"Odd is not Contagious" is simply a blog forum for discussions about accepting others' strangeness, pointing out the positives about odd behaviors, the benefit or downside of being different, and bizarre ways people make a living. Everyone has a voice here, especially Wal-Martians :-)
This power point presentation was sent to me by one of my loyal blog followers, Katrina, who lives in Australia. She sent it to me in response to my Wal-Martians Part Deux blog. Thanks for sharing Katrina!
We have all seen people parading about in public who are completely clueless when it comes to dressing themselves. I’m not sure if they just don’t care, or if they actually think they are being fashionable, but I see more fashion faux pas today, than I ever saw growing up. When I was a teenager, I never would have worn a midriff shirt if I had one ounce of skin hanging out over my jeans, but in today’s world it has become the norm to have, not just a little skin, but large amounts hanging out everywhere (fashion term: “muffin top”). The well known fashion term, Plumber’s crack, used to be a reserved style for plumbers only, but that too has become commonplace. In Wal-Mart stores across the country, the plumber’s crack has actually become a ravine, and is sported by both men and women alike. To think that back in 2008, the mayor of Riviera Beach, Florida, Reverend Thomas Masters wanted to outlaw the baggy pants trend in Rivera Beach. I think that craze was tame compared to the atrocities we’ve all witnessed in Wal-Mart. He should take a trip through there and arrest some of those crazy Wal-Martians. The following are just a few common sense rules that people need to follow when going out in public:
1. Do not expose your private parts. That’s why they are referred to as “private” because no one else needs or wants to see all that while they’re buying their meat and veggies. I’m not a prude by any means, but there is a time and place for everything. Even though Wal-Mart has become the place to show off one’s strange, we don’t need to see some stuff.
2. Look in the mirror before heading out on the town. If bits and pieces are hanging out, tuck ‘em back in.
3. Baggy pants that hang off a guy’s butt are for losers, and they look ridiculous. What’s up with that anyway?
4. Make sure clothing fits properly. It has been proven that tight fitting clothing can cause health problems.
There are things that just don’t need to be displayed in public, need I say more?
How come people who claim they have seen a flying saucer, can never take a decent photo or video of it??? It is so annoying to go to a website that supposedly has the latest UFO sightings and see a smudge on a photo, foggy lights in the distance, or watch a video of some guy, who sounds like he’s been smoking a lot of dope, watch zippy flying lights on the horizon (yes, those are flairs). Whenever there is a newscast with a sound bite saying something like, “A crowd of people saw an unidentified flying object in the sky over New Hampshire—News at 11,” I always have to look. I am usually disappointed though, because no one has ever taken a good photo or video that looks like an actual space ship; the kind you would see in the movies Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. or Independence Day.
I am not saying that I don’t believe them because, really, I am one of those eternal wishful thinkers who hope to see the day when NASA finds life out there beyond our galaxy. However, I still have a healthy amount of skepticism that this will happen. For instance, how come some people see alien space ships and others have never seen one? There are some who claim they have actually been kidnapped by aliens. Isn’t it odd that these alleged aliens pick and choose whom they appear to? What makes “alien spotting” people so special? Supposedly there are many things in this world that go unexplained, and the possibility that life forms from other worlds have visited earth is not impossible, but to date no one has been able to convince me into believing it. The stories are entertaining though, aren’t they?
Marty and I at the Green Market at the new waterfront on Flagler in West Palm Beach.