Sheryl Crow’s solution to deforestation: Wipe with one square of TP
posted at 5:16 pm on April 20, 2007 by Allahpundit
Green earth = brown hand!
Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. One of my favorites is in the area of forest conservation which we heavily rely on for oxygen. I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. When presenting this idea to my younger brother, who’s judgment I trust implicitly, he proposed taking it one step further. I believe his quote was, “how bout just washing the one square out.”
Hey, it’s “think globally, act locally,” not “think globally, act locally except for your pooper.”
Exit question one: Just how, um, tidy are Sheryl Crow’s evacuations that one thin square of toilet paper is enough to do the trick? You think the Goracle gets by with one? Exit question two: Does Barbara Boxer have a “spiritual … obligation” to follow Crow’s advice?










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The Arabs do that with their left hand. We should just fall under Sharia Law to help the enviroment. Cave dwellers don’t pollute!
Egfrow on April 20, 2007 at 5:19 PM
And…. Use both sides. How many carbon credits to offset each additional square?
Bobber on April 20, 2007 at 5:21 PM
*BARF*
Bad Candy on April 20, 2007 at 5:21 PM
Apropos of nothing, this somehow reminds me of Dame Edna’s quip to Joan Rivers that she went to use the bathroom in Rivers’ house, but the toilet paper dispenser wouldn’t take her credit card.
SWLiP on April 20, 2007 at 5:24 PM
“Cause I got one hand in my pocket…”
Matticus Finch on April 20, 2007 at 5:24 PM
Here is the latest single sheet TP dispenser with Ipod full of latest Sheryl Crow tracks.
Egfrow on April 20, 2007 at 5:24 PM
“All I wanna do, is wipe my bum…”
Matticus Finch on April 20, 2007 at 5:26 PM
No wonder Lance Armstrong dumped her … pardon the pun.
thirteen28 on April 20, 2007 at 5:27 PM
If Sheryl will make them 10ply squares then I will probably listen to her silly caws. Wasn’t there a Seinfield episode about TP squares?
allie on April 20, 2007 at 5:27 PM
On that one, I’m heading out for Happy Hour!
there it is on April 20, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Even Penn and Teller know that the trees for this sort of thing are farmed and grown like any other plant that we use. Sor tof like that corn that they want to confiscate to make the useless ethanol.
I am so done with these people.
bbz123 on April 20, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Then what – hang it out to dry on a clothesline?
John from WuzzaDem on April 20, 2007 at 5:34 PM
Open the borders, because enforcement of this “square” rule is not a job an American should do.
sunny on April 20, 2007 at 5:34 PM
What a sh!tty idea…
unamused on April 20, 2007 at 5:34 PM
I wonder how much environmentally friendly detergent it will take to clean her underwear?
jjjen on April 20, 2007 at 5:35 PM
I thought everyone just used one square already.
Limerick on April 20, 2007 at 5:35 PM
Gives a whole new meaning to the term “Do-rag”
Nethicus on April 20, 2007 at 5:36 PM
Warning !!! This was for Marines in the field.
Why so much? The Marines taught us we could get at least 10 wipes with one square. You tear off a small corner of the square, keeping the rest of the square for another time. Use you finger to clean, then wipe finger.
Wade on April 20, 2007 at 5:36 PM
So tiresome. So very, very tiresome.
spmat on April 20, 2007 at 5:37 PM
I just use a fresh copy of the New York Times. I recycle.
Egfrow on April 20, 2007 at 5:37 PM
But what if you’re right handed. Or don’t even have a hand.
Is this the origin of the middle finger byrd?
Kini on April 20, 2007 at 5:37 PM
I can’t spare a square. I don’t have a square to spare.
lorien1973 on April 20, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Because of course, trees don’t grow back. Evah. No one plants trees. Sheryl Crow thinks she’s the Lorax.
BelchSpeak on April 20, 2007 at 5:39 PM
So, instead of smelling like ass, we can smell like sheryl crow now? Sweet.
lorien1973 on April 20, 2007 at 5:39 PM
skid marks, guess who has them?
Ropera on April 20, 2007 at 5:40 PM
I was thinking that as soon as I read it. lol…
sunny on April 20, 2007 at 5:40 PM
I just wipe with baby seal fur. It gets the job done, with just one baby seal needed each time.
brak on April 20, 2007 at 5:41 PM
Um, yeah. She’s just being humble; it actually took her two years to come up with the “one square of TP” idea.
Stop right there. Don Henley’s old backup singer proposes what, exactly? A limitation be put? By whom? Congress? Under what penalty? Is there a fine? Imprisonment? Rationing?
Please please please please please shut up now.
saint kansas on April 20, 2007 at 5:42 PM
We all just need to invest in flaming bidets. Won’t need any squares then.
Does that make me smarter than Sheryl Crow?
jdpaz on April 20, 2007 at 5:48 PM
She must have some funky guitar strings.
Brrr….
No, you can keep the pick, Sheryl.
profitsbeard on April 20, 2007 at 5:51 PM
I can go even greener than her.
Use both sides.
shaken on April 20, 2007 at 5:51 PM
Wade on April 20, 2007 at 5:52 PM
Does that make me smarter than Sheryl Crow?
jdpaz on April 20, 2007 at 5:48 PM
Yes! But anyone sitting on a toilet with wiring I question.
sunny on April 20, 2007 at 5:52 PM
Is Scott Ott in the room?
Bob's Kid on April 20, 2007 at 5:52 PM
I’m waiting for the “Euthanasia is Patriotic” theme to start. Really, the best way to reduce humanity’s impact is to reduce the number of people on the planet.
Think of the amounts of carbon will be saved by a person who is no longer living. All the garbage they won’t create, all the fossil fuel they won’t burn!
Who wants to go first?
Neo on April 20, 2007 at 5:52 PM
I really like the serendipitous location of this article: right below the still frame of Al Sharpton shaking hands with Silky Pony John Edwards.
If I may be semi-serious for a moment, isn’t this the kind of genius idea that banning DDT turned out to be? Why stop with malaria when you can spawn an e-coli outbreak as well?
saint kansas on April 20, 2007 at 5:53 PM
I question the wiping.
James on April 20, 2007 at 5:55 PM
1.Eat used coffee filters.
2.Crap teabags.
shuzilla on April 20, 2007 at 5:58 PM
Just great, now this will put Mr. Wipple out of business… More lumberjacks and paper industry jobs lost, and more smelly ass people. As stated before…shitty idea!
soulsirkus on April 20, 2007 at 5:59 PM
ONE QUESTION
WHEN ALL THESE MORONIC HOLLYWOOD TYPES WHO MAKE THESE ASININE DECISIONS ON WHAT WE SHOULD ALL DO, DO YOU THINK THEY EVEN CONSIDER, FOR ONE SECOND, FOLLOWING ANY OF THESE ‘SUGGESTIONS’?
Defector01 on April 20, 2007 at 6:12 PM
Good questions from Saint Kansas. But I’ve got one more: How will they monitor your usage? Hidden cameras? I can just imagine the bureaucracy that would be in charge of monitoring and punishing. Not to mention all the leaked (pun intended) footage of celebrities like Crow clearing out the lower 48.
BTW, I only use one square even now. It’s 128″x128″ with no perforations. It folds neatly into a small backpack.
cmay on April 20, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Haha…the people on the thread don’t know about the 3 seashells…ROFL.
tickleddragon on April 20, 2007 at 6:19 PM
First I can’t eat meat, and now I can’t clean myself up after eating all these vegetables…
Jim Treacher on April 20, 2007 at 6:23 PM
This is the sickest thing I’ve ever heard. Hollywood types not only think their shinola doesn’t stink, they think it hardly needs cleaning.
Dean Barnett on April 20, 2007 at 6:31 PM
This is a great idea – for democrats. Practiced widely, it could put Obama, Cankles and the whole glad-handing lot out for the count with cholera by 08.
warriorlawyer on April 20, 2007 at 6:34 PM
Ya know, that’s still one more than our illegal aliens are using in malls and alleys around the country…
youtube’s full of the
undocumentedun-t.p.’d poop leaving illegals pooping on video.shooter on April 20, 2007 at 6:47 PM
Oh yes I can see how the entire Amazon basin will be overgrown with a 150 ft.canopy of trees. All the by product of this ingenious idea. Right!! Hey Sheryl stick to your crappy song writting. Better yet write a song about it. Here I’ll help you get started with some lyrics. Here I sit broken hearted tried to sheite but only farted!
sonnyspats1 on April 20, 2007 at 6:47 PM
I could have done without that mental image.
infidel4life on April 20, 2007 at 6:48 PM
Ya know, that’s still one more than our illegal aliens are using in malls and alleys around the country…
youtube’s full of the undocumented un-t.p.’d poop leaving illegals pooping on video.
shooter on April 20, 2007 at 6:47 PM
Don’t forget the cali spinach farms!
sonnyspats1 on April 20, 2007 at 6:50 PM
This figures. Crow and her ilk are so full of it, it won’t come out from the bottom end, thereby needing something to take care of business; it comes out of their top end, resulting in the crazy crap we get to hear about.
kevcad on April 20, 2007 at 7:04 PM
This reminds me of a joke we had in boy scouts.
One sheet does work *IF* you:
Poke your middle or index finger through the center.
Your finger becomes the ‘business’ end of things.
When you are done, use the sheet (so far unused) to wipe of the one finger.
OMG
dc84123 on April 20, 2007 at 7:05 PM
Jeez. She’s beautiful and sings like an angel, but what an airhead…
WasatchMan on April 20, 2007 at 7:06 PM
One square, ten squares, whatever. Bigger question is: Sitting or standing.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on April 20, 2007 at 7:13 PM
Note to self: avoid shaking hands with moonbats from now on.
Purple Avenger on April 20, 2007 at 7:19 PM
I’ve got it, TP made from hemp!
pencilnub on April 20, 2007 at 7:21 PM
Would somebody please inform this ding ding that due to commercial demand for things like toilet and news paper that reforestation has brought us to the point of more forested acres now than in 1922.
Speakup on April 20, 2007 at 7:23 PM
What a great picture choice for the main page… outstanding AP!
MT on April 20, 2007 at 7:24 PM
Heh, Maddox dealt with this a while ago…
Its Maddox, so Obvious language warning:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=trippin
Bad Candy on April 20, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Exit question…….Can Rosie only use one thin square of toilet paper?
vcferlita on April 20, 2007 at 7:35 PM
That’s brilliant Sheryl. Get help.
WisCon on April 20, 2007 at 7:47 PM
Awwwww… Damn you, Treacher!
Well played.
Bad Candy on April 20, 2007 at 8:04 PM
If it’s anything like the energy consumption in his home he must use 3,000 squares per bowel movement. No wonder he looks so bloated and unkempt.
cmay on April 20, 2007 at 8:04 PM
Hey, there is nothing wrong with using paper TP! It’s a renewable source for a hygenic device, and it decomposes right back into the minerals it grew up from. I wish they made the stuff a little stronger, though. I have to fold it cross wise to give it plywood-like strength and layers of absorbtion.
Too much information, eh? Well, as you reach old age, you’ll understand…
Woody
woodcdi on April 20, 2007 at 8:18 PM
This is the most phony “oinker” to walk down the runway in a very long time. It doesn’t take a long look at her to know just what she’s got in her head, which is thousands of rabbit pellets!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on April 20, 2007 at 8:21 PM
Reminds me of Basic Training when one of our Drill Sergeants was POd we were using too much toilet paper and felt the need to demonstrate the proper Army wiping process. LOL!
TheBigOldDog on April 20, 2007 at 8:28 PM
See, despite the very long and historic Marine tradition of the place I grew up, that’s why I joined the Army. In the Army, we got to use 2 fingers and a wrap. So much more civilized!
TheBigOldDog on April 20, 2007 at 8:33 PM
I am strong enough to be her man…I just don’t want to.
Buck Turgidson on April 20, 2007 at 8:37 PM
She’s coming to Allah’s backyard @ high noon tomorrow… and it’s FREE!
Terp Mole on April 20, 2007 at 8:59 PM
Free… FREE!… FREEEEEEEEE!
Terp Mole on April 20, 2007 at 9:01 PM
It’s more like a paper note which reads “Supposed to be my brain”, and dirty panties in addition…eeewwwww
Entelechy on April 20, 2007 at 9:15 PM
Not what I’d want on my tombstone, but you go girl!
Labamigo on April 20, 2007 at 9:33 PM
Bad Candy:
For those who don’t yet know The Maddox, a few quotes:
Awesome.
Merovign on April 20, 2007 at 9:38 PM
Now you’ve insulted bunnies everywhere.
infidel4life on April 20, 2007 at 9:42 PM
Last one to the Andy Gump has stinky fingers!
infidel4life on April 20, 2007 at 9:44 PM
Toilet paper is passe anyway. Use none! Find out who really loves you.
Kevin M on April 20, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Can’t wait for the next Oscars, all those thousand dollar dresses with the “skid marks”………. by the way, what does Sheryl do if she craps on her “LiveStrong” bracelet?
PinkyBigglesworth on April 20, 2007 at 10:26 PM
Can some one please explain to me why one’s fame and fortune is inversely proportional to their IQ?
pocomoco on April 20, 2007 at 10:30 PM
So we get our toilet paper from Brazil?
- The Cat
P.S. Tree farms produce more O2 then natural forests of the same acerage.
MirCat on April 20, 2007 at 11:21 PM
She used to be hot. Now she’s anorexic, sings bad, and smells worse.
Jaibones on April 20, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Actually, I think she is a sh!thead.
Rick on April 21, 2007 at 1:02 AM
I don’t know which thought is more repulsive – Goracle or Barbie Boxer?
Rick on April 21, 2007 at 1:16 AM
Or, think globally, act rectally as in – like an ass!
Leftards want to take away my gun, my SUV and now my TP? Them is fightin’ words and they can take my TP out of my dirty, brown hands!
Oh, the stupidity.
CliffHanger on April 21, 2007 at 1:30 AM
WHAT ABOUT MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO WIPE?
Sven on April 21, 2007 at 1:34 AM
Can’t we just wipe with your lyric sheets Sheryl?
Teddy on April 21, 2007 at 1:41 AM
Leftists will have quite a time with this since they don’t bathe. They won’t know what is “new poo” and “old poo”.
They should just use a citrus peeler to remove the excess and melt it in their patchoulli burner.
Black Adam on April 21, 2007 at 4:31 AM
Eh, she’s being funny. I’m surprised and impressed that she can make fun of herself.
Because no one ever invented cloth napkins? Head cold? Funny, see?
Tanya on April 21, 2007 at 8:05 AM
Anyone want to shake this woman’s hand?
lynnv on April 21, 2007 at 8:14 AM
Sheryl only needs one square because the only things that come out of her pristine turd-cutter are Hershey’s Kisses.
mountainmanbob on April 21, 2007 at 8:23 AM
Question #1 What implement does Sheryl propose to use to solve the dilemma that is menstruation? After all, don’t tampons and pads use precious natural resources?
Question #2 Is there a device (carbon neutral, of course) that can prevent or reduce the butt-nuggets of wisdom spewing forth from these sanctimonious morons?
mountainmanbob on April 21, 2007 at 8:53 AM
Watch out for the poop police!
KelliD on April 21, 2007 at 10:16 AM
The Cat asked:
Actually yes, at least partly. Eucalyptus pulp grown in South America is used to make kleenex and toilet paper.
Ransom on April 21, 2007 at 1:04 PM
One can only hope she personally implements her one square idea soon and uses the savings to stop up her diarrhea of the mouth.
After reading that Crow’s in the “earliest stages of development” in thinking about her idea and that she considers it’s “worth investigating”, I’d thought she had a case of constipation of the brain, too, but seeing that her brother’s response went in one ear and out the other, I flushed that possibility. There is nothing in there to process either ideas or mocking comments from siblings.
Dusty on April 21, 2007 at 1:52 PM
Hello? Funny? We can’t all be as humorless as they say we are. Anyone?
Tanya on April 21, 2007 at 2:05 PM
Yes
Actually, I’ve been using the same square of TP to wipe my a$$ AND blow my nose for the last 6 months.
whut’s the big deal?
franksalterego on April 22, 2007 at 3:03 PM
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