2006.01.25
Penn and Teller: Walmart Subversives
19.49.27 - Mark
Penn and Teller would be proud of the stunt they're pulling off in Walmarts across the country.
My Brother is 17, doesn't drive, and the only photo ID in his wallet is a school ID that doesn't have his age on it. But he has money and likes movies. Tonight while running some other errands he tagged along to buy The Aristocrats, (wikipedia article on the joke). While we're there we also see Million Dollar Baby and The Aviator as a packaged deal for $20. Since we liked both movies he decides to get them as well.
I grab and pay for my things, and he's behind me with the movies. The walmart clerk passed the movies over the scanner and about the time the thing beeps for age verification we remember that Million Dollar Baby is rated R. Well, he doesn't have an ID, and I've gone though so I can't show my ID and have him (or me) pay, and none of our other tricks to deal with some of Walmart's Minor Protection Program thing will work other than come back later (its really not an efficient program).
However, The Aristocrats goes though. Turns out it's unrated, as in not R. So he forks over his $20 and we walk out of Walmart with it in all its obscene glory, but not things that were up for dozens of Academy Awards, and (typing this as I'm watching the Aristocrats) are far more "family friendly".
BTW, go watch the Aristocrats. If you don't mind filth, its funny as hell. If you do mind filth, go watch it anyways. You anal-retentive types need to loosen up. Life is a sick, disgusting, perverted world, but it's a hell of a journey.
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