Spring Break
Yeas & Nays
Editorial Board
Issue date: 6/4/08 Section: Forum
Yea to Dead Week. We say this every term hoping that Dead Week is, in fact, dead... but it never is.
Nay to Dead Week for being an exaggeration. As Mark Twain once said, "Ha!"
Yea to fooling the entire Barometer readership. You know you thought we were going to use Twain's quote about the report of his demise being greatly exaggerated.
Nay to us thinking we are smart enough to outsmart our readers.
Yea to Obama for finally ending the 24-hour CNN coverage of the campaign trail. Now we can finally watch real news on CNN. I heard Lindsay Lohan had a boob job!
Nay to CNN for covering news that isn't news. Last week they had a 30-minute report on Jessica Simpson vs. Christina Aguilera. That isn't news, unless the headline is, "Jessica Simpson fights Christina Aguilera and both end up naked."
Yea to that.
Nay to the .04 inches of rain in our Barometer rain gauge at the end of May. Sure, we don't mid the dry weather, but where's the sun?
Yea to CNN coverage of the drought in Corvallis. We haven't gotten laid in like… a month. Yeah, a month. The reports of our sexual - um, we mean hydrologic dearth was greatly exaggerated.
Nay to having used the same line twice in the Yeas and Nays. Nick Lilja should be stoned.
Yea to deciding which kind of stoned he should be. After a survey of 100 of your peers, survey says: "With rocks!"
Nay to "Family Feud" now being hosted by Elaine's boss from "Seinfeld." Sorry, Mr. Peterman, but you just can't beat Al from "Home Improvement." At least you're better than Louie Anderson, thank god.
Yea to flannel. C'mon, girls, what's sexier than a man in flannel? Everything? Oh.
Nay to women who don't find flannel attractive. That's it we're moving to Fargo to hang out with Bobby's mom from "Bobby's World." Yup, you Bet'cha, uh-huh.
Yea to referencing old cartoons. Go Doug!
Nay to the new cartoons on TV. What the hell is up with Japanese cartoons? At least make them watchable - like a cartoon of Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan fighting.
Yea to last night's Benny Awards. Nothing like congratulating all of the student-athletes on a job well done. That's right, we said job. Like, they have one. And it's playing a sport.
Nay to people who claim NCAA athletes aren't paid. If they aren't paid, then what's up with the monthly stipend of 900 bucks or more that they get for being an athlete?
Yea to free money. Oh, it's not free, you say? So if it's not free, then they earn it?
Nay to the definition of "job" changing since the last time we opened a dictionary.
Editorials serve as a means for Barometer editors to offer commentary and opinions on issues both global and local, grand in scale or diminutive. The views expressed here are a reflection of the editorial board's majority.
Nay to Dead Week for being an exaggeration. As Mark Twain once said, "Ha!"
Yea to fooling the entire Barometer readership. You know you thought we were going to use Twain's quote about the report of his demise being greatly exaggerated.
Nay to us thinking we are smart enough to outsmart our readers.
Yea to Obama for finally ending the 24-hour CNN coverage of the campaign trail. Now we can finally watch real news on CNN. I heard Lindsay Lohan had a boob job!
Nay to CNN for covering news that isn't news. Last week they had a 30-minute report on Jessica Simpson vs. Christina Aguilera. That isn't news, unless the headline is, "Jessica Simpson fights Christina Aguilera and both end up naked."
Yea to that.
Nay to the .04 inches of rain in our Barometer rain gauge at the end of May. Sure, we don't mid the dry weather, but where's the sun?
Yea to CNN coverage of the drought in Corvallis. We haven't gotten laid in like… a month. Yeah, a month. The reports of our sexual - um, we mean hydrologic dearth was greatly exaggerated.
Nay to having used the same line twice in the Yeas and Nays. Nick Lilja should be stoned.
Yea to deciding which kind of stoned he should be. After a survey of 100 of your peers, survey says: "With rocks!"
Nay to "Family Feud" now being hosted by Elaine's boss from "Seinfeld." Sorry, Mr. Peterman, but you just can't beat Al from "Home Improvement." At least you're better than Louie Anderson, thank god.
Yea to flannel. C'mon, girls, what's sexier than a man in flannel? Everything? Oh.
Nay to women who don't find flannel attractive. That's it we're moving to Fargo to hang out with Bobby's mom from "Bobby's World." Yup, you Bet'cha, uh-huh.
Yea to referencing old cartoons. Go Doug!
Nay to the new cartoons on TV. What the hell is up with Japanese cartoons? At least make them watchable - like a cartoon of Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan fighting.
Yea to last night's Benny Awards. Nothing like congratulating all of the student-athletes on a job well done. That's right, we said job. Like, they have one. And it's playing a sport.
Nay to people who claim NCAA athletes aren't paid. If they aren't paid, then what's up with the monthly stipend of 900 bucks or more that they get for being an athlete?
Yea to free money. Oh, it's not free, you say? So if it's not free, then they earn it?
Nay to the definition of "job" changing since the last time we opened a dictionary.
Editorials serve as a means for Barometer editors to offer commentary and opinions on issues both global and local, grand in scale or diminutive. The views expressed here are a reflection of the editorial board's majority.
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