Last night I succumbed to Kevin's new-ish addiction to Law & Order and brought my knitting over to the Trout's & Vicar's apartment to watch it with them. When it was over, we caught a few minutes of the local news. The top story being along the lines of "Boy, it's gonna get real cold... here... in Wisconsin." Ok, so they were right. It is kind of ridiculous that it was cold and snowing when I walked out of work today.
But far better was their second story (see the video from here - it's super). A hidden fire hazard that might be sitting in your living room at this very moment! Gasp! They cut to the in-studio reporter, standing, without a grin, next to a caption in big dramatic white letters, "Smoking Pot". Well, sure, we figured - smoking pot can indirectly lead to your home burning down.
The story was actually about a man who had brought a plastic flower pot to WI consumer protection, complaining that it had spontaneously combusted, nearly burning down his deck. Except that they found a cigarette butt in its remains. He had put it out into a pile of peat. Peat in a pot... which started to smoke. (A side note - in Ireland it was common to see my grandfather and other elderly Paddy's lay bricks of peat into the fireplace along with paper and coal. Because it burns, as expected. Also, he would try to convince his grandchildren that it was chocolate, and that we should try a bite.) The report concluded with a warning about proper use of potting soil. Then they flashed back to the reporter, standing next to his "Smoking Pot" caption. Those were the big stories from Madison last night. Kevin was nearly in tears.
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Man, you should see the local news up in Wausau. The weather girl gets so nervous in front of the camera that she totally loses her shit EVERY DAY and there are these long pauses while she tries to figure out the teleprompter. It's AMAZING.
Hehe - That, of course, would be me :)
We saw the same story! I love how that guy thought, "OMG! My potted plant spontaneously combusted! Crazy! Oh, wait, you mean it was that cigarette butt that I tossed in there?"
In the interest of never using 5 words (....the Trout's and Vicar's apartment...) when three would do
(...The fishy parsonage.....)thereby saving ink, paper, trees water and so on, ad infinitum.
That's about the best I can do for the world today.
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I'm not sure if they ever check in here or not.. but I'll run it by the Vicar tomorrow while she's cooking Thanksgiving dinner. I'm sure she'll be amused if nothing else :)
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