THE SHERYL CROW EFFECT
We would like to believe this person is joking.
(Thanks to Neil G)
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We would like to believe this person is joking.
(Thanks to Neil G)
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I have no idea where to begin with this. I am truly at a loss....
*speechless*
Posted by: DeskDiva | April 25, 2007 at 06:14 PM
wow. breathtaking stupidity... completely oblivious.
Posted by: mama_bel | April 25, 2007 at 06:15 PM
Dangit, steak - you beat my by a hair!
Posted by: DeskDiva | April 25, 2007 at 06:15 PM
Oh, my - they're not joking. That's my guess.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 06:15 PM
Gracious! What's terrifying is that this person probably votes.
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 06:16 PM
I hope someone writes back and tells her that the reason it's hot in the spring is because she lives in Hot Springs.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 06:16 PM
I hope someone writes back and tells her that the reason it's hot in the spring is because she lives in Hot Springs.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 06:16 PM
Maybe I'll write to her...twice, slowly, so she gets it.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 06:17 PM
Not to mention the misprinted headline... "Daylight exacerbates warning."
Posted by: DeskDiva | April 25, 2007 at 06:18 PM
CH - it's too hot to vote. Those durn Republicans ruin everything. (kidding!)
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 06:19 PM
The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!!
Blame Al Gore. Everyone else does! :-)
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 06:22 PM
She does seem to imbue Congress with much greater powers than we do. THANK GOD it's not true.
I blame Al Gore.
Posted by: DeskDiva | April 25, 2007 at 06:23 PM
Yeah, those Republicans and their amazing powers...
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 06:24 PM
I love the confident arrogance she has in her ignorance.
Actually, it scares the cr@p out of me.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 06:24 PM
Psychic blaming simul with Scott!
*goes in search of a cigarette*
*hopes it was good for him!*
Posted by: DeskDiva | April 25, 2007 at 06:25 PM
Actually, it IS a joke: http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/daylight.asp
Posted by: magoh | April 25, 2007 at 06:33 PM
Then again, it does almost look to be typed on a 3/4 square, merely saying.
Posted by: Gadly | April 25, 2007 at 06:35 PM
*puts on best sententious voice*
As we all know, the earth receives about 3000 kilocalories per square meter per day. That works out to 125 KCal per hour. Over the course of the 21 days of early Daylight savings time plus the extra 14 days that we will receive in November each meter of the Earth's surface will receive an extra 4375 KCal. This, in turn, taken with the fact that the average person has approximately 1 square meter of skin surface and that a person consuming an extra 3500 kilocalories will gain one pound means that everyone in the northern hemisphere will gain, on average, 1.25 pounds this year due only to the change in the Daylight Savings Time rules!
Can we, as an already obese country afford to ignore this?
Further, as everyone does extra exercise to work off this unwanted extra weight, they will not only put off extra heat but, in addition, extra carbon dioxide, the single most important gas implicated in global warming!!!
I blame al qaeda.
Or Australia.
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 06:40 PM
*puff* *puff* *hack, hack, cough* I don't smoke, diva, still.... :-)
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 06:42 PM
Bravo sir you almost had me!!!!!!!
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | April 25, 2007 at 06:42 PM
CH - Driving all these cars is ruining Mars, too? Yikes! The problem is worse that we thought!
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 06:43 PM
Clearly, the answer to global warming is a wave of mass suicides. Errr... you first.
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 06:44 PM
(Of course, I meant "you" as in "you, Mr. Gore.")
Posted by: Clean Hands | April 25, 2007 at 06:46 PM
Years ago when I was a reporter and columnist at a small TN paper (until Lewis Grizzard died and they started syndicating someone named Berry), I had a reader ask of one of my columns, "Was that satire or did you mean it?" Of course I said yes.
Posted by: Bill Hudgins | April 25, 2007 at 06:46 PM
Magoh's Link
Posted by: fudtheman | April 25, 2007 at 06:46 PM
Snopes says it's true, the letter was written and published. The writer wrote it as a joke but who knows whether the newspaper thought so.
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 06:56 PM
I thought it was a bit too well-written. I still laughed though, thinking about those newspaper readers in Arkansas. BOTH of them were probably scratching their heads over this.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 07:05 PM
What about violins on television? Shouldn't someone be writing a letter to complain about that?
Posted by: marfie | April 25, 2007 at 07:11 PM
Yeah, marfie, and sax!
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 07:15 PM
Hey, watch it, Annie! *g* Of course, living here wasn't my first choice, so you may have a point about the larger population.
Come to think of it, I poke fun at a lot of the silliness here in Arkansas myself, so never mind. ;)
Posted by: Tori Lennox | April 25, 2007 at 07:24 PM
Well the writer has a very important point, but what about the many other pressing issues, like Endangered Feces, Flea Erections in China, Making Puerto Rico a Steak, Presidential Erections, Pouring Money into Canker Research, the Eagle Rights Amendment, Busting School Children, Conserving our Natural Racehorses, Youth in Asia?
Huh? C'mon, speak up!
Posted by: Emily Litella | April 25, 2007 at 07:26 PM
(RIP Gilda)
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | April 25, 2007 at 07:27 PM
or having a Dick Cheney in the White House. Go git em, Emily!
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 07:31 PM
Scott - whatta you mean you don't smoke? Of COURSE you do, as hot as you ..... Oh. OH! Cigarettes. Oh. Well, me neither, actually. Can't stand the things.
Posted by: Deskdiva | April 25, 2007 at 07:31 PM
Heh. Actually "Connie" is a guy...and his letters are mainly satire. Reminds me of being transferred to Alberta as a very young Mountie. About a year after my arrival, the debate as to whether to bring daylight savings time to Alberta began. The farmers and ranchers were apoplectic, claiming that the time change would make their livestock confused and sick. As a former big city kid (who had been living with DST for years), I was astonished...and I never DID see a heifer in Alberta with a wristwatch...
Posted by: AFKAT | April 25, 2007 at 07:37 PM
AFKAT - of course cows can't tell time. Have you ever heard the saying, "Until the cows come home"? Have you ever waited for one? They take for heifer.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 07:43 PM
*snork*@ Emily. The author's an attorney and it was a joke, but the Snopes link might have addressed this and then I'm being redundant and I'll just go away now after I finish this run-on sentence....
Posted by: CJrun | April 25, 2007 at 07:49 PM
*steers clear of bovine puns*
Posted by: Gadfly | April 25, 2007 at 07:52 PM
AWbh: I hereby nominate that post for the 10 Best Puns of 2007. Also the 10 Worst Puns of 2007.
Posted by: | April 25, 2007 at 07:54 PM
Who dat? Show yourself, coward!
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 07:59 PM
Whoever you are, I preferred the one back here, where the dad is suing the library because his boys found a spicy book when they were supposedly looking for info about military academies -
"darn that Dewey Decimal. I said "West Point," not "Wet Points!"
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 08:04 PM
Annie - I also thought that was a stellar specimen. Brava again!
Posted by: Deskdiva | April 25, 2007 at 08:09 PM
Diva - Well, maybe I will swagger a bit, then. ;-)
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 08:14 PM
Not YOU, Scott. Sheesh. ;P
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 25, 2007 at 08:20 PM
Annie, Anonymous may be the better judge!
Posted by: CJrun | April 25, 2007 at 08:28 PM
Okay, Annie, how 'bout I stagger instead?
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 08:31 PM
This reminds me of the person in my Master's program who, when asked by an instructor what the potential future effects of telecommuting might be, she answered "Well, we'll have to build more roads."
This was the same person who insisted that North America and Canada were two seperate things.
Posted by: Schadeboy | April 25, 2007 at 08:32 PM
Schadeboy - Master of what, exactly?
Posted by: ScottMGS | April 25, 2007 at 08:34 PM
I love it! S/he really mastered her tone in this bit of satire.
Posted by: Boris | April 25, 2007 at 08:58 PM
Thank God snopes.com found this to be a hoax...People that stupid make my life as an atmo scientist very very very very hard! Sadly, there are those that are that bright...I blame it on their science teachers (Just kidding! I was one for a while!). Back to ocean forecasting for me (from Oklahoma, where Ocean front property is cheap!)
Posted by: wxgurl | April 25, 2007 at 09:12 PM
That article was probably one of the stupidest things ever written. I blame global warming.
Posted by: Wavey | April 25, 2007 at 09:22 PM
Well, Scott, I think you should swagger, then.
*sits back to enjoy the view*
Posted by: Deskdiva | April 25, 2007 at 09:33 PM
I reason that when you are limited to one square per sitting that the first thing to go is the mind.
Posted by: From another world | April 25, 2007 at 09:45 PM
Well, I live about 1 hour from LR, and it has been cold as hell here. I don't know where this nut is from, unless they are joking.
Posted by: Jazzzz | April 25, 2007 at 10:35 PM
Jazzz - he's joking.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 26, 2007 at 01:02 AM
"Dewey Decimal" WBAGNFA gay male pornstar.
Posted by: Stevie W | April 26, 2007 at 01:33 AM
Maybe this twit could buy some "carbon indulgences," I mean credits, from the scam artist, I mean His Holiness, Pope Al Gore, so his Church of the Carbon Footprint can plant a "tree" somewhere with her money so she can go to Green Heaven. BWHAHAHAHAH!
Posted by: Mikey | April 26, 2007 at 05:44 AM
Durn. I usually Snopes things before passing them on. I hate to cast a bad light on the blog, especially if there's an extra hour of it.
Posted by: Neil G | April 26, 2007 at 11:07 AM