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Between this and Brett Favre last week, it is clear that some of us are getting dangerously close to needing an Open Letter. I mean, we all know how excited dad gets when he learns a new slang word and then can’t stop using that slang word constantly, often wrongly, for the next 50 years. “The tie you gave me for Christmas is da bomb! Bling bling!” And it is hard as a human being with feelings to muster the heart to tell them to stop. They mean well! But dads need to know. Stop it, dads! (Via TheDailyWhat.)
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His spacegrandkids are groaning about this one.
I’m just glad someone finally caught the leader of the conservative party with his pants on the ground.
Definitely more respect than we usually get.
Oh my god! Is that for real? I don’t even care because it is AMAZING.
Oh god, I do not want this to be over-used. Just let it be, older people that I don’t think are cool!
He had to read that off a piece of paper, which I’m positive must have stage directions: …”with the pants on the ground. [in a smooth motion, hops to the right and with arm at mid waist, snaps, and fluidly shifts weight to the left and hops.] Thank you Mr. Speaker…”
I am an even bigger Dad than this guy, in that I hadn’t even heard of “Pants on the Ground” until I just Googled and then subsequently You Tubed it. I guess I just got caught with MY pants on the ground (am I doing it right?).
You sir, just avoided graduating summa cum bald from Pops University. By YouTubing and Googling, you have effectively walked nude across stage in a backless graduation gown. Live to be young another day.
Dad’s find out about mems exclusively through forwarded e-mails several months after the fact or seeing it referenced on television which is often the death knell of the meme. Seeing as it was American Idol, and they actively tried to make it a meme, it was pretty much stillborn anyway.
#1 Dads ain’t ready
#2 Dads need to know
#3 Get yo pants off the ground.
And here I am… still trying to make the ‘truffle shuffle’ the next big thing…
It’s working! Keep it up! This is the only place I could post the clip on such short notice.
Here!
YTMND sort of loves it, does that cound as a meme?
Canadian government is definitely that dad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shU3SpWAzR0
Is Canada even allowed to use phrases from OUR American Idol?
A quick Google images search reveals that Attorney General T.J. Burke may very well be familiar with pants on the ground during business hours himself.
A couple of thoughts:
1. Politics looks like a party twenty-four seven
2. I do not look like a fool with my pants on the ground, I look handsome.
Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, lookin like a FOOL with your pants on the ground!
Dad?
The lack of audio sync makes me think its FAKE
Nah, that’s just C-PAC.
I’m sorry, Gabe, but I have to take issue with the dad-uses-slang metaphor here. Isn’t the Pants on the Ground guy like 63 YEARS OLD? I mean, it’s not like Lady GaGa wrote it. It’s already an anthem for Old Squares. Let the Old Squares have their day in the sun!!
As an aside, I had to give up “That’s the way I roll” a few months ago because my dad said it. R.I.P., “That’s the way I roll.”
further evidence that we did not push “keep fucking that chicken” nearly hard enough.
I don’t think I could even picture anyone using “POTG” other than white Dads. I mean come on, it was made for them. Now they have an ace in the whole when “Who Let the Dogs Out” fails at their sons soccer game.
Dude ain’t white. Go back to Honkytown with your head hanging in shame.
Gingers don’t live in Honkeytown! We are nice and do great things! Cynicism is the worst!
I never liked T.J. Burke when I lived in New Brunswick. After seeing this I can safely say I never will.
Senator, I demand that you stop waffling! The President, the Justices of the Supreme Court, your fellow members of the legislative branch, and even the American people deserve to know: who let the dogs out? Who? WHO!?
CRAP! Someone else made a “Who let the dogs out joke” while I was writing mine. Very woof, baby. I down vote myself.
Gabe, it’s not bling bling, it’s bling bang.
I can wait until this gets an autotune remix over a black eyed peas beat.
Preemptive Open Letter-ing. It’s the only way.
Much more interesting than the American Idol segment and the not-really-that-funny-song-and-definitely-not-funny-when-Brett-Favre-does it is that Sept. 4, 2001 was named “Larry Platt Day” in Atlanta for his contributions to the Civil Rights movement.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/fulltext/hr286.htm
wow that guy has no rhythm. um, no surprises there.
I’m Canadian, and I’m trying to figure out if I should apologize or do a victory lap around this comment thread.
I frustrate Dads everywhere by singing “Ground ‘neath my pants, ground ‘neath my pants, acting like a tool with the ground ‘neath my pants!”