Laurie Notaro's Five Reasons Why Haboobs Are Awesome

DOOLEY

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marcy

"repeatedly enjoy saving the word "Haboob""

What are we saving the word for?

DOOLEY

@marcy you need my BIG HARD LARGE Haboob jammed up your tight sweet ass and into your sweet moist mouth Marcy. maybe that will finally shut you up for good.

The Cult of The Yellow Sign

All consuming swaths of pitch black darkness and dust, borne on diseased winds? YOU'RE WELCOME.

Steve Faulkner

Dust Storm...it's called a Dust Storm...

Pete_Petrisko

The funniest part about this Phoenix Haboob tale is... it's written by somebody who lives in Oregon.

Weird.

I look forward to the follow-up, "Five Reasons Why New Times Can't Find a Humorist Who Actually Lives in Phoenix".

DOOLEY

@Pete_Petrisko I am a humorist and I live in phoenix.

Pete_Petrisko

@DOOLEY You're a humorist who lives in Phx? My deepest sympathies are with you in your time of need.

Mikey1969

@Pete_Petrisko I see that you caught THIS part: ...is currently based in Eugene, Oregon, but you somehow completely missed this part: She grew up in Phoenix...". That's ok, maybe you were born stupid, who knows? If you'd bothered to do some work(One Google search), you would find out just how long Laurie Notaro spent in Az, and it also explains why she is just as annoyed by this "Haboob" bullshit as I am. I currently live in Utah, but spent 22 years in Az, and we called them dust storms then, too. It's not like you lose the ability to laugh at the 'Word of the Week' morons when you leave the state. Jesus, 10 years ago, everything was a "microburst", thank God that stupid trend died.

Pete_Petrisko

@eyeonyouproductions Oh, I bothered enough to know her 2008 book includes the move to Eugene. I just didn't want to rub it in. We kind of stopped calling 'em dust storms last summer, except in cases where it's an actual dust storm & not a taller-than-the-tallest-building wall of respiratory illness that engulfs the city.

Maybe it's something you have to see close up & personal to truly appreciate though.

laurienotaro

@Pete_Petrisko Yes!! Finally I got to be a snowbird! It's delightful. I wear track suits and rent the oldest Lincoln Continental I can from Avis. It. IS. AWESOME. And I NEVER know where I'm going! See? I've been outed for even confusing the I-5 with I-10!! Snowbird! Snowbird! We should get together for an early bird dinner together at Coco's or coffee and a danish at Chompie's. But we'd have to schedule those in between naps and med time. :) You're a good sport, Pete. I like you.

Pete_Petrisko

@laurienotaro You're a snowbird?!? Oh hell. Why didn't you say that in the first place? I feel like such a goofball now. ;)

LegitQuestions

@laurienotaro

Maybe because you only live here half time you think that I-10 is also divided in half when you're not here to become I-5. In reality, though, the folks that live here full time know that it is I-10 that runs between Tucson and Phoenix while I-5 runs from the border with Mexico north through California, Oregon and Washington. I-5 does not run through Arizona at all. Maybe you're just geographically challenged. Maybe your bone fides aren't what you claim them to be. Don't really know or care.

Your response to Petrisko was B.S. - if you want to write and put your work out there for others to read, then you best have thick skin because you will receive criticism. To respond to that criticism by proclaiming that the criticizer smells like the Jersey turnpike is simply lame and pathetic. Either develop a better retort or accept the criticism and move on.

Either way, your piece just wasn't as funny as you'd like to think it was. To rephrase Petrisko's comment, "I look forward to the follow-up, "Five Reasons Why New Times Can't Find a Humorist Who Is Actually Humorous".

laurienotaro

@Pete_Petrisko Pete, you're a goofball. You just looked that up on Amazon!! That's cheating a little, you know. ;) Raised in Phoenix, lived there full-time for 35 years, now I just don't spend the summers there. Have seen saw 35 seasons of dust storms, including being stuck on i-5 between Tucson and Phoenix during one that killed several people in a massive pile-up. Believe me, I know a dust storm when I see it. And if you wanna know where to get the best mixed green burro in town, I'll tell you. I know that when I see it, too.

Mikey1969

@Pete_Petrisko That's cute... "Up close and personal". Yeah, I lived there(As I said before) for over 20 years , and left before this moronic "haboob" craze. I lived there when it wasn't such news that a single storm hit during the monsoon season that it made international headlines. We used to have storms every day, now you guys get 'a' storm and wet yourselves in excitement. Yeah, I've seen dust storms, been in many instant-flood situations, and seen trees uprooted, all in the same storm, repeated over and over each summer. Have fun in your urban heat island dustbowl, you can have it.

laurienotaro

Welcome to Phoenix, Pete Petrisko. You still smell like the Jersey Turnpike.

Pete_Petrisko

@laurienotaro Judging by your witty olfactory retort, can I assume it isn't a particularly pleasant smell? I only ask because I've never been to Jersey.