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(Some Guy)   "Fall is on the way: Here's what to expect." Finally, some hard-hitting journalism   (citizen-times.com) divider line
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rickythepenguin
2006-09-18 4:10:57 PM  
Nice.

I love how whenever it rains in Arizona, it's LIVE LATE BREAKING NEWS, and then they put some dipshiat in a helicopter to cover the story. "Patti, you can see the storm front rolling in, and it looks like we're gonna get some rain....here's some actual, raw and unedited footage of the storm. Yup. That's some rain, right there, people."

"Thanks Bruce. Godspeed."
 
Repeat Man!!!
2006-09-18 4:15:10 PM  
and the only thing less interesting than news about how seasons change is a discussion thread about news about how seasons change
 
PYROY
2006-09-18 4:15:25 PM  
"It may be good in one spot for one person, but better in another spot for another person,"

So you're saying that some people like things that other people don't? Brilliant!
 
Freak of Nurture
2006-09-18 4:15:45 PM  
Never saw the appeal of driving around looking at dying leaves.
 
Richard_M_Nixon
2006-09-18 4:15:57 PM  
[image from laobserved.com too old to be available]
"Journalists are idiots. Film at 11:00"
 
Sticky Hands
2006-09-18 4:16:53 PM  
Dead leaves burn better than live leaves. Film at 11.
 
Spazmotic
2006-09-18 4:17:42 PM  
Boobies
 
Aeonite [TotalFark]
2006-09-18 4:18:02 PM  
Wait, are you telling me that leaves change color?
 
Chirping_Cricket
2006-09-18 4:18:28 PM  
I miss Asheville.
 
WhoreIsland
2006-09-18 4:19:00 PM  
Wait, autumn is coming this year? WHEN THE HELL DID THEY DECIDE THAT!?
 
MrPeepersVT
2006-09-18 4:19:21 PM  
Haha-- I saw this in the ACT this morning while reading my coffee and about spit it out.

Hilarious journalism.
 
SkittleBrau
2006-09-18 4:20:17 PM  
With the start of fall only days away, experts are predicting a colorful coating of leaves on the region's mountainsides this season.

Good thing we had experts on hand to tell us that. I would have predicted a colorful coating of meth crystals on the mountainsides, but then again I'm no expert.
 
MrPeepersVT
2006-09-18 4:20:21 PM  
er... drinking my coffee.

Guess I need some more of it.

/Asheville rules
 
mr anderson
2006-09-18 4:20:49 PM  
What is this "fall" everyone is talking about? In Texas there's a week between Summer and Winter when the temperature isn't above 90 degrees, but that hardly counts as a season.
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-09-18 4:20:54 PM  
Be careful what you wish for...November sweeps will soon be upon us, and you'll all get to enjoy news "teasers" like:

What common household product could make your child's brain catch fire? We'll tell you after the movie!

He's killed more than 300 people and he escaped from jail -- is he in your neighborhood RIGHT NOW? Find out at 11!

School taxes are going up fifteen thousand percent for one area school district -- we'll tell you which one after 14 minutes of weather!

That skank at the bar you banged? Was she a dude? We'll tell you after the game!
 
Jack31081
2006-09-18 4:22:10 PM  
[image from people.clarkson.edu too old to be available]

farkin' leafers, i tell you they ruin it for everybody else.
 
heinousjay
2006-09-18 4:22:16 PM  
[image from img79.imageshack.us too old to be available]

America, what we have here is a red shift in our forested regions. This means only one thing: the spread of communism!
 
Goldstein
2006-09-18 4:24:04 PM  
I think moveon.org just sent me a petition to sign to help stop Autumn. Apparently, it's Bush's fault.
 
widgie
2006-09-18 4:26:02 PM  
Guess you guys have never lived in the Northeast. This is huge for the tourism economy:

Leaf peeping is big business for New York and neighboring Vermont. Twenty percent of New York state's annual $34 billion in tourism revenue is generated during the fall, according to the state tourism agency. For Vermont, the autumn season brings in 4 million tourists and $1.2 billion.

So, yes, it IS news.
 
theoracl
2006-09-18 4:26:29 PM  
and the only thing less interesting than news about how seasons change is a discussion thread about news about how seasons change



and the only thing less interesting than news about how seasons change is reading less interesting comments in a discussion thread about news about how seasons change
 
MrPeepersVT
2006-09-18 4:28:57 PM  
Widgie--

I'm from the Northeast, and the dopey leaf-peeping tourist season is at LEAST as important in Western NC as it is up there. Reason being, not much other money coming in here. When the tourism stops, Asheville stops.

And that's when the whores come in!
 
xarlos
2006-09-18 4:29:08 PM  
[image from laobserved.com too old to be available]

Leaves change color and fall in the fall. That's why they call it fall.

/ Details at 11:00
 
crazycooter
2006-09-18 4:30:03 PM  
"It may be good in one spot for one person, but better in another spot for another person," said Robert Bardon, extension forestry specialist with N.C. State University. "It's really an opinion of the person that's viewing it."

Thank you Captain Obvious.
 
ElRonHubbardsBalls
2006-09-18 4:31:52 PM  
This is the kind of article Laura Bush reads early in the morning before she takes her massive dose of Thorazine.
 
Poopy MacPoop
2006-09-18 4:35:28 PM  
Widgie
Twenty percent of New York state's annual $34 billion in tourism revenue is generated during the fall, according to the state tourism agency.

That means the average tourism rate for seasons other than fall is almost seven percent higher per season.

/Fall is here again, and all I have to say is, "fark fall."
 
PYROY
2006-09-18 4:38:00 PM  
People waste time on the internet during work hours.
 
nytmare
2006-09-18 4:39:10 PM  
In our suburban area we have scheduled curb-side leaf pickup but each year the pickup week for our ward is about two weeks before the leaves start falling, with no followup.

Previously I'd rake the leaves out to the curb right after they fell and watch as they rotted, got rained on, turned into a giant wad of brown mush, and eventually froze. Yeah, so this year I'll just have to rake the leaves out before they've fallen. Ha. Or bag them as trash.
 
Jack31081
2006-09-18 4:40:44 PM  
Poopy MacPoop: /Fall is here again, and all I have to say is, "fark fall."

Oooh, the leaves change color! The leaves change colors for two days. Then a big wind comes, and you've got nothin' but sticks for the rest of the year!

\"We haven't had a legitimate spring in 20 years. Now it's Fall.....and it's SPRING!!"
 
12inpianist
2006-09-18 4:49:43 PM  
[image from i83.photobucket.com too old to be available]

It's gonna get cold!

/thank you Ollie, now; can bees think?
//a new study shows: no, they can't
 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark]
2006-09-18 4:50:00 PM  
In Canada, fall means winter is coming, the time of year when Mother Nature biatch-slaps us for our summer sins.
 
Phone_Answering_Monkey
2006-09-18 4:54:36 PM  
The leaves are falling!! The leaves are falling!!
 
Phone_Answering_Monkey
2006-09-18 5:12:10 PM  
Goldstein: I think moveon.org just sent me a petition to sign to help stop Autumn. Apparently, it's Bush's fault.

More the trees than the bushes. And only the deciduous trees at that. In the end, it's only a small minority.

/Nice try, though
 
TurnaManna
2006-09-18 5:17:01 PM  
Poopy MacPoop & Jack31081:

That was the only thing I came into this thread to hear. Thank you.
 
Purple Hayes
2006-09-18 5:18:28 PM  
Oh you're just a bunch of rakes, you are.

/stop calling them colored, they're foliage americans
//Leaf me alone!
 
Phone_Answering_Monkey
2006-09-18 5:21:45 PM  
Freak of Nurture: Never saw the appeal of driving around looking at dying leaves.

I shot a leaf in upstate New York, just to watch it die.
 
Badafuco [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-09-18 5:23:26 PM  
Here in Ventura, CA I will notice that the Santa Ana winds start blowing a little more. There are always fires and the surf gets better due to offshore winds. The temperature? Not much change at all.

/Ventura rules
 
paygun [OhFark]
2006-09-18 5:27:20 PM  
Repeat Man!!!: and the only thing less interesting than news about how seasons change is a discussion thread about news about how seasons change

Shut your hole.
 
CravenMorehead
2006-09-18 5:42:07 PM  
My God, all these posts and not a single picture of Ric Romero?
 
rotatingpies
2006-09-18 5:45:17 PM  
Meh. I was told to change my language in more than one story to something a little less...challenging.

/journalists don't suck
//uninformed readers do
 
supersoundguy
2006-09-18 5:46:42 PM  
what i find interesting is that you can purchase a reprint of that snazzy little photo they showed...i'm all for photography and stuff...but i'm not sure i'd pay for random pictures from the local newspaper

/nice picture though
 
totalsecurity
2006-09-18 5:47:35 PM  
Fall is already here.

Last night, I went outside and watched the Northern Lights, while wolves howled and an owl hooted. There is a chill in the night air, but it gets in the 60's during the day (I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt right now). Leaves on the trees are turning yellow, or red, and falling when the wind blows.
 
Oznog
2006-09-18 5:52:19 PM  
My god- GLOBAL WARMING CAUSING MASS DEFOLIATION! THE TREES ARE DYING AND IT'S ALL OUR FAULT!

/We didn't listen!
//we didn't listen!!!
 
See Bees
2006-09-18 6:06:20 PM  
I'm in love with Asheville. I moved here a couple of months ago from Plano, TX. Man, the weather is great here. When it is 82, people complain of a heat wave. I just smile, and grab a sweater.

This fall is going to be great. I'll be doing day hikes on the AT and Pisgah National Forest trails and hope to see some spectacular sights!!
 
RocketRay [TotalFark]
2006-09-18 6:18:09 PM  
rickythepenguin: I love how whenever it rains in Arizona, it's LIVE LATE BREAKING NEWS, and then they put some dipshiat in a helicopter to cover the story. "Patti, you can see the storm front rolling in, and it looks like we're gonna get some rain....here's some actual, raw and unedited footage of the storm. Yup. That's some rain, right there, people."

Same thing here in SoCal. One of the stations has "StormWatch", but after several "storms" only produced light rain the weather guy changed it to "DrizzleWatch".

WATER IS FALLING FROM THE SKY! PEOPLE IN PACOIMA ARE WET! LET'S GO LIVE TO TAWNY LITTLE WHO'S WITH SOME OF THE VICTIMS RIGHT NOW!
 
Ben Bernanke's Whiskers
2006-09-18 6:19:14 PM  
FTFA: About 2 million leaf peepers are expected to visit the roadway next month.

[image from img226.imageshack.us too old to be available]

/Mr Peepers unavailable for comment.
 
Outlaw2097
2006-09-18 6:21:17 PM  
i call bullshiat on fall

northern arizona has two weeks of spring, two weeks of fall

then, its either bitter ass cold or too damn hot...ill leave yall to ponder which sesons are which
 
gradatim
2006-09-18 8:22:06 PM  
With the start of fall only days away, experts are predicting a colorful coating of leaves on the region's mountainsides this season.

As soon as I read that, I know I'd find Ric Romero in this thread.
 
fanbladesaresharp
2006-09-18 9:10:28 PM  
Yes yes, we all see this as redudnant and amusing as we age. But there are Young TFers in the making that don't know how to discern the news, humor, irony and sarcasm, so there is some use. Oh yeah, and you have to repeat it every year for them damn yard apes. Get off my lawn!!!

/best friend is a 4th grade teacher
//Not my line of work but ok.
 
fanbladesaresharp
2006-09-18 9:11:33 PM  
Redudnant. It's true. As you age you no longer can spel. Oy.
 
ThePuceGuardian
2006-09-18 10:36:55 PM  
In the artical's defense, if you didn't know the leaves were going to change color, you'd be pretty freaked out.

... no?

I'll get my coat..
 
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