Posted on 04/24/2007 7:06:08 AM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
April 24, 2007 — It all started with a joke.
Wrapping up a nationwide global warming tour, singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow posted a quirky "solution" online about a new way to save the environment.
She wrote: "I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting."
She told the joke to get people's attention, and it worked. Talk show hosts had a field day with Crow's comments.
"Have you seen my [backside]?" Rosie O'Donnell joked on "The View."
"It seemed like Sheryl was trying to be a little bit cheeky, no pun intended," said Michelle Lee, executive editor of In Touch weekly.
Maybe Crow was inspired by her ecoactivist partner Laurie David. After all, David's husband, Larry David, of "Seinfeld" fame, wrote the famous episode where Elaine says to a neighbor in the next bathroom stall:
"Three squares? You can't spare three squares?"
"No, I don't have a square to spare. I can't spare a square," the woman responds.
Meeting Karl Rove
Crow wanted to clear the air about her comments.
"We're just so happy that people are talking about global warming, even if it's brought on by a joke," Crow told ABC News.
And for Crow and Laurie David, their message is everything.
They just wrapped up a successful cross-country ecotour of 12 college campuses to raise awareness about global warming.
The two started the trip in an environmentally friendly biodiesel bus at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and ended the tour on Earth Day at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
At George Washington, they joined musicians Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Carole King and environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who performed and spoke before a crowd of about 2,000 people.
Crow and David also talked with top White House adviser Karl Rove at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night.
"How excited were we to have our first opportunity ever to talk directly to the Bush administration about global warming," Crow and David wrote on the Huffington Post blog.
From what I’ve heard, Sheryl has fallen behind on her paperwork.
“Wrapping up a nationwide global warming tour, singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow posted a quirky “solution” online about a new way to save the environment. “
Actually, anyone thats ever listened to Ms Crow in an interview understands that intellectually, she’s about ten years old.
Her solution for dealing with terrorism is a great example:
“Don’t make enemies”...is her ‘big idea’ on that topic. Thats it, nothing else.
The fact the jihadists would execute her on General Principal has apparently never crossed her pea brain.
Not a joke, Rosie
My husband is the one that panic’s when we are down to 10 extra rolls. He also, insist that I buy the most expensive brand.
And afterwords, I'd bet they all headed off in their Gulf Streams for some well deserved R&R in their 30 room mansions.
John Kerry talk her comedy?
It didn’t work for Kerry, either.
Then I guess she was serious about the removable sleeves to wipe your mouth with since she didn’t try to explain that one away.
I don’t listen to her music and I certainly don’t give a hoot what she thinks on ANY issue!
“Have you seen my [backside]?” Rosie O’Donnell joked on “The View.”
TMI!!! Many will go blind just thinking about this image!
Another reason I don't buy Faith or Tim's music anymore--or go see their movies. Just Hollywood liberals wearing blue jeans. You aren't foolin' me, Tim 'n Faith.
And by the way: Sheryl Crow wasn't "joking". She wrote what she REALLY MEANT.
Unless, of course, she wants us to assume everything she says on her blog is a JOKE. I might be willing to believe that.
More libs and botched jokes.
Same here...I switched to something other than Charmin and my boys were not happy....
Doesn’t matter.
She has made a JOKE of her cause either way.
I wouldn’t want her making my meatballs.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
