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HarveyDarkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:04 PM
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Winter Weather Expected to Dominate Conversations of Boring People
Statements of the Obvious Pound the Northeast


NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – Tedious observations about the severe winter weather are expected to dominate the conversations of uninteresting people for the next 24 to 48 hours, boredom experts warned today.

With blizzard conditions blanketing the Northeast, a powerful front of mind-numbing weather-related banter is expected to pound the Eastern Seaboard from Sunday into Monday, with statements of the obvious stretching from the Carolinas to New England.

“Blizzards like this are when boring people really come alive, unfortunately,” said Dr. Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota’s Meteorology Institute. “I would advise everyone to stay inside and avoid all contact with dull individuals unless it’s an absolute emergency.”

Tracy Klugian, 57, a prominent bore from Cincinnati, Ohio, said that she planned to take a break from her scrapbooking hobby to post Facebook updates about the weather on an hourly basis.

http://www.borowitzreport.com/
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:06 PM
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1. Now this is what I would call snow.
Ya know what I mean?
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:07 PM
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2. It snowed here first
Edited on Sun Dec-26-10 09:09 PM by Bluzmann57
We Midwesterners are used to it and while we still gripe about it, we deal with it. And we can be boring too. Except when we aren't.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:07 PM
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3. The only thing more pathetic than people talking about the weather
is the people who look down their noses at the people talking about the weather.

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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:16 PM
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6. And the people who look down their noses at *them* are the absolute worst
then things start improving again... :D
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alex cross Donating Member (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:15 PM
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4. NJ Transit suspending bus service
NJ Transit suspending bus service systemwide because of the blizzard
Published: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 7:25 PM Updated: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 7:39 PM

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/12/nj_transit_suspending_bus_serv.html
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Raschel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:16 PM
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5. Some people are weather geeks, just like some are history geeks.
I don't see anything wrong with it.

It's human nature to have water-cooler talk and a big blizzard can be exciting (and dangerous).
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:20 PM
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7. Very humourous however I don't think talking about the weather is boring.
Often it's a great icebreaker and an opportunity for friendly banter. I can tell a lot about a person by how he or she responds to an innocous comment about the weather.
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:38 PM
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8. The hilarity of it all....
every winter people from the local TV stations are out on the street asking people about the weather...snow, cold, etc.

And every winter typical New Englanders express shock (SHOCK!!! I tell you!!!) over the cold and snow in New England.

OMG!!!!


New England!!! Snow! Ice! Freezing weather!!!

WHO KNEW?????


:freak:

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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-10 09:56 PM
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9. Weather on one weekend effects more people than DU will ever impact
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