Mike and Chuck, part deux

At dinner last night with AdHom and the K-Man it was revealed that there is a campaign ad out there that features Mike Huckabee and Chuck Norris. After 2 seconds of searching YouTube, I found it.
Enjoy.

Take that, Barbara and Oprah

There's big news on the campain trails. It doesn't have anything to do with illegal immigrants cutting grass ["who knew?"], Iran, fun with Chinese paint, or elementary school essays on the presidency. Nope, this is bigger; much, much bigger. Mike Huckabee just picked up an enormous endorsement.

So Barrack can have Oprah. Hillary can have Barbara Streisand. Rudy can kick it with Pat Robertson.

Mike Huckabee has Chuck. Not Chuck Bartowski [voila].

Mike got Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris. He of Walker, Texas Ranger and the Missing in Action franchise fame. And countless Internet references. A pretty cool soft drink commercial. And of course, the Chuck Norris Action Jeans. I remember these jeans from when I took karate in high school. The studio [call it a 'do-jo'
if you wanna poke fun and/or mock people who know 23 ways to hit you from the wrist down] got magazines that sold equipment, gear, weapons, etc. In them you'd always see an advertisement for the Chuck Norris Action Jeans. The "secret" of these jeans is that they stretch in the crotch [make your own joke here]. This allowed you to move freely in them. Why, you could even kick above your head in them; if you're Chuck, this meant your kicks could almost reach a normal man's waist [see Chuck is what is know as a bit undersized in the business...much like Sly Stallone.].

Evidently Chuck feels that Mike is the best hope for the country [or at least the party], and so they had a nice little press conference to announce his support for Mike. By the way, Yahoo!!!! is reporting that searches for Mike Huckabee have gone up an astounding 457% since this endorsement. Read about it here.



Here's Chuck explaining why he supports Mike:














And here's Mike, already following Chuck's lead with the arm extension:


If this copying continues, I'll expect to see Mike on basic cable, either roundhousing some schmuck or dragging an American soldier out of the jungle. Both of those should add points to his polling numbers. And I expect that Mike will be able to stay in shape on the campaign trail by using Chuck & Christie Brinkley's Total Gym.

By the way, you know that this endorsement has won Mike Huckabee at least 10 votes in Iowa, if for no other reason that there are people who will think it's funny to vote for Chuck's guy.

No good deed...

...goes unpunished. So I was sitting in Stats class Wednesday [that's 'Experimental Design : Stats 2'] listening to a lecture on Nested Models in experiments when I noticed a girl to my left struggling to pick up a pen that had fallen off her desk. I waited for a bit as I watched her lean over to reach it. It seemed to be about 3 inches too far for her to get. Her desk was leaning...leaning...leaning...and I was sure she'd tip over if this continued. Let it be known, by the by, that nobody around her was offering any assistance, including the guy seated directly beside the pen. And let it be known as well that I, I was raised better than this. One helps in this type of situation, right? Like opening the door for someone on crutches, or giving up your seat to a pregnant woman, one must act. I had to act.

So I got up and walked the 1o feet over to help her before her desk tipped over. Magically as I arrived she was able to put her fingers on the pen. This left me like Paul Baumer in the middle of a classroom no man's land as I stood near her desk for no obvious reason. Seeing as she had the pen, I turned to return to my seat. Right at that moment, I heard a loud crash behind me. Everyone in the room turned with me to look at the source of the noise. Much to my chagrin I discovered that the noise was my binder crashing to the floor, vomiting its 200 pages of notes in a pile around my desk. And there I was, standing randomly in the middle of the class during a lecture.

So I walked back to my desk with everyone in the room staring at me to pick up a semester's worth of Stats Powerpoints. The girl whom I had tried to help apologized a bit [and laughed], and I sat down and tried to reorganize the unorganizable sheets of paper. Thankfully at least some of the people around me knew what I had tried to do, which made it a little bit better.

This lesson taught me that sometimes good deeds do not go unpunished. Did I make the right call? I think so. I'm sure that the K-Man would have done the same thing, too. He's classy like that.