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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| "John Edwards is encouraging me to take a shorter shower." |
| 2008-05-27 |
| Prof. Ann Althouse "This is a generation that is watching the world come undone," says the Oberlin professor. The diligent students unplug the refrigerator. And they set a 3-minute time limits on showers: ... Becky Bob-Waksberg, racked up the morning's longest shower: Eight minutes. The house cuts Ms. Bob-Waksberg slack, Mr. Brown said, because of her thick, curly hair, which takes longer to shampoo. The world is coming undone, but Ms. Becky Bob-Waksberg must maintain her luxuriant locks. "Give me lots of hair (Hair!) Long, beautiful hair!" You know, if you really cared -- you unplugged the refrigerator! -- you would shave it down to a crewcut... for the greater good. There's a 3-minute timer in the bathroom, to impose the rule on everyone else. There's also "a picture of former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina plastered to the ceiling." That was Ms. Bob-Waksberg's idea. No one wants to linger in the shower with someone staring down from the ceiling, she said. Seems to me he has the most glossy, luxuriant hair. I think Ms. Bob-Waksberg is rubbing it in that you have to take a short shower and she doesn't. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 I've no problem with enthusiastic college kids practicing the arts of being penniless, though. It'll be useful information for the next stage of their lives. That will be a right handy skill after President Obama nationalizes the water system. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-05-27 22:42 |
| #5 Submarine shower goes like this: Exactly what my showers are like when the various daughters take longer than usual in the morning. Spoiled college kids. I'm sure Miss Becky Bob's hair does take longer to rinse the shampoo from, but if she really cared she'd cut it short and use one of those clever electric straightening irons to get rid of the soap-holding curls. ;-) I've no problem with enthusiastic college kids practicing the arts of being penniless, though. It'll be useful information for the next stage of their lives. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-05-27 12:00 |
| #4 Efforts to convince the public to limit their domestic water use make me angry. To start with, industry and agriculture use the vast majority of water, and often very wastefully. In most places with limited water, domestic use is as little as 1% of use. When you point this out, the water fascists will insist that it is *more* important to "raise public awareness" about water conservation, than to actually conserve water! Those bastards! Such people should be horsewhipped. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-05-27 11:52 |
| #3 I live at the lower end of the Mississippi River. My water may be filthy, but I have plenty of it. I can take as long a shower as I want and not run out of water. I won't get clean, but I won't run out of water. |
| Posted by: Menhadden Snogum6713 2008-05-27 10:44 |
| #2 Sheryl Crow's advice for all those wanting to live green or brown is to use one piece of toilet paper. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-05-27 10:26 |
| #1 There are shower heads available to allow submarine showers. They have quick acting button valves so you can turn the water off at the shower head and not the water valves. Submarine shower goes like this: water on wet quickly water off soap down everything (don't forget all those nooks and crannies) water on rinse off quickly main water off. If done judiciously, will only use 1 gallon of water. There's no need to run water continuously while shampooing. Wotta buncha civilian cryin' woosies! |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2008-05-27 09:14 |