Miami is so welcoming to out of state visitors that many stores post signs reading “Nosotros hablamos ingles.”
Because Florida was underwater during the Mesozoic era, the state’s only evidence of dinosaurs are the fossils most commonly found on weekday afternoons at Hooters restaurants.
South Florida may have the Everglades and Central Florida may have Disney World and the Kennedy Space Center. But only West Florida has the Flora-Bama Mullet Toss, an annual event in which contestants see how far they can throw a dead fish across the state line into Alabama.
Florida is so culturally and religiously tolerant that visiting Amish and Mennonite worshipers share, at the Sarasota community of Pinecraft, the same beach resort.
The Florida manatee, from which the legend of the mermaid arose, is still sometimes used to determine if a sailor has been too long at sea.
Florida’s Stand Your Ground law is not meant to be used while waiting in line at a take-out restaurant that offers fried alligator.
Some experts believe it is possible, depending on what happens with climate change, that by 2050 Florida could be covered entirely in golf courses.
BobCarriesOn Humor Editor Bob Payne saw his first Florida manatee at a very vulnerable time in his life.
