[Oasis]

[quote author=Oasis link=topic=7229.msg55709#msg55709 date=1356138249]
I think a show on cholesterol and obesity would be good.

Wisconsin fans won't get it. Judging from recent posts, it seems to be a Stanford stereotype that everyone from Wisconsin is fat, but I don't think Wisconsinites are aware of that or sensitive about it. When I was growing up in Wisconsin, I didn't notice folks being any fatter than they are anywhere else in the country.
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That's not the point. Let's assume the reality is that the incidence of obesity in Wisconsin is 10% of what it is in Beverly Hills.  It doesn't matter.  The point is the Wisconsinites (is that what they are?) revel in cheese, bratwurst, beer and other life-shortening things, including one Wisconsin Supreme Court justice trying to strangle another. http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/...wo-probes  They think about these things (not necessarily judicial strangulation).  I know.  California is full of displaced cheeseheads.  I hear them talk about this stuff all the time.  We would be spoofing their state culture, not how fat (or olympian-fit) they really are. 

Also, I think Ms. Hamilton's prostitution is sad in a way Tiger Woods' philandering (notwithstanding a stunning spouse loyally waiting for him at home) is not.  Tiger Woods is a guy who had everything life on this earth could give a man -- and betrayed it because is an egotistical a-hole.  In this respect, although he didn't kill anybody, he is like O.J. Simpson, of whom we have mercilessly and quite appropriately made fun for 18 years.  I think Ms. Hamilton has problems, painful ones -- and (just my opinion; no doubt based on ignorant Stanford stereotyping) there is nothing exciting or glamorous about prostitution, nor anything normal about anybody who finds glamor or excitement in it.

So I stand by my statement: a show spoofing Wisconsin as the home of death -- slow by eating, fast if you get on the supreme court -- would be funny and a lot more appropriate than dragging hurt and hurting people out into yet more public view.  Wisconsin can shoot back, fair and square, by making fun of Tiger Woods -- if anybody still cares. 

[Oasis]

[quote author=Oasis link=topic=7229.msg55709#msg55709 date=1356138249]
I think a show on cholesterol and obesity would be good.

Wisconsin fans won't get it. Judging from recent posts, it seems to be a Stanford stereotype that everyone from Wisconsin is fat, but I don't think Wisconsinites are aware of that or sensitive about it. When I was growing up in Wisconsin, I didn't notice folks being any fatter than they are anywhere else in the country.
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That's not the point. Let's assume the reality is that the incidence of obesity in Wisconsin is 10% of what it is in Beverly Hills.  It doesn't matter.  The point is the Wisconsinites (is that what they are?) revel in cheese, bratwurst, beer and other life-shortening things, including one Wisconsin Supreme Court justice trying to strangle another. http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/...wo-probes  They think about these things (not necessarily judicial strangulation).  I know.  California is full of displaced cheeseheads.  I hear them talk about this stuff all the time.  We would be spoofing their state culture, not how fat (or olympian-fit) they really are. 

Also, I think Ms. Hamilton's prostitution is sad in a way Tiger Woods' philandering (notwithstanding a stunning spouse loyally waiting for him at home) is not.  Tiger Woods is a guy who had everything life on this earth could give a man -- and betrayed it because is an egotistical a-hole.  In this respect, although he didn't kill anybody, he is like O.J. Simpson, of whom we have mercilessly and quite appropriately made fun for 18 years.  I think Ms. Hamilton has problems, painful ones -- and (just my opinion; no doubt based on ignorant Stanford stereotyping) there is nothing exciting or glamorous about prostitution, nor anything normal about anybody who finds glamor or excitement in it.

So I stand by my statement: a show spoofing Wisconsin as the home of death -- slow by eating, fast if you get on the supreme court -- would be funny and a lot more appropriate than dragging hurt and hurting people out into yet more public view.  Wisconsin can shoot back, fair and square, by making fun of Tiger Woods -- if anybody still cares.