It's time to respond to comments and questions from readers.
Notes from Hell, Volume 106:
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Most men, working men, productive men, responsible men are too busy providing for their families. They don’t have time to deal with opinions except their own, and that is the only opinion they care about.
— Kat Hass
Dear Kat:
Personal growth tip: You may want to consider expanding your universe beyond men only interested in their own opinions.
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Quit using your position to try and influence people. Please leave out all your jabs and just write the facts let us come to our own conclusions.
— Bill Hoover
Dear Bill:
By any chance, are you living with a woman named Kat?
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Every night we watchWheel of Fortuneat 7 pm with my 98-year-old mother-in-law. There are times where they have same sex couples on, or the final prize winner brings his/her partner on stage where they embrace.
I was wondering if you think our governor might take issue and ban Wheel since they show same sex couples hugging. We have young people being exposed to same-sex couples embracing.
— Glen Carwell
Dear Glen:
There are young people watching Wheel of Fortune?
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We're going to the Kravis Center to see Tootsie. If any parents bring their 13-year-old kid to the show they're in grave trouble. I wonder if Gov. DeSantis will have the drag queen police at the show.
— Alan Murphy
Hi Allen:
The rule in Florida is that drag shows aren’t pedophile grooming events if valet parking is involved.
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You are the biggest a****** in the state.
— Robert Godown
Dear Robert:
Are we playing that gay show, Wheel of Fortune? OK. I’ll bite.
Is there an “S”? … Two! … OK, I’d like to solve the puzzle.
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Everyone knows monorail and mononucleosis are linked! Where is the State Medical Director on this hidden connection?
— Dave Shoaf
Dear Dave:
Florida Surgeon Gen. Joseph Ladapo hasn’t focused his medical quackery on Disney’s monorail yet because he’s still trying to get the workers playing characters at Disney World to take off their face coverings.
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You should do a column on how Disney is deliberately making their programming into gay characters and misrepresentations of who their consumer base is — unless you think there are enough LGBTQ folks and their supporters to fill up those monorails …
My platonic family with two children will never have to worry about the safety of it, because we're never going to give them a dime of my money.
— Jeffrey Shafer
Dear Jeffrey:
The Disney monorails are safe, pending any future mononucleosis investigations.
On a side note, sorry to hear about your platonic family. Have you considered counseling?
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Ron DeSantis is making sure Floridians are assured they will continue to make their own decisions … If you don’t like it, get the f*** out of Florida.
— Patricia Kaufman
Dear Patricia:
Maybe you can help me. I can’t seem to find the list of Floridians who get to make their own decisions and impose them on everyone else, and the list of those who just have to shut up or leave.
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Your a complete buffoon.
— Scott Reidy
Dear Scott:
You’re hurting your case with bad grammar.
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So now that DeSantis is done stepping on Disney’s throat he is now focused on Morons like yourself in the liberal scumbag media what do you think of that scumbag.
— Roger
Dear Roger:
I think you might be one of those men Kat was talking about, but I’m going to offer you some constructive criticism anyway.
Rule No. 1: If you’re throwing around the word “moron," you ought to go out of your way to not appear as a bigger one.
For starters, the end of your little rant should have been written this way: “What do you think of that, scumbag?”
You wrote “what do you think of that scumbag.” Do you see the difference? Without the comma after the word “that," you are calling our beloved Gov. DeSantis a crude name.
I’m sure self-professed non-moron, non-scumbag, throat-stepping Floridians such as yourself don’t want to do that.
So, what do I think of that? I think you should get some language help to enable you to communicate more effectively. Not from Scott Reidy but perhaps from watching Wheel of Fortune — if you can handle all the gay hugging.
Frank Cerabino is a columnist at The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at fcerabino@gannett.com.
