tert in seattle wrote:
>
> 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

Good thought! They could take straws AND kids to school all in one bus.

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