Park Service steamed by Metamucil ad

AP via. CNN.com ^ | 1-24-2003

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CHEYENNE, Wyoming (AP) -- The National Park Service is fuming over a commercial in which a park ranger pours a glass of Metamucil into Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park to help the geyser stay regular.

Park Service officials scoff at the notion the famous geyser would ever need help, and point out the damage that can be caused by dumping things into the park's thermal features -- not to mention that venturing near geysers and hot springs is often very dangerous.

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I had to read this twice to believe it.

We are on the verge of war, and these weenies in a green suit are worried about someone throwing a tin cup of fiber into a steam hole???

If the congress needs to look for fat to trim they should look here first. And then send these folks out into the woods with a shovel and chainsaw to clean brush before the next fire season.

Time for Rush to keep an eye open for another 'JellyStone' horse and sleigh sob story?

[Asclepius]

... Park Service officials scoff at the notion the famous geyser would ever need help ...

Grow a sense of humor you department of motor vehicles clerks in smokey [formerly, "the"] bear hats.

Buffoons.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Don't get me started on the Forest Service either....

[Rebelbase]

"Even at Old Faithful, visitors in the 1870s would drop in branches and stones and watch them be fired out as the geyser erupted."

The good old days.

infrared image of Old Faithful.

[Corin Stormhands]

Elrond ping.

[BADROTOFINGER]

I have seen this commercial, and think that it ranks with the most asinine and inane commercials ever filmed. Its stupidity is astonishing. If it was done toungue-in-cheek it was done so badly that all involved should never work in any sort of film capacity again. It was that bad...JFK

[Rebelbase]

"In 2001, a man scalded his arms trying to rescue the family dog after it bolted from a motor home and jumped in a thermal pool.

I wonder if he threw a stick in the pool.

[dpa5923]

LOL!

[vetvetdoug]

Most NPS employees are so anal retentive that one couldn't drive a ten penny nail up their butt with a sledgehammer.

[freekitty]

Have we hit bottom yet?

[Willie Green]

bttt

[Dan(9698)]

Because of the energy shortage they turn it off at night and in the winter.

[antaresequity]

If the congress needs to look for fat to trim they should look here first.

I watched an hour long documentary about some Scientist that has been trying to map the magama dome under Yellowstone basically his entire professional carreer.

He is paid by the public, has an impressive lab and staff, shiny new SUV's, helicopter access...the fanciest high tech gadgets...etc etc...

He was even sent to Greece on several occasions [tax payers] to study a volcano over their.

The entire documentary was a propoganda piece for this guy.

Millions upon millions pissed down a rat hole so we can "better understand" the potential for cataclysmic volcanic events.

The whole show ends with this tripe: The world has seen numerous cataclysmic eruptions, it will see more...

No Sh!t Sherlock.

[Nick Danger]

[blackbart.223]

"It was pretty over the top," said Greg Allgood, associate director of the company's Health Sciences Institute. "Anybody would get it. It was a joke."

Apparently not everyone got it. This another example of the damage done by political correctness.

It seems to me that certain members of The National Park Service need a dose of mood enhancers.

[RichInOC]

Mr. Nash...no, it doesn't. No sane person believes that the rangers actually drop Metamucil into Old Faithful. Not that even a whole jarful of fiber laxative would do that much harm to it. It was obviously a joke. I got that. You should have too. Maybe you need some Metamucil...I'm sure Procter and Gamble would be happy to send you some.

[yarddog]

First of all, the Park People have no sense of humor at all.

On the other hand that is a pretty bad commercial. If that is what metamucil does to you I don't think I would want to try it.