Tonight's Forecast: dark, it will be mostly dark tonight, followed by widely scattered light in the morning.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Carlin parodies weather forecasts by predicting mostly dark conditions.
- In plain terms
- A joke about a weather report that just says it will be dark.
- What can you take from it?
- Forecasts often state the obvious rather than useful info.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When is a forecast useful?
- How much do we trust media?
Another view
It oversimplifies actual weather variability.
More from George Carlin
There are two pips in a beaut, four beauts in a lulu, eight lulus in a doozy, and sixteen doozies in a humdinger. No one seems to know how many humdingers ther…
Permalink to quote #184 Wanna help your kids? Leave them the fuck alone!!!
Permalink to quote #186 The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, bu…
Permalink to quote #183
Related quotes
Probable nor'east to sou'west winds, varying to the soutard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to pl…
Samuel Langhorne ClemensSamuel Langhorne Clemens quote #77 It's a brilliant metaphor. What I meant to say was, when you see a monkey masturbating at the zoo...
Jon StewartJon Stewart quote #15 [Robert Novak] apparently, they say, broke his hip. I think it's not the case. I believe his hip tried to escape.
Jon StewartJon Stewart quote #16