Ron and Fez Get Some Press In Alabama

[Judge Smails]

<p><font size="2"><img height="178" src="http://vision.cs.arizona.edu/schlecht/personal/pictures/jerk.jpg" width="130" border="0" /></font></p><p><font size="2"><a href="http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1156151997108280.xml&coll=3" target="_self">This is the kind of spontaneous publicity that &quot;makes&quot; someone. Things are going to start happenning to them now!</a></font></p><h1 class="red">Radio show pokes fun at Alabama</h1><strong>Six billboards scheduled to go up today in the Birmingham area will feature Alabama-bred &quot;American Idol&quot; winners Taylor Hicks and Ruben Studdard , and runner-up Bo Bice along with the slogan &quot;Where America Finds Its Voice -- Alabama.&quot; </strong><div /><p><strong>The Alabama Bureau of Tourism may still have a little work to do in changing perception about the state, if XM Satellite Radio's Ron and Fez Show, which airs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily, is any indication of the outsiders' opinions. </strong></p><p><strong>The comedy show took calls from around the country suggesting new slogans for the bureau. Among the suggestions: </strong></p><p><strong>&quot;Where 'Deliverance' is a love story -- Alabama.&quot; </strong></p><p><strong>&quot;Arkansas by the sea -- Alabama&quot; </strong></p><p><strong>&quot;Where you can be married three times and still have the same in-laws -- Alabama.&quot; </strong></p><p><strong>&quot;Where white sheets are formal wear -- Alabama.&quot; </strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="2">By the way - I know that this is a nothing story but when was the last time you saw the buddays getting a write-up in a newspaper?&nbsp; Granted, it's in Alabama . . . . . Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh.</font></p>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by judge_smails on 8-21-06 @ 9:14 AM</span>

[Cortez23]

<p>I'm glad Ron and Fez said those things.&nbsp; They keep people like you from coming to Alabama!!!!!!!!!!</p>

[mikeyboy]

Outstanding!&nbsp; I'll have to add that bit to the file library.

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000099">I'm thinking ROAD TRIP!!! We could have a Friday Night Lights style picnic, by the romantic light of a burning cross!!! Where's Earl...???......................................oh shit!!!</font></strong></p><p><img height="269" src="http://www.pa-aware.org/assets/images/who/C-11B.jpg" width="171" border="0" /></p>

[Judge Smails]

<strong>Cortez23</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I'm glad Ron and Fez said those things.&nbsp; They keep people like you from coming to Alabama!!!!!!!!!!</p><p>What are&nbsp;you doing on-line?&nbsp; Don't you and Brandine need to get back to birfin' some babies?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://myspace-478.vo.llnwd.net/00632/87/40/632610478_s.gif" border="0" /></p>

[JustJon]

Great article.&nbsp; Makes me want to visit New York.<br />

[Furtherman]

<p><img height="302" src="http://www.geocities.com/tomhanks00/62.jpg" width="214" border="0" /></p><p>Ron and Fez are always welcomed in Greenbow ALABAMA!!!!!</p>

[willisjackson]

<strong>Cortez23</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I'm glad Ron and Fez said those things.&nbsp; They keep people like you from coming to Alabama!!!!!!!!!!</p><p>Good point.&nbsp; If it wasn't for that bit we'd all be rushing to buy houses in Alabama right now.</p>

[yomudder21]

<p>I have actually been to Alabama once.</p><p>Notice I said once.</p>

[A.J.]

<strong>yomudder21</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I have actually been to Alabama once.</p><p>Notice I said once.</p><p>Ditto.</p>

[Tall_James]

Oh Alabama<br />Banjos playing through the broken glass<br />Windows down in Alabama.<br />See the old folks tied in white ropes<br />Hear the banjo.<br />Dont it take you down home? <br />

[spoon]

<p>The guy from Alabama is the best board character in history!&nbsp; Nice job....ahh oh sorry buddy.&nbsp; </p><p>RON FEZ. net ALABAMA ROAD TRIP!</p>

[lleeder]

Can I request Freebird for little baby cortez

[mikeyboy]

<strong>lleeder</strong> wrote:<br />Can I request Freebird for little baby cortez <p>Diaz</p>

[lleeder]

I know but i figured it was close enough

[Mike from Bklyn]

Very cool.<br />

[bobrobot]

<strong>Tall_James</strong> wrote:<br />Oh Alabama<br />Banjos playing through the broken glass<br />Windows down in Alabama.<br />See the old folks tied in white ropes<br />Hear the banjo.<br />Dont it take you down home? <br /><p><strong><font color="#000099">As the Grand Dragon... uhhh... Grand Marshall of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Banjos, I must ask that you cease and desist w/ this kind of spurious &amp;&nbsp; disingenuous quoting of songs written by un-southern non banjo players.</font></strong></p><p><img height="204" src="http://radio.weblogs.com/0107064/MyImages/deliv01.jpg" width="306" border="0" /></p>

[Don Stugots]

<strong>spoon</strong> wrote:<br /><p>The guy from Alabama is the best board character in history!&nbsp; Nice job....ahh oh sorry buddy.&nbsp; </p><p>RON FEZ. net ALABAMA ROAD TRIP!</p><p>count me in, shot gun!&nbsp; i dont just mean that i want to sit on the passenger side of the car, i will be packing they dont like us yanks down there.</p>

[OGC]

<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="4">They have press in Alabama? Who knew anyone down there could read ?</font></p>

[docgoblin]

But wait, I guess I'm a bit confused... Why are these slogans a problem? Isn't a white sheet considered formal wear in Alabama? <br />

[bobrobot]

<strong>STUGOTS1</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>spoon</strong> wrote:<br /><p>The guy from Alabama is the best board character in history!&nbsp; Nice job....ahh oh sorry buddy.&nbsp; </p><p>RON FEZ. net ALABAMA ROAD TRIP!</p><p>count me in, shot gun!&nbsp; i dont just mean that i want to sit on the passenger side of the car, i will be packing they dont like us yanks down there.</p><p><strong><font color="#000099">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Do you know what&nbsp;some folks&nbsp;call riding &quot;shotgun&quot; in the south? If you don't, suffice it to say you'd be appalled if you did!!! It's a word that is usually&nbsp;followed by a snippet from an Ani DiFranco song!!!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://www.outside.on.ca/product_image.php?imageid=453" border="0" /></p>

[Bama]

I'm all for a little fun but if you're from New Jersey you lose the &quot;your state sucks&quot; game.

[spoon]

<p>Wrong!&nbsp; At least our state helped our flood victims within a month.&nbsp; Hell they did it that day.&nbsp; GO NO!</p>