Wow. That totally kicks the ass of the 1/2 inch-and-gone-by-morning we got in Tennessee. I sulk now.
Those are so much fun - the Wordsmith link is where I came up with mine: Heretic Spire, Damn Lie (for my full name). I liked it so well, I made it the subtitle for my webpage.
When I was a kid in Florida, my teachers used to go down to grocery stores every time there was a hurricane in the Gulf. There, they would stock up on brown paper bags and pass them out in the classroom.
Some stores would print up "weather maps" on the back of the bags; and every night on the news, the weatherperson would give you the coordinates of the hurricane's position. I could get extra credit in "Earth Science" if I charted the hurricane to landfall.
I could never decide if this was terrifically morbid, or an excellent way to make us feel like we had some sort of grasp/control/better understanding of the situation.
Alabama has an illustrious history of making ridiculous stands, but this year its voters are really outdoing themselves.
Did you know, for example, that on November 2 the state declined to remove the racial segregation clauses from its state constitution? Someone finally noticed it was still on the books, and set up a bill to remove it ... and the voters said, "No thanks -- we'll just hang on to that, for nostalgia's sake. Or something."
One of my readers, an embarrassed Alabama resident, sent me links to related government documentation here.
I think Dave Barry (http://weblog.herald.com/column/davebarry/) probably has the most fun with poetry.com. Every now and again he encourages his readers to contribute their works on preposterous topics, submitting them under terrible, unlikely pseudonyms.
By the time the poetry.com moderators catch up to him, there are typically hundreds of nonsensical entries on topics such as "how the dog ate mother's toes."
Ah, good times.
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