Smokey the Bear
You may live under a rock (or in Canada or some god-awful place like that) and not know that there are tons of forest fires raging around the American West. I'm not saying it because it's important (unlike most people out West I am not convinced that I live at the omphalos of the world), but because it's pretty hard to miss that much fire. Luckily, I am not in the path of the blaze and can go about my bland life, carting myself back and forth to work etc. - except. Except, that there is a haze hanging over the area whose sole purpose seems to be making our sunsets look spectacular every night. The only downfall is that every time I see that beautiful sunset I'm faintly aware of my lungs blackening, and the fact that nuclear winter would kind of look like this except darker and colder ... and with more cannibalism.
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Prove it! (skyblog needs a kickstart).
My relatives in Sydney say the same thing about the frequent brush fires that happen in the summa' down unda'.
Posted by: Les | July 9, 2008 7:20 PM
Well fine then! You tell those Aussies that we have just as good brush fires as them! I'll prove it!
Posted by: lo fat mo | July 10, 2008 9:23 AM
I thought this post was going to be about the age old debate about why it's "Fozzie Bear" but "Smokie THE Bear".
Why Congress can't get off their keisters and do something about this once and for all, I don't know. You can't just go by Hensen versus not Hensen, because of "Kermit THE Frog". Does it just come down to the right for a fictional animal to choose, or should we have some sort of set standard/Constitutional amendment?
At least "Muppets Take Manhattan" solved the discussion around whether interspecies fictional marriages were legal... at least between frogs and pigs (if not for amphibians and mammals).
Posted by: Iain Hamp | July 12, 2008 2:58 PM
A- Proved it.
B- Iain once again you bring a nuanced understanding to the Fozzie v Smokey debate. Why doesn't Fox News cover THIS news eh?
Posted by: Lo Fat Mo | July 13, 2008 12:44 PM
Yeah... you would think with all the puppets in the political system these days, this would be the sort of issue that would have the heightened sensitivity that leads to demands for action.
Oh, SNAP!
Posted by: Iain Hamp | July 14, 2008 9:43 AM