postpaleo
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13 Feb 2009, 7:06 pm
The living symbol of Smokey Bear was an American black bear who in the spring of 1950 was caught in the Capitan Gap fire, a wildfire that burned 17,000 acres (69 km2) in the Capitan Mountains of New Mexico. The cub was in the Lincoln National Forest. Smokey had climbed a tree to escape the blaze, but his paws and hind legs had been burned. He was rescued by a Game Warden after the fire.
At first he was called Hotfoot Teddy, but was later renamed Smokey, after the mascot. A local rancher who had been helping fight the fire took the cub home with him, but he needed veterinary aid. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Ranger Ray Bell took him to Santa Fe. His wife, Ruth, and their children, Don and Judy, cared for the cub. The story was picked up by the national news services and Smokey became an instant celebrity. He and the Bells were featured in Life, cementing his star status. Soon after, Smokey was flown in a Piper Cub to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., where he lived for 26 years. Upon his death on November 9, 1976 [7], Smokey's remains were returned by the government to Capitan, New Mexico, and buried at what is now the Smokey Bear Historical Park [8].
Wickepedia parts.
Too bad about the zoo part, but I suppose, well I don't know, maybe they didn't know how to reteach a bear to go back in the wild or they just got greedy.
13 Feb 2009, 7:48 pm
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13 Feb 2009, 8:01 pm
It could have turned out very differently: News teams & paparazzi arrive in Capitan, NM for 10th anniversary of Smokey's repatriation after his recovery.
"Former star lurks in remote mountain hideaway"
"Fish and blueberry diet secrets of the ursine and famous"
"Smokey shock: girlfriend, cubs in bizarre love triangle"
"Plastic surgeon reveals: 'Yes, he's had rather a lot of work done'"
(many grainy long-lensed shots of indistinct furry critters)
13 Feb 2009, 8:18 pm
Speaking of reality and burned animals, have you ever eaten really, reaallly bad food? I mean, bilgewater bad? Like you wondered if you might actually be eating your own knuckles? Like liver soup and salted fermented squid guts bad? I know a great restaurant that could make the strongest cast iron stomach spew! Probably the worst thing ever to pass my lips was their Pokemon branded sausage. It was served in a yellow cardboard box, with an ebullient Pikachu dancing on the front. C'mon - who could resist that? Daring not to attempt it in the restaurant, I got the box out to the car and opened it up to find several fleshy-colored tubes of what looked like cheap baloney, pinched at each end with a metal ring. Upon selecting a limp finger of Pokemon sausage, I popped a metal ring off and was greeted by the smell of ocean.
Not good ocean, either, mind you. This smelled like beached dead fish at Galveston on a hot August afternoon at high noon. It smelled like a sturgeon had crawled up inside someone's colon and somehow managed to die a week prior, and then been sealed off with metal rings. "Hmm," I thought, "this doesn't look promising. I wonder what's in these?"
I flipped the box over to read the ingredients. Fish paste and krill ranked as the top two ingredients.
Fish paste.
Krill.
Taking a moment to let the fact sink in that I was essentially about to eat sea monkeys, I closed my eyes and brought Galveston under my nose and past my lips. "Our Father who art in heaven...," I thought to myself as teeth sank into something with the most obscene mouth-feel I could never have imagined. Words fail my attempt to describe the way this product felt in my mouth - such was the power of its terrible and incomprehensible texture. The closest description of the texture I can think of is that it was a sort of an unholy union betwixt sewage and Jell-O. You didn't chew it so much as just sort of tried to choke it down as it freakishly grew into an ever expanding blob of slimy jiggling chunks.
Ah well, bon appetite! 
13 Feb 2009, 8:33 pm
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13 Feb 2009, 8:43 pm
^ Yum! 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo22Phkedmw[/youtube]
13 Feb 2009, 10:04 pm
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13 Feb 2009, 10:08 pm
"Former star lurks in remote mountain hideaway"
"Fish and blueberry diet secrets of the ursine and famous"
"Smokey shock: girlfriend, cubs in bizarre love triangle"
"Plastic surgeon reveals: 'Yes, he's had rather a lot of work done'"
(many grainy long-lensed shots of indistinct furry critters)
Gotta love it. Oh how much I miss the good tabloids. "Noah's Ark found on Pennsylvania Mountain Top"
Worked on a dig in West Virgina, when the supervisor said her boy friend wrote for the National Enquirer, all work screeched to stand still and we gathered around for the full truth.
14 Feb 2009, 6:29 am
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo22Phkedmw[/youtube]
Quelle horreur!! !! ! Had I seen this commercial first, I might have taken their lead and run for my life!
No amount of tongue scrapings, scrubbings, dousings, or sandblastings can erase that taste now cranium seared.
My own fault though. Should'a known better than to eat at a place called Nietzsche's.
Not sure I'm stronger now either.
14 Feb 2009, 6:44 am
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14 Feb 2009, 9:05 am
Welcome Dussel! Make yourself at home!
I found the car I want:
too bad it only exists digitally.
the Uno motorcylce looks pretty cool, if it could get more speed:
http://www.freakingnews.com/Uno-Motorcy ... -50089.asp
http://greenupgrader.com/1307/the-uno-e ... runicycle/
14 Feb 2009, 12:33 pm
14 Feb 2009, 1:28 pm
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14 Feb 2009, 1:52 pm
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14 Feb 2009, 7:18 pm
if you recognize more than 25 of these historical people you are quite cultured, it is said.
Click for large image:
Merle
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