"Are you gonna eat those tots?"
Category: Movies...
Posted Saturday, March 19, 2005 at 09:57 PM [GMT-6]

OK, so I don't usually even notice ads in the newspaper for Dillard's Department Store, but the phrase "tater tots" in a funky font caught my eye on Friday morning, and my astonished response was along the lines of "what the...? Napeoleon Dynamite?!"

That's right, the über-uncool Dillard's is stocking a series of ten t-shirts adorned with lines from the super-groovy movie, including classics like:

  • "This is the worst day of my life."
  • "I have nunchuck skills.
  • "Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day."
  • "Pedro's got your back.
  • "If you vote for Pedro, all of your wildest dreams will come true."

What was most interesting about the half-page ad is that nowhere did it mention "Napoleon Dynamite." This is due either to the realization that if you get it, you get it, or to fears about copyright violations. I prefer the former, since, well, I got it.

Next week is our annual trek to the Texas Hill Country for the big bicycle tour, and we also found the perfect matching t-shirts for our tandem team. The shirts are bright red and feature a bike barely clearing a homemade ramp, with these words below it: "You got like, 3 feet of air."

Perfecto! I mean, what else would you wear while riding a green, 10-foot recumbent bicycle built for two? I mean, if you really want to look groovy.

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If you vote for Pedro, all of your wildest dreams will come true.

This would make the perfect Easter gift for me. Before it was spammed out of existance....this was my internet monicker.

Posted by: Wallace-Midland, Texas at March 19, 2005 10:41 PM

Pedro......that is.

Posted by: Wallace-Midland, Texas at March 19, 2005 10:41 PM

Eric, good luck on the bike tour!

Seeing what the last few weeks of rain and warm temperatures have done for colorful blossoms on the ground and in the flowering trees of Midland, I'm wondering what it will be like in the Hill Country?

Posted by: Jeff (got the name right, this time) at March 20, 2005 07:23 AM

You'll always be Pedro to us, Wallace. Always.

Jeff, I'm thinking we may still be a couple of weeks early for prime flower viewing, but it may be better than usual at this point in the year because of no late freeze. I know that the wildflowers between Monahans and Fort Stockton are the prettiest I've ever seen...and that's saying a lot given the decades I've lived out here!

Posted by: Eric at March 20, 2005 03:33 PM
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