"Gary" wrote in message ...

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 12:04:17 PM UTC-4, 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."
>
> It was a stupid, mixed metaphor.
>
> I believe we could do with a lot fewer straws. I took great pains to
> learn to drink from an actual cup. Why do so many adults still use
> a straw? It's just like using a "sippy cup".
>
> Granted, they're useful, for example, in hospitals when someone
> is holding the cup for you, or you can't coordinate all of those
> familiar actions yourself.
>
> If I had a nickel for every time I've gotten a straw in a restaurant
> and just pushed it aside, I could retire. It happened just last weekend
> at our nearby Thai place.

We can all do our part to save the earth by boycotting straws. :-D
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I used to have some straws which I used to suck air out of bags before I got
my food saver <g>



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