By Elmer Beauregard
As you may or not know one of our many clever slogans for Minnesotans For Global Warming is "Turn Your Snow Shovels Into Lawn Chairs". Playing off the verse from Isaiah 2:4."They shall beat their swords into plowshares".
I figured with the advent of Global Warming, we will need to do something with all of those unused snow shovels. I made this prototype of the "Shovel Chair 2000" at the beginning of November when we were having unusually warm weather. The media was saying it was because off Global Warming and we better get used to it. Now with the worst blizzard in 20 years hitting Minnesota. I am thinking of taking it apart to shovel a path from the RV to the SUV.
With the Metrodome collapsing yesterday, I'm mad that we didn't all grab our shovels and go to the new outdoor Gopher football stadium and dig it out so the Vikings could have the home field advantage against New York tonight. Instead the Vikes will be playing in Detroit in their "NEW" stadium. (wink, wink)
I heard a caller on The Chris Baker Show this morning that said this year marks the 125th anniversary of the St. Paul Winter Carnival. He said the reason we started the Carnival 125 years ago was because of an article that appeared in The New York Times, that said Minnesota was uninhabitable because it's too cold. So we answered back by building castles out of ice and made ice sculptures and drank hot cocoa and skated outside, to show them what true Minnesotans were made of. Now we seem to be a bunch of fat, lazy, mama's boys who are afraid to get off the couch and shovel some snow. Even though the opposite is true, I don't know about you but all I did last weekend was shovel and blow snow with the snowblower.
Chris Baker is right if we all would have gone to the University, snow shovels in hand, and got the stadium ready for a home game with the Vikes, it would have been a great PR stunt. We used to have that image of playing in the cold and snow, know natter what. Incidentally we haven't been to a Super bowl since we moved indoors. Now the Green bay Packers and the Bears are the cold weather tough guys and we come off as a bunch of wimps.
