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Go for it Dalty. 

Been working at it myself for a few hours.

 I have landed in Miami on both St Paddys day and Spring Break.  The possibilities are endless.

 I feel like some kind of double fraud here.  It feels wrong being on vacation doing cool stuff when Jakes family are going through this, and it feels doubly wrong being in his own country doing it. 

 If it helps, most of us don't recognize Florida as part of the union ever since 2000 happened.

Most of the South doesn't consider Florida to be part of the South. It's been that way since way before 2000. Southerners think the same of Atlanta. They're too uppity. 

Is Texas considered by the South to be part of the South? Or is Texas considered just to be part of Texas? 

Honestly I would be quite all right at this point if we trimmed down to maybe 25-30 states. Strictly as a budget balancing tactic, of course.

Texans consider Texas to be its own country, and the rest of the South is fine with it being the way the Texans believe it to be.

Thank you Goiter, Spokesman of the South. I am in your debt.

Also, as an aside, have there always been speech bubbles coming from our profile pictures? I never realized that everything I type on here is technically coming from the mouth of Jim Belushi.

The South really only recognizes the Deep South to be the South. For the true southerner, the Deep South is made up of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Slightly more generous southerners extend the Deep South out west to Louisiana and out east to South Carolina. Some may even consider rural, inland Florida to be part of the Deep South, but that's a more or less blasphemous consideration.

The people of Louisiana and South Carolina have been known to consider Tennessee and Arkansas to be a part of the South. The people of the true Deep South scoff at this.

North Carolina considers itself to be a part of the South. This shows how dumb people from North Carolina are. A true southerner would die before allowing the word "North" to appear in his state's name.

The U.S. Census Bureau has its own idiotic idea of which states are southern states. They go as far north as Maryland. How dumb is that? (Answer: pretty dumb.)

It's always been like that with the speech bubbles. Since before you were born, even.

Normally, I'd suggest changing your icon to an image of a butt, but I think our icons are frozen in their current states.

Seems to me that all of the former Confederate States could be formally considered the American South.

But what do I know: I'm speaking from a Virginian point of view.

Very dumb. Civil War Era Dumb.

How about rural Missouri? I had to fill up my car with gas there at one point this summer. I was very nervous driving through those roller coaster hills on an empty tank in my car with Minnesota plates....with an Obama bumper sticker or two on the back...especially when I found a gas station and a pickup truck full of high school kids pulled in behind me. You could practically hear the banjo chase music, I swear.

Is rural Missouri part of the South, or just part of rural Missouri?

I'm forever stuck as Jim Belushi?!?!

This...this is my hell.

On the plus side, his acting career seems to have been cancelled.

It just occurred to me that, like mighty Julius Caesar, Jakester died on the Ides of March.

Quasar's speaking from his butt. He beat everyone to it.

It just occurred to me, March is an awful month.  Nothing good ever happens in March.

Had second thoughts on this "joke" so decided to delete.

I don't know what to say, I just heard about this. 

I don't post much, and tend to lurk mostly. As such I never developed much of a friendship with Jakester beyond posting here, but I liked him. He seemed like a good man and I enjoyed his posts and the very real sense I got of him being a good father.

I'll miss him, and my prayers are with his family.

The Swollen Goi... wrote:

Quasar's speaking from his butt. He beat everyone to it.

And Mal is speaking from his crotch ... Much as our beloved Jakester did much of the time.

Good ol' Mal: always talks from the crotch and shoots from the hip.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Can't say that I knew Jakester as well as most of you, but he and all of you have been part of my life for over ten years now. I couldn't shed a tear when I lost my dog earlier this year, or my grandparents years ago.  They were old, it was expected.  I'm wiping the tears from my eyes now, I will miss you Jake.

Quasar wrote:

Had second thoughts on this "joke" so decided to delete.

It made me laugh. I sat on a "TOO SOON!" response for about thirty minutes before deciding not to post it.

It's clear how much Jakester meant to all of us. It's also clear that most of us here are the kinds of people who use humor as their primary coping mechanism when tragedy strikes. It's tough to reel that in.

I had a doozie of a tasteless joke that I didn't include when I posted my string of dirty jokes because I worried it might hit too close to home. Oddly enough, I didn't have a problem joking about raping a score of three-year-olds. Maybe my priorities are all outta whack.

Thought this thread should get 100 posts in it, and I thought this would've definitely gotten Jakester's approval for that 100th post.