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.
Argh!! My EYES!!!
I remember that — plus in Germany, pages of the TV guide. But civilized London had proper loo paper, altho very, very thin, each sheet printed with the words "Property of H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth." I'm not *****ing you.
How long, exactly, does it take to "develop" an idea? She isn't giving birth here. This particular one bubbled up through her mind with the standard acceleration of a fart bubble through molasses and what we got when it finally reached the surface was the TP Police. Is this woman allowed to drive?
IMHO the PHD is an educated idiot.
You got that right! With four females in this house - I kick myself every day for not buying stock in Charmin.
Is there a botched joke ping list? just joking.
a bad joke about bad science.
Don’t shake hands with Sheryl Crow...
“to help her cover her arse”-—
Yeah, but with ONE square of toilet paper???!!!
Yup. This is just backpeddling. What a disgusting, er, witch.
"You haven't done the research I have done..."
You’d think these smarter than the rest of us crowd would learn to just sing or act but they insist on wrapping up careers by showing how totally ignorant they are. Penn-Robbins-Crowe-pretty boy from ER.....and they call the President a moron?????????????
That's the thing: People DIDN'T make the connection between global warming and TP, they just made a connection between her comments and the emptiness between her ears.
More”Barbra Streisand”?These screwballs are SERIOUS!!!El Rushbo offered(yesterday)to underwrite all expenses for Laurie David and Sheryl Crowe as long as they will keep talking to as many people as possible!!!
But then again, the idea that humans are causing global warming IS a joke. She done good.
Yesterday's high temp was 86 degrees, which set a new daily record. The old record was from 1908...
I wonder if this remark of hers will become “My Favorite Mistake”
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