Posted on 04/17/2008 8:00:20 AM PDT by Brandonmark
If only those were just hanging chads they were talking about on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon.
Republican Sen. Carey Baker of Eustis proposed an amendment to a transportation bill that would have cracked down on an increasingly popular accoutrement on trucks: hanging sacks - dubbed “truck nutz” — that very realistically resemble male genitalia.
His proposal is to make it a violation worthy of a $60 non-moving violation to have the testicular feature on your car, which are most commonly found hanging down from the trailer hitches of pickup trucks.
It’s just like the state’s existing regulations against obscenity on bumper stickers, Baker said.
But Sen. Jim King, a Republican from Jacksonville, protested that his district is really into the reproductive-organ display.
“There are some people in my district that would display bull testicles that are brass or whatever,” he said. “It’s an expression of just truckiness.”
“In my part of the country those things are very popular — you find them on pickup trucks and muscle trucks all the time,” he added.
And what about a display of an off-color Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that might feature urination? Sen. Dave Aronberg of Greenacres queried. Would that also have to go? Republican Sen. Evelyn Lynn of Ormond Beach said Baker’s measure was a little much.
“This seems to me to be a morality ticket and that doesn’t seem to me to be germane, does it?” she asked.
Baker retorted: “I guess morality, like prostitution?”
The discussion ended up getting cut short, with the entire bill getting postponed.
Another wedge issue for the Democratic primary. Hillary is proudly for em’. And Barak says if he doesn’t display a pin showing his patriotism because it is foreign to him, then he isn’t displaying genitalia which is just as foreign to him.
The first time I saw a truck so “be-dangled,” I started to laugh. Then realized that I didn’t want my girls to see that! I’m a musician, with a pretty coarse sense of humor, but these are disgusting, and tell me a lot about the truck’s owner!
“It’s an expression of just truckiness.”
It’s the driver’s way of admitting his own inadequacy.
LOL! Think you are close....but perhaps Hillary clings to them because she’s just bitter.
They DO speak volumes don’t they? I often think people do this kind of thing for “shock value.” It says more about who they are not than who they are. Glad you have good sense in not wanting your little girls to see this kind of nonsense but...if they DO...you can be the responsible parent and speak to them about what is the proper way to behave and what isn’t. Keep up the good work. Your daughters will love you forever and...will always respect their dad for the wisdom he had raising them.
Such a classy guy.
Billy Mays the stain specialist! I love that guy. I’ve never bought anything from him but always watch his commercials.
ROFLMBO
I wonder who wears ‘em in Hillary’s family...
Hillary or Huma?
ROFLOL!!! What next for the Florida Legislators? And to think we pay these people in all of our States to come up with this kind of nonsense.
Jim King’s a perv. He likes lap dances and hates wheelchairs. Now I need to see what this is all about.
Jim King's are the blue ones.
WHERE'S MY TAX AND INSURANCE REFORM???????
Yes, I suppose they would look silly on a Prius, however when you consider my Prius has a total 377 foot pounds of torque. I think the little car deservers he a set of balls. My Dodge Ram 2500 certainly does and they are Anatomically correct just like they were when they swinging from the BULL! Not like these two pool balls connected to form a triangle.
well, I killed another thread. lol
He's just jealous, I guess.
Just hate when the volume shoots up to 100 when one of that morons commercials comes on the tube.
He should be lowered slowly into a huge kettle of boiling oil.
You owe me a keyboard!
That's what happens after politicians lie to you for decades: a typical white person will go out and buy some Truck Nutz, just so they'll have something to cling to!
As obscene as on a dog. Oh, oh. Wait a second. It’s the liberal types who push to have all those cut off, too.
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