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Who Said That?

Florida's quote of the day

| 2/27/2013

"It's the coolest second job you can ever have."

-- Mike Rivera

Mike Rivera's day job is teaching civics to seventh graders. On the side, he's a comedian.

So, when silence greets his question about who uses the Constitution for its rulings, he can't help but give the following hint.

"Taco?" he says. As in Taco Supreme, that is.

And the answer, ladies and gentlemen, is the Supreme Court.

Rivera is about to deliver his lines to a larger, and perhaps more critical, audience.

The Osceola Middle School teacher is scheduled to appear on national television Friday, a guest of ABC's The View, the show whose hosts include Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.

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