I Pit Spineless "Corporate America"

[duffer]

Normally sponsor isn’t the same as always sponsor. What part of humor (however lame it is) don’t you get?

[betenoir]

@duffer

Normally sponsor isn’t the same as always sponsor. What part of humor (however lame it is) don’t you get?

The lame part obviously .

[Dead_Badger]

@FinnAgain

Now, if they’d had dinosaurs fighting with giant tortoises who were armed with lasers… and Charles Darwin as a swashbuckling adventurer saving a beautiful maiden from the clutches of mutated finches with deathray eyes, then I’m sure there’d have been corporate sponsorship.

May I recommend to you The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists? It has a plotline strikingly reminiscent of the one you describe, and has the added bonus of containing a large quantity of pirates, not to mention hams.

[Voyager]

@drewbert

I never said there wasn’t press about the exhibit itself - there’s been an appropriate amount of that. Just the issue of the funding seems to be ignored. Fact remains that plenty of other museums get corporate support all the time, with far less press. In fact, millions can be raised before a major project is even publicly announced. Sure, I’ll grant you that there could be alternate explanations, but I can’t see how an institution like AMNH would drop the ball that badly. (And, of course, their development office DID raise the money - through private donations. They don’t hire idiots.)

Who sponsored the recent dinosaur exhibit? (I headed right for it when I finally got back to NY after nine years.)

The difference between sponsoring this and disaster relief is that a corporation could get its name on the materials, while it would be a bit tack to trumpet giving disaster aid. (That companies do give a lot of disaster aid shows the leaders are not all evil - many actually do care about this stuff, and do good quietly.) You’d think that some companies would want to appeal to that portion of the public who goes to a Darwin exhibit, which is likely better educated and with more spending money and influence than the set who would object.

[Bookkeeper]

@Dead Badger

May I recommend to you The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists? It has a plotline strikingly reminiscent of the one you describe, and has the added bonus of containing a large quantity of pirates, not to mention hams.

I just read that book on Monday. Good, totally wacky humour!

[Rysto]

@Shagnasty

You say that they didn’t donate because they are “pussies” like it is a fact. It is not a fact. It is just your theory and there are others that are just as good.

I can’t believe I missed the sarcasm in this post the first three times I read it.

[drewbert]

@Voyager

Who sponsored the recent dinosaur exhibit?

I knew someone was going to ask me for examples.

Bank of America.

[Miller]

@Rysto

I can’t believe I missed the sarcasm in this post the first three times I read it.

Oh, shit! :smack: I get it now!

Well played, Shagnasty!

[Voyager]

@drewbert

I knew someone was going to ask me for examples.

Bank of America.

I’m with you. Sponsorship is very common, and the lack of sponsorship for this exhibit is significant. I didn’t notice the sponsorship of the other one, but we got free tickets from a friend who is a teacher and who was given passes for some reason. I haunted the AMNH when I was a kid, and it is about the first thing I see whenever I return to New York after a long time away.