# Mr. Burns Wouldn't Put Up With Shit Like This **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511 "2005-05-19T00:23:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511/41 "2005-05-19T21:59:06Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Makes me wonder if they got Friz Freling to score their approach to the building. You mean Carl Stalling? (I’m not sure if “orchestrate” is used in this sentence in the musical sense or the planning sense. If it is planning, then Freling makes sense. They’re both dead, anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511/42 "2005-05-19T22:49:36Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > Can we afford _not_ to use it? But many of the greenies don’t like windpower, since it tends to kill birds, and solar cells are bad because they take over animal habitats. :rolleyes: I’d _love_ for us to switch to solar, wind, wave, geothermal, and other methods of generating electricity, but for every solution you propose some environmentalist nutjob is going have a reason for hating it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511/43 "2005-05-19T23:13:05Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > Would that be a 1920’s style Amnesia Ray? I should think Mr. Burns can afford newer kit than that. Certainly! He has his beloved Luger. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511/44 "2005-05-20T06:24:06Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I got it, let’s burn Green Peacers! :eek: Well, since we can already make synthetic petroleum out of turkey offal, I see no reason why we couldn’t do the same with green peacers. However, since green peacers tend to be liberal, and therfore pro birth-control, we might run into problems with over harvesting, since the demand for fuel will likely outpace their breeding. Thus, we might be forced to look for _alternative_ hominid fuel souces—such as the world’s (admittedly dwindling) old-growth hippie reserves, drilling for new greens and other assorted leftists directly on college campuses, illegal immigrants, etc. Of course, we could always wait for nuclear fusion. It’s only 20 years away! (Which is what everyone’s been saying for the last 60 years, true…) ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511/45 "2005-05-20T07:07:00Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > But many of the greenies don’t like windpower, since it tends to kill birds, and solar cells are bad because they take over animal habitats. :rolleyes: I’d _love_ for us to switch to solar, wind, wave, geothermal, and other methods of generating electricity, but for every solution you propose some environmentalist nutjob is going have a reason for hating it. Theres always going to be some fringe basket-cases. As far as I am concerned, they can go live in a hut and name their children “starflower”. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511/46 "2005-05-20T15:14:51Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Do you mean the revolver? Precisely ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511/47 "2005-05-20T15:27:04Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > But many of the greenies don’t like windpower, since it tends to kill birds, and solar cells are bad because they take over animal habitats. :rolleyes: I’d _love_ for us to switch to solar, wind, wave, geothermal, and other methods of generating electricity, but for every solution you propose some environmentalist nutjob is going have a reason for hating it. Or we could just block out the sun with a giant dish so people are forced to turn to nuclear power. We could also build cars that run on Lil’ Lisa’s Patented Animal Slurry. > [@Try As I Might...](#): > > I hope I’m not making a very controversial statement by saying that wind farms have not developed in the midwest as they have on the pacific coast (OR and CA). Here’s a map of total wind production (MW) by state: [http://www.awea.org/projects/index.html](http://www.awea.org/projects/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511/48 "2005-05-20T15:54:28Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Gu-uys! We’re supposed to be cracking wise-arse remarks and being snarky and silly and generally fun in this thread, _not_ engaging in a meaningful, thoughtful debate on alternate energy sources! > > Sheeesh! Man 1: All right! We’re finally going to stop those corporate pigs from dumping that nuclear waste! Man 2: Oh, no! Our boat is sinking! Burns: It was I, you fools! The man you trusted wasn’t Wavy Gravy at all! [tosses a guitar away] And all this time, I’ve been smoking harmless tobacco! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-burns-wouldnt-put-up-with-shit-like-this/304511.md?page=2)