Things That Are Wrong: Music City Edition

I’ve just come back from 5 days in Music City, formally known as Nashville, Tennessee.  And like everywhere else, there is wrongness there:

• Line dancing lessons
• Minnie Pearl hats
• Dinner table conversation about which guns everybody keeps at home
• Achy-breaky hair (still!)
• The awful, foul drink they thinks is a “caramel macchiato”
• Sports bars with 40+ television screens and not one of them playing an NFC or AFC west game
• Better biscuits and gravy at the AIRPORT than anywhere in Seattle
• Hotel room wake up calls from Country Music stars who don’t even sing! They just say good morning!
• Pink-haired evangelists on the TV screen, sitting next to Jesus and a guy in a business suit
• Manger scenes with 6 foot tall angels
• People who look at my chest to see if I’m a man or a woman  (Hint — just get me to say something to you, and you’ll figure it out pretty easily)
• The prevalence of Goo Goo Clusters

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More Things That Are Wrong

A while back we wrote a post called “Things That Are Wrong” — and promised that we’d keep an ongoing list of wrongness to share with you.  Here’s our 2nd installment:

• Making your 6 year old kid lie to Larry King
• Balloon boy game
• The Balloon Boy Halloween costume
• Bacon flavored chocolate
• Administering electric shocks to improve effectiveness of experimental HIV vaccines
• The upcoming TLC special where Kate Gosselin answers our questions.  Really?  She’s totally going to answer my questions?  I doubt it.  And so does Snark Food.
• Windows 7  (I have no proof.  I’d love to be wrong about that.)
• Torching police cars to protest police brutality.  Dear arsonist: Wait til they catch you — I bet you’ll see some police brutality then!
• NFL bye weekends
• Marge Simpson’s Playboy spread
• Theory of International Politics and Zombies — actually, this could be both RIGHT and “just WRONG”
• Emails that start with, “I didn’t want to put this in writing, but…”

Update:  My colleague Damion has weighed in on Windows7, and it sounds like the OS doesn’t belong on this list after all.  He says the UI is impressive (and Mac-like), the OS is fast & efficient, and even his tiny little processor on one of his machines handles Windows7 well.  I believe he said “awesome” four times…

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Things that are Wrong

There are a lot of things that are just plain wrong — things that should never happen.  Or that we wish never existed.  I’m going to start keeping lists.  Here’s the first one:

• Cheesehead hats
• mullets
• Tony Romo crying while sitting on his ass, covering his face in his hands, in the red zone at Qwest field
  

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• Aggies
• ceviche
• McCain/Palin ticket
• Tom Brady’s ego
• Yale’s “Killer Cover Letters” email ad sent out right after Annie Le’s body was found
• bergamot ice cream
• fish tacos
• zebra-striped “fashion snuggies”
• spam with the subject line, “Listen here bitch”

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