7/18/2003: Sea Lion radio

Undertoad • Jul 18, 2003 3:33 pm
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A Steller sea lion named Faith surfaces in Seward, Alaska, revealing a lollipop thingy on her head. The glued-on tracking device will fall off later this summer. Faith is the first Steller to be released into the wild by the people at the Alaska SeaLife Center, and they plan to keep an eye on her for a while.

I thought it was funny because this is the same scale antenna, at the same angle, as the VW antennas.
xoxoxoBruce • Jul 18, 2003 6:09 pm
Great picture, UT. Looks like a party animal, for sure.
Conesus • Jul 18, 2003 6:17 pm
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How'd ya spot that one? :confused:
Good eye, I guess.
Elspode • Jul 18, 2003 8:57 pm
I would think that the organization tracking these cars would simply use the sales records instead of going through all the trouble to mount those transmitters on them.

How long does it take the VW antennae to fall off?
Undertoad • Jul 18, 2003 9:08 pm
Cos I have one is why! It works pretty well.
joydriven • Jul 19, 2003 12:39 pm
How long does it take the VW antennae to fall off?
This reminds me of those old candy commercials where the little boy quests to find out how many licks it takes to get to the chocolately-chewy center of a Tootsie Roll lollipop. Finally he finds the old wise owl who promptly crunches the poor boy's lollipop up and informs him that the world may never know.
Griff • Jul 19, 2003 12:47 pm
Its always about VWs with you isn't it? ;)
elSicomoro • Jul 19, 2003 1:20 pm
I've been let down again by IotD. Here I was thinking it would be a radio in the form of a sea lion. Or sea lions with their own conservative talk show somewhere.
joydriven • Jul 19, 2003 2:41 pm
you know, i was run over by a VW once.
(explains a lot i guess.)
but i don't have anything against most of them. :)
xoxoxoBruce • Jul 19, 2003 3:23 pm
but i don't have anything against most of them

Bwahahahahahahahahaha:D
pegusitas • Jul 21, 2003 10:21 am
Originally posted by joydriven
you know, i was run over by a VW once.
(explains a lot i guess.)
but i don't have anything against most of them. :)


Ha. Who are you, Happy Gilmore?
joydriven • Jul 21, 2003 12:58 pm
if i could make my living golfing, i would be, trust me.
Undertoad • Jul 21, 2003 1:25 pm
Wait a min, I just realized that Joy's earlier message isn't exactly correct, which is important because it concerns a very important matter... the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie(TM)-Pop.

The wise old owl does crunch into the -Pop but only after taking three licks. Then he announces that the number of licks it takes to get to the center is THREE.

It's the announcer who suggests that the world may never know, but the current thinking we have on the subject remains THREE.

I HAD to make this correction, because I'm using up valuable brain-space remembering that commercial in detail, and before now this information had not been useful at all.
joydriven • Jul 21, 2003 2:58 pm
...uttering a very decided 'th-r-r-r-EEE.'
and the dejection on the boy's face as the narrator concludes that the world may never know.
sorry for causing all the extra brain exertion, UT. :)
DNK • Jul 21, 2003 3:12 pm
It seems that there have been studies:

http://www.tootsie.com/memoriesLicksMachine.html

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DNK • Jul 21, 2003 3:13 pm
And of course, the original:


http://www.tootsie.com/memoriesSpotsMrowl.html