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Being a broadcaster, one of my favorite TV shows ever was WKRP in Cincinnati. Readers may recall some of the highest forms of stereotypical comedy that came from the sales manager, Herb Tarleck, seen at right, who had the schtick of a used car salesman down pat.
So, when I saw this latest headline sales pitch from Joe Romm over at Climate Progress, with the key words “act now” and “super cheap” I couldn’t help but think of Joe Romm channeling Herb Tarleck.
Here’s the pitch (with my embellishment added):
Problem is, Joe is pushing a product few people seem interested in. The latest sales figures show a significant decline.
Pretty soon, Joe won’t even be able to give it away.
As Paul H notes in comments (with apologies to WKRP’s “Big Guy”):
“As God is my witness, I thought CAGW could fly.”
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Thanks for the +1, Anthony. 🙂 It’s funny, I can remember lines from TV shows I watched in the 1970’s, and yet sometimes I have trouble remembering what day it is. A mystery, to be sure.
It turns a sandwich into a banquet!!
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Fun for the whole family!!
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WKRP — More music and Les Nesmann.
Phone within the next ten minutes for your Sham-O-Matic and get two for the price of three!
Have your credit card handy!
As for car salesmen I was hooked from the very moment my car salesman on very first meeting him said, without artifice, that I should look at all the other dealerships in town before buying a car from him……Honest, he really did say this….He also had no idea whatsoever that I was able to buy any car he had in the showroom. I was dressed like a down and out at the time but he treated me like I could have bought anything he had.
A most potent sales technique in my view…”Go to the opposition before deciding”….
I’ve only just bought my fourth new car from him. My wife has also bought a new car from him.
Also a friend with another pending for one of his higher range models…..
Sorry to be defending car salesmen but some of them are actually decent human beings…..
Ah well…..
You bring up WKRP and all you think about is Herb Tarlick? I watched the show for one reason – Jennifer! (for the young ones, google Loni Anderson). 🙂
LoL.
That’s the funniest thing I have heard or seen since January 1st this year and I’m a news hound.
” Even after they told me and reminded me repeatedly, James Hansen’s green house gas warming models, didn’t have the atmosphere obey Ideal Gas Law, falsely weighting temperature according to composition of gas mix.
And even after I realized all of Aeronautics, Meteorology, and N.A.S.A. had always, treated the atmosphere as an Ideal Gas mix in every single science predating their modern capability, back to World War II and before,
And even when I saw and heard recordings of James Hansen being predicted to be found a criminal by his fellow employees over this very issue,
And even after I saw them try to float that ridiculously out of balance Kiehl-Trenberth cartoon,
battle flag of the “hotter vs colder” challenged,
And even after I saw Michael Mann close associate of Hansen, caught in computer modeling fake research,
And even after I saw all their names – Hansen, Trenberth, Jones, Mann, – on the now famous “Its a Travesty” Email
where Trenberth exclaimed how amid their combined expertise, “we don’t have the slightest clue what the climatic thermostat is doing,”
I thought it would fly! I thought the basic science, was sound!! I did! I really did!
I thought it was real, science weighting the atmosphere’s temperature according to a minute couple percent of volume, was real gas thermodynamics!
Honest I did!
And all those honest men
who I
defamed,
scourged,
mocked,
lied about,
libeled,
slandered,
and ridiculed,
they can’t hold it against me!
Because I believed!
I thought it would fly!
Like an eagle!”
——-
Yeah: well, the eagle, has landed.
The cowbird of fake science, says thanks for raising it’s young,
into full adulthood.
Couldn’t have done it without their help.
——-
PaulH says:
April 13, 2014 at 9:51 am
“As God is my witness, I thought CAGW could fly.”
😉
Friends once introduced me to their visiting guest, an attractive lady from Cincinnatti. I couldn’t resist jokingly asking her if she listened to Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP. She glared at me as if I had two heads and huffily informed me that the show was TV fiction. She really.did.
That was that. The gulf was too wide between us. I saw her on other occasions, but we never again spoke.
Les Nessman = Bill Nye
Maybe one day, Joe Romm will have walls and are green cops the new phone cops?
cheers
Joe Romm:
“What’s it going to take to get you into this Climate Change, TODAY?”
“If you’re in the climate change game and you don’t know who the mark is … you’re the mark.”
(With apologies to David Mamet)
Ron House says:
April 13, 2014 at 5:25 pm
======================
A rail bore writes:-
Yes, you’re referring to the British Rail classes 73 and 74 which were designed to operate on the Southern Region’s 750v DC third-rail system, or elsewhere using the 600 hp (the cl. 74 was slightly more powerful at 650 hp) diesel engine. The cl. 74 was withdrawn and scrapped in the 1970s and early 80s; afaik there are still a few cl. 73s running about (well, actually parked up as they are generally only used as rescue locos if/when the power goes off).
Mr Romm’s “hybrid” trains seem just like normal locomotives to me.
Meanwhile, the UK government is investing billions of pounds in a new generation of trains, some of which are to be known as “bi-mode” which will, strictly speaking, be an uprated version of the good old cl. 73. This one will be designed to operate under the 25kV AC system. THe reason for this slightly bizarre policy is that it is claimed that inventing a snazzy new train like this will be cheaper than electrifying the whole of the ‘Inter-City’ network. It runs electrically to (say) Plymouth and then drops its pantographs and uses the diesel to get to Penzance and back. Time will tell whether or not this is actually sensible; the trouble is that if it proves to be a turkey, that’s a lot of money down the drain.
Still, as Henry Hazlitt once said:-
Whatever the end result, those responsible will take their massively generous government (i.e. taxpayer) funded pensions and go off, whistling, into the sunset, probably with a knighthood or similar to prove how ‘useful’ they were.
I think Herb dresses a little nicer than Joe Romm, but that’s just my opinion. (Herb also has better hair, but we won’t mention that.)
I look forward to the day the theory of CAGW will be like Herb’s suits; “only available at a pro shop in Kentucky”. Oh, and put me down as a Bailey Quarters fan too.
@ur momisugly James Rollins Jr
“The cowbird of fake science, says thanks for raising it’s young,
into full adulthood.”
Ha! If I were drinking coffee, yes, I would have soaked my keyboard! Funniest line I have seen in a while!
Arthur Carlson was the Big Guy.
Why does Joe Romm selling climate models bring the jingle “Red Wrigglers, Red Wrigglers, the Cadillac of worms” to mind?
PT Barnum would be proud of these boys…
That Thanksgiving episode has to be one of the best of the series.
The reason the scream about acting now is because they are fully aware that decades long cooling would end the gravy train.
What a deal! I’m going to buy in as soon as I get the money that’s coming to me from Nigeria …