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June 11, 2009 06:00 PM UTC

At Least They're Not Your County Commissioners

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  • by: Colorado Pols

A variation on our recurring “At Least He’s Not Your Legislator” series, from the AP:

In this friendly little ranching town, “hello” is wearing out its welcome. And Leonso Canales Jr. is happy as heck.

At his urging, the Kleberg County commissioners on Monday unanimously designated “heaven-o” as the county’s official greeting. The reason: “hello” contains the word “hell.”

“When you go to school and church, they tell you ‘hell’ is negative and ‘heaven’ is positive,'” said the 56-year-old Canales, who owns the Kingsville Flea Market. “I think it’s time that we set a new precedent, to tell our kids that we are positive adults.”

The new salutation, according to the county resolution, is a “symbol of peace, friendship and welcome” in this “age of anxiety.”

On Thursday, courthouse employees were answering the phones, “heaven-o.” And the chamber of commerce was working on a campaign promoting Kingsville, a Rio Grande Valley town of 25,000, as a “heavenly” place to visit.

“People seem to think that it might catch on,” said county Judge Pete De La Garza.

Don’t look now, but Doug Lamborn may have found a better crusade than swapping Mt. Democrat for Republican Mountain. Can we get a “heaven-yes?”

H/T: Pharyngula

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11 thoughts on “At Least They’re Not Your County Commissioners”

  1. A sad truth is that busybodies often have nothing better to do than run for office…and sometimes win. At least the AP had the decency to do a little etymology.

    David Sabrio, a professor of English at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, noted that the Oxford English Dictionary says “hello” stems from an old German greeting for hailing a boat.

      1. Our hat-tippee PZ Myers, or of the more respected science bloggers out there, will get a real kick out of this. We’ll leave it up for nostalgia value, 1997 was a pretty good year for us.

  5. “Do I know where hell is?

    Hell is in hello.

    Heaven is goodbye forever,

    It’s time for me to go.”

    — Lee Marvin, “Wandrin’ Star”

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