Straight Line of the Day: Can You Make Up Wilder Claims Than These?

Straight Line of the Day: Can you make up wilder claims than these?

Her wild claims are pretty funny:

A Farewell to Ithaca College After 18 Years
The Ithacan | March 3, 2021 | Sandra Steingraber

(A stein-grabber, indeed)

What does climate change have to do with human performance? Well, higher heat and humidity represent health threats to outdoor athletes.

In California, three-quarters of new oil wells are drilled in Black or Latino communities.

To understand the permitting of fossil fuel infrastructure, one needs to understand systemic racism.

Women and gender studies shows us that domestic violence and sex trafficking accompany oil and gas fracking.

And music? Ask me about the wood used to make Stradivarius violins. It’s sourced from forests now being decimated by extreme weather patterns in Italy.

Damn! How many did he make?

“At least nine IC professors who teach some aspect of the climate crisis — in five different departments — are on the chopping block, with Recreation and Leisure Studies disappearing altogether.”

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  1. Can you make up wilder claims than these?

    Well, it got so that every piss-ant prairie punk who thought he could shoot a gun would ride into town to try out the Waco Kid. I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille. It got pretty gritty. I started to hear the word “draw” in my sleep. Then one day, I was just walking down the street when I heard a voice behind me say, “Reach for it, mister!” I spun around… and there I was, face to face with a six-year old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the a$$. So I limped to the nearest saloon, crawled inside a whiskey bottle… and I’ve been there ever since.

  2. If a person keeps their hands thoroughly cleansed, eats only non-GMO natural foods, gets at least 7.4 hour of sleep each night, exercises regularly and properly, lives in California and simultaneously wears three CDC-approved face coverings 24 hours a day …. they will NEVER die.

  3. Can you make up wilder claims than these?

    Given a Turing-complete universal predicate F(e; x) for defining partial functions from the natural numbers to the natural numbers, and any property P of such functions, the set E of every program e that defines a function F(e; x) that has property P is Turing-computable if and only if the set is empty or everything.

  4. “Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this… A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.

    “In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.

    In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”

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