Tyler H. asks: “If I hear one more person in the dorm scream, ‘Pants on the ground, pants on the ground’ I’m going to spew on the carpet. WTF is with this chant?”

Ask Red says: It’s just another scourge inflicted upon us by the same show that brought us Bo Bice, Kelly Clarksomething and the “She Bang” guy – “American Idol.”

During “Idol” auditions in Atlanta last fall 63-year-old “General” Larry Platt performed his “Pants on the Ground” rap song which ridiculed boys from the ‘hood who wore their pants below the Mason-Dixon Line.

The General didn’t advance in the competition but his song went so viral that cracker Brett Favre shouted it in the locker room on national TV after the team advanced in last month’s NFC playoffs. Platt might be a rip-off artist, however. The Green Brothers recorded a song in 1996 titled “Back Pockets on the Floor” of the same ilk.

Pants on the ground took on new meaning this week when a man flying cross-country from San Francisco dropped his drawers and claimed it was from munching on too many medicinal whacky-weed-laced cookies.So there are two lessons to learn from this. One, you can rip a tube and join the chorus the next time the boys on the floor break out a POTG mantra or, two,  pull your pants up over your ears and try to sleep.