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City's Grate Life Mouse: There's precedent for economic salvation Barbara Armitage recalls what happened when they put red shorts on a similar little fellow back where she grew up: Lots of tourists, including busloads of Canadian tourists, we presume, flocked to spend their money there About: Downtown Columbia KY: It's a grate life By Barbara Armitage I do believe that Ed and Pen Waggener have solved our counties economic woes! Someone get that cute little mouse - he may make us all rich. He's proof that all dreams begin small - it's believing in the dream that makes it grow. Florida was in the middle of nowhere You see I'm from Florida. Back when I was growing up Florida was pretty much in the middle of no where, unemployment was high and kids like me just couldn't wait to grow up and move away. My only hope for employment back then was this little business I had going raising and selling fishing worms to the tourists and local fishermen. They spotted a mouse pretty much like this one Then about 40 years ago some cracker spotted a mouse - pretty much like this one - out in the middle of a swamp just east of Orlando, Florida. Nobody knows how it got there. That land wasn't good for nuthin'. It was too wet in the rainy season to farm and too far away from the beach to build condos for old people. There wasn't even a decent road out that way if you did want to go there. The rest is history. Somebody put a pair of red shorts on the little fellow and the tourists started flocking in spending money like no tomorrow. They call the place Disney World. Definition of the term cracker - The first settlers in Florida were Spaniards, they refered to the later English speaking settlers as "Quaqueros," a corruption of the English word "Quaker," which the Spanish used to contemptuously refer to any Protestant. The term cracker was also used during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts. This story was posted on 2009-08-08 09:11:49
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