She's ba-a-ack! We mean the queen of eHow, Lacy Enderson. Today's she's parlayed that Master's Degree in Biblical Counseling into counseling her readers (if there are any readers) on "How to Use a Pole Pruner."¹ It's a classic case of eHow blindness (note: it's now showing up at GardenGuides.com)...
Well, that's exactly what friend Lacy did: in her zeal to pick up her fifteen bucks, she simply reworded the owner's manual from a high-end pole pruner - she even included a picture of it! Unfortunately for eHow's readers, she didn't actually tell them how to use one of the damned things!
¹ The original has been deleted by Leaf Group, but can still be accessed using the Wayback machine at archive.org. Its URL was ehow.com/how_4794353_use-pole-pruner.html
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| Let's consider a f'rinstance: you ask us a general question, like how to install a doorknob. We launch into a detailed discussion of how to install a Shlage BE365 Bluetooth-enabled Deadbolt (yes, there are "smart" deadbolts now), essentially reworded from the owner's manual. Is that useful to you? Probably not - unless you intended to install a Schlage BE365 Bluletooth-enabled Deadbolt. You just wanted general instructions about doors, doorjambs, tools, and such - not instructions about how to pair a specific deadbolt with your smartphone. Those instructions we gave you, as a result, turn out to be pretty useless. |
Well, that's exactly what friend Lacy did: in her zeal to pick up her fifteen bucks, she simply reworded the owner's manual from a high-end pole pruner - she even included a picture of it! Unfortunately for eHow's readers, she didn't actually tell them how to use one of the damned things!
| To make matters worse, the dumbass somehow found the only pole pruner in existence that doesn't have a saw blade! In other words, that owner's manual (and therefore Ms Enderson's instructions) was entirely about how to extend the pole (instructions unique to the brand and perhaps the model) and lock it in place, but contained no instructions whatsoever about the process of sawing through a 70-pound limb fifteen feet over your head. We think that makes Lacy Enderson a dumbass. It makes her our Dumbass of the Day, to be precise. You? |
¹ The original has been deleted by Leaf Group, but can still be accessed using the Wayback machine at archive.org. Its URL was ehow.com/how_4794353_use-pole-pruner.html
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