EDITORIAL: TIME FOR "W" TO GO...

I found this opinion piece at Joy Dawn Ivorys' blog on the Redneck Press...thought y'all might like it.


Soapin' up with Ivory

April 8, 2008
Oxford, MS
By Joy Dawn Ivory

Joy is a 2001 graduate of Oxford Central High School. She completed two semesters at Ole Miss (double major in Journalism, and PE), and is a contributing columnist to the RP.



It's time for "W" to go!

Not our beloved President "W"!!! Just the stupid "WWW." on every television and radio commercial that wants you to go to their web site.

Being a highly educated woman who is very computer savvy, I often forget that there are always new, ignorant people pulling their vehicle onto the Information Super Slab. Every year the number of computer and internet users in the United States grows. I also know that commercial interests want as many of those new internet users to get to their web sites.

But I've got to tell y'all that I am just about fed up with every commercial advertisement, everyone that is interviewed on the news channels, and every chef on the Food Network having to tell the ignorant masses to type in a "WWW." ahead of their web site.

The "WWW." has got to go! Anyone that has ever just typed in "yahoo.com," or "Oprah.com," or "OleMiss.edu" knows that you don't get to the web site that you are looking for! That is ignorant to the 3rd power. So why does everybody have to tell you, "my web site is www.somethingignorant?"

One of two things must happen.

Companies, organizations, causes, and bloggers need to stop telling everyone to log on to their web site at "WWW.whatever." That would sure keep me from throwing my radio through the window, or the remote control at my TV. It just drives me "crazy." Within a few weeks, every ignorant person that doesn't know better would have learned to put the WWW. ahead of the internet address. Those that haven't figured it out after a few weeks are too stupid to be clogging up the World Wide Web anyway. They need to call their children for help looking up aarp.org, or medicare.gov.

The second option would be for Al Gore to "re-invent" the internet. He could fix it right this time, where you don't have to type in the "WWW."

I'll bet he'd be glad to work on that for us all, since he is not a huge "W" fan anyway.

It might just be me that finds this "WWW." thing getting old. But I have asked several men what they think, and they all agree with me 100 percent! The girls I ask don't seem too concerned about it. I don't think they care much for Al Gore to start out with. Truthfully, most of them don't act like they know what I'm talking about. My girlfriends don't have much use for computers, the internet, or high technology at all - sluts!