I like Barack Obama. I like Bad Paintings of Barack Obama even more. Nothing says “Hail to the chief” like amateur painting.
A while back I posted about an interesting Google discovery. If you start a question with “Why is”, one of the first suggested searches from Google is “Why is my poop green?” Since that first post, I’ve been steadily getting search traffic from folks apparently afflicted with polychromatic poo asking some form of that question. It seemed that more research was in order.
Green poop seems to be a relatively new phenomenon. Check out the Google Trends for searches of “Why is my poop green?”
While it seems to have been a mild issue since 2004, something really hit its stride mid-2008. What is adversely affecting America’s poop? After exhaustive research (20 minutes this morning), I have some theories related to major events around that time:
- Barack Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination. I am well aware from watching a lot of TV that the presence of a black president is a clear indication that a show is set in the future. Since we’re all living in the future, some poop discoloration shouldn’t be too surprising.
- Bill Gates stepped out of day to day operations at Microsoft. Green poop may be the biological equivalent of the blue screen of death.
- Lucky Charms increased it’s leprechaun content 40%.
- The bottom dropped out of the economy. Perhaps economic uncertainty manifests itself as poop in the hues of spring. It’s also possible that the $700 billion “bailout” consists of surreptitiously grinding up money and hiding it in Kraft cheese.
So there you go. Hopefully our lower intestines will not spin the color wheel again.
Video pun for the win.
