May 25, 2013

Who Said That?

Florida's quote of the day

| 3/13/2013

"We are influencing other Spring Break-Interruptus."

-- Nicki Grossman, president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau

Jersey Shore might have dried up but Miami and Key West bring their trashy best to Spring Break revelers nationwide according to the website Coedmagazine.com.

Who needs The Situation and Snooki when we have Jimmy Buffett and South Beach and, apparently plenty of Hooters girls to boost our bottom line?

The editors of Coedmagazine.com. base their decidedly non-scientific rankings on Spring Break cred boosters like Girls Gone Wild shoots, number of Hooters restaurants, tattoo parlors, liquor stores and strip clubs. Also, easy access to open containers and bars with liberal closing times.

Fort Lauderdale failed to make the list of the sunny delights and boozy bacchanals – a slight that Nicki Grossman, president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, welcomes.

“We removed trashy from our description years ago,” she says happily.

Read more at the Miami Herald.

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