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Family Chicken Feud Turns to Gun Battle By Associated Press September 29, 2004, 11:06 AM EDT BLUEWELL, West Virgina -- A family meal erupted into a gun battle after a father and son clashed over how to cook chicken. The two men argued Sunday over the best way to prepare skinless chicken for dinner. "It started out as a physical confrontation, but it escalated until both of them were shooting at each other," Detective Sgt. A.D. Beasley of the Mercer County Sheriff's Department said Monday. Beasley said each man fired a .22-caliber handgun at the other. Harley Shrader was struck by a bullet that went through the upper part of his right ear and lodged in the back of his head. He was treated at a hospital and released. The elder Shrader was not injured. Jackie Lee Shrader, 49, was charged with malicious wounding and wanton endangerment. Harley Lee Shrader, 24, was charged with wanton endangerment. Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press newsday.com

Marge to deliver Christmas message Marge Simpson will go head-to-head with the Queen by delivering this year's alternative Christmas message on Channel 4. A spokesman for Channel 4 said: "The blue-haired cartoon character will address the nation from her home in Springfield." Marge is expected to spread a message of family harmony learned from years as the long-suffering wife of Homer and mum of Bart, Lisa and Maggie reports the Evening Standard quoting The Sun. Marge's 10-minute message will be broadcast at 3pm on Christmas Day, the same time as the Queen delivers her seasonal message. An insider said: "Like the Queen, Marge has big hair, stays calm during problematic times, and has a troublesome husband and kids who are hard to control. She's perfect for the alternative speech." Channel 4 poached The Simpsons from the BBC earlier this year. The alternative speech has previously been given by the likes of Ali G and Sharon Osbourne. Last year it was delivered by Barry and Michelle Seabourn, a Merseyside couple who appeared on Channel 4 reality show Wife Swap. ananova.com

'Naked Photographer' Sentenced to Jail So-Called 'Naked Photographer' in Ohio Sentenced to 18 Months in Jail The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio Sept. 28, 2004 — An attorney was sentenced to a year and a half in jail for ambushing dozens of women while nude and taking pictures of their shocked expressions. But Stephen Linnen, 34, won't lose his law license and will be allowed to leave jail to continue work as a law clerk. He must start serving his time next week after being sentenced Monday under a plea bargain in Ohio's Franklin County Common Pleas Court. He pleaded guilty earlier this month to 53 misdemeanor counts of public indecency, sexual imposition and criminal trespassing. Linnen, a former lawyer for the Ohio House Republican caucus, has admitted to photographing women while he was unclothed over nearly two years, gaining the name "the naked photographer." He apologized in court, but none of his victims was there. Judge Tommy Thompson declined to label Linnen a sexual offender, saying he was not a threat to the community and was unlikely to repeat the offense. Thompson ordered Linnen to keep seeking psychiatric treatment. Linnen said in court that he meets with a psychologist weekly and goes to daily meetings for people addicted to sex. Prosecutors said they might appeal the judge's decision not to make Linnen register as a sexually oriented offender. Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved abcnews.go.com

Kids flee giant spider FULL NEWS INDEX A GIANT spider shut down a school yesterday. The speckled brown exotic creature — as big as a man’s palm — crawled from a set of drums brought in from Senegal for a music workshop. The spider legged it as a teacher tried to trap it in a container. About 350 pupils were sent home as a precaution at Whitelands Park Primary School, in Thatcham, Berks. Experts at London Zoo said it was probably a tropical house spider — which can cause a “nasty reaction” with its bite. The school was being fumigated and was due to re-open today. thesun.com.uk

Topless Girls Ride Mechanical Bulls For New DVD LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- "Girls Gone Wild" meets rodeo jockey for a new DVD that features half-naked girls riding mechanical bulls. On the newly-released "Girls on Bulls" DVD, 18 topless girls participate in a "bull riding competition," where the girls move on to the next round by having the "sexiest ride." DVD spokesman Miles Lucas says it "definitely gets a little wild" during the girls' nearly 3-minute rides as whip cream, squirt guns and lots of making out are employed by the college-aged girls to win the $1,000 cash prize. Still, Lucas says he stayed away from turning the bull riding DVD into a p**** because as he puts it, "We don't want to delve into anything like p***. The girls are nothing more than topless at any point." The "Girls on Bulls" crew will be hitting up west coast cities for future DVDs, but Lucas says he ultimately wants to bring the sexy bull riding action "to the whole world." The DVD can be bought at girlsonbulls.com. ncbuy.com

53 Percent Of Men Spend Less Than Two Minutes Picking Out Clothes HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (Wireless Flash) -- Talk about a clothes call: A new survey suggests most men spend less than two minutes figuring out what they're going to wear. According to a poll by Sears and Structure clothes, 12 percent of men admit they spend "no time" figuring out their wardrobe while 25 percent need only 60 seconds to decide. An additional 16 percent need about two minutes of indecision before deciding on an outfit. But while most guys don't spend the time on their attire, 87 percent insist they don't need a makeover. However, 31 percent of women say their man "isn't style savvy" and 24 percent confess their man needs a visit from the "fashion police." Finally, the average guy spends $713 on clothes annually but one out of five is a tightwad spending less than $200 on their outfits. ncbuy.com

Around The Weird: Bizarre News Briefs TOKYO (Wireless Flash) -- Schools in Japan have become one of the first institutions to begin tagging humans with microchips. Schools started this month testing the microchips with tiny antennae which students attach to their backpacks and signal school officials when a student steps on or off campus. School officials say 70 percent of parents approved it, and the students love it because they think it's cool. OTTAWA -- A cruise ship in the Atlantic made a whale of a discovery earlier this week when it pulled into port in Canadian waters and found the remains of a 60-foot finback whale impaled on the bow. It was estimated that the whale corpse was stuck on the bow of the Royal Caribbean's "Jewel of the Seas" ship for at least two days. Ironically, the ship's route had been changed a year earlier to protect the rare right whale, but speared the common finback instead. NEW YORK -- It's a sad day for hard liquor fans: Jack Daniels has lowered the proof of its famous Tennessee Whiskey from 86 to 80 proof, meaning the liquor has three percent less alcohol to meet consumer demand. It's not the first time the liquor company has lowered the strength of its popular hooch. Fifteen years ago, the company lowered the proof of its recipe from 90 to 86. ncbuy.com

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Around The Weird: Bizarre News Briefs SAN FRANCISCO (Wireless Flash) -- Doctors could soon be telling their patients, "Take two mushrooms and call me in the morning." According to "Wired.com", a group of researchers are close to convincing government officials to allow psychedelic drugs like ecstasy and magic mushrooms to be studied to assess their effects on patients with terminal cancer, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. BIRMENSDORF, Switzerland -- Hippies have something to smile about: Scientists in Switzerland say they have found a mushroom that covers 86 acres in the Swiss Alps. The "Associated Press "reports that the scientists found a humongous fungus nearly 1,000 years old below an Alpine forest. But while the "honey mushroom" is the continent's largest living organism, it doesn't come close to the massive mushroom in Oregon spanning 2,200 acres. ATHENS, Greece -- These drugs weren't prescribed by their doctors. Three more athletes have tested positive for drugs at the Athens Paralympics. The "Associated Press "reports a cyclist and two weightlifters were stripped of their medals after failing drug tests. The three physically-challenged athletes join four others who have tested positive since the start of the Paralympics, which close today. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- There's a church in New York that allows you to get a sandwich and worship God at the same time. "WVBI.com "reports that the True Bethel Baptist church in Buffalo is the first church in the U.S. to open its own Subway restaurant. Construction started several months ago for the restaurant as part of a $150,000 renovation project. ncbuy.com

In the human body, which organ is in charge? All the organs of the body were having a meeting, trying to decide who was in charge. The brain said: "I should be in charge, because I run all the body's systems, so without me nothing would happen." "I should be in charge," said the heart, "because I pump the blood and circulate oxygen all over the body, so without me you'd all waste away." "I should be in charge," said the stomach, "because I process food and give all of you energy." I should be in charge," said the rectum, "because I'm responsible for waste removal." All the other body parts laughed at the rectum and insulted him, so in a huff, he shut down tight. Within a few days, the brain had a terrible headache, the stomach was bloated, and the blood was toxic. Eventually the other organs gave in. They all agreed that the rectum should be the boss. The moral of the story? You don't have to be smart or important to be in charge... just a butthole.

This married couple was on holiday in Jamaica. They were touring around the marketplace looking at the goods and such, when they passed this small sandal shop. From inside they heard the shopkeeper with an Jamaican accent say, "You foreigners! Come in. Come into my humble shop." So the married couple walked in. The Jamaican said to them, "I have some special sandals I think you would be interested in. Dey make you wild at sex." Well, the wife was really interested in buying the sandals after what the man claimed, but her husband felt he really didn't need them, being the sex god he was. The husband asked the man, "How could sandals make you into a sex freak?" The Jamaican replied, "Just try dem on, Man." Well, the husband, after some badgering from his wife, finally gave in, and tried them on. As soon as he slipped them onto his feet, he got this wild look in his eyes, something his wife hadn't seen in many years!! In the blink of an eye, the husband grabbed the Jamaican, bent him violently over a table, yanked down his pants, ripped down his own pants, and grabbed a firm hold of the Jamaican's hips. The Jamaican then began screaming, YOU GOT DEM ON DE WRONG FEET!!!

"What's in the bags?" A fellow tries to cross the Mexican border on a bicycle with two big bags balanced on his shoulders. The guard asks, "What's in the bags?" The fellow says, "Sand!" The guard wants to examine them. The fellow gets off the bike, places the bags on the ground, opens them up, and the guard inspects... only to find sand. The fellow packs the sand, places the bags on his shoulders, and pedals the bike across the border. Two weeks later, the same situation is repeated... "What have you there?" "Sand" "We want to examine." Same results... nothing but sand and the fellow is on his way again. Every two weeks for six months the inspections continue. Finally, one week the fellow didn't show up. However, the guard sees him downtown and says to the fellow, "Buddy, you had us crazy. We sort of knew you were smuggling something. I won't say anything what were you smuggling?" The fellow says, "Bicycles."

Man crashes after receiving safe driving award A deliveryman crashed his van two hours after his bosses gave him a safe driving award. Steve Coles, of Ealing, had just received a £100 gift voucher by his employers, reports the News Of The World. They were impressed at his 12-year accident-free driving record. The 37-year-old said: "I'll never live it down." ananova.com

Man jailed for yawning A judge in Sri Lanka has jailed a man for a year after he let out a loud yawn in court. N V P Ajith stretched out and yawned while district judge A K M Patabendige was taking up his case in the courts at Walasmulla. The judge was so furious that he immediately passed down a sentence of one year in prison, reports The Island newspaper. Ajith's original case, a sexual assault charge, was adjourned and will go back before the court another day. ananova.com

Lightning strikes - five times! A Cuban man has just been struck by lightning for the fifth time in 22 years. Jorge Marquez says he is cursed and that lightning follows him, reports Terra Noticias Populares. Mr Marquez, who works as a farm worker in San Manuel, was first struck in June 1982. He told: "I feel like something very cold enters my body or as if I'm a hot iron being immersed in cold water." He said that in the first time he was struck he had his hair burnt and his fillings all flew out from his teeth. But the most recent time he managed to minimise the damage by grabbing a piece of rubber to protect him as soon as it started to rain. He said: "I don't trust my luck anymore. As soon as it starts to rain I look for some isolating material. I don't want to go through it a sixth time!" ananova.com

LEAD STORY Business prospects are improving for Christopher Lindhoist and Arshad Chowdhury, who recently opened their Metronaps lounge on the 24th floor of New York City's Empire State Building and whose clients pay $14 to relieve stress by dozing off for 20 minutes in private, specially made, reclining chair-pods with an array of vibrations and sounds to drown out the hubbub of the city. Chowdhury said he studied the science of napping at Carnegie-Mellon University and found a "tremendous amount of research" showing the rejuvenative value of the short "power nap," which he said improves memory, mood and learning. The Metronaps chair-pods (cost: $8,000) are being separately sold to companies overseas and may soon appear in airport lounges. [bBC News, 9-9-04; Boston Globe, 8-3-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life Imitates "Weekend at Bernie's" Two men and a woman, described in a Cape Times (Cape Town, South Africa) story as loan sharks, brought the corpse of Thozamile Patrick Apolis in a wheelchair into an FNB Provincial bank in June in an attempt to withdraw his pension (signing for it by "helping" Apolis move his hand across the paper), but a skeptical customer, who kept demanding that bank officials check for a pulse, scared off the three, who left the body behind. [Cape Times, 6-8-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Such a Thoughtful Son, to Provide for His Mom Going against the grain of recent court decisions, the federal appeals court in New York ruled in August, 2-1, that when a man died of "autoerotic asphyxiation" (normally, strangling oneself almost to the point of passing out as a way of enhancing pleasure during masturbation, but in some cases, going too far), it was an "accident" rather than a self-inflicted injury. Thus, mom Shirley Critchlow is entitled to death benefits under her son Michael's life insurance policy (but would not have been for a self-inflicted injury). [New York Post, 8-13-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Classic Middle Name (all new) Arrested and charged with murder: David Wayne Mears (Ludington, Mich., June); Edward Wayne Bryant (Ardmore, Okla., arrested in Houston, August); Kenith Wayne Sherrill (Yakima, Wash., July); Chadwick Wayne Wallace (Alton, Ill., August); Timothy Wayne Johnson (Raleigh, N.C., September). Already serving a life sentence for murder but charged again: Alexander Wayne Watson Jr. (Maryland, convicted of a 1994 murder, but, based on DNA evidence, charged in July with murders in 1986, 1988 and 1993). Already serving a life sentence for murder but convicted of murdering an inmate: Shannon Wayne Agofsky (Beaumont, Texas, July). [CNN-AP, 6-21-04] [Houston Chronicle-AP, 8-12-04] [Austin American-Statesman-AP, 7-12-04] [Edwardsville (Ill.) Intelligencer, 9-3-04] [New Haven Register, 9-4-04] [WRAL-TV-AP, 9-5-04] [baltimore Sun, 7-13-04] [springfield (Mo.) News-Leader-AP, 7-17-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unclear on the Concept According to a police report in the Brainerd (Minn.) Dispatch, in August, thieves had broken into the First Integrity Bank on Excelsior Road in Baxter, Minn., but then used a hammer on a common wall in order to break into the adjacent Lakes Area Eyecare store and make off with numerous pairs of sunglasses. (In most such break-ins, crooks use the store to get into the bank, not the other way around.) [brainerd Dispatch, 8-7-04] Federal District Judge Thomas A. Higgins of Nashville, Tenn., had just ordered David Bowman, 41, back to prison for violating his probation (cocaine possession and other offenses), and he asked Bowman if he had anything to say. Instead of asking for leniency, Bowman recited the litany of inconveniences that lay ahead (e.g., crowded bus back to prison, various transfers from bus to bus on the way) and then asked, apparently seriously, if Judge Higgins would please personally drive him back to prison. (To the prosecutor's suggestion that prison would give Bowman "a chance to think," Judge Higgins said, "I think part of the problem is that Mr. Bowman doesn't do as much thinking as maybe (we) would like him to.") [The Tennessean-AP, 6-11-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inexplicable New York City judge Laura Blackburne came under fire from the police in June when she helped Derek Sterling (described by police as a "convicted drug dealer" but in a rehab program) escape out a side door of her courtroom so that he could avoid a detective poised to arrest him for a May robbery. She said she was angry that the detective didn't clear the arrest with her in advance. (Blackburne was already notorious for recently releasing a man charged with attempting to kill a police officer, ruling that he had not received a speedy trial.) [New York Times, 6-11-04; New York Post, 4-17-04] Cynthia Gorden filed a lawsuit in Chicago in May asking a judge to prevent the airing of her appearance on a "Judge Mathis" syndicated television show (for which litigants audition to appear in person in a raucous courtroom setting, making their arguments and allowing Mathis to render a decision). According to the lawsuit, Gorden, who came on the program to aggressively sue her own mother, said it was the program staff's fault that she wound up embarrassing herself. [Chicago Sun-Times, 5-10-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Least Competent Criminals The obviously inexperienced Bradley S. Shugars, 21, was arrested and charged with robbing a Phillips 66 gas station in Avon, Ind., with his cousin, Karl D. Carnes. Police found Shugars in the getaway car, awaiting Carnes at another gas station, and quickly got a confession from Shugars, who started to cry. According to the arresting officer, Shugars self-pityingly lamented, "Everybody can rob you, but you can't rob nobody." [indianapolis Star, 6-4-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update German filmmaker (Mr.) Rosa von Praunheim told reporters in July that he will finish by December his movie based on notorious convicted cannibal Armin Meiwes, who is serving eight years in prison following his January conviction for the apparently consensual murder and consumption of a man. "Your Heart in My Brain" (working title) was funded in part by a government film foundation in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and begins with Meiwes being confronted in prison by his victim's head, which, according to a Reuters report, encourages Meiwes to take pride in what he has done and to move on to more killing. [Reuters, 7-12-04; BBC News, 9-3-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Almost All True Three of these four things really happened, just recently. Are you cynical enough to figure out the made-up story? (a) A British couple who hadn't been able to break their two-pack-a-day cigarette habit gave it up when their pet parrot developed a respiratory illness. (b) A leading British museum announced an experiment to cover a substantial portion of its utility expenses by converting visitors' excrement from museum rest rooms into electricity. © A local Islamic extremist organization in France, with ties to al-Qaeda, filed several lawsuits against the city of Paris for what it called "discriminatory tax harassment." (d) Meteorological officials in one Chinese province accused their counterparts in another province of "stealing" "their" clouds, in order to seed them for rain. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People Different From Us In a June profile of Britain's Prince Charles, a columnist for The Guardian newspaper describes, as an example of his increasing isolation from the mainstream of under-age-65 British society, his recent encouragement of people to avoid college and accept learning vocational skills and his enthusiastic promotion of the Gerson Therapy, a widely discredited treatment for cancer patients diagnosed as terminally ill. Among the tenets of the Gerson regimen (which costs $15,000 for three weeks): drinking 20 pounds of liquified fruit and vegetables per day (specially prepared on a "noncentrifugal" juicer that costs $2,000) and taking daily coffee enemas. [The Guardian (London), 6-30-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Readers' Choice Survival Instinct: In September, Jerry Allen Bradford of Pensacola, Fla., had in mind to put his seven German shepherd-mix puppies down because he could not find them homes, and had already shot three and was carrying two other dogs, and his .38-caliber revolver, in his arms. According to a sheriff's report, that's when one of the two condemned dogs managed to press his paw on the trigger, firing and hitting Bradford on the wrist. He was treated at a hospital, and the sharpshooter and his three siblings were placed for adoption. [New York Times-AP, 9-9-04] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answer to Almost All True: © is not true. [Reuters, 8-4-04] [Reuters, 7-15-04] [The Guardian (London), 7-15-04] (Send your Weird News to Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 18737, Tampa FL 33679 or WeirdNews@earthlink.net or go to www.NewsoftheWeird.com.) COPYRIGHT 2004 CHUCK SHEPHERD newsofthewerid.com

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Visitor on a Dude Ranch A young man visiting a dude ranch wanted to be macho, so he went out walking with one of the hired hands. As they were walking through the barnyard, the visitor tried to begin a conversation, "Say, look at that big bunch of cows." The hired hand replied, "Not 'bunch,' but 'herd.'" "Heard what?" "Herd of cows." "Sure, I've heard of cows... there's a big bunch of 'em right over there."

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Things You Would Never Know Without the Movies. - It is always possible to park directly outside any building you are visiting. - A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty. - If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps. - Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization. - It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors. - When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage. - No one involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock. - Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite. - When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other. - You can always find a chainsaw when you need one. - Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds, unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside. - An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight year old child. - Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment you turn the television on.

Surrogate Father The Smiths were unable to conceive children, and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife and said, "I'm off. The man should be here soon." Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer rang the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. "Good morning madam. I've come to...." "Oh, no need to explain. I've been expecting you," Mrs. Smith cut in. "Really?" the photographer asked. "Well, good!? I've made a specialty of babies." "That's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat." After a moment she asked, blushing, "Well, where do we start?" "Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch and perhaps a couple on the bed. Sometimes the living room floor is fun too; you can really spread out!" "Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work for Harry and me." "Well, madam, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results." "My, that's a lot of ..." gasped Mrs. Smith. "Madam, in my line of work, a man must take his time. I'd love to be in and out in five minutes, but you'd be disappointed with that, I'm sure." "Don't I know it," Mrs. Smith said quietly. The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. "This was done on the top of a bus in downtown London." "Oh my God!!" Mrs. Smith exclaimed, tugging at her handkerchief. "And these twins turned out exceptionally well-when you consider their mother was so difficult to work with." "She was difficult?" asked Mrs. Smith. "Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to Hyde Park to get the job done right.? People were crowding around four and five deep, pushing to get a good look." "Four and five deep?" asked Mrs. Smith, eyes widened in amazement. "Yes," the photographer said. "And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling - I could hardly concentrate. Then darkness approached and I began to rush my shots.? Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just packed it all in." Mrs. Smith leaned forward. "You mean they actually chewed on your, um... equipment?" "That's right. Well, madam, if you're ready, I'll set up my tripod so that we can get to work." "Tripod??" "Oh yes, I have to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too big for me to hold very long. Madam? Madam?..... Good Lord, she's fainted!"

The Truth Two young boys were discussing their parents, when one realized he really knew very little about his mother. Arriving home that evening, he gave her a third degree examination. "How old are you?" he asked. "None of your business," replied his mother, shortly. "Okay, then how much do you weigh?" "That's not your business either, young man." The boy thinks a minute then delivers his final bombshell. "Well then, can you tell me why you and daddy got divorced?" Shocked and appalled, mom sends junior to bed without supper. The next day, the kid reports his failure to his schoolmate. "I know!" says his buddy, "Just look at her driver's license in her purse. It'll tell you everything you want to know." Later that day, mom finds her son next to her disemboweled purse, holding her driver's license. "Just what the heck do you think you are doing?" she yells. "Well, you wouldn't tell me what I wanted to know," says the junior detective, "but my friend said it's all right here. See, you're 40 years old...you weigh 145 pounds...and daddy divorced you because you got an 'F' in Sex."

Gov. Jeb Bush held a special news conference in Tallahassee today to inform > >the people of Florida of new state symbols. The changes take effect immediately and must be implemented by all official agencies. The changes are as follows: The Florida State Flag will now be a blue tarp............... The license plate symbol of two oranges will be replaced by a chainsaw..... The new State song will be " Blowing in the Wind".................. The state motto will now be..."Oh my God, Here comes another one"..... The new state beverage will be.............anything with an alcohol base. The new State tree will be ...............any that are left standing at the end of hurricane season. The new State Bird will be the "whipper"will............. The new State nickname will be "State of Disaster"................ However, keep in mind, that Disney will be the "last man standing" as they are up and running...............