A new way to predict the weather
Published 10:08 pm Monday, December 24, 2007
A rancher in North Dakota says he consults pig spleens to forecast the weather . The slimy innards are right 85 percent of the time, he boasts — presumably because the forecasts alternate between “cattle- killing blizzard” and “damnation on Earth.”
Pig spleens — what a great new gimmick for TV news! Imagine meteorologist Brad McKendoll gazing intently at a steaming, dripping pig innards before forecasting another partly cloudy weekend.
After each evening’s broadcast, the spleens could be leveraged for a secondary revenue source: an ActionNews-branded pork sausage.
Well, here’s a surprise: Those online translators don’t work worth a hoot, although folks will hoot at such garbles as “A stormy storm covered the center for the mother with a thick layer snow Monday” (Page C6).
The Buzz ran the first sentence of today’s column through three translators:
Spanish: “A rancher in North Dakota said that consultation pig spleen to the weather forecast.”
German: “A rancher in North Dakota, says he advises pig spleen to forecast the weather.”
Hacker: A RANCHER I NNoRTH DAKOITRA SAYS E CONSULTS PPIGS PKL3ENZ TOF OReCAST THEW E4TEHR.
