Comments on: Bear Aware

By: Sasspirilla

Sasspirilla — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:22:38 +0000

Let’s don’t forget Care Bears and Teddy Ruxpin. Their warm and cuddley personalities certainly added to the ‘bear vs humans’ problem!

By: TKM » Blog Archive » aloha from starbucks

TKM » Blog Archive » aloha from starbucks — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:38:51 +0000

[...] United States, if you don’t allow someone to get eaten by a bear every now and again, all the pot banging in the world will simply fall on deaf [...]

By: alice, uptown

alice, uptown — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:05:21 +0000

Thanks for remembering Woodsy Owl. I’ve been quoting his “give a hoot, don’t pollute” line for a couple of years now, and I remember his original design, but didn’t know his name.

All of this we-must-go-green effort of the decade shows we take two (1 1/2?) steps forward, and one step back. Oh, wait, there’s a Bush in an office. Make that two-plus steps back, period.

I can’t help thinking it would be a hell of a lot easier to pollute a lot less if the packaging industry hadn’t gotten the idea that a woman must break through petrochemical bonds to gain access to her quickly multiplying electronic gadgets, to her making purchases on line that have never seen the light of a retail story, or to open a plastic bottle of soda. Clearly we have more techno-widgets and entertainment recycled into new formats than we have money to spend, or else it would be easier to open a “clamshell” package without resorting to sharp implements.

As for the bears, if they can break through the petrochemical wrappers, somehow I think they have earned whatever they seek.

By: Shauna

Shauna — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:43:52 +0000

Good bear aware advice is always welcome, sporks, but for pete’s sake, did you have to include a photograph of the GODAWFUL CLAUSTROPHOBIA-AGGRAVATING ELEVATORS in the leg of the GODAWFUL ACROPHOBIA-AGGRAVATING Gateway Arch? I’m suppressing the urge to shake and scream all over again at the memory of some of the worst 20 minutes of my life!

By: Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:24:10 +0000

“If you see a bear in a natural area…consider yourself lucky.” I think not, but to each her own.

Waiting for the musical.

By: wenwhit

wenwhit — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:18:15 +0000

Is the perfect “O” required for certification? If so, color me chagrined.

Damned funny post, btw.

By: weese

weese — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:46:21 +0000

bear hazing. i would like to see the bear hazing.

By: The Misanthrope

The Misanthrope — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:44:18 +0000

You two are too funny and cute. The last time I was in a national park, daughter was not yet able to use the bathroom on her own. During that trip a bear broke into our friends’ truck and took our ice chest that only had jalapeno cheese. The bear discarded the chest a few feet away, but I know somewhere there was a bear in the woods howling. Hmm, I wonder if that cured him/her of stealing ice chests?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:40:48 +0000

I’m not here to get anyone in trouble, but you did NOT ascertain my bear knowledge or impart any before you “certified” me as bear aware. But maybe the 40-plus crowd is assumed to be more responsible about that sort of thing, just like insurance companies presume that all males become really careful drivers the moment they turn 25. Proving my newly acquired wisdom, it was I who located a tiny hotel bottle of lotion in Sporks’ car that SHE WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE IN THE CENTER CONSOLE OVERNIGHT!

But in saving our silly cars from potential destruction by bears, are we not denying them much-needed moisture and suppleness from the target emollients? Might we be breeding an angry park population of bears with dry paws and flaky skin? Every action has a consequence. Butterfly effect and all.

Is it me, or does the bear-confronting family look like they’re getting their folk on at a hootenanny?

It was a lovely birthday trip, Sporks, thankfully unmarred by bear muggings.