August 12, 2008
Green! [Dick's][1] going green. [Jane's][2] going green. [Big sis][3] is going green. [Lots][4] of [people][5] have gone [green][6] all over everybody's asses right on [this][7] website. I know I've gone green [once][8] or [twice][9] or [thrice][10]. [Green][11], [green][12], [green][13], [green][14], [green][15]. [Green][16].People of the internet! (Bugle call : echo : bugle : echo ... silence : rumbling : hordes.) New rule: a moratorium on the word "green," unless it's used as follows: My favorite color is green. Green beans are green. I am traveling with my friend Ned to Green Bay, Wisconsin, to watch the Green Bay Packers partake in a football match this Sunday.![][17] The actual act in question isn't forbidden, for now...so there must be a terminological replacement. How 'bout...brown? Also evocative of nature. Alright, we shall use brown from now on, and when the day inevitably arrives that its ample reserves have been tapped out, technology certainly will have caught up and the next resource will be ready to take its place.In related news, know what would be a good website? Pics of famous bearded people before they had beards. Like [this][18] and [this][19]. In other related news, Always Sunny in Philadelphia-great television program, or the greatest television program? [1]: http://www.time.com/time/goinggreen [2]: http://www.thedailygreen.com/ [3]: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/green/ [4]: http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/standing_perfectly_still/2008/aug/09/weekgreenlinks/ [5]: http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/life_cycle/2008/aug/07/ewaste/ [6]: http://www.lawrence.com/blogs/fresh_green_beans/2008/jul/14/g8/ [7]: http://www.lawrence.com/news/2008/may/26/greensburg_returns/ [8]: http://www.lawrence.com/news/2007/apr/30/sustainabilitytownhall/ [9]: http://www.lawrence.com/news/2008/apr/07/greentown_realized/ [10]: http://www.lawrence.com/news/2008/may/19/fairway/ [11]: http://www.theonion.com/content/index/4427 [12]: http://www.thinkgreen.com/ [13]: http://www.regeneration.org/ [14]: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17950339/ [15]: http://www.thegreenguide.com/ [16]: http://www.treehugger.com/ [17]: http://media.lawrence.com/img/blogs/roguescarlet/green3.jpg [18]: http://www.worldwardiary.com/history/Image:Young_jerry_garcia_.jpg [19]: http://www.amazon.com/Country-Willie-His-Own-Songs/dp/B00002061G
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chewyfally (Falestine Afani Ruzik) says...
I vote for great! Roseanne takes the top spot in my heart.
August 12, 2008 at 4:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
OnShakedown (Chris Tackett) says...
regarding moving past the word "green", have you read "The Birth of Blue"? http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008... i think green is in the lexicon to stay. no diggity.
August 12, 2008 at 4:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
frankt (Frank Tankard) says...
Yo, green, think you're mean?Stick your ass in the washing machine,see if you don't come out sage,have to beg to get back your sheen.Baby there's a new clown in this town,your once high thrown has tumbled down.So say your prayers, flea with your wind,gonna send you deep, deep in that dirty ground.Yo, green,think you're mean?Boom boom, I'm goin' brown.
August 12, 2008 at 5:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
frankt (Frank Tankard) says...
flee. or flea.
August 12, 2008 at 5:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Joel (Joel Mathis) says...
Great or greatest? I'll go for "utterly horrifying."
August 12, 2008 at 5:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
DOTDOT (anonymous) says...
My SUV is green.
August 12, 2008 at 9:52 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
lazz (anonymous) says...
Mike Rowe had an excellent episode of "Dirty Jobs" about all the brown required for things to be green ... as I recall there was more than one fertilizer-related activity ... http://www.tv.com/dirty-jobs/brown-be...
August 13, 2008 at 1:04 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
OtherJoel (anonymous) says...
Lucy: Daughter of the Devil, then the Wire, then Always Sunny.
August 17, 2008 at 9:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
El_Borak (Bill Hoyt) says...
I'm happy to report that the word "green" does not appear anywhere in this article on NBC's Olympics Coverage:The set is outside, but air conditioning vents make the weather bearable."The first couple of nights even with the air conditioning it was steamy in here, but we've been lucky ever since," said Matt Lauer. "It's been overcast some days, takes the temperature down. We call it fog smog."http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=8840649&nav=9TaiThat's right, the same network that once turned the lights down during Sunday Night Football to illustrate the gravity of "Green is Universal" Week is now running the air conditioning outside.If that doesn't put an end to Green, nothing will.
August 18, 2008 at 3:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
stinkinggoats (anonymous) says...
"It's not easy being green." - Kermit Frog
August 19, 2008 at 12:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )