Lawmakers Crack Wise in Tax Hearing

Here’s an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette story about a legislative hearing focusing on a sales tax holiday proposal from Republican Sen. Denny Altes. The talk turned to apparel, and legislators wondered aloud if the sales tax exemption would apply to thong underwear:
“So this would exempt all human wearing apparel, I guess underwear and everything, right ?” asked Rep. Lindsley Smith, D-Fayetteville.
She then whispered with some of her colleagues.
“A thong ?” she asked, chuckling, apparently repeating what someone else said.
“I wouldn’t go there, Ms. Smith,” Senate Chairman Jim Hill, D-Nashville, said.
Wocka wocka. It’s not exactly Hepburn-Tracy level repartee, but then maybe you had to be there, and things have been pretty slow the last couple of days.
I thought it would be funny to include a Photoshop image of Denny Altes with a thong on his head, like he was on spring break or something, but then I decided that would take too long, and I’ve got a lot of work to do. I will say, however, that the few minutes I spent doing a Google Image search on “thong” while I was considering that idea were…well, they were just great. It was really great. In fact, I should probably just call it a day, because there is no way anything better than that is going to happen to me today, I’m sure.
Rep. Eric Harris thong pic linked at my name.
Thats the funniest thing I have seen all day. Thanks Legislative Paparazzi!