BenzaAdmiral should enjoy this.

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http://www.nola.com/photos/t-p/index.ssf?/DatQuiz/DatQuiz.swf

I took the quiz, and it kept asking questions like "How many demolition permits have been issued for New Orleans?" (My answer: Not enough) and "Which of these four football players holds a record in passing" (passing wind, for all I know!).

I got 77 out of 150. Shows you how much I'm attuned to this place.

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Hey, I beatcha! I got 93. Probably the gov stuff.

Got a 63.

I scored a 60, dat not bad

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Hey I got 75!

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There is some property that might interest you.

You gonna sell me land that might disappear?

I was quite amazed at the land loss trivia. There were like three questions about that.

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I surprised myself with 55 points.

The question I was hoping to see: Do you think that all areas in New Orleans that are below sea level, should be made into a huge public park?

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The question is, who gives a rats ass about NOLA anyway? I lived there for a year in 1979/1980 and it was a dead loss on a good day. What can you expect from a city that starts out each day knowing that they are 10 feet under water, has about the highest crime and unemployment rates in the States, and wants continual handouts from the government (read as taxpayers) just to keep their noses above water.

Now they want the taxpayers to rebuild a dying city with not much future. The Mississippi River is trying to cut a new channel down the Atchafalaya basin. This will cause NOLA to become a landlocked ex-port. To prevent this the Corps of Engineers is slated to spent between 50 bazillion and 200 gazillion dollars just to save a dying city. Stop me when I get to what is good about NOLA.

Kip, .... think of the votes you're going to lose. You'll never get elected.

Well, Botnist, you're right. I guess that pretty well blows my chance of getting elected mayor of NOLA. That and I am not dishonest enough to run for office, or dumb enough to want to live in the murder capital of the US.

I'd agree . . . but I have something of the same reaction when people suggest I could relocate to the booming metro areas of Texas: "Why??? The long lines and bad traffic of Denver, plus ungodly humidity, pancake landscape, no winter to speak of, and the chance of hurricanes? Wow, sign me up."

New Orleans *is* crumbling, and as it stands (or rather, reclines) now, it has little future. Its location near the mouth of a river system that drains half of the U.S. is too important strategically for the city to be abandoned. But razing much of what was N.O. East and the Ninth Ward to make green space out of both, refusing to allow improvident idiots to rebuild in flood-prone areas, and focusing on what is above sea level, is the only sensible course I can see.
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-- Paul W. (The Benzadmiral)
('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino

I agree but the people of NOLA will not relocate until the gov. stops covering them with flood insurance and welfare. The same thing happened years ago when the Missouri flooded. Remember the pictures of the farm houses drifting down stream? The gov. finally said that they would not cover anymore flood insurance if people wanted to rebuild on the river. So, what happened? Whole towns moved up onto the bluff. There were stories of people who had received 7 flood reimbursements in the past years. Stop the hand outs and it is amazing how fast people will solve their own problems.

i'm not gonna tell my score.

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