[QUOTE=Otto]
Tonstant Weader fwowed up.
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Funny as Dorothy Parker could be, I still like my Pooh (the REAL Pooh, not the stupid movies or TV) better. I also like Katharine Hepburn, and have had quite a few passes made at me in my life despite my vision correction appliances. So sue me.
[QUOTE=Kevbo]
I have been both Smokey Bear (several times) and Woodsy Owl once. Kevbabe works for the Forest Service, and I get recruited. Actually it’s fun, and I don’t have to (and am not even supposed to) talk to anybody.
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Can’t talk to anyone, huh? Damn it, I really want to know how I’m supposed to prevent lightning strikes in the forest. The rumor is that only I can do it, but I still haven’t figured it out.
[QUOTE=Dag Otto]
I really want to know how I’m supposed to prevent lightning strikes in the forest. The rumor is that only I can do it, but I still haven’t figured it out.
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Be fair. He didn’t say ‘Only you can prevent every forest fire’.
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.]
Be fair. He didn’t say ‘Only you can prevent every forest fire’.
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Good to know. I don’t even spend much time in the forest.
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane]
Who remembers these words painted on the highway?
DON'T
BE
A
GUBERIF
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Wait, so I shouldn’t be the opposite of a firebug? ::wanders off looking for kindling and a lighter
[QUOTE=Zeldar]
Ah, yes. Highway Poetry. Burma Shave
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Thank you! I was trying to spell something out of Burma Shave backwards. :smack:
Eva H. Sam-Rub 
[QUOTE=twickster]
IIRC, the original Smokey was a real bear – a cub rescued from a forest fire. His name was thus “Smok[e]y Bear.” I guess there’s something about a Mountie hat that calls for a “the.”
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[QUOTE=gigi]
Eva H. Sam-Rub
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If there hasn’t been a user (or a band) with that name yet, I predict there soon will be 
[Quote=Zeldar]
Now this I do understand!
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Yes, but does Twickster?
d&r
Bear statue: Only who can prevent forest fires? [Bart pushes the ‘you’ button] You said ‘you’, referring to me. The correct answer is ‘me’, referring to ‘you.’
Bart: Mom, can we go outside, away from the bear?
I can supply a 1946 newspaper cite talking about “Smokey the Bear.” There are precious few citings of the bear before 1950.
In fact, the cite above is the only one I can find in my newspaper database, from 1930-1949. And I searched for “Smokey Bear” and “Smokey the Bear.”
I think that it is hilarious that the U.S. Forest Service has this perfect icon – famous for over a half-century. Everyone is familiar with this symbol. Everyone knows what his name is, what he looks like and what he says.
So what does the U.S. Forest Service do? They change his name and what he says!
“So remember kids, uh…only you can…er…wait…it’ll come to me…um…”
Well, what did you expectate?
[QUOTE=Stuffy]
There use to be this Native American guy that used to cry at the sight of litter. I can’t remember who made it but Family Guy spoofed it.
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No offense… but far too powerful a commercial message to let your description stand. Was just jaw dropping in it’s day…
[QUOTE=Czarcasm]
Apparantly not.
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More ignorance fought! Thanks, Czarcasm – you’d think I’d know by now to research first, post later.
(And I’m going to loftily ignore Quiddity’s aspersions on my cultural literacy.)
