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I keep hearing commercials (or maybe they’re public service announcements) on radio station WFAN for the Jerry Lewis Labor-Day Telethon. It was all over the place when the Muscular Dystrophy Association split with Jerry who raised over a billion dollars for them since the telethon began. Have they made up? I know there was one report, later retracted, in the Las Vegas Review Journal that they had, but I’m still under the impression that Lewis is no longer in the picture, so why are they still using his name on the telethon?
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Is your power back on yet? I hope so. Luckily for us we never lost ours during Hurricane Irene.
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I understand that the entire power grid is outdoors (the part that is indoors belongs to the people who own the buildings) and that Hurricane Irene was as big as or bigger than Europe. What I don’t understand is hasn’t it been outdoors since electricity became commercially available? And weren’t there storms outdoors when electric companies started doing business too? I know putting the electric power lines underground is more expensive than putting them on poles, but in the name of reliability, shouldn’t they do that, at least in the places subject to big windstorms like hurricanes, nor’easters and blizzards?
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Rolls of toilet paper with no cardboard tubes in the middle are probably good for the environment as long they continue to unroll smoothly when you need them to. But how does the manufacturer know that doing away with the tubes saves enough cardboard in a year to fill the Empire State Building twice? And is that measurement taken with flattened or uncompressed cardboard tubes.
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By the way, do you know what those tubes are called? They are doot-doots. The name comes from the first little kid who pretended such a tube was a musical instrument, raised it to his lips to pretend to play it and said, “doot-doot, doot-doot, doot-doot.”
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Since they rhyme, why aren’t nude and glued spelled consistently?
