Category: Humor

‘Pull your pants up’

In case you’ve seen them, or haven’t seen them yet, new billboards are going up around town to support Dallas Deputy Mayor Dwaine Caraway‘s fashion police initiative to encourage everyone to ‘Pull your pants up.’ Dallas rapper Dooney ‘Da Priest has even gotten involved and produced a song and video to help spread the message. Maybe I need to add that to the OrangeNoiseRadio rotation.

From NPR:

Dooney says that most of the boys and young men who are saggin’ don’t know where it really comes from. But another word for saggin’ is jailin’.
“They don’t know why their pants are low … They think it’s a fad, or it’s something to do or it’s cool. And I say, ‘Well, No … it come from behind the bars.'”
Clear Channel has agreed to donate billboard space around town and Dooney designed a billboard showing him with his arms crossed, standing in front of downtown Dallas.
Dallas is not the first city to confront saggin’. Shreveport, La., Atlanta and Stratford, Conn., have discussed passing laws. But Dallas is taking a different approach, trying for the hearts and minds of its young people.
Glad folks in Dallas have time to worry about such things.

Watch the news report from Fox 4 News:

And listen to the report and song by Rapper Dooney Da’ Priest from NPR/KERA.

First Baby Boomer applies for Social Secuirty

Kathy Casey Kirschling was the first Baby Boomer to apply for Social Security benefits. She was born Jan. 1, 1946.
There’s only 80 million other Baby Boomers coming behind her.
NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” said the Social Security Admin said, “There’s no reason to panic,” however they did recommend that other Baby Boomers learn to acquire a taste for cat food.

Read more from the Social Security Office

Colbert on ‘Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me’

Recently announced presidential candidate, and host of The Colbert Report, Steven Colbert, appeared on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” this weekend.
His segment of the show starts at 17:56 into the show.
Colbert is running as a Republican and Democrat in South Carolina only.
As always, good stuff.
Colbert says he was “genetically engineered for The Daily Show” and he owned his own suit so he was well fitted for the job.

My Ode to Half Price Books

Brandi has a post on loving the library… our library – well honestly I haven’t visited it yet. But I can tell you, the Waxahachie library isn’t much to write about. I’ll have to see about the Red Oak library before too long.

Instead, I’ve developed a nice love/hate relationship with Half Price Books. So now I share with you My Ode to Half Price Books.

Oh Half Price Books, how many great books you sell.
You sell them at half price so they can be loved twice as much.
Yet when I bring you books for you to buy, you buy them for pennies on the dollar.
I bring you four boxes of books – mainly medical books – and you give me 16 dollar.
I bring you $18 and you give me two books.
I love you, yet I hate you.
But until a new love comes along I will continue to buy your books.
And continue to give you a look.
I just hope you can love me the same.

For the record I got a low-carb cookbook, Time to Cook Low Carb and Lone Star Nation, by H.W. Brands for $18 Friday night