# Today, my water. Tomorrow, the world! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461 "2005-06-01T23:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/41 "2005-06-03T18:10:05Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > Sounds like the UV shield from _Highlander 2_. You must be mistaken. They stopped making Highlander movies after the first one. Luckily they didn’t end up ruining the concept with more cashing-in on the brand. As a matter of fact, this show of restrain is what served as prescedent for keeping The Matrix to only one film. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/42 "2005-06-03T18:13:20Z")
I burning your sequels! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/43 "2005-06-03T18:19:09Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > Oh, go jump in a lake, the lot of you. These jokes are all washed up. But if I do that, don’t I have to hold my breath? 'Cause you know what _that_ means… ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/44 "2005-06-03T18:27:59Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > If you have to horde air then the terrorists have won. If I horde the terrorists air, does that mean I win? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/45 "2005-06-03T18:28:58Z")
Now I challenge all of you to take this spiffy new catchphrase and use it in every thread possible. Go on. I dare you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/46 "2005-06-03T19:00:16Z")
Southwest should change their name to Horde Air. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/47 "2005-06-03T19:02:55Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > **Revtim** _really_ thinks you should hoard air. > > –Cliffy I think you should whore air. It lets itself be breathed by _anyone_. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/48 "2005-06-03T19:09:26Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Now I challenge all of you to take this spiffy new catchphrase and use it in every thread possible. …And Dopers everywhere lament the birth of a new overused joke. That’s a 1920’s-style Opalescent burning Challenger joke. With pie. And air-whores. And blackjack. And hookers. On second thought, forget the joke. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/49 "2005-06-03T19:24:10Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > That’s a 1920’s-style Opalescent burning Challenger joke. With pie. And air-whores. And blackjack. And hookers. > > On second thought, forget the joke. No, no…we can work with that. Let’s see… So, Opal walked into the Burning Challenger Bar the other day, carrying a 1920’s-style Death Ray under one arm and a pie under the other… Yeah, it just doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/50 "2005-06-03T19:35:40Z")
Shutting off the water got to be a regular occurence at my ex-apartment one summer. Sure, they would shut it off after 9 a.m. and have it back on again by late afternoon, but it was still a PITA, especially since I was usually at home during the time. I did hoard drinking water in my refrigerator. (Not sure where I would have hoarded air, should it have become necessary.) I assume they finally fixed whatever the problem was…or gave up. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/51 "2005-06-03T19:36:59Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > I did hoard drinking water in my refrigerator. (Not sure where I would have hoarded air, should it have become necessary.) I think the fridge is a good place to hoard air. And light. ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/52 "2005-06-03T19:44:16Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > So, Opal walked into the Burning Challenger Bar the other day, carrying a 1920’s-style Death Ray under one arm and a pie under the other… You forget that she went there in 1960. For 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/53 "2005-06-03T20:01:50Z")
> [@elfbabe](#): > > You forget that she went there in 1960. For 20 minutes. :smack: You gave away the punch line. Spoilers, woman, spoilers! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/54 "2005-06-03T20:02:20Z")
Consider this: If I owned a facility where milk was pasteurized, homogenized, and packaged, and all of you dopers hoarded the air from that place, _You’d have hoarded my dairy-air!_ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/55 "2005-06-03T20:19:44Z")
But what if you only raised [Highland Cattle](http://home.swipnet.se/mooamp/wallpapers/hairy-cow.jpg)? Then we’d have hoarded your hairy-dairy-air. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/56 "2005-06-03T20:26:39Z")
If you had a bunch of Highland cattle, then you’d have hoarded a herd of hairy-dairy-air. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/57 "2005-06-03T20:55:50Z")
And at the SDMB Steak Barbecue afterwards, there would be a heated herd of hoarded hairy-dairy-air… ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/58 "2005-06-03T20:58:04Z")
All your air are belong to us. ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/59 "2005-06-03T21:05:40Z")
In the dorm I lived in two years ago, there would be no running water between midnight and 8 am most of the time and no hot water after that except maybe a drop or two at some time like 5 pm when you were just washing your hands. Not having hot water might not be that much of a problem in CA, but in Boston in March, god damn it, I’m not taking an ice cold shower. It sucks. Last year in the dorms we just had regularly scheduled power outage for hours at a time. So yes, let’s hoard air. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461/60 "2005-06-03T21:08:09Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I think the fridge is a good place to hoard air. And light. My fridge is very, very heavy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-my-water-tomorrow-the-world/306461.md?page=4)