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| Your commitment to the ice bucket challenge isn't even close to his |
I’m a week into my new job but I’m not going to talk about that
since this is the internet and the only thing the internet cares about right
now is the ice bucket challenge.
Well,
ice buckets and Ferguson, but I can honestly say I have no idea what’s going on
there because I'm a horrible person. Ice buckets, though. I’ve had my eye on those.
In case
you’ve only been following real stories which also means you probably don’t
have access to the internet, the ice bucket challenge goes like this: you
donate money to ALS research or you dump a bucket of ice water on your head.
Then you nominate three people to do the same.
If it
sounds familiar, it’s because it’s basically just a souped-up version of this
past May’s cold water challenge, which was supposed to raise money for
firefighters.
The ice
bucket challenge is sort of like the “Silence of the Lambs” to the cold water
challenge’s “Manhunter” in that it raised the bar astronomically, it’s way more
popular and few if any folks remember that the original, the cold water
challenge, was even a thing.
I guess
if we’re going to continue along with that analogy we can expect a rehashing of
the cold water challenge in a few years led by Ed Norton which I will be banned
from participating in due to my age. Reference explanation: Movie theater
personnel wouldn’t let me see “Red Dragon” because I wasn’t old enough. My
parents took me and some friends the following week.
I was challenged
to do both the ice bucket and the cold water deal.
I
ignored it when I was challenged to do the cold water challenge for a couple of
reasons, none of which are that I hate firefighters. The biggest one was that I
don’t like chain letters and I saw that as a live action chain letter. Instead
of me forwarding your typo-filled nonsense to all of my email contacts under penalty
of seven years bad luck now I have to dunk myself in cold water and force three
others to do the same or risk what? Internet scorn? Not scared.
