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Sheryl Crow Clears the Air About Toilet Paper Comments
abc news ^ | 4/24/07 | staff

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3seashells; alliwannadodo; jabbathehutt; onesheetpersheet; onewipecrow; sherylcrow; stickyfingers
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

Sheryl Crow is leaving an interesting legacy.

There was a time when I thought of her only when I heard her pleasant voice. Now, I think of her every time I wipe!

Can it get any better?


81 posted on 04/24/2007 8:41:55 AM PDT by i_dont_chat (I have the right to offend. You can take offense or not.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

A joke.When the global warming hoax is exposed for what it is,the biggest political grab in history,these people are all going to come out and say they were joking.


82 posted on 04/24/2007 8:50:09 AM PDT by hschliemann
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

Toilet Paper substitute

83 posted on 04/24/2007 8:52:18 AM PDT by jetson (II)
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To: dead

OH MAN! That is bad! LMAO!


84 posted on 04/24/2007 9:00:33 AM PDT by Bommer (Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
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To: dead

LMAO!


85 posted on 04/24/2007 9:05:22 AM PDT by No Blue States
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To: RedCell

We can always go back to using corn cobs. If someone could come up with a way to make them washable and reusable, we will be set.


86 posted on 04/24/2007 9:08:43 AM PDT by usastandsunited
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

I saw this all over the local news in NYC and they way they announcers read this, Crow came off as a kook.


87 posted on 04/24/2007 10:02:10 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
"Skidmarks" Crow clears the air!

Never could stand her wretched grunge music either, hope she is laughed off the public stage........

88 posted on 04/24/2007 10:18:19 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Joke? My @$$. I read her blog. She was serious (as serious as an intellectual lightweight can get).
89 posted on 04/24/2007 10:35:31 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is like drinking water to offset rising ocean levels)
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To: Condor 63
"When people are already laughing at you - claim you were telling a joke all along."

Good plan. Someone should tell that to JF'nK. Oh, wait......

90 posted on 04/24/2007 10:37:09 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Planting trees to offset carbon emissions is like drinking water to offset rising ocean levels)
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To: potlatch; Rb ver. 2.0


  
     

91 posted on 04/24/2007 10:38:08 AM PDT by devolve ( GOOGLE_the_little_fury_with_the_fringe_on_top_)
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To: mewzilla

So her entire blog was a joke?
Sure sounded like it.


92 posted on 04/24/2007 10:38:10 AM PDT by Muzzle_em (A proud warrior of the Pajamahadeen)
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To: Ditto
And afterwords, I'd bet they all headed off in their Gulf Streams for some well deserved R&R in their 30 room mansions.

You mean in ONE of their 30-room mansions. I'd be willing to bet each of these people maintains at least 3 homes.

93 posted on 04/24/2007 10:47:16 AM PDT by TX Bluebonnet
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To: ken21

My sophomore year in college, I roomed off campus with two girls. Prior to that, I’d never lived with females, other than my mother growing up. I was STUNNED at the amount of toilet paper they used. It seemed like it’d be enough for any five people, easy. Took months to get used to.


94 posted on 04/24/2007 10:50:44 AM PDT by ravensandricks (Jesus rides beside me. He never buys any smokes.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

I wanna see Sheryl Crow try to clean peanut butter out of a shag carpet with one piece of toilet paper.


95 posted on 04/24/2007 11:25:09 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Hillary sings like Granny Clampett auditioning for "American Idol")
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"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.

People aren't talking about global warming because of this...they're just talking about how stupid and hypocritical liberals are.

96 posted on 04/24/2007 11:27:03 AM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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They just wrapped up a successful cross-country ecotour of 12 college campuses to raise awareness about global warming.

Another oxymoron from the morons.

97 posted on 04/24/2007 11:33:59 AM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (Ah don't feeeeel no ways taihrd.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

It’s a plot, I tell you! They get all the greenies following Sheryl’s plan, then they say, “Alright, sniff everybody and if they don’t smell like crap they go to the concentration camp.”


98 posted on 04/24/2007 11:34:04 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
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To: Thickman
Of course we have, ABC does a close-up everytime you start talking.

Post 27 and we've already got the best post in the thread!

99 posted on 04/24/2007 11:36:09 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
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To: mewzilla
Ramirez is the best, and that cartoon documents my first reaction, especially given the incident this weekend where she grabbed Karl Rove's arm because he said he was done talking to her and was tuurning away. He said "don't touch me" and she and David wrote a thing for Huffington Post where they said they couldn't imagine anyone being "hardened" enough to not want to be touched by Sheryl Crow.

I heard about this, and thought "If I were Karl, I'd be worried about Coliform bacteria...and whatever lifeforms were crawling around in Kid Rock's shorts recently."

100 posted on 04/24/2007 11:40:45 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (A pacifist sees no distinction between the arsonist and the fireman--Freeper ccmay)
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