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Bought a T-shirt for my son the Major that said :
"If it's tourist season, how come we can't shoot 'em"
He took it home to Hawaii and so many locals kept coming up to ask him where he got it that he now wears it only around the house.
Guess it hits a nerve in any tourist area, more or less ...
persuade the tourists to just send the money.
Great idea Faldage! Ay-uh! {chuckle chuckle}
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Flatlanders...VermontInteresting, Flatlander! I could never have imagined this post would draw out the meaning of your boardname! to ease their shame for being so eager for the money the tourists bringSo, right, Dr. Bill! All locals in resort areas who survive off the tourist economy should wear T-shirts saying: WE BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS US!  just send them the money! Great idea, Faldage! And then we can just send them back a picture of us smiling at them from in front of the surf! Less work that way! 
Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them?
Great, wow! George Carlin coined that one! I like the T-shirt edit even better! It's open season on shoobies right now, that's for sure!
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"All locals in resort areas who survive off the tourist economy "
As I mentioned, I used to live in a resort area. None of the locals paid any bills all winter unless there was a pistol to their head So in the long run the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker were all dependent on the tourists..
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the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker were all dependent on the tourists..
I don't dispute that the money brought in by tourists drives the local economy. However, my few years in a tourist economy led me to call thehm "those damn tourists."
They bring their money, true. But I paid at least twice as much for toilet paper as everyone else. And to speak of the rent!
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Here in Kentucky we don't have any special terms for tourists--then again we don't get that many. But I used to date a girl from Maine, and she shared with me this gem: their term for the people from Boston who would drive up to Maine for vacation (and generally behave rudely towards the locals) was "Massholes."
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In all tourist trap territory, it's greedy locals against arrogant tourists. Instant half year inflation,followed by half year depression.
Maine used to be part of Massachusetts, until during the 1812 mess, Boston did nothing to protect Maine from lobsterback raids, and so Maine seceded.
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Maine used to be part of Massachusetts, until during the 1812 mess, Boston did nothing to protect Maine from lobsterback raids, and so Maine seceded.
Maine didn't split from Mass until atleast the 1840s, right? I thought it was to keep the number of free and slave states equal. It was either the Compromise of 1840 or the Missouri Compromise.
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Maine/Massachusetts
And how'd New Hampshire sneak in between them?
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Tryin to out-think NH Yankees will keep you up all night!
Just the facts, ma'am!
As leaders in the revolutionary cause, New Hampshire delegates received the honor of being the first to vote for the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
New Hampshire is the only state that ever played host at the formal conclusion of a foreign war. In 1905, Portsmouth was the scene of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.
The first potato planted in the United States was at Londonderry Common Field, New Hampshire in 1719.
In 1774 New Hampshire became the first state to declare itself independent from England.
In 1833 the first free public library in the United States was established in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
So there!
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Maine became a state when the Missourri compromise came around in 1820, I think, and the compromise of 1850 was notable for the Fugitive Slave act.
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