Won't Get Fooled Again
02/11/08 11:35 PM | Up Chucks
White Death '08 pt.2, Lord Have Mercy on the Survivors (if there are any). Chuck Pace © 2008
I'm looking for a new job. One where I can be almost completely wrong 60% of the time and be looked at a one of the best in my field. One where I can sensationalize the most trivial of changes. I'm not athletic enough to be a major league baseball player pitcher or power hitter, so I'm looking into Meteorology! I want to put the pro back into prognostication, I want to be able to look at a weather module and say the world is about to end. That a hurricane is going to eat up Trinidad and the second ice age is going to be caused by cow farts and termite gas. I want to tell people that less than two inches of snow is really going to rival the blizzard of 1978. I want to be the guy who said two days ago that another 10 inches is expected Tuesday and Wednesday. The same guy who says now that Tuesday is less than 24 minutes away that maybe we will only get one or two inches, and another one to three on Wednesday.
I could hang out with the guys that said that The New England Pitty Pats could absolutely not be beaten, that they and NY would run up a 55 plus point total scoring effort in Glendale AZ, and that Tommy Boy would be anointed the greatest Male of all time, bar none.
The same crowd of prognosticators and pundits that looked the other way with Bela-cheat and the scameras at several opponents teams practice facilities. The people that think it is alright until you get caught. That being a jerk, louse, bully and a poor sportsman is o.k.
if you can run up a string of wins and points. That that kind of character is to be applauded because you can cheat and win, that the win justifies the means.
I might be hanging with the crowd that says good always triumphs over evil, or that cheaters never win. The bunch that doesn't know that Chad Knaus was suspended and penalized in the 2005 season for having an illegal (by Nascar rules) car at the Las Vegas Race, or again for three races after Daytona in 2006 for aerodynamically altering the 48 car, or yet another, a 6 week suspension in the 2007 season for altering the COT. Two consecutive seasons where his driver Jimmie Cry Baby Johnson won the championship.
I guess I'm hoping that we don't get 8 or 10 inches of snow in the next two days, but nobody really knows how it works or what we will get. I didn't get to measure the stripes on the woolly worms in the fall or to see how many silver maple leaves were upside down before the first frost, and I missed Punxsutawney Phil's Nascar, NBA and weather predictions, but I think he is dead on with his presidential pick Ron Paul.