends, ya know, just joking. Can't help it!
> I don't even think Venus is a swamp. Ya know?8-)
> 
> Fai  Lau

Having a boat is more important than having a Porsche.  Or paying
road and bridges taxes.  Vehicle registration is $5.00 for one or
two years (I forget, I think it's two).  My registration for Texas
just came up and it was $55.00.  And we get our roads repaired,
and new ones built.  Louisiana has started posting signs marked
`Substandard Roadway' to deminish the liability if you get killed
hitting a pot hole.

My second car in New Orleans didn't last more than a year before
it needed new struts and shocks.  Driving Canal St. from the Lake
to the River takes forever because you have to dodge pot holes.
Seems the city has hit upon a new form of speed limit enforcement.

The whole fucking state sucks.  This is one person who is more than
happy to have left.

- John.
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