Proving Its Possible to Spin Anything....

According to an Associated Press report, a couple of marketers have managed to turn a certain city's negatives into positives:

To hear a pair of Houston entrepreneurs tell it, flying cockroaches can be good. So can mosquitoes. And stifling humidity, oppressive prolonged heat and frequent floods.

In a new coffee table book celebrating these aspects of Houston's "charm," these entrepreneurs explain as follows:

If Houston were a dog, she'd be a mutt with three legs, one bad eye, fleas the size of corn nuts, and buck teeth. Despite all that, she'd be the best dog you'd ever know.

I think I will stay in Dallas