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2009-11-22 Britain

The funniest scare ad around about global warming,

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Posted by tipper 2009-11-22 02:30|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Wow! Can I get that as a screen saver?

Posted by gorb 2009-11-22 03:57|| 2009-11-22 03:57|| Front Page Top

#2 You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me.

Has anyone told Planetstupid (fitting name, no?) about the global warming "time-out" that's currently baffling the world's leading climatologists?

Posted by eltoroverde 2009-11-22 05:49|| 2009-11-22 05:49|| Front Page Top

#3 This is in the U.K.

Do ya' think the audience members will be arrested for being "insufficiently sensitive" ~~or some such crap~~ when they all burst out laughing?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-22 08:26|| 2009-11-22 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 I like how the polar bear lands on top of what looks like an old Caddy halfway through. Are there that many old Caddies in the UK? I mean, shouldn't it have been a Jag or Range Rover instead? And the "all day parking" sign boasts a $20 charge. Somehow....I don't think there are many lots (or carparks, sorry) in the UK that charge in USD.

So....since I'm a stooopid hick in flyover country, I'm thinking maybe the European flights are ok. It's those damn Yankee flights that are killing the polar bears!

Quick! Someone contact the Goracle!

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-22 08:46|| 2009-11-22 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 It seems as though the ad agency was working on a shoestring budget and we will see these ads on this side of the pond in short order. Since everybody knows that Americans are the REAL evil guys around, it only makes sense that when polar bears fall to their deaths out of the sky, it is US doing it.

Posted by Jame_Retief 2009-11-22 09:24|| 2009-11-22 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 This would be improved immensely if they spliced in Warner Brothers cartoon sound effects. Maybe of Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff, boings, honks, and aroogahs.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-22 09:26|| 2009-11-22 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Should be pretty easy to photoshop it so that the bruins fall on Gore, Phil Jones, the other climate ~~shills~~ scientists....

Posted by lex 2009-11-22 11:29|| 2009-11-22 11:29|| Front Page Top

#8 "As God as my witness I thought ~~polar bears~~ turkeys could fly"

Posted by tipper 2009-11-22 12:57|| 2009-11-22 12:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Wow! Can I get that as a screen saver?

Not yet, but I just made a wallpaper just for you:

Click to download the link, not this image which is twice the size of this image.

Posted by badanov 2009-11-22 15:26|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-11-22 15:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Now that I'd pay to see, lex. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-22 16:38|| 2009-11-22 16:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Thanks, badanov! It's even about the right ratio, too! And the folks in the office who are inclined to be offended by this kind of stuff are just going to have to bite their tongues ~~off~~ after I send them the link to the ad after they bi+ch about my cool new screensaver.

I wonder if any of those bears landed on a Prius.

Posted by gorb 2009-11-22 21:44|| 2009-11-22 21:44|| Front Page Top

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