20060919 KDDC Naked Cowboy

Naked Cowboy

The top picture is from the Naked Cowboy web site.

The next photo down is a “Getty Images photo: Corporate Sponsorship Naked Cowboy. Have a Coke, a smile and a song, courtesy of Naked Cowboy. Dec. 5, 2003 in Times Square.”

Perhaps you will never again think of Coca-Cola in the same way...

The next photo is also from Getty Images… “Child-proof Naked Cowboy. Four young girls stuff money in the boots of Naked Cowboy on July 5, 2003 in Times Square in New York.”

The bottom photo is also from Getty Images… “Patriotic Naked Cowboy. Naked Cowboy dons the Stars and Stripes as he walks amidst the panels of a giant US flag, made up of individual quilt panels sent from people in all 50 states, after it was unveiled in Union Square in New York City. July 4, 2002.”

I had never heard of the “Naked Cowboy.” I guess I’ve led a sheltered life.

I found this on the Times-Herald Record web page when I was following the news thread for the X-rated teacher’s memo. I kid you not. Must be sweeps rating week.

Whatever.

Ya know, he'd be a big hit in Westminster. Maybe for Fallfest? Whadda ya think Uncle Ron?

For more information click here. Go ahead, live it up. Miraculously it is “G” rated. Only in America. Is this a great country or what?

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20060919 KDDC Central Valley teacher gives x-rated handout

Central Valley teacher gives x rated handout

What I want to know is why didn’t we have teachers like this when I went to school?

The Associated Press reports, “School officials apologized after an X-rated font was used on a third-grade spelling packet handed out to parents. The font showed male and female stick figures in provocative poses to form the letters of the alphabet.

Officials with the Monroe-Woodbury School District in Orange County apologized last week after parents at Pine Tree Elementary School were given the spelling packet at an open house.

Administrators said the teacher did not use the font intentionally.

Monroe is about 45 miles northwest of New York City.”

There were several mentions about this in Tuesday’s news – but the best was the original news article by Kristina Wells in the Times Herald-Record: “Central Valley teacher gives x-rated handout - Sexy script was mistake.”

Her editors certainly gave her some artistic leeway when she began her article:

“Central Valley — "E" is for embarrassed — like the teacher who inadvertently used a kinky alphabet in a handout to parents.

"C" is for the calls alerting school officials to the sexy script. And "A" is for the apology that followed.

A veteran teacher used the font — depicting quasi-anatomically correct male and female stick figures contorting into letters of the alphabet — on the cover sheet of a spelling curriculum given to parents at a Pine Tree Elementary open house last week.

Think Kama Sutra meets Sesame Street.

But at first glance, it's difficult to make out the salaciousness of the type font.

Sources said the teacher had no idea the alphabet was offensive when she downloaded the font from the Internet. It's unclear if any disciplinary action has been or will be taken against the teacher, who sources said has been with the district for many years.”

Read the rest of her article here, hopefully they use permalinks…

The article is short and well worth the time. Hat’s off to her editor for letting her write it in the funny manner.

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20060919 KDDC Everything men need to know about women’s shoes

Everything men need to know about women’s shoes

Columnist Maude Franceschina, writing for the Frederick News Post explains in her September 19th, 2006 column, everything men need to know about women’s shoes.

Well sorta. I still have many questions. I haven’t a clue as to why anyone would want to where shoes in which they cannot walk?

I think very little about my shoes - - or what to wear for that matter. A point for which I am reminded from time to time. Apparently I am not in the running for being designated a clothes-horse. To which I usually respond by giving the fashion critic 50 cents so they can go call someone who cares.

Anyway – I liked her final line, which I did understand: “I plan to wear red cowboy boots when voters reject the soft on national security Democrats this November (I couldn't resist).”

If the Democrats do prevail in the “Fall elections - Democrat Wave Theory”, we will all need our running shoes.

Fortunately, President Bush’s approval rating is on the rise according to a September 19th, 2006 Gallop News Service article by Joseph Carroll: “Bush job approval up to 44%:”

“Highest approval rating so far this year. PRINCETON, NJ -- A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds George W. Bush's job approval rating is now at 44%, which is an improvement compared with the public's assessment of his performance in recent months. Bush's job approval ratings have been fluid in recent weeks, measuring as high as 42% in mid-August, but dropping back to 39% earlier this month.”

Read the rest of Gallop piece here.

And enjoy Ms. Franceschina’s column here.

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