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EFFECT EXAMINED

Lee at Right Thinking examines the before Oscars and after Oscars movements of the Gore Effect (first described here, I think). Meanwhile, Bad Cat Robot emails:

It’s nearly March, the cherry trees have started blooming here in Seattle, and now this:


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Gore shouldn’t be buying carbon offsets. He should be sending heating certificates to everyone in his flight path. This is officially ridiculous.

Now let us pray:

I have been thy good servant
and done all, nay even more,
than Thou hast asked of me.
Surely I will be rewarded
with your blessings from on high
as you pass over
in your glorious Green Jet.

Via Michelle Malkin. See also this fine Gore wrap-up from Bill Hobbs.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/01/2007 at 10:17 AM
  1. The Gore Effect has hit the sub-tropics of Queensland, while it’s still summer.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 01 at 10:27 AM • permalink

  2. Let’s not discount the efforts of the League of the Worried!

    Posted by Habib on 2007 03 01 at 10:37 AM • permalink

  3. (Stumbles through door) Yes! Registration is still open! (Notes disapproving looks in room, dusts self down, salutes with wrong hand, pokes self in eye)

    Don Charleone, social secretary of the VRWC’s Scotland branch (membership - me, 3 sheep and a West Highland terrier named Colin), reporting for light scalawag work and possibly some minioning here at VWRC International HQ. Anyone here who knows anything about Scotland will appreciate that the local work’s a lost cause.

    Um, so, something on-topic… notwithstanding the genius of gerbil worming, Goebells’ warning etc., does anyone else think the phrase “gloomy warbling” pretty much captures the whole sorry zeitgeist?

    Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 01 at 11:18 AM • permalink

  4. VWRC = VRWC. Off to a fine start.

    Remember kids, perview is your frend!

    Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 01 at 11:20 AM • permalink

  5. Excellent start, Don Charleone, we don’t stand on ceremony here.  Pull up a chair.  The menu today is cold Gore soup, followed by selected cold cuts of Al, with Baked Algore for dessert (sorry).  Our speaker will be giving a talk on Carbon Offsets:  You Too Can Be Rich!

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 03 01 at 11:38 AM • permalink

  6. Someone should get on the stick and start selling carbon offset offsets. (Gore offsets?)

    In fact, I’ll volunteer: send me $50,000 and I’ll buy a classic V8 muscle car, fill it with premium gas, and do some burn-outs.

    Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2007 03 01 at 12:46 PM • permalink

  7. #3 he’s from the Scotland branch? Someone taught a sheep to type?

    Hey Wronwright!! We may finally have an alternate to that Sumerian mead you’ve been trying to unload. Me thinks that the Scottish branch needs to furnish its first initiation fee. Hint, it comes in bottles, is aged, and has character.

    Posted by Blue Hen on 2007 03 01 at 12:58 PM • permalink

  8. It kept snowing overnight.  I’ve got an update photo here, at the bottom of the post.

    Posted by bad cat robot on 2007 03 01 at 01:05 PM • permalink

  9. #7 it comes in bottles, is aged, and has character

    I’m on the case!

    Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 01 at 01:46 PM • permalink

  10. I think my place ended up with about 3 inches of the stuff, although fortunately this time it is melting off the roads fairly quickly.  Some places got as much as 6-8 inches, others got virtually none.

    Posted by Vexorg on 2007 03 01 at 03:15 PM • permalink

  11. #9. I can’t open that yet, since I’m at work, but that doesn’t appear to be named after a quaint unpronouncible Scottish loch, baile or croft. And I doubt that it’d be mistaken for aqua vitae. Am I mistaken?

    DOn’t get me wrong. it would still beat Sumerian mead by a mile ( at least what Wronwright pawns off on us).

    Posted by Blue Hen on 2007 03 01 at 03:30 PM • permalink

  12. Hello, Scotland. Welcome.

    Does anybody know when the new PACO Industries repellent “Gorebegone” will be available?

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 01 at 03:45 PM • permalink

  13. Don Charleone, social secretary of the VRWC’s Scotland branch

    Is the VRWC in the olive oil business?

    Posted by PeterTB on 2007 03 01 at 04:48 PM • permalink

  14. #12 Does anybody know when the new PACO Industries repellent “Gorebegone” will be available?

    Sometime in January 2009, when Rudy Giuliani is sworn in, I should think.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 03 01 at 04:56 PM • permalink

  15. On the bright side, that’s at least one day this year it didn’t rain in Seattle.

    Posted by brett_l on 2007 03 01 at 05:00 PM • permalink

  16. #11 - it’s certainly unpronounceable. They actually included it in their jingle for a while (probably NSFW, but it depends where you W).

    #13 - general import/export: olive oil, Irn Bru (actually pronounced aahhrrn bbhhrrew) ... Sumerian mead, not so much.

    Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 01 at 05:28 PM • permalink

  17. #2 Is that the League of Worried Voters, Habib?

    #12 & #14 There are temporary shortages of Gorebegone©, or to use the full, actual product name, Petulant Anal Celebrity Obliterator, due to the very high demand for PACO© after the huge midwestern and Southern Ontario snowstorms generated by Mr. Gore’s trip to Toronto, passing over “flyover” country rather than using Amtrak, and (sort of) winning the Oscar. In fact, many PACO© shipments are ready to go but are stuck in airports closed due to the horrible weather. PACO Industries regrets any inconvenience caused.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 03 01 at 08:04 PM • permalink

  18. #3 - Fooking hell! They’ve got the internet in Scotland now? What next, flushing toilets?

    Welcome aboard, but don’t be surprised if there are some unpleasant missions involving peat bogs and a man named Wron McWright.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 01 at 08:13 PM • permalink

  19. Well, the knee-deep snow I just waded through to get some more firewood is about to be capped off with somewhere between 10 and 15 more inches of “Gore dandruff” by this time tomorrow.

    Remember back on groundhog’s day when the joke was that Gloebbel Warming was upon us because Phil had predicted an early Spring?

    Posted by moptop on 2007 03 01 at 08:16 PM • permalink

  20. In Perth, as in Western Australia - not Scotland, the last two nights have been doona nights and its been raining intermittantly for the last two days - so much for Summer!!

    Posted by Razor on 2007 03 01 at 10:25 PM • permalink

  21. did i mention the gorebore effect reachedcanberra this week?  70 of the university’s 110 buildings were damaged.  rain was running down the walls.  hailstones the size of golf balls hit all kindsa stuff

    Posted by KK on 2007 03 01 at 10:29 PM • permalink

  22. I heard John Michael Howsen on 4BC radio this afternoon saying that Al Gore actually OWNS the company that he’s buying these carbon emission thingies from.  He also said that Jack Nicholson was the only person sitting while everyone else was giving Al Gore a standing ovation at the oscars.  I knew I liked Jack Nicholson.

    Posted by Flat High C on 2007 03 02 at 06:01 AM • permalink

  23. (wronwright wakes up with a slight headache caused by drinking a bit too much Sumerian mead.  He nods when thinking it was worth the pain.  Suddenly he’s assaulted by the sound of a bagpipe.)

    Aeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye.

    I don’t know who you are.  But if you’re a new registrant to the VRWC - Blair Unit, you will have to stand over there with Under the Somethingorother and the other newbies.

    And PUT DOWN THAT INFERNAL BAG PIPE!

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 03 02 at 06:26 AM • permalink

  24. Oh dear, sorry Wronwright.  I promise to hand in my bagpipes to local constabulary and only screech like a scalded cat in future.

    Yep, returning to the newbies corner as we speak.

    Posted by Flat High C on 2007 03 02 at 07:46 AM • permalink

  25. Ignore Wron, he’s like that every time a drop of nectar passes his lips. Unfortunately, his lack of appreciation for fine manly music is incorrigible.

    Cheers

    Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 03 02 at 11:41 AM • permalink

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