Stupid Season, Part 001

at one time in the '70s and '80s, news rooms started to notice (and document) "the silly season." given the availability of news gathering tools we have today, i'm prepared to start calling for a name change to "the stupid season."

Witness:

• We take them with us to the dinner table, the bedroom, even the bathroom stall. But in recent years, some of us have started taking our beloved cell phones someplace really startling: the grave.
  
  “It seems that everyone under 40 who dies takes their cell phone with them,” says Noelle Potvin, family service counselor for Hollywood Forever, a funeral home and cemetery in Hollywood, Calif. “It’s a trend with BlackBerrys, too. We even had one guy who was buried with his Game Boy.”
  


• Get Ready for an AudioVisual Assault on Your Mind. And Your Poodle
  

• The divorce plea was filed in August by the girl's divorced mother with a court at Unayzah, 220 kilometres (135 miles) north of Riyadh just after the marriage contract was signed by the father and the groom.

  "She doesn't know yet that she has been married," the lawyer said then of the girl who was about to begin her fourth year at primary school.

• The Sugar Grip Fairies

To be honest with you, i could probably provide examples of Stupid Season daily for the rest of your natural lives... However, since it IS snowing outside (and has been for hours), and it is *a* holiday season (choose the one that fits your belief structure, and assume I said "[insert greeting here]"), here are a few cartoons that also exemplify the meaning of the season:








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