I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our friends in the west and north who have been beyond kind to us mid-westerners.
I'd like to thank them too. The whole reason why Flawduh got flanked by Wilma was because an early cold front from the west pushed her into us--thanks OldDan

Oh, and I never thanked the U.S Navy for putting one of their schools in Waukegan. The one they sent me to from Oct-Feb. Fifty states and ten million cities but no, they put a freaking school three feet from the worlds biggest A/C chill water tower.
And lastly and completely unrelated to anything, I'd like to thank the retard who came up with the idea of making kids crawl under wooden desks as part of air raids drills. Your probably dead you brain dead ball-suck, but don't worry, your kindred spirit lives on in Al Gore and his kind.