Wooly Worms & Weather
Why is it that wooly worms can predict the weather when the weather bureau can’t?
———- from Jack O. of Glen Mills PA
Wooly worms, of course, all have doctorates in weather forecasting, earned at the Marlin Perkins School of Wildlife Self-Improvement. Your average TV forecaster is, at best, the graduate of some fly-by-night school of broadcasting, like the one who rejected me so cruelly when I was in high school. Oh sure, they all aspire to be a news anchor or game show host, not a Willard Scott. They’re just doing the weather spot until something better comes along. If the people we see on TV were given jobs based on qualification, watching televison would be like watching real life. And who wants to look at a flickering square of light to see real life? You see, networks and advertisters benefit by giving us a steady diet of unreal looking people who have no contact with reality. Wooly worms may be smarter than most televison types, but their chief liability is that they’re real.
Wooly worms, of course, all have doctorates in weather forecasting, earned at the Marlin Perkins School of Wildlife Self-Improvement. Your average TV forecaster is, at best, the graduate of some fly-by-night school of broadcasting, like the one who rejected me so cruelly when I was in high school. Oh sure, they all aspire to be a news anchor or game show host, not a Willard Scott. They’re just doing the weather spot until something better comes along. If the people we see on TV were given jobs based on qualification, watching televison would be like watching real life. And who wants to look at a flickering square of light to see real life? You see, networks and advertisters benefit by giving us a steady diet of unreal looking people who have no contact with reality. Wooly worms may be smarter than most televison types, but their chief liability is that they’re real. 