sense like uh putting what else we got going at it hammer and thongs uh like a bowl no yeah like a bowl in a china shop which again sort of makees sense um putting the cat before the horse uh so many examples uh like
of the original Moondog Lou harden a blind avanguard musician who in the 1940s came to New York where dressed in thong sandals and a blanket as one newspaper rather disparagingly put it he befriended the likes of Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman as he played the U utu and uni or his own instruments in
It's in my closet. "The Thong Song" by Sisqo.
And we were posted in Visakhapatnam. So the walk-a-thon was for 51 kilometers from Union Naval base to Coalinga. And 51 kilometers, it's quite a bit for me because I had never walked.
make head nor tails of. The devils and thongs and things like that probably weren't what Random House wanted to see in Walden Books ..
Till today as I'm here if I pick the phone and say to my mom, "Go to the U.S. Embassy, they will give you your visa, I need you in San Francisco" she drops everything and comes. female #5: Thongs. female #6: What?
Till today as I'm here if I pick the phone and say to my mom, "Go to the U.S. Embassy, they will give you your visa, I need you in San Francisco" she drops everything and comes. female #5: Thongs. Leymah Gbowee: Thongs.
and lives a long time. wearing a thong -- so there may be some benefits, I don't know.
They needed content written. So they held a write-a-thon . This is the wall on the co-working space, a couple of blocks from City Hall in Honolulu, where they wrote out all the questions that
make head nor tails of. the first time we reproduce the demon thong as it's never before been seen.
Wow. So it's not just an education piece, but there's also a summer internship program piece. And they have hack-a-thons . And it's a really great program.
Any cat can pick up a kitten and run for it. He had them in these little thongy things.
I'll tell you a quick story about that actually. The company that makes the Rally Thong. If you didn't know, Aubrey Huff with thirty games left to go in the season started wearing this red man's thong underwear. Apparently he and his wife were going through Macy's one day. She said, 'Why don't you get that for me and wear it one night?' And he said, 'Okay. I don't know why you want that but sure.' So
Itís incredibly promising, in fact, thereís this quote by William Gibson, he talks about the futureís here, itís just not evenly distributed yet. Gary Briggs: Sounds like we need a hack-a-thon at Kiva.
And so I said, Tamara, what's the hottest song out right now? She said, "The Thong Song." I said, oh my god, "The Thong Song" by Sisqo. And so I said, well, I've got to use "The Thong Song." So I changed the thong song to apply to doing latitude
make head nor tails of. Which nobody had noticed until recently the amazing thong on that demon.
Yeah, he's, he's, yeah. He's proud of his body. So hey good for him. But anyway so that was the story behind the Rally Thong. And the company that makes the thong found out about what Huff was doing and generating a little publicity. So unsolicited, they sent like three giant dress size boxes filled with thong underwear. And the day that they arrived, I think it was during the Division Series. It might have been during the NLCS.
But anyway so that was the story behind the Rally Thong. And the company that makes the thong found out about what Huff was doing and generating a little publicity. So unsolicited, they sent like three giant dress size boxes filled with thong underwear. And the day that they arrived, I think it was during the Division Series. It might have been during the NLCS. Huff was distributing them to everybody. He was like Santa Claus. He even threw one at Bruce Bochy. And Bochy said, 'I don't think that's a good idea.'
So we organize big events-- big dandias, 6,000, 7,000 people, big Bollywood events, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Shankar Ehsaan Loy. And we do walk-a-thon . We do Holi. And we do banquets all over the country.
with coworkers at work. All right, let's have like program-a-thons where you get kids to come in.
It's in my closet. Mhm. We couldn't get "The Thong Song" cleared.
Till today as I'm here if I pick the phone and say to my mom, "Go to the U.S. Embassy, they will give you your visa, I need you in San Francisco" she drops everything and comes. Another friend told me her 13-year old was asking her to buy her thongs.
roll through the whole year but also do back-flashes into some of these guys' background whether it be Juan Uribe or, or Madison Bumgarner or Pat Burrell or Aubrey Huff. I never thought that one of my biggest journalistic scoops would be writing about the Rally Thong first. But so be it.
So anyway, I'm talking to him about this and we had our, our Mean Joe Greene moment, the old Coke commercial where he throws the jersey to the kid. He threw me a thong and he says, 'There you go. There's one for you too.' So I have one in a drawer that will never, ever, ever be worn. But it was just such a group of characters and that's kind of what it took. It took them being a little rambunctious and not really
Just like people do the walkathon, the MS-a-thon , and so on, you could come there and you're coming is by itself supporting the effort
Itís incredibly promising, in fact, thereís this quote by William Gibson, he talks about the futureís here, itís just not evenly distributed yet. Premal Shah: Yeah, we should do a hack-a-thon , thatís for sure.
From then, we didn't really have a hack-a-thon , but we had a design-a-thon , and that was really to get the visual, the UI part of everyone's products on par.
they won and clinched the division on the last game of the regular season and they went exactly 20 and 10. So the Rally Thong did its job. But yeah, he would walk around pretty much with the Rally Thong on and nothing else, which, if you're in the clubhouse, you just have to try to avert your eyes basically. Yeah, he's, he's, yeah. He's proud of his body. So hey good for him.
And there they used to have all the opportunity of doing it. So I remember when I got married, after two days of marriage, there was a walk-a-thon . And we were posted in Visakhapatnam.
When you when you saw him put his knee on George Boyd's death, that waas a horror thon , a lynching. He just
She said, "The Thong Song." I said, oh my god, "The Thong Song" by Sisqo. And so I said, well, I've got to use "The Thong Song." So I changed the thong song to apply to doing latitude and longitude, plotting maps.
with coworkers at work. You bring kids in and out for your mathematical kids and have math quad olympics and things like that, programming-a-thons , where you can just
To give you all an image, the primary costuming for many of the male cast members is an ornate codpiece, a thong, and heels.
I imagined her in a floppy sun hat, long sun dress, catching on her knees, thong sandals on her pedicured feet.
So that was taken at a karaoke in-- I'm trying to remember where we were when we took this-- I think we were in Ang Thong, north of Bangkok,
in this angle, looking up at me, and I had on thong lingerie, see through, with stiletto heels.
Last year Lady Gaga showed up at it with fishnet stockings up to here and I don't even know, I saw her sit two rows in front of me in a thong with 4 inch spikes on the back of it.
Like the guy who follows our show some weeks, who his entire show, no joke, is just him grinning while putting dollar bills into ladies' thongs.
he decided to show up at the ballpark as they are still trailing the San Diego Padres and he said, 'Thirty games left and this thing's got twenty wins in it.' And wouldn't you know, they won and clinched the division on the last game of the regular season and they went exactly 20 and 10. So the Rally Thong did its job. But yeah, he would walk around pretty much with the Rally Thong on and nothing else, which, if you're in the clubhouse, you just have to try to avert your eyes basically.
you to do another video in the belly shirt you are wearing in the video. Can I guess what kind you are wearing, G-string or thong?" Amalyn: "Ha-ha, I won't be doing a video wearing
just that shirt." O'Neal: "No, I meant another video with you wearing that same shirt. Also, were you wearing G-string or thong?" So, from Amalyn, I learned again, there's this question