CURIOUS INDEX, 3/26/2009

sweet heart on the tide tag up there. Also….is that a real life mudkipz?

#1-

The heart (for heart of Dixie) is required by Alabama state law to appear on all vehicle license plates (this of course taking place in the 50s-60s when for some reason, politicians didn’t like black folks). When the last regular set of plates was issued, the heart was significantly shrunk, leading to a market for decals to go over the plate with the words “Heart of Dixie” large enought to be read from space. Apparently some of my fellow Alabamians are still living in the late 50s-early 60s.

Freek – funny as always.

BamaTaxMan,

You are correct that many Alabamians live in the past. Half the population lives in 1957 and the other half in the 60s and 70s.

Not true, Some of us live in the early 90’s.

I am comforted by the fact that Orrin is taking care of business in Washington and that his priorities for saving America start with the BCS.

The US Senate is interested in the BCS. Can I get a list of people who want a playoff, so when Timmmmah Geithner sets it up for us we’ll know who to blame?

In nearly every walk of life we want to be unique and successful. College football, prior to Cthulhu getting a hold of it, had a unique and successful way of going about its business every year. It worked for over a century. Leave it alone. Let the sports nerds fuck with pro sports.

On the Tebow front: I asked a friend if he wanted to get a drink after work. His response: “I’m in Tebow-land visiting my parents.”

Insert comment ripping Hatch and/or the BCS here. (I guess)

You started it with the “wasting taxpayer money by investigating the BCS” Swindle!

It’s regularly documented in science fiction that clones are inherently evil therefore the cloning of Tim Tebow would be nothing short of doom for all of mankind…

Philip has a point. A Cloned Tebow would almost certianly come out with a ’stash & Goatee.

#3-

As far as football goes, yes – you are mostly correct. (Doug being one exception). However, I was referring to non-football attitudes.

Besides, didn’t Faulkner write that in the South, the past isn’t history, it’s not even past. (or something like that)

I am from Alabama and I live in November and December 1999. Man, that was a really, really good month for me.

1. I always thought that the former line on Bama car tags “Stars Fell on Alabama” was way too close to Revelation 6:13 (“And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth” – probably referring to demonic forces).

2. I have been advocating a “Three Stooges” movies for years, although I’m not sure I trust this cast: http://www.accessatlanta.com/movies/content/movies/stories/2009/03/26/three_stooges_penn_carrey.html?cxntlid=thbz_hm

I like the new tag design. I just wish the Legislature would finally pass that constitutional amendment allowing folks with Bama tags to shoot out the tires of folks with Auburn tags we see on the highway with a crimson-painted shotgun.

It’s not condoning widespread violence if you make us paint our shotguns crimson first…

King Cockfight @ 15 – I don’t know, that sounds perilously close to gun control to me – surely the right of a citizen to bear arms is crucially infringed if he or she has to carry two guns, one for people with Auburn tags and one for everyone else. Sure, naysayers would claim that the Crimson shotgun would suffice, but that’s pretty hard to conceal.

You’ll come around, Swindle. I think you probably already have, but it’ll be out in the open soon.

Let’s make a list of the people who are all bent out of shape about the BCS:

- A Senator from… Utah.
- The attorney general of… Utah.
- University presidents from… Utah and Utah’s conference.

Hmmmmm.

Who said anything about letting Auburn people have guns?

King Cockfight @ 19 – no, I meant you’d have to have one gun for shooting Auburn people, and one gun for shooting everyone else, just so you’d be clear about which gunplay you’d have to actually explain.

King Cockfight, you can shoot out our tires if we can burn down your trailers that were stolen from FEMA…

I don’t think it’s a waste of taxpayer money for the senators to be holding hearings and such on the BCS — it means they’re not out mucking up something important.

Wozzo@14 — I don’t know if this was the inspiration, but “Stars Fell on Alabama” was a Buffett tune from the early 80s. Could see where some DMV suit might think the line was catchy enough to put on the vehicle tag.

Walt,

good God man, you ever heard of google or wikipedia?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_Fell_on_Alabama

Anyone else think Jim Chaney looks like a grown Harry Potter?

I’m in Alabama and I’m living in 2004. Bush re-elected and Auburn undefeated. It got so bad last year that I started watching Redskins games just to remember what a good Auburn quarterback looked like (beginning of season when they beat Dallas, not the end when they lost to the Bengals).

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“Stars Fell on Alabama” is a non-fiction work from the 30s, written by a visiting Yankee professor who lived in Tuscaloosa for several years. It consists of 15 or so stories and is a must read.

Sean Penn sucks. If he’s playing Curly, the next thing you know, the Treasury Secretary will suggest that the dollar needs to go.

As you can read below, it’s best known as a jazz standard from 1934 (which Buffett remade), as well as the book. In both cases, they reference a meteor shower from the 1830s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_Fell_on_Alabama

I will now be petitioning the Alabama Dept of Motor Vehicles to allow 8 characters on UA plates so I can get that tag number!!!!

I, for one, am outrageously outraged that Alabama somehow fits their state nickname onto their state license plates.

What is this world coming to?

I’ll wait until it moves to the House and then defer to the Gentlewoman from Florida with the snazzy robe…

“a large woodchuck serving as Senator from Wisconsin”

Henry Waxman just served you papers for libel.
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