Today Below The Mason-Dixon Line (& The Ileum)

After South Carolina seceded in 1860, Petigru famously remarked, "South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum." This quote is still used to describe contemporary South Carolinian politics.

No shit. Case in point:

South Carolina Bill Would Require All Citizens to Wear Mom Jeans

How stupid is this, beyond the fact that fashion modes have changed & now the yout' are sporting extra-tight super-skinny jeans, so the baggin' & saggin' issue isn't what it used to be?

This fucking stupid:

Section 16-17-780.  (A)  It is unlawful for a person to appear in public wearing his pants more than three inches below the crest of his ileum exposing his skin or undergarments.

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That’s because the “ileum” is not the hipbone, as these jokers appear to believe. That’s the ilium. The ileum is the small intestine, more specifically the last part of it. (You know, the part between the jejunum and the cecum.) Does it matter? Well, I don’t know, do you think legislation referring to human body parts should refer to the right body parts? Because these are two different parts.

Granted, this was obviously a spelling mistake. It’s not that they don’t know the difference between guts and bones. But the fact remains that this particular spelling mistake makes the bill refer to a different thing. And so if the bill passed in this form, acceptable pants height in South Carolina would be measured not by hip level, but by reference to the lower third of the small intestine.

I'm not in the least bit sure it was a spelling mistake. These people are ignorant buffoons.