Gary wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> Is this a metaphor?
>>
>> "We consume 500 million straws each day. The equivalent of 127 school buses
>> filled with straws. It???s disgusting. There should be children in those
>> school buses, going to school, to learn, not straws."
>>
>> [Adrian Grenier to NY Mag / Anna Silman]
>
> It's just a stupid statistic comment. Those school buses do contain
> children going to school. There are not 127 school buses driving around
> filled with straws. A worthless "apples and oranges" comment.
>
> And people are gainfully employed making those straws. No school bus
> drivers necessary.

well you know there are those empty school buses going out to pick up
the first set of kids -- they could be used to transport straws -- seems
wasteful just to be driving empty school buses around