Seinfeld-ian rant.
I just realized something that's been bothering me for a while. Weathermen. And their graphs. I always wondered why they show those detailed maps, explaining the import of warm fronts, cold fronts, southeasterly winds etc... It sort of just lodged in the bag of my mind under the heading "curious", but recently I thought of it again. Who, besides other weathermen and nerdy geography geeks, actually gives a shit about the warm fronts, cold fronts, where they're coming from, and whether or not we're going to get a mild southwesterly wind tomorrow morning that'll taper off into a cool breeze around 2pm??
Who needs a detailed map with figures no one is even mildy interested in? All I need is two words "hot or cold". The weather could be satisfyingly explained in 20 seconds. The truth is the extra few minutes are just another way for the TV station to generate revenue (you'll notice the weather is always "Brought to you by" some company, usually one that is less than willing to pay for a 15 or 30 sec commercial spot). So in the future just tell me the temperature old man and pass it off to the sports guy. That's all.
posted by Levs at 1:29 AM
3 Comments:
It's the only job in the world where you can never be right and say stuff like, "probability" and "chances are" and your boss still tells you to come back to work tomorrow. If our math teacher asked, "What's 2 plus 2", we can't say, "almost 5". What the hell is a barometer anyway?! Like you said...who cares!
11:37 PM
hmmm...see Jackie Mason's "Hot or Cold" rant for the original script. I'm sure the parallels are coincidental.
9:14 AM
actually, Sytles you are wrong. This was straight from the heart. And I do realize every comedian takes a dig at the weather guy at least once, so there was bound to be some crossover. But as you said, such parallels are totally coincidental.
10:44 PM
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