a bon mot on global warming

willoweyes · 04-21-2008, 05:43 AM

At the annual Master Gardener's plant sale (it being my first year to apprentice to that august group) the portly Headmaster himself eyed askance my aloes in their discarded milk cartons and scrounged styrofoam coffeecups.

"Why didn't you buy the standard plastic 4" pots sold at BIGlots, like I told you to and like everyone else did?" he demanded severely.

"I was "recycling", I said. "Why would I want to buy little plastic pots,which will probably end up in a landfill, or the Pacific Garbage Gyre, or perhaps worst of all, hauled to myriad locattions in a long process of being turn back into yet ANOTHER plastic pot, while these perfectly servable pots were destined for the same fate, and available absolutely free," I asked sweetly. "I'm not going to contribute to global warming that way."

:"Global warming is a crock of old-fashioned garden enricher," he shouted. "Why, just take this Spring for example--cool and wet. You callTHAT global warming?"

"Well, I guess inside your cave, the atmosphere is a stable 55 degrees," I grant him.

suebee · 04-23-2008, 09:35 PM

it is AMAZING how many people say similar things. i especially like the ones that tout record snowfalls for the arctic and/or antarctic and ignore record snow melts. wooly mammoth (is that the same as a mastadon?) tusks are being extruded by melting permafrost in siberia. selling like mad too.

04-21-2008, 05:43 AM	#1
willoweyes Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,537	a bon mot on global warming At the annual Master Gardener's plant sale (it being my first year to apprentice to that august group) the portly Headmaster himself eyed askance my aloes in their discarded milk cartons and scrounged styrofoam coffeecups. "Why didn't you buy the standard plastic 4" pots sold at BIGlots, like I told you to and like everyone else did?" he demanded severely. "I was "recycling", I said. "Why would I want to buy little plastic pots,which will probably end up in a landfill, or the Pacific Garbage Gyre, or perhaps worst of all, hauled to myriad locattions in a long process of being turn back into yet ANOTHER plastic pot, while these perfectly servable pots were destined for the same fate, and available absolutely free," I asked sweetly. "I'm not going to contribute to global warming that way." :"Global warming is a crock of old-fashioned garden enricher," he shouted. "Why, just take this Spring for example--cool and wet. You callTHAT global warming?" "Well, I guess inside your cave, the atmosphere is a stable 55 degrees," I grant him.

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04-23-2008, 09:35 PM	#2
suebee Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,361	it is AMAZING how many people say similar things. i especially like the ones that tout record snowfalls for the arctic and/or antarctic and ignore record snow melts. wooly mammoth (is that the same as a mastadon?) tusks are being extruded by melting permafrost in siberia. selling like mad too.