“Just ask this scientician.” – Troy McClure There was a brief media explosion a couple of weeks ago over a study out of Australia that purports to show a link between watching The Simpsons and taking up cigarette smoking. It’s a terrific piece of media bait, it’s got name recognition and it seems newsworthy. However, the survey is flimsy, even to an untrained eye. Basically what they did was take this list of instances of smoking on the show and then rate them as “positive”, “negative” or “neutral”: Just over a third of instances of smoking (275; 35%) reflected smoking…
Day: June 18, 2009
Quote of the Day
“Man, you go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch ‘em in the face, and for what? For some pimply little puke to treat you like dirt unless you’re on a team. Well I’m better than dirt, I-well, most kinds of dirt. Not that fancy store bought dirt, that stuff’s loaded with nutrients. I, I can’t compete with that stuff.” – Moe