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Several people have now written in to suggest that the reason Rick Reilly clumsily metaphor-ized "bad spending habits" with "the Taco Bell Chihuahua" is because of a massive Chihuahua-related conspiracy that reaches the upper levels of Disney HQ.
The theory goes: Disney has forced all of its employees to start casually mentioning Chihuahuas in their everyday conversations and scribblings, in order to try to fool people into believing that Chihuahuas are still a big deal, because of the other-worldly blunder they made (while clearly coked to the gills) in green-lighting this:
If this Disney movie is truly somehow influencing ESPN's most famous scribes to drop Chihuahuas into their articles, I have to tip my cap.
Also, I am going to see this movie five times in the theaters.
It's not just NBA players who have the fiscal sense of the Taco Bell Chihuahua.
Some questions.
1. Why the Taco Bell Chihuahua? Did the Taco Bell Chihuahua famously live large? Did he make it rain in Chihuahua nightclubs? Are beagles famously more thrifty, or something?
2. The Taco Bell Chihuahua hasn't even been used in Taco Bell commercials since the year 2000. Why drag him out of reference retirement now...in the context of people who spend a lot of money?
3. How much are they paying Reilly, again?
4. Does the very mention of "Taco Bell" warrant the coveted "Food Metaphors" label?
I mean, seriously. If you can make a humorous analogy out of anything, no matter whether it is relevant to the discussion or not, then the English language is fucked.
My car runs about as well as the movie "Aladdin."
The government is as competent as a TiVo Series 2 DVR.
Robert DeNiro has the cooking skills of Margaret Thatcher.
I mean, if he's going to break out a dog from an advertisement that hasn't been viewed in almost a decade, he might as well have gone with Spuds MacKenzie. Now that's a fictional dog in a commercial that I bet lacked fiscal discipline.
