Comments on: Just say no to Crack

Just say no to Crack

Eekacat — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:49:34 -0800

Staking out the high moral ground, a bill would punish those wearing low-riding jeans. It seems that Representative Derrick D. T. Shepherd of Louisiana, a Democrat no less, wants to outlaw low slung pants. Plumbers beware, and stock up on Butt-Crack Caulk! Really, don't they have anything better to legislate besides fashion or holidays?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:55:45 -0800

Hey, Crack is Wack. or so I've been told.

By: ruddhist

ruddhist — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:59:36 -0800

these damn kids today, with their Music Tele-vision and their gang tattoos and their undawears showing. there oughta be a law!

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:01:17 -0800

Personally, I don't know why everyone under the age of 25 currently wants to dress like a bratz doll, with hip-huggers and bare midriff. But I support their right to do it. But plumbers' buttcrack jeans? Ban 'em!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:13:51 -0800

I don't know why everyone under the age of 25 currently wants to dress like a bratz doll Next trend: nose removal.

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:20:54 -0800

A dry crack is a happy crack!

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:22:40 -0800

This is a joke right? Some idiot is wasting time trying to outlaw low slung pants? Because they offend his Victorian sensibilities? There have got to be more important things to be dealing with than kids in stupid clothes (though I personally like bare belly look, the low slungs aren't bad either).

By: nickmark

nickmark — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:23:08 -0800

"It's sort of like nudity," he said. "You know it when you see it." Actually, I think we've got that one pretty well defined...

By: fvw

fvw — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:27:56 -0800

"It's sort of like nudity," [shepherd] said. "You know it when you see it." On preview: Damn you nickmark.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:31:27 -0800

"It's sort of like nudity," he said. "You know it when you see it." Actually, pseudonudity annoys me more than nudity. Like those magazine spreads where they show a topless model covering her boobs with her hands, or panties around a close-up of ankles. Oh, that's great. Why not show a bed with a pile of clothes next to it. I'll imagine there's people fucking in the bed and get all agitated. Jeesh. You wanna expose flesh, ladies, I say either go all the way or fuckin' forget it, y'know what I'm saying.

By: SteveInMaine

SteveInMaine — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:38:10 -0800

I hate to get, you know, all anal on the dude from the ACLU, but(t) Mr. Cook said "I can think of a lot of workers, plumbers, who are working and expose their buttocks and the beginning of the crack of their anus." Somebody get this guy a dictionary.

By: Slothrup

Slothrup — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:38:54 -0800

While we're at it, can we outlaw bare midriffs on anyone with more than 25 percent body fat? I mean, what are some of these people thinking?

By: jeffmshaw

jeffmshaw — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:39:01 -0800

The real tragedy: the low-slung pants will make the kids trip when they're running from the police.

By: vignettist

vignettist — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:53:18 -0800

While we're at it, can we outlaw bare midriffs on anyone with more than 25 percent body fat? I mean, what are some of these people thinking? Amen. As a friend of mine once said, "Spandex is a priviledge, not a right."

By: vignettist

vignettist — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:55:11 -0800

Um. Not that I support this type of legislation...

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:06:02 -0800

No one has linked to the text? Sheesh.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:06:24 -0800

jeffmshaw, one man's tragedy is another person's America's Funniest Home Video.

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:10:23 -0800

In addition to fashion, I wonder what other aspects of people's lives the government can control through legislation.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:15:48 -0800

My favorite quote: "Hopefully, if we pull up their pants," he said, "we can lift their minds while we're at it." And more info on the bill. You'll notice the text says nothing about skirts. Apparently, it's the pants, man, the pants, that are the problem.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:20:08 -0800

First, they came for my pants, but I said nothing...

By: nickmark

nickmark — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:24:41 -0800

All of a sudden, No Pants Day is beginning to look less like an innocent holiday and more like an act of organized civil disobedience. Sort of.

By: jessica

jessica — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:25:05 -0800

everytime i try to buy jeans all they have are "super low rise" lets sue the fashion designers, the clothing companies and the department stores!

By: bclark

bclark — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:41:17 -0800

let the world know that Crack kills- but not in my house!

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:42:17 -0800

This may get young people involved in politics, what when Christina Aguilera and Avril Lavigne concerts start getting cancelled...

By: bunnytricks

bunnytricks — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:13:40 -0800

(flashing back to the time in class when the Chinese girl who sat in front of me wore jeans cut so low that I was given an unimpeded view of her o-ring for 45 minutes)

By: bshort

bshort — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:58:20 -0800

o-ring?

By: toddst

toddst — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:01:02 -0800

This reminds me of SHAP (SkinHeads Against Pants) . Where are the old SHAP boys now?

By: rushmc

rushmc — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:11:53 -0800

Because if I'm tired of something, it shoud be illegal. Legislators like this are why I support the death penalty. Unchecked, stupidity BREEDS.

By: KirkJobSluder

KirkJobSluder — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:34:10 -0800

Ok, it's an election year. This seems to be something that goes on a lot on local politics. I don't think anyone has any illusions of this passing but sometimes state reps will do anything to get themselves in the paper.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:36:11 -0800

MrMoonPie: "You'll notice the text says nothing about skirts" Shephard (bill's author): "'Hopefully, if we pull up their pants,' he said, 'we can lift their minds while we're at it.'" Oh, I think I know what he has in mind for their skirts.

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:02:35 -0800

Back in my day, we worried about IMPORTANT things, like kids wearing Bart Simpson shirts. Now those were the height of controversy back then.

By: obloquy

obloquy — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:15:38 -0800

Schoolchildren who wear asscrack-baring slacks should be duly photographed, mocked and defenestrated. Just kidding. U.S. Out Of My Pants!

By: kliuless

kliuless — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:32:49 -0800

i saw a kid the other day crossing the street with his shorts slung below his boxers, i did not know how they stayed on! he was not wearing suspenders! crazy!

By: dorian

dorian — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:58:31 -0800

mmmm, o-ring. kliuless: dig this. onstad must be psychic or something....

By: aeschenkarnos

aeschenkarnos — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:03:42 -0800

Huh. He's a man of small ambition. How about passing a Mandatory Dressing Like Our Parents Act, and solving the problem for all generations?

By: Ptrin

Ptrin — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:06:46 -0800

bunnytricks: I call shennanigans. There aren't any holes pointing in that direction when sitting. Unless that isn't what an o-ring is...? Was she cute? Pics or it didn't happen.

By: bunnytricks

bunnytricks — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:21:05 -0800

ptrin: she was rather thin, had a tiny pelvis and pants that were already very low cut but sliding down. after a while she must have felt a breeze blowing through the streets of browntown and managed to pull them up by sliding her ass forward in the seat. and cute but dim and slightly abrasive. sorry, didn't get my camera until a couple of months after it happened.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 00:53:32 -0800

Shoulda used her as a pencil holder. That'd be a bit of a wake-up call.

By: bingo

bingo — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 08:22:51 -0800

Oh, come on. If that really happened, she was doing it on purpose.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:58:25 -0800

thanks dorian :D

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:26:56 -0800

Can teenage girls wear jeans which just simulate low riders? What about jeans with printed-on "flesh" and "butt crack" ?

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:27:35 -0800

I sense a commercial opportunity.

By: Ptrin

Ptrin — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:49:35 -0800

Troutfishing: you're thinking way too small. Now, jeans with printed-on creepy back tatoos -- I can hear the cash registers from here!

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:16:36 -0800

There was a guy (a white guy) who sat in front of me in high-school chemistry who refused to wear a belt, and thus exposed us every day. We amused ourselves by tossing in wadded up pieces of paper. Good times, good times.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:43:16 -0800

vignettistAmen. As a friend of mine once said, "Spandex is a priviledge, not a right." You were friends with Cereral Killer?

By: Dreama

Dreama — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:59:12 -0800

I don't think anyone has any illusions of this passing but sometimes state reps will do anything to get themselves in the paper. Tell that to the women who can no longer legally procure new genital piercings in Georgia, the thousands of people who cross state lines because they can't be tattooed in Oklahoma, and the renegade ferret owners of California.