Chris Rose Nails it Yet Again

[Phatpapa]

http://blog.nola.com/chrisrose/2008/08/shouldnt_it_be_national_stop_o.html

I know the driving skills of some New Orleanians may lack a little. But...

Try living in a resort town such as mine and you wonder how it's so easy for guests from all over to lose so much brain capacity as soon as they come up to altitude. Tourist: "What, you locals stop at red lights and use your turn signals here"? "You mean there are other people on the road besides myself"?

I also loved all of his other, "Let's not week" ideas

I just remembered a "touristism" I heard last winter. I was asked, "What do ya'll do with all those moguls in the summer time"? I told him that we rent them to Canada

I love tourists, they put food on the table.:D

[festbabe]

What's This Foolishness, indeed. Made me snort (happy kind).

[bluesgirl]

OMG, there really IS national underwear week:
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/08/celebrate_national_underwear_d_1.html

[Phatpapa]

OMG, there really IS national underwear week:
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/08/celebrate_national_underwear_d_1.html


Poor kid, he looks so malnurished. Do you ladies think he looks like all that? :confused:

[Carolina Beadhead]

Poor kid, he looks so malnurished. Do you ladies think he looks like all that? :confused:

Ewwww... And can't the poor boy sit upright without falling over backwards??
:)

[bluesgirl]

Poor kid, he looks so malnurished. Do you ladies think he looks like all that? :confused:

Well, I'd feed him crackers in my bed...:o

[sophisticated sissy]

Poor kid, he looks so malnurished. Do you ladies think he looks like all that? :confused:

An interesting pose.

But like the old song says:


"Well, I got a guy that's so darn thin
There ain't much to him but bones and skin,
One thing about him I can understand
He wraps all around me like a rubber band." :D

[Belle]

Too skinny in the body for me but the face is ok. I like some meat on them bones. Hubby is on a diet and is thinner that he has been in 15 years and this chick doesn't like it. Bring on some cushion.;)

[Frosty]

I'm still pissed they moved Don't Eat Yellow Snow Week to late February.

[NYMAMA]

OMG, there really IS national underwear week:
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/08/celebrate_national_underwear_d_1.html
yuck! I want a man not a skinny a** kid!

[NYMAMA]

I think we should have a "National don't talk while chewing your food weeK" Just one of my pet peeves.

[NeenAtlanta]

OMG, there really IS national underwear week:
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/08/celebrate_national_underwear_d_1.html

ewww - he looks like a concentration camp victim. Wayyyy to skinny.

[mightyradgumbo]

Well it is apparent not everyone in the city got the message because on my way home from making groceries I almost got nailed by not one but two drivers who felt the need to assume they had the green light. This, mind you, within a mile or two within my house.

[festbabe]

I'm still pissed they moved Don't Eat Yellow Snow Week to late February.

Why? Doesn't it still snow in February?
(;) )

[sophisticated sissy]

Why? Doesn't it still snow in February?
(;) )

Yes. But by February, the snow's so dirty it's impossible to see if it's yellow or not!:p

[NOLA]

Well it is apparent not everyone in the city got the message because on my way home from making groceries I almost got nailed by not one but two drivers who felt the need to assume they had the green light. This, mind you, within a mile or two within my house.

Let's be careful out there!

(Take nothing for granted when driving in this town, Dan!)

[breambob]

In New Orleans stop lights are often ignored, and stop signs are merely a suggestion. I knew this before I lived there, but really got to know about it when I started riding my bike around. You must be aware, or you will suffer.

Nice article, Chris )

[Frosty]

Why? Doesn't it still snow in February?
(;) )

Yes, but it's now right after National Don't Run With Scissors Week. Kinda like having Jazz Fest follow Mardi Gras I tell ya'.

[rosetree]

Let's be careful out there!

(Take nothing for granted when driving in this town, Dan!)

You forgot this Frank.....;)

http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/fiction/hill_street.jpg

[Delta]

http://library.thinkquest.org/2886/INDEX.HTM

Being born during International Drum month isn't so bad I guess.

[bluesgirl]

I think we should have a "National don't talk while chewing your food weeK" Just one of my pet peeves.

I want STFU While the Band is playing month every month. :)

[Phatpapa]

I want STFU While the Band is playing month every month. :)


I certainly second that motion, bg

[jolie]

Thanks for the laugh this am Chris!! Otherwise I think I might cry..........

http://blog.nola.com/chrisrose/2008/08/hizzoner_the_mayor_c_ray_nagin.html

[glinda]

YYR, Jolie. Good one today.

[Festvet]

Yet another Chris Rose gem from today's TP

http://blog.nola.com/chrisrose/2008/08/hizzoner_the_mayor_c_ray_nagin.html

[Phatpapa]

Yet another Chris Rose gem from today's TP

http://blog.nola.com/chrisrose/2008/08/hizzoner_the_mayor_c_ray_nagin.html

True dat Festvet. I don't know if it's been discussed before, here. Any locals going to protest this joke of an affair?

[ohio]

"Excellence in Defensive Backery Award".....that's rich!

[Jacquesimomo]

I think we should have a "National don't talk while chewing your food weeK" Just one of my pet peeves.


or mine--- "National Don't Smack Your Food While You're Chewing Your Food Week"
Can't people chew with their mouths closed? Do I really need to hear you eat your slop??? EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!

[Delta]

"National Don't Smack Chewing Gum When You Talk Month"

[Zydekitten]

I love Chris' take on it (as always), here's some further input from the New Orleans Levee (hee hee) . . .

Mayor blames Lee Zurik for ... 'everything'

Nagin insists life would be great if no one reported his screw-ups

By Rudy M. Vorkapic
The Levee inside-the-mayor’s-mind writer

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has decided that WWL-TV reporter Lee Zurik has skyrocketed from the person responsible for “hurting this (city’s) recovery” to actually being to blame for – as the mayor told The Levee – “everything.”

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(http://www.nolevee.com/images/phpThumb.php?src=articles/MostWanted6_600.jpg&q=95&h=0&w=600)New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has been forced to take down thousands of billboards offering a reward for WWL-TV reporter Lee Zurik, who is accused of airing accurate reports about the mayor's lackadaisical public schedule and mismanaged mayoral programs. The Times-Picayune and other local TV stations, all of which have been chasing Zurik on his stories, also donated to the program designed to stop criticisms of the mayor.

Asked to clarify what he meant by “everything,” Nagin’s office eventually provided a list blaming Zurik for everything from male-pattern baldness to disco.

Zurik immediately called a news conference in response, calling the mayor’s actions “inaccurate, biased and reckless.” He said the mayor’s ongoing history of half-cocked comments and misinformation is “hurting this (city’s) recovery.”

“How are you helping this recovery?” an irate Zurik asked the mayor. “How is that helping this recovery? It is not. And it’s hurting this city and you need to stop it.”

Later, pointing out to the mayor that there was no way to verify that Zurik was responsible for “everything,” the mayor eventually provided three more lists, each seemingly more obtuse and unverifiable than the one before.

As a result, the FBI, HUD, the city’s inspector general, numerous mental health experts, activist Karen Gadbois and others have begun investigating the mayor’s latest program of buying thousands of Crimestoppers-like billboards throughout New Orleans that offer up to a $5,000 reward for Zurik.

Under the clouds of those investigations, Nagin was forced to order his NaginStoppers billboard program shut down.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/Zydekitten/NaginSleeping.jpg
Mayor Ray Nagin sleeps through the fact that his constant misinformation is killing us.

Nagin remains aghast that Zurik would accurately report the truth on the blatant mismanagement of a mayoral program that used federal funds to pay for the gutting of flood-damaged homes owned by qualified elderly and low-income residents. The program is suspected of paying connected contractors for work never done or for work done for unqualified recipients.

Zurik’s initial report aired at the same time a Congressional delegation was in New Orleans to consider additional funds for the city.

“Thank God we had Bill Jefferson among that group of congressmen to provide New Orleans credibility,” the mayor said of his buddy Jefferson, who is facing extensive federal bribery charges.

[ibjamn]

Kitty, that made me spit my coffee out - LOL!!!

[Earthmother]

OMG, there really IS national underwear week:
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/08/celebrate_national_underwear_d_1.html

So if he's an underwear model why is he wearing bluejeans?
And my $0.02, he ain't so hot, looks they found him a concentration camp. He has that Nancy boy look, too pretty, too skinny. Anyway, I'm celebrating the holday, I'm wearing mine today-no comando!

[Earthmother]

And back to the original thread (sorry for hijacking)----Chris Rose is SO spot on! The only awards C Ray deserves is for the fastest de-assing of an Emergent situation via Nat.Guard helicopter. Oh and one for blatant cowardice. And possibly one for fluent -but -erroneous blame placing. To quote Bugs,"What a maroon".