{"id":1029,"date":"2008-01-17T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/aw-nuts\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T18:07:03","slug":"aw-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/aw-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Aw nuts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the gods shine down brightly on mediocre blog writers such as myself.  While things don&#8217;t come that easily most days, sometimes you get days like this:<\/p>\n<p>First off, a would-be robber in Indiana managed to almost Darwin himself by somehow <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2008\/01\/16\/4776027-ap.html\">shooting himself in the fuzzy buddies<\/a> while robbing a store.  Maybe he was holding himself hostage in order to get the money.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Robber: Don&#8217;t make me shoot them man!  I&#8217;ll blow them right off, I will.  Give me the money.<\/p>\n<p>Clerk: Uh, go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Robber: I mean it, I&#8217;ll do it.<\/p>\n<p>Clerk: I&#8217;ll manage, go ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently he did go ahead.  Anyway, the cops picked him up later and charged him with stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>Then we go to Virginia, where a lawmaker introduced a ban on (I kid you not) <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2008\/01\/16\/4776002-ap.html\">displaying replica genitalia on vehicles<\/a>.  Yes, these kinds of things write themselves.  Apparently in Virginia it&#8217;s all the rage for beer soaked rednecks to hang rubber testicles from their trucks&#8217; trailer hitches. Forgetting the absolute silliness of that, even more shocking is the inability of God-fearing folk there to explain this phenomenon to their children.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>He said the idea came from a constituent whose young daughter spotted an example of the trail hitch adornment and asked her father to explain it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u2122I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what to tell her,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Spruill said the constituent told him before Spruill vowed to stop such displays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t know what to tell her?  Just what exactly was the struggle there?  Hm let&#8217;s see, do I tell her that boy trucks have testicles and lay on top of girl trucks to make  eetle wee trucks?  Or do I tell her that those are fake testicles that are supposed to represent the supposed virility of the brain dead driver?  Or maybe I say that the driver is an overly macho redneck and therefore may be overcompensating for a puzzling lack of sexual attraction to the female sex?  Hm. Nope, sounds like I should write my congressman.  Yep, this is a job for the government.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia.org\/\">Virginia is for lovers<\/a>, just not lovers of rubber truck nuts (which incidentally is a great band name: Rubber Truck Nut Lover).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the gods shine down brightly on mediocre blog writers such as myself. 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