h/t to Kate at SDA. Gotta hand it to her. Being a fan of WKRP in Cincinnati, her headline made me laugh out loud.
As God Is My Witness, I Thought Polar Bears Could Fly
This video however, isn’t so funny.
Don’t know what I’m talking about with WKRP in Cincinnati? Read on.
Being in radio and TV requires knowledge of the groundbreaking broadcast comedy: WKRP in Cincinnati
There’s a famous scene in a 1978 episode where Mr. Carlson, “the Big Guy” (the general Manager) sets up a helicopter promotion to give away live turkeys at a Cincinnati shopping mall parking lot. He launches them from the helicopter into the crowd below. The event is reported by newsman Les Nessman ala the Hindenburg disaster. It is one of the funniest moments in television ever. Here’s the ending.
You can watch the entire episode on Hulu.com, 24 minutes. Well worth your time to see broadcast comedy history.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/322/wkrp-in-cincinnati-turkeys-away
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Plane Stupid is just another militant organisation which has morphed out of the Animal Liberation Front.
In the end these upper class twa tsea drinkers add no value to anything.
Dumb and dumber – the thing the warmists need is credibility and what they produce is anything BUT credible
Hulu seems to only stream in the US, is there an alternative?
thanks
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I’d actually prefer that to any sort of carbon tax. You could just drop polar bears on people in proportion to how much CO2 they produce. I mean, it’s quite a disincentive, isn’t it? You could probably dodge a few…
The AGW movement is an assault on reason, and ultimately, on mankind. This video is an example of xxx-rated climate porn, and those who produce this sort of filth are the lowest type of scum on the planet.
Their desperation is becoming more and more obvious, particularly now that Copenhagen looks to be a bust, and any climate bill in the U.S. is a year away at least.
Please will somebody explain where the figure of 400kg of GHG per passenger comes from? Even if you say the entire weight of fuel burned turns into GHG, 400kg seems to be overstated by an order of magnitude to me.
You nailed it, stupid video, but I laughed so hard when I read Kate’s headline. Thinks for the hulu link!
A polar bear exhales enough CO2 annually to kill a polar bear.
Looks like they’re self limiting.
Given that polar bears are the only bears that will stalk and kill humans for food, perhaps they might want to take an extended vacation up where polar bears are in sufficient supply. Given that their population has increased of late, the supply is becoming less of a problem.
Okay it’s official….
The alarmists have sunk to a new low.
I’m afraid to ask but… what’s next ?
I know this is a bit off topic but, yesterday, we received a glossy brochure the “Arctic Season 2010” covering tours from Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic.
The cover is a photo of a polar bear looking at camera and the cover text reads, “It’s HIS world, we’re just in it [emphasis mine].”
Why is it HIS world? Was there a vote? Has anybody asked the seals? The peoples of Bangladesh or The Sudan? Just wondering . . . .
Are AGW promoters admitting that the only way that polar bears are going to soon go extinct is to drop them from airplanes?
Maybe the real problem of losing so many polar bears is winding up being knee-deep in seals!
OT: I didn’t know Tiny Tim was a warmist…
Here he is, scaring children with
“The Ice Caps Are Melting” song
@Patrick Davis
That’s what’s normally called Over-unity …
Oh, the humanity!
Around Thanksgiving of 1989 or 1990 I was driving on I-75 somewhere north of Gainesville, FL when over the radio came the broadcast of a station’s annual memorial Thanksgiving turkey drop (toy stuffed turkeys with prize tickets), replete with references to the Great Turkey Drop. I was laughing so hard I had to pull off the road.
A consistent feature of stupidity, IMO, is to downplay the intelligence of others. “Elitist” contempt is what I call it. I have seen it displayed, for instance, by Yankees against Southerners who they thought intellectually inferior just because of their accents! But here is one of the things the Torah says about conceit:
“Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.” Proverbs 26:12
BTW, I though that simulation was inaccurate. A polar bear at terminal velocity would do quite a bit more damage, IMO. Because of their toughness, I would expect the carcasses to hang together, so that seems accurate.
Man is a religious animal. Let me point out that science prospered under the Judea-Christian environment but is now going astray in this post-Christian world. Perhaps the specialization in science blinded the hard scientists to the traitors in their midst in the softer sciences.
As far as I can understand, the premise of this film is that a polar bear dies each time a human emits a quantity of carbon dioxide equal to the weight of a polar bear. Technically it was excellently made. The physics of the bears bouncing was completely realistic. I wonder what model they used?
Still on the subject of lovable polar bears, I remember seeing some film recently about bears hunting Beluga whales. Apparently they wait at the breathing holes then jump in and attack. Many Beluga’s bear terrible scars. It seems to me, that if there was less ice, the Beluga’s wouldn’t be constrained to a few breathing holes. Therefore, anyone in favour of more ice is guilty of being anti Beluga whale. Let’s adopt the Beluga whale as the simple of AGW skeptics.
Oops, I meant “adopt the Beluga as symbol of AGW skeptics.”
More rubbish from the ever more desperate CAGW cabal. The truth will out in the end – the clock is ticking very fast now on this political scam – 9, 8, 7…..
This nonsense does not justify the destruction of a perfectly good classic Cadillac.
I want a polar bear rug!!!!!!!!!!
Why use evidence to prove your point when you can use an emotional responce to get your way with things? Heck the Democratic party has been using that tactic for the past 60 years. It works well.
Not Amused (05:54:17) :
Okay it’s official….
The alarmists have sunk to a new low.
I’m afraid to ask but… what’s next ?
Next…well…AlGores dropping from the sky to your house, now that’s scary~!