Friday Funny – Zombie sea level sticks

Josh writes:

For Michael Mann’s use of the Hockey Stick in the sea level paper – an obscure cinematic reference. Well yes, but then isn’t that kind of appropriate?

Hint: The person in the trenchcoat is “Willis”

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Henry chance
June 24, 2011 7:17 am

The trench coat gives resistance to trenches. Umbrellas offer protection from sun and rain.
If we all buy waders, we will be fine.

June 24, 2011 7:18 am

Funny stuff!

Alexander K
June 24, 2011 7:31 am

Pure comic gold, Josh!

Patrick Davis
June 24, 2011 7:31 am

Shouldn’t that be “I see dead hockey sticks. I see them all the time.”? But yes saw the connection right away…sadly 30mins into Saturday already.

Editor
June 24, 2011 7:37 am

This is the bit.. it’s such a good moment.

Aaron Wells
June 24, 2011 7:41 am

Patrick, the problem is the dead hockey sticks don’t know they’re dead!

Craig
June 24, 2011 7:45 am

Josh, that’s your best one yet!

NoAstronomer
June 24, 2011 7:53 am

Simply brilliant!

MikeN
June 24, 2011 8:10 am

Josh, that’s not obscure.

Sam Hall
June 24, 2011 8:21 am

Aaron, they aren’t dead, they are just upside down.

Dermot O'Logical
June 24, 2011 8:40 am

all the time….

Dr. Dave
June 24, 2011 9:25 am

Which Willis is it?

NikFromNYC
June 24, 2011 9:28 am

I sea hockey sticks.
Icy hockey sticks!

ManitobaKen
June 24, 2011 9:37 am

Very funny Josh, definitely a keeper. And not obscure at all.

Gary Hladik
June 24, 2011 9:53 am

Brilliant! The man sees hockey sticks (everywhere) that no one else can see.

RockyRoad
June 24, 2011 10:22 am

Ah, Mann and his Hockey Stick schtik. What I’ve noticed is that the bend on his recent sticks begin way before a mid-20th century timeframe (~1950), hence he’s destroying his own argument regarding cause and effect. Couldn’t happen to a more worthy researcher and all around nice guy.
/sarc off.

Bob Diaz
June 24, 2011 10:52 am

I see Josh putting up another good funny!!!
Thanks for the laugh. :-))

Editor
June 24, 2011 11:07 am

MikeN says:
June 24, 2011 at 8:10 am
> Josh, that’s not obscure.
Speak for yourself! Oh alright, I don’t get out enough.
Josh, thanks for the explanation. At least I recognized the movie’s name.

June 24, 2011 11:22 am

Would that be “H – E – double” Hockey Sticks?

June 24, 2011 11:30 am

I am unfamiliar with Willis. Does he *always* sport a Michal Mann-type tonsure and goatee?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mann4.jpg

hunter
June 24, 2011 11:49 am

Mann is truly obsessed on this. I urge him to get psychiatric help, and soon.

June 24, 2011 1:00 pm

hunter says:
June 24, 2011 at 11:49 am
I would recommend a long vacation. Or perhaps even retirement. It’s obvious the pressure is starting to get to him.

June 24, 2011 1:54 pm

Well put Josh!
BTW, If any of you fine folk out in the sticks want to know how to build an igloo, to keep you cool from ‘you-know-what’, and you have a yen (or 3) to travel, then visit West Yorkshire, England, this Christmas. We hope to be building igloos before the end of November, and you are all welcome to have a look-see, at, I have to say, very acceptable charges.
Unfortunately, the nearest sea is around 70 miles away from where I’m sitting, which appears to be a bit quiet at the mo, but we can sort that one out once you arrive at Manchester Airport.
One small point; please bring dollars, rather than the 3 yen. We have difficulty in understanding some foreign currency, let alone foreign languages.

Doug Jones
June 24, 2011 2:23 pm

Steven Mosher made the cruelest pun- “Siltdown Mann” I can’t top that.
http://climateaudit.org/2011/06/22/pnas-reviews-preferential-standards-for-kemp-mann-et-al/#comment-292975

June 24, 2011 2:36 pm

Myers KL.
Thanks for everything. A few bicycle inventors a long time ago were told they could not fly a plane. Another good gentlemen was told he could not invent a light bulb. He learned how many times, through trial and error, how to not make a DC bulb. It took Tesla to give us an AC bulb.
I wish we could bring back all four (including both the Wright Brothers.)
Thanks, Anthony, for giving everyone a chance to express an opinion.
Kirk