Billie Frist wasn't kidding when he said he was going to work on his dullness or try to find a way to avoid putting people into deep sleep. Just look what Billie has gone and done!
Our homeboy is reportedly sending out secret sexy signals to the gay community! (Update: Here are the Gay Hanky Codes via Americablog. )
The wannabe sexy senate majority leader has Al Kamen, at the Washington Post, talking about a new kind of southern hospitiality. We knew it would happen.
Billie Frist has gone and smeared the South's good name, and mah mint julep will nevah taste the same!
But seriously, Billie Frist is throwing a party here in Nashville, and we hope you got an invite. The theme, according to Kamen, is blue jeans and cowboy belts and er, umh, the unbuckling of the belts in apparent shades of Brokeback fever. Guess that's why Billie has half the local hispanic community hard at work fortifying his posh Belle Meade home via the erection of a giant impenetrable shield. No party crashers allowed!
WaPo:
It was with some trepidation that we opened a most interesting card, which announced on a blue-jeaned cowboy’s belt buckle something called the “5th Annual VOLPAC ‘06 Weekend” in Nashville on April 21-23.
Problem was you had to unbuckle the cowboy’s pants and look inside to see what this was all about. Seemed a bit too “Brokeback Mountain.”
Imagine our relief to find only that we were “cordially invited” to the event honoring Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and “Mrs. Bill Frist, M.D.”
"Don't miss a celebration of southern hospitality," the invite says, "one-of-a-kind music and special friends . . ." though it's unclear who those friends are and what makes them special.
The back of the card shows the cowboy from behind with a red flowered handkerchief sticking out of his right pocket. Wait a minute — wasn’t there something about how this used to be some kind of code in the gay community years ago? A way to signal each other in crowded, noisy bars?
So we checked the GayCityUSA.com’s Hanky Codes. Sure enough, there it was in the chart explaining what they mean: red hanky in right pocket. Oh, dear.
Salacious Frist party invitation graphic seen at the Washington Post.
Hat tip to Wonkette
Update: Radical Russ over at Pam's House Blend has more on sexy gay hanky codes.
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