Southerners are quirky. There’s no denying that.
For example, this weekend will mark the 33d anniversary of a fish throwing contest on Alabama’s Gulf Coast.
Yes, 33 years ago, Jimmy Louis, a local musician at a bar in Orange Beach, Alabama thought it might be oddly entertaining to have people toss a dead fish across the invisible Alabama/Florida state line into Perdido Key, Florida – an adjacent unincorporated community.
Interestingly, some agreed.
And thus began the Annual Interstate Mullet Toss®.
The germ for his idea actually sprang from Read the rest of this entry »