Can save the world from toilet paper.
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“I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting,” she explained.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Well, this is a perfect examples of why celebrities should just STFU when it comes to anything other than their latest project.
One square? ONE SQUARE??!?
Excuse me, but I need a nice handful for “pesky occasions”. What about during her period? Ick!
I heard about this a couple of days ago and but I think about Sheryl Crow every time I wipe now. Is that what she wants?
Note to self: NEVER shake Sheryl Crow’s hand. :eek:
Gee, all I wanted to do was have some fun. I guess, after all, I’m the only one.
That’s why she likes guys who peel the labels from their bottles of Bud-- the labels can be reused as toilet paper!
Is it okay to use as much as I want if I just hover?
It’s a whoosh.
She says here (at the bottom) that it was a joke. Rather poorly written one, IMO.
This would be the only possible reason I can see for the moving of this thread to Cafe society
Maybe AL Gore will start up a company to sell TP Offset Credits.
The sad part is that a lot of people who know this was a joke will pretend she was being serious in order to show how crazy those “tree-huggers” are.
Well, she didn’t start calling it a “joke” until after everyone started making fun of her, did she?
I also thought it was the stupidest thing I’d ever heard, even after the announcement that it was a joke.
Then I went back and read the original piece.
In context, it’s obviously a joke, one among a whole series of jokes making fun of the extremes that people are suggesting we change our ways to.
Anybody who could read the original and still think she’s serious… Well, outside of the pit I can’t say what they are.
Reality has a well-known left-wing bias. So what does unreality have?
Sheryl Crow didn’t tell the audience she was joking. She didn’t tell her audience when she was singing either. She just assumed they’d figure it out because there was music playing and the words rhymed.
Read what Crow actually said. Right after saying people should save the environment by using one piece of toilet paper, the next thing she said was that her brother suggested going one better and washing the piece of toilet paper so it could be reused. Crow then went on to talk about designing clothes so you could blow your nose on disposable sleeves to save napkins and starting a green version of American Idol where the most environmentally conscious person wins a recording contract. Does that sound like somebody who was making serious proposals?
I certainly don’t want to be that green.
For your Straight Dope enjoyment, please pick one of the following dismissive and/or thought-provoking responses.
- Shouldn’t a joke be, y’know, funny?
- Sheryl Crow is still making music?
- Don Imus told a “joke” too.
- I can totally see her being serious about the reality show idea.
- It was on the Huffington Post? Then of course it’s a joke. Like the Huffington Post.
- BUT CLINTON HAD A BLOWJOB!
- Shruby McChimpyHitler is the suxxxor!!!1!
- Opal, you’ve been pwned.
Here’s how you wipe your ass with one sheet of toilet paper (not for the faint of heart):
1: Fold the square in half, then in half again in the opposite direction.
2: Tear off the the folded corner so that the unfolded square now has a hole in the middle. Be sure to save the torn-off corner.
3: Place a finger through the hole.
4: Use said finger to clean your ass.
5: Collapse the surrounding piece of toilet paper around your finger and pull out finger.
6: Discard toilet paper.
7: Use the torn-off corner to clean under your fingernail, then discard.
Um, I thought she first espoused this idea in a concert, prior to this blog entry mate.
You thought wrong. The blog entry is the source of the quote.