“So, perhaps what he’s talking about is just all these stories about, you know, your carbon footprint and the amount of energy you use to travel over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house,” he continued, making awkward references to both the musical “Into the Woods”
I love how young the TPM staff writers are – because the phrase “over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house” greatly predates (by 140 years) “Into the Woods”
ETA: I remembered the song because it was a perennial at the annual Christmas assemblies in elementary school – and the year my class had to sing it, i could not remember the words to save my life.