And again - teehee...

[DrummerDeanna]

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/

May 13, 2005

It is time now for our final New Rules! Of this season.

New Rule: The next reality show must be called "America's Stupidest State." We'll start at 50, and each week, if your state does something really stupid with, say, evolution or images of the Virgin Mary, you'll move on to the next round. Now, of course, the final five will always end up being Alabama, Utah, Kansas, Texas and Florida. Sorry, Tennessee.

New Rule: Someone must stop the Cirque du Soleil. If we hate the French so much, how come we gave them Las Vegas? There are now six Cirque du Soleil-related shows on The Strip. Six! Who wants to spend two hours watching a bunch of French chicks fold themselves in half? You know what? Scratch that. New Rule: We need more Cirque du Soleil!

New Rule: I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering my PIN number, pressing "Enter," verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don't want cash back, and pressing "Enter" again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Almond Joy. Paper, plastic?! I don't have time for that. I've just been called to do a cleanup on Aisle Nine!

New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass. And it translates to "beef with broccoli." The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

And finally, New Rule: The people in America who are most in favor of the Iraq war must now go there and fight it. The Army missed its recruiting goal by 42% last month. More people joined the Michael Jackson Fan Club. "We've done picked all the low-lying Lynndie England fruit." And now we need warm bodies. We need warm bodies like Paula Abdul needs...warm bodies!

Now, last week, a Baptist minister in North Carolina told nine members of his congregation that unless they renounced their 2004 vote for John Kerry, they had to leave his church. Well, if we're that certain these days that George Bush is always that right about everything, then going to Iraq to fulfill the glorious leader's vision would seem the least one could do. And, hey, if it makes it any easier for you, just think of it as a reality show: "Fear Factor: ****ting Your Pants Edition." "Survivor: Sunni Triangle." Or maybe it's a video game, "Grand Theft Allah."

Now, I know you're thinking, but, Bill, I already do my part with the "Support Our Troops" magnet I have on my Chevy Tahoe. How much more can one man give? Well, here's an intriguing economic indicator. It's been over a year since they graduated, but neither of the Bush twins has been able to find work. Why don't they sign up? Do they hate America or just freedom in general?

And that goes for everybody who helped sell this war. You've got to go first. Brooks and Dunn, drop your cocks and grab your socks! Ann Coulter, darling, trust me, you will love the Army. You think you make up ****!

Curt Schilling, b-bye! You ended the curse on Boston. Good. Let's try your luck in Fallouja. Oh, and that Republican Baldwin brother, he's got to go so that Ted Nugent has someone to frag.

But mostly, we have to send Mr. And Mrs. Britney Spears. Because Britney once said, "We should trust our president in every decision that he makes, and we should just support that and be faithful in what happens." Okay, somebody has to die for that. Or at least go. Hey, maybe she'll like it. Hell, she's already knocked up. That'll save the MP unit about ten minutes.

And think of the spiritual lift it will provide to troops and civilians alike when actual combat smacks the smirk off of Kevin Federline's face and fills his low-hanging trousers with dootie.

In summation, you cannot advocate for something you wouldn't do yourself. For example, I'm for fuel efficiency, which is why I drive a hybrid car and always take an electric private plane. I'm for legalizing marijuana, and so I smoke a ton of it.

And I'm for gay marriage, which is - oh, well, you get the points! All right, folks, thank you very much. You're a great crowd. Remember, we're taking a break, but we'll be back August 19th. Until then, "I'm Swiss!," my HBO Special airs July 30th at 10:00. I want to thank my guests, Senator Norm Coleman, Charles Barkley, Al Franken, Liz Marlantes and Gore Vidal. Thank you, folks. Appreciate it.

[GypsySorcerer]

:lol: :lol: :lol: Thanks, Deanna. I needed the laugh.

[strandinthewind]

Bill, I already do my part with the "Support Our Troops" magnet I have on my Chevy Tahoe. How much more can one man give?

That line is soooooo for Dissention, who HATES those things LOL and think everyone that has one is a poser :laugh:

[Mari]

New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass. And it translates to "beef with broccoli." The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

:laugh: :laugh: This is exactly what's stopping me from getting a tattoo... the fear of being associated with 'these' people :p

[ontheEdgeof17]

New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass. And it translates to "beef with broccoli." The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.



:shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

Well, at least mine is not at the crack of my ass.




Thanks for the post, D! :wavey:

[wondergirl9847]

Funny schtuff.

Why, all of a sudden, does the entire USA have those stupid magnets on their car?

Beef with broccoli...:lol:

[strandinthewind]

:shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

Well, at least mine is not at the crack of my ass.




Thanks for the post, D! :wavey:

I could soooo go there (figuratively) - but I shall restrain :lol:

[ontheEdgeof17]

I could soooo go there (figuratively) - but I shall restrain :lol:


Gutter Brain. Geez. :rolleyes: :D

[amber]

:lol: :lol: :laugh:
thanks, D, those were hilarious. "Sorry, Tennessee!" :lol:

[Jessica Leigh]

http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/new_rules/



New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass. And it translates to "beef with broccoli." The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.



that's my favorite one....

they call lower back tattoos "the mark of the bar bitch" and at the bar where i work i am the only girl without one. i think it makes me special :) and the chinese (or other asian language) characters are so lame as a tattoo on stupid 20- something drunkards that i think they should be outlawed...


oh and did you all hear about britney spears' hip tattoo? she was told by the tattoo artist that it is a chinese character for "mysterious" but in actuality it means "strange" hahahaha a friend of mine got a tattoo by the same tattoo artist and he said he did it on purpose.... HAHAHAHA Britney got punked!!

[SteveMacD]

Yeah, I don't want an Asian tatoo. With my luck, it'll translate to "Terrible Donkey."

In any event, I can think of a few stupider states than Alabama, Utah, Kansas, Texas and Florida. Don't get me wrong, those states are usually pretty stupid. BUT, certainly West Virginia ranks in the top five, and c'mon, Mississippi has generally been THE stupidest state since at least the 1860s. In just about every factor that is measured between the states, Mississippi is usually in the bottom three! Which reminds me, every time I hear that Charlie Daniels song "The South's Gonna Do It Again," I always have to ask myself, "what, get your ass kicked so hard by the North that SOME parts of the South still haven't recovered some 140 years later?"

[Now I'm going to duck and cover, just to be on the safe side...]

[SteveMacD]

Why, all of a sudden, does the entire USA have those stupid magnets on their car?
I don't have one, but I live by a military base, so I'm the exception. The most offensive one, for me, is the one that has a cross cut out in the bow. Yeah, I'm sure Jesus would be thrilled ****less at America's unnecessary war.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, somebody is trying to market a "screw the troops" magnet. Now, if it were "screw the war, bring 'em home," then yes, I would have one on my car. But I can't get behind "screw the troops." Especially as I LIVE BY A MILITARY BASE! I've grown used to this whole living thing!

[ontheEdgeof17]

Yeah, I don't want an Asian tatoo. With my luck, it'll translate to "Terrible Donkey."

In any event, I can think of a few stupider states than Alabama, Utah, Kansas, Texas and Florida. Don't get me wrong, those states are usually pretty stupid. BUT, certainly West Virginia ranks in the top five, and c'mon, Mississippi has generally been THE stupidest state since at least the 1860s. In just about every factor that is measured between the states, Mississippi is usually in the bottom three! Which reminds me, every time I hear that Charlie Daniels song "The South's Gonna Do It Again," I always have to ask myself, "what, get your ass kicked so hard by the North that SOME parts of the South still haven't recovered some 140 years later?"



Ohio has some of the highest illiteracy rates in the country. Every heard of Meigs County? Pomeroy? Middleport?

[CreepingDeath]

And that goes for everybody who helped sell this war. You've got to go first. Brooks and Dunn, drop your cocks and grab your socks!

:lol: :laugh: :lol:


While you're at it, send the fugliness that is Toby Keith over there too.

[SteveMacD]

Ohio has some of the highest illiteracy rates in the country. Every heard of Meigs County? Pomeroy? Middleport?
Don't forget Adams County. They are THE bottom feeders of the state.

OTOH, look at all of the amazing things that have come out of Dayton alone:
Airplane
Airplane Engine
Automobile self-starter
Cash register
Gasoline
Microencapsulation (aka "scratch and sniff")
Motion picture projector, film, camera, & motion picture theater
Pop-top tab & pull-top tab's on canned beverages
Refrigerant, freon
Step ladder
Teflon
Isolated Home and Farm Electric Lighting System
Radio Isotopic Thermoelectric Generator for Spacecraft
Controllable Pitch Propeller
Microfiche
Collapsible Portable Crib
Human Heart-Lung Machine
Motorized Wheelchairs
Walker Attachment for Wheelchairs
Ice Cube Tray with Ejector Mechanism
Automotive & Refrigeration Equipment
Smart Fan (operates based on changes in temperature)
Goniometer (measures location of thalamus for surgery)
Manually Operated External Heart Machine and Expiratory Valve
Liquid Crystal Alignment Methodology
Multiple Array Continuous Inkjet Printer
Price Tag Affixing Machines
Directional Compass with Dual Radio Beam Triangulation System
Flexible Radiator Hoses and Wire Impregnated Sweeper Hoses
Learmatic Electrostatic Gyroscope
Lighted Scoreboard, Leland Refractor
Solenoid
Incentive Stamps
Airplane Supercharger
Official Building Mail Chutes
Electrically Stimulated Ambulatory Motion
Gas Masks
Portable Breathing Resuscitator
Computing Scale for Butchers and Grocers
Parachute
Continuous Rolling of Wide-Strip Steel Manufacturing Process
Airplane Ejection Seats
Artificial Heart
Artificial Kidney
Automobile Air Bags
Bionic Organs
Blind Solo Flight
Carbonless Copy Paper
Chrome Plating
Computerized Aircraft Loading System
Double Glass Windows
Electric Cash Register
Filter Cigarettes
Fixed-Focus Headlights
Frost-proof freezer
Fuzzbuster & Radar Detectors
Glass Photographic Negatives
Ice Cream Cone
Instant Blood-Glucose Level Testing
Laser Weapons
Liberty Engine
Night Serial Photography
Nuclear Powered Pacemaker
Quick Process Malleable Iron
Room Air Conditioner

The first man to orbit the Earth, John Glenn, was from Ohio.
The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, was from Ohio.
The man on the $50 bill was from Ohio.

Needless to say, I don't think Ohio is even on the short list for the stupidest state in the USA!

[ontheEdgeof17]

Needless to say, I don't think Ohio is even on the short list for the stupidest state in the USA!


We have achievements, too. And beauty:

http://www.wvdo.org/images/hor_wvachieve.jpg

[SteveMacD]

We have achievements, too.
But, certainly not on the same scale. I'm not saying all West Virginians are stupid, I'm just saying that it's the only state I've been to where they had to photocopy a $20 bill to show cashiers what one actually looks like (and I wish I was kidding). See, WV has to teach a cashier, whereas Dayton INVENTED the cashier! :thumbsup:

[ontheEdgeof17]

West Virginia – with a population of 1.8 million people – is the only state to be designated by presidential proclamation. (June 20, 1863)

West Virginia’s Memorial Tunnel was the first in the nation to be monitored by television. It opened Nov. 8, 1954.

The first electric railroad in the world built as a commercial enterprise was constructed between Huntington and Guyandotte.

James Rumsey launched the first steamboat in the Potomac River at New Mecklenburg (Shepherdstown) on Dec. 3, 1787.

The New River Gorge Bridge is the world’s longest steel arch bridge at 1,700 feet.

The world’s first brick street was laid in Charleston on Oct. 23, 1870, on Summers Street, between Kanawha and Virginia streets.

West Virginia is the nation’s No. 1 exporter of coal.

The Polymer Alliance Zone is the world’s largest concentration of engineering polymer plants.

The Kingsford Manufacturing Co.’s 50-acre complex in Parsons, W.Va., is the largest charcoal plant in the world.

Bruce Hardwood Floors in Beverly, W.Va., has the world’s largest hardwood flooring plant.

West Virginia University offers the world's first bachelor’s degree in forensic identification and biometrics.

During the Cold War, a sprawling 112,000-square-foot bomb shelter was built to house members of Congress in the event of a nuclear attack. It’s located beneath the famous Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.

At the end of the Guilded Age in the late 1890s, the town of Bramwell, W.Va., had more millionaires per square mile than any other city in the U.S. Many of their mansions have been restored and can be visited by the public.

A variety of the yellow apple, the Golden Delicious, originated in Clay County. The original Grimes Golden Apple Tree was discovered in 1775 near Wellsburg.

Mother’s Day was first observed at Andrews Church in Grafton on May 10, 1908.

The first spa open to the public was at Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, in 1756 (then Bath, Virginia). Berkeley Springs has more massage therapists than lawyers and is the only place in the U.S. to boast: “George Washington bathed here.”

The first free school for African Americans in the entire south opened in Parkersburg in 1862.

Mrs. Minnie Buckingham Harper, a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates by appointment in 1928, was the first African-American woman to become a member of a legislative body in the United States.

To form a separate state, West Virginia had to pay “a just proportion of the public debt of the Commonwealth of Virginia.” In 1915, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that West Virginia owed $12.4 million and a check was delivered in 1919. Bonds paid off the remainder by 1939.


http://www.wvdo.org/achievements.html

...and Alderson-Broaddus College had the first Physician Assistants Program in the world....Duke University and other well-known universities have modeled their program around AB's.

Famous WVians:

Booker T. Washington: Black educational leader and first president of Tuskegee Institute

Brigadier General Charles Yeager: First person to fly faster than the speed of sound

Carter G. Woodson: Educator, author and the father of Black History Month

Cyrus R. Vance: Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980 during the Carter administration

Pearl S. Buck: Pulitzer and Nobel prize winning author

Kathy Mattea: Grammy Award-winning singer

Herschel “Woody” Williams: Medal of Honor winner; only surviving of 12 West Virginia recipients

Mary Lou Retton: Gold medal winner in gymnastics, 1984 Olympics

Sam Snead: Winner of 81 PGA tournaments, more than any other golfer


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I'm sure there is someone in Ohio that doesn't know what a $20 bills looks like, either.

[ontheEdgeof17]

Here are the rankings for Smartest State according to this site:


http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank.htm

[dissention]

Here are the rankings for Smartest State according to this site:

http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank.htm

I love it. :laugh: :xoxo:

[GardenStateGirlie]

I love it. :laugh: :xoxo:

That's priceless. Apparently, our intelligence increased. We were previously #5 :laugh:

[dissention]

That's priceless. Apparently, our intelligence increased. We were previously #5 :laugh:

We didn't move anywhere. :P

[SteveMacD]

Just as I suspected:

Ohio
is SMARTER than
Michigan

[SuzeQuze]

Um, sorry Deanna. I guess your points did not boost your home state much!

Now let's see, MA is smartest and most progressive, is there a correlation? Dammit I love this state! sans real estate prices

[dissention]

Um, sorry Deanna. I guess your points did not boost your home state much!

Now let's see, MA is smartest and most progressive, is there a correlation? Dammit I love this state! sans real estate prices

Oh gawd, real estate prices. :laugh: And real estate taxes, jeezum crow! They just appraised my mother's house again and her taxes are going up $400. Bastards. They don't call us Taxachusetts for nothing. Sale taxes may be low, but they stick it to you in every other way imaginable. I wonder if any other state takes it up the rear as much as we do.

[DrummerDeanna]

Um, sorry Deanna. I guess your points did not boost your home state much!

Now let's see, MA is smartest and most progressive, is there a correlation? Dammit I love this state! sans real estate prices


:laugh: :laugh:

Not surprising at all....stupid New Mexico :laugh:

[amber]

Just as I suspected:

Ohio
is SMARTER than
Michigan
Heck, apparently it's also smarter than California. I'm convinced this can't be true, they obviously only tested our
STATE GOVERNOR. :lol:

[dissention]

Heck, apparently it's also smarter than California. I'm convinced this can't be true, they obviously only tested our
STATE GOVERNOR. :lol:

And the people who voted for him. :laugh:

[amber]

And the people who voted for him. :laugh:

:lol:

and the kids in the Oakland school system!!! Okay, mystery solved.... :laugh:

[skcin]

Oh gawd, real estate prices. :laugh: And real estate taxes, jeezum crow! They just appraised my mother's house again and her taxes are going up $400. Bastards. They don't call us Taxachusetts for nothing. Sale taxes may be low, but they stick it to you in every other way imaginable. I wonder if any other state takes it up the rear as much as we do.


New York (well, Buffalo anyway) does! :wavey:

Real estate here is not too bad, but the real estate taxes are horrendous. And our sales tax is 8%. :rolleyes:

[ontheEdgeof17]

Real estate here is not too bad, but the real estate taxes are horrendous. And our sales tax is 8%. :rolleyes:


Damn! Ours is close with 6%. I think Hawaii is the worst, but I forget the exact amount.

[amber]

Oh gawd, real estate prices. :laugh: And real estate taxes, jeezum crow! They just appraised my mother's house again and her taxes are going up $400. Bastards. They don't call us Taxachusetts for nothing. Sale taxes may be low, but they stick it to you in every other way imaginable. I wonder if any other state takes it up the rear as much as we do.
My area does, for real estate. Our sales tax is .0875. :shrug:

[SuzeQuze]

Oh gawd, real estate prices. :laugh: And real estate taxes, jeezum crow! They just appraised my mother's house again and her taxes are going up $400. Bastards. They don't call us Taxachusetts for nothing. Sale taxes may be low, but they stick it to you in every other way imaginable. I wonder if any other state takes it up the rear as much as we do.

That's crazy. They tried to hike my Dad's property taxes way up, after they said they wouldn't be going up, and he marched down to city hall bitching and they lowered the increase! My Dad rules. :D