Could you use a little humor today? FUNNY TRUE STORY

[Andrea]

I'm cross-posting my post from the lounge because it's not getting any attention there. Edwards supporters probably have a greater need for humor today than most folks, anyway.

True story:

The other night I was coming home from the grocery and I was sitting at a stoplight watching the headlines go by on one of those electronic billboards.

I saw this headline:

COUNTING CROWS WILL PROBABLY NOT REVEAL WINNER OF OHIO PRIMARY

It totally cracked me up. I like Counting Crows, but why would they be revealing the winner of the primary? When I got home, I checked the headlines online from the same TV station and it said Counting Crow d s Will Probably Not Reveal Winner of Ohio Primary. I don't know if they had it wrong on the sign or I read it wrong, but it gave me something interesting to think about, for sure.

[balantz]

1. Did the billboard specify the band?

I got this from Wikipedia:

Origin of the name
The band took its name from a divination rhyme about the crow, heard by Duritz in the film Signs of Life.<6> The rhyme is used at the end of the song "A Murder of One" on the album August and Everything After: "Well I dreamt I saw you walking up a hillside in the snow / Casting shadows on the winter sky as you stood there, counting crows / One for sorrow, two for joy / Three for girls and four for boys / Five for silver, six for gold / Seven for a secret never to be told." In the poem, the act of counting crows is particularly useless. Duritz reveals that a name is just a name, and, with that, is useless and can be anything. The divination also appears in the 1973 novel Secret of the Seven Crows by Wylly Folk St. John: "One crow means sorrow, two crows mean joy, three crows a wedding, four crows a boy, five crows mean silver, six crows mean gold, seven crows a secret that's never been told." In the UK, the rhyme is well known but uses magpies rather than crows. A popular superstition states that if one sees a single magpie, one should greet it in the form of good morning/afternoon/evening Mr Magpie to deflect the "sorrow".

[Andrea]

2. It said exactly what I wrote above

I naturally thought of the band immediately, but when I checked online to read about it, I found it was just a matter of leaving the D out of Crowds, leaving Crows. They were referring to the fact that so many people had voted early that exit polling will likely not be accurate. That makes sense, but any expectation that the band would have anything to say about the primaries struck me as really funny.

[balantz]

3. Oh I didn't gey the "D" part. That is funny!

I went in another direction with it.