828 meters = .514 miles = 905.5 yd (9 American football fields) = 10.89 Jumbo jets.
Wow.
Yea, I don’t care for that though seeing she had a rigid back support did reduce a bit of my palm sweating. I wish they’d have sprung for a card letterer instead of just hopping over to Kinkos or whatever.
She just kept switching the same two blank cards back and forth and the text was done in post.
Ok, I’d have never guessed that (though obvious now that you point it out) but it’s even less excusable. They didn’t even need to have cards made up and still used the same stale lettering? Lazy for such an otherwise cool spot.
I didn’t notice the two card thing either, despite having watched it about a dozen times now. As for the lettering, I guess I automatically thought they’re supposed to look “handmade” a la Love, Actually, though what that has to do with an airline I’m not quite sure.
You misspelled Bob Dylan.
I wondered when / how long it would be before someone pointed out the card thing didn’t originate with Love, Actually.
Looks like it was a little over 3 hours. A bit slow for SDMB. We are having an off day. 
Do you remember when this was? I went to Bumbershoot a few times when I lived in Seattle.
I was just reading one of Robert Massie’s books about the British Navy. Topmen, who had the highly hazardous duty of handling sails aloft in the pre-steam days, would routinely stand atop each of their ships’ masts when entering port.
They were over 200 feet up, with no supports.
And for more stomach-churning fun, there were ironworkers doing construction on skyscrapers in pre-OSHA times.
That is a very famous image. Well, one very similar. What’s up with the third guy from the right?
Here is the original:
Am I being whooshed? I don’t think a baby was hanging out on the I-beam in the original.
“Lunch atop a Skyscraper”, the skyscraper being part of the Rockefeller Center. I have read that it was a staged photo-op, although they were real laborers.
ETA: Another doper links to a fine Smithsonian article
~Max
A ringer.
Ha! @Jackmannii posted an edited version (still not sure why that guy has a “bag” over his head) so I thought it would be funny to post another edited version.
Didn’t you see me? I was the guy with the shades. Wearing a t-shirt? And shorts? Yeah, that was me; the guy who didn’t wave at you!
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So I googled “Stan Freberg at Bumbershoot” and got fun blurbs: an anecdote from a guy who was surprised to see him on a Seattle street, a reminisce from the Seattle Times … and the date: Sep. 2, 1989.
Well, at least the flight attendant-character didn’t just thrown the used cards down. That would have been…something.
Make a really cool commercial even more cool?
I worry about the people on the ground. You know, a cardboard sheet dropped from that height can slice a person in two! true fact!*
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* maybe
Just have someone on the ground yelling “FORE!” Or would “FOUR!” work better?