See Through and Mud-stained Jeans! and Murder

Someone wrote recently:  "I just saw the stupidest thing I've ever seen.  High heels with ripped up Jeans."  I did too, and the bearer was shopping at the Pennsylvania Amish Market.  I could see those neatly clothed Amish women making the sign to ward off the "evil eye" as she sashayed by their stands.

And now..... and now.... and now.... Nordstrom's  (you remember, the store that made El Presidente mad when they banned Ivanka's clothing line)  has ready for you to buy:

 Barracuda Straight Leg Mud-Stained Jeans.   (The mud will not wash out if you follow their washing instructions,)  On sale now for $425.

British Retailer TOPSHOT Clear Plastic Straight Leg Jeans.  (All is revealed!)  On sale now for a piddling $100.

What would FRED think about that?

Also..

On today's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!  someone quoted a person who suggested that the following phrase be added to the beginning of every piece of literature to make it more interesting.   The phrase is:

"And then the murders began!"  (I added another phrase:  "And let the murders begin!"

So... "It was a dark and dreary night and then the murders began!"

Or:  "Call me Ishmael, and let the murders begin."

Or: "Sun, stand thou strill upon Gibeon, and let the murders begin."

Or:  "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and then the murders began."

Or:  "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, and then the murders began."

You get the picture.