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Swamp Gas
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 Fri May 14, 2004 7:38 pm
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/archive/2004/05/13/pantsbill.DTL
La. Bill Would Ban Low-Slung Pants
Melinda Deslatte, Associated Press
Thursday, May 13, 2004
BATON ROUGE, La. -- A Louisiana state representative wants to make it illegal for people to wear low-slung pants that expose underwear -- or more. But he's having trouble getting some of his colleagues to take him seriously.
When the bill came up for debate earlier this week, Rep. Derrick Shepherd, a Democrat from the New Orleans suburb of Marrero, was met with catcalls on the House floor. The bill would make it a crime to wear clothing in public that "intentionally exposes undergarments or intentionally exposes any portion of the pubic hair, cleft of the buttocks or genitals."
Launching a fiery speech in support of the bill, Shepherd said, "There comes a time in every society where we must draw a line of decency, where we must speak to a group of individuals who would flaunt the laws of our state, who would flaunt the morals of our community."
The result: laughter from some and a facetious chant of "No more crack!" from Rep. Tommy Wright, D-Jena.
Shepherd asked for a delay of a vote and the measure awaits action.
Despite the jokes, some opponents have serious concerns. During a May 6 committee hearing, Heather Hall of the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) said Shepherd's bill would institute a literal "fashion police" and a "really invasive violation of the fundamental right to public expression."
House Criminal Justice Committee Chairman Danny Martiny, R-Kenner, said he agreed with the spirit of the measure, but he said the law would be impossible to enforce.
"I don't know that it's respectful to pay my respects at a funeral without my shirt on, but that's not illegal; that's just stupid," he said. "Government can't fix everything."
But there is also support for the measure.
"We should be able to say what is moral, what is decent and what is acceptable behavior for our young people," said Glenn Green, a city councilman from Westwego, near New Orleans.
If Shepherd does get his bill passed, violators of the proposed law would have to perform three eight-hour days of community service at a fire department and could have to pay a fine up to $175.
"Somebody's telling me how to wear the clothes I've paid for? So my kid is wearing his pants off his booty, he's going to jail?" an incredulous Nikquel Thomas, a 22-year-old New Orleans college student, said about the proposed law.
"It's the land of the free ‹ who cares about what clothes you wear?" added his friend, 18-year-old Leslie Barnum. "It's hot in New Orleans. We're not talking Bourbon Street style ‹ topless. We're talking comfortable, relaxed."
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Orwell knew
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Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:05 am
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That was just tooooooo funny,
and would be just that, if in fact also it wasn't such a sad comentary on the USELESS ( and often DANGEROUS) idiotic attempts by someone with a little power to try and ENFORCE their will on everybody else. Is Rep. Shepard trying to throw every working plumber in the great state of Louisiana into jail? 
Personally,I don't especially think that wearing one's pants down at their knees is especially attractive or even stylish and wonder really what kind of women (assuming it's guys) get picked up by this mating ritual. I know. It's supposed to be a prison inspired "statement", or so I hear. Good grief. Do we REALLY need ANOTHER law dealing with THIS??? Thank you Tommy Wright D from Jena whomever you may be for laughing at this IDIOT notion by Shepard.Perhaps there should be a bill aimed at people like Shepard, that whenever they attemt to put forth a Fascist Anti-freedom bill of such stupidity they should be made to stand in place in front of their colleagues with a pair of underware on their heads and say over and over, I'm sorry, what was I thinking?........
Ooops,....Oh, god.... I'm starting to sound like Rumsfeld. Well at least I didn't say they would have to be naked with electrodes tied to there generals.
Power to the Earths REASONABLE people
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TheMinstrel
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Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:31 am
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Morality issuses aside, I 'm not one to disagree that there may be perhaps a few too many cracks out there waving in the breeze. But then, if yo got crack y not show it i suppose.. anyway there's been a condition noted that can occur when women wear too tight to low hipp hugging crack pants. If worn oer a long period of time the too tight, too low pants can put too much pressure on a certain nerve in the pelvic area causing severe numbness in the legs. Think on that when you see a crak. |
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Swamp Gas
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Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:00 pm
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What I want to know is why would someone take a drug that is named after your butt? Why not just call it smoking ass instead of grass?
The low slung butt-bearing pants, and it's subsequent dulling of nerves is our culture's modern conservative version of being naked at Woodstock. |
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Mech
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Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:57 pm
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Aren't these IDIOT lawmakers the SAME people who wore BAGGY ELVIS pants back in the 50's?
Talk about hypocrites. |
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Swamp Gas
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:24 am
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quote:
Originally posted by Mech
Aren't these IDIOT lawmakers the SAME people who wore BAGGY ELVIS pants back in the 50's?
Talk about hypocrites.
Yep, the mayor of Jersey City in 1957 BANNED Elvis AND Bill Haley and The Comets at Roosevelt Stadium (Where we saw Pink Floyd and Yes) because they would corrupt the youth. They had baggy pants and and boozed it up, while siteing.......Hush........Marijuana usage by the kids as another example.
Sort of like William Bennett. Saying how corrupt rock and roll is, and the dangers of pot, while himself boozing and gambling.
Or Jimmy Swaggart condemning gays and pre-marital sex, then getting caught watching a prostitute "strip" for him? Yeah right, I'll bilieve that!! I just read that he says you are within tour rights if you kill a gay person for coming on to you!!! Besides BushLaden Productions there is the Church of the Pornographic Priest. |
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snakelady
Joined: 08 Jun 2004
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Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:41 am
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I don't think 12 year old's should be wearing them. That aside i don't see a problem with it. If i had an ass to show some crack i probably would. 
How come it's ok for fridge repair guy's? ROFLMAO!!!!!
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snakelady
Joined: 08 Jun 2004
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Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:12 pm
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Well....i recently realized why crack is showing up all over. I have now HAD to buy into the crack jeans. After i had my daughter my body mutated.
None of my jeans fit me anymore. So, i switched to men's jeans, they seemed to fit better.
Recently i was at my mom's and noticed she was getting rid of some of her clothes. She had 11/12 size jeans. That is what i was wearing before i got pregnant. So, for some reason i decided to try them on. I couldn't believe they fit me. I was still used to the tight spandex jeans from the 80's (LMAO)
these new jeans are wide on the bottom but snug fitting on the top. They were nicer than my man jean's, so i took them. I went grocery shopping in my new jean's and soon realized that they kept falling off me. (not because i have a tiny waist) It's because that's how they make them.
So i think woman and girls sadly don't have a choice. They changed the way the jean is made so it wont stay up. I want my 80's jeans back!!!!!  |
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increase 1776
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Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:59 pm
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They should be called plumbers pants.  |
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snakelady
Joined: 08 Jun 2004
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Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:07 pm
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quote:
Originally posted by increase 1776
They should be called plumbers pants.
Yeah, i should invent a plumber/housewife jean. Atleast you'll be sexy when you have to bend over to pick up a lint ball from the dryer. |
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Ron
Joined: 17 Jun 2005
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Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:50 am
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For a tee shirt to go with your low slung pants, visit the <a href="http://www.plumberpants.com/">Plumberpants
Clothing Company.</a> |
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