Underwear Goes Inside the Pants

This song appears on the album "Lazyboy TV (2004)" by Lazyboy
Why is marijuana not legal? Why is marijuana not legal?
It's a natural plant that grows in the dirt.
You know what's not natural? 80-year-old dudes with hard-ons.
That's not natural, but we got pills for that.
We're dedicating all our medical resources to keeping the old guys erect,
but we're putting people in jail for something that grows in the dirt?

You know we have more prescription drugs now.
Every commercial that comes on TV is a prescription drug ad.
I can't watch TV for four minutes without thinking I have five serious diseases.
Like: "Do you ever wake up tired in the mornings?"
Oh my god, I have this! Write this down. Whatever it is, I have it.
Half the time I don't even know what the commercial is:
There's people running in fields or flying kites or swimming in the ocean.
Like: "That is the greatest disease ever. How do you get that?
That disease comes with a hot chick and a puppy."

The schools now: It is all about self-esteem in the schools.
Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves.
If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who is going to dance in our strip clubs?
What's going to happen to our porno industry? These women don't just grown on trees.
It takes lots of drunk daddies missing a lot of dance recitals before you decide to blow a goat on the Internet for fifty bucks.
And if that disappears, where does that leave me on a Friday night with my new high speed connection?

Baby sing, sing, sing... Sing your song
Sing for me... (Come on now sing)
Sing, sing, sing... Sing your song
Sing for me... (Sing a song)

Mastermind is another word that comes up all the time.
You keep hearing about these terrorists masterminds that are being killed over in the Middle East.
Terrorists masterminds?
Mastermind is sort of a lofty way to describe what these guys do, don't you think?
They're not masterminds.
"OK, you take bomb, right? And you put in backpack. And you get on the bus and you blow yourself up."
"Why do I have to blow myself up? Why don't I put..."
"Who's the %#@&#! mastermind here? Me or you?"

Americans... Let's face it: We've been a spoiled country for a long time.
Do you know what the number one health risk in America is?
Obesity. Obesity! They say we're in the middle of an obesity epidemic.
An epidemic like it is polio. Like we'll be telling our grand kids about it one day.
The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004.
"How'd you get through it grandpa?"
"Oh, it was horrible Johnny, there was cheesecake and pork chops everywhere."

Nobody knows why were getting fatter? Look at our lifestyles!
I'll sit at a drive thru.
I'll sit there behind fifteen other cars instead of getting up to make the eight foot walk to the totally empty counter.
Everything is mega meal, super sized.
"Want biggie fries with that? Want a jumbo fry, wanna go large,
want a biggie fry, wanna have thirty burgers for a nickel, you fat mother****er?"
"There's room in the bag. Take it!"
"Want a 55 gallon drum of Coke with that? It's only three more cents."

Baby sing, sing, sing... Sing your song
Sing for me... (Come on now sing)
Baby sing, sing, sing... Sing your song
Sing for me... (Sing a song)

Sometimes you've got to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life.
Do you think if Bill Gates got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?
Of course not.
You got to spend a long time stuffed in your own locker with your underwear wedged up your *** before you start thinking:
"I'm going to take over the world of computers. You'll see. I'll show them!"

We're in one of the richest countries in the world and the minimum wage is lower now than it was thirty-five years ago.
There are homeless people everywhere...
This homeless guy asked me for money the other day.
I was about to give it to him and then I thought he's just going to use it on drugs or alcohol.
And then I thought: "That's what I'm going to use it on!"
"Why am I judging this poor bastard?"

People love to judge homeless guys.
Like if you give him the money he's just going to waste it. He's going to waste the money.
Well, he lives in a box, what do you want him to do? Save it up and buy a wall unit?
Take a little run to the store for a throw rug and a CD rack?
He's homeless!

I walked behind this guy the other day. A homeless guy asked him for money.
He looks right at the homeless guy and goes: "Why don't you go get a job, you bum?"
People always say that to homeless guys, "Get a job", like it is always that easy.
This homeless guy was wearing his underwear outside his pants.
I'm guessing his resume ain't all up to date.
I'm predicting some problems during the interview process.
I'm pretty sure even McDonald's has a "Underwear Go Inside The Pants" policy.
Not that they enforce it really strictly, but technically, I'm sure it is on the books.

food for thought...

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alexandra_k said:
Half the time I don't even know what the commercial is:
There's people running in fields or flying kites or swimming in the ocean.
Like: "That is the greatest disease ever. How do you get that?
That disease comes with a hot chick and a puppy."

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I will never forget, as long as I live, my "mentor"/good friend who, in the late 1970s was in her late 50s and we lived in the City and she had no car, took the bus to work, she and her sister lived together. She was an editor, loved good literature, conversation, music; she and her sister (I think a couple years older than she was) did their own things and my friend, Anne, told a story of running into her sister, Betsy, in a mom & pop grocery store and her sister greeted her, "Dr. Livingston I presume?" and some store clerk overheard and from then on addressed her as Dr. not understanding the reference :-)

Anyway, Anne's at work one day humming a tune that keeps repeating itself in her head only she couldn't identify it, had no clue what it was and asked someone. She'd been humming/singing, "Sooner or later, you'll own Generals!" a tire commercial! She had no idea what "Generals" were http://www.generaltire.com and had never owned a car, etc. She rarely watched TV but the jingle had grabbed her.

perna, you know i truly admire your depth, thoughtfulness, kindness and many more compliments i don't have space for here... i just had to comment... you said:

"some store clerk overheard and from then on addressed her as Dr. not understanding the reference :-)"

i am a part time store clerk... have been off and on my whole life...

we make mistakes... we are human... God knows how dumb i've been so many times...

but we are also the social mailmen of the times... we hear your thoughts, stories, wants, pains... and we are charged with keeping that happy wheel turning for everyone from every cross section of life, regardless of our mood... if we don't smile... it just gets down for a lot of people fast...

please be kind to your store clerks... store clerks... please be kind to yourselves... for the pay... one wonders how crazy/desperate we are to come in day after day and try...

and perna, i think you are very special too...

They were kind to the store clerk, never let on she was not a doctor, were "grateful" to be thought of as such. I didn't mean it as disparagement to the store clerk as much as to show the little, literary "pretentions" on my friends' parts (Anne was founding president of the Friends of the Library is how we met). It was a great store, no longer exists as it was in the 1970s in Washington, D.C. and all that is gone now, of a different age (when everyone still treated "doctors" like a breed apart). I think there's a Starbucks or some such there now :-(

thanks for the clarification perna... been a long day... i thik the original post and your reply got seperated in my mind a little.. hope i'm understanding better now... i remember the bumper stickers: "kill your tv" .. i really liked that idea, but, then again, i've really recieved a lot of good from the tv.. news (filtered and strained for better digestion) .. watch some crappy sitcoms, but i need to laugh too... yet that itself is supporting the sickness

reading is good... i thought about how it had replaced travel for many.. i don't think it can measure up completely..

i have homeless friends... i give money when i'm in the mood and i assume the worst.. but its not always the case... what i get from the song above is again, another overview on what we are, what we've become, how we live... and i believe we can improve... that some of us really want to improve, and i'm thankful for your input and thankful to alexk for sharing... and now i feel like some kind of demented, tired peacemaker.. i'm going home to listen to the Moody Blues and hum a little Sept. Morn to myself

peace