[GeneD]

As Yogi Bear would say, sheez!

[dead]

When did my country get taken over by the idiots?

[kcar]

Maybe they should shoot a commercial showing how Metamucil helps John Edwards be a "regular" guy?

[cyborg]

Maybe they should send samples to the Park Service.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Well, dang. I might as well cancel my trip to Yellowstone and sell off my pick up truck full of metamucil.

Shucks.

[Mears]

I've seen this ad and thought it was very funny.

Who knew???

[RJayneJ]

Sounds to me like the National Park Service rangers are the ones that are constipated.

[Randjuke]

The commercial sparked criticism from the Park Service, which said the park's geothermal features can be damaged by dumping things into them,

Well, there go my vacation plans.

[punster]

Do you mean that Proctor and Gamble got into hot water over 'Old Faithful'?

[strela]

Speaking of Yogi, I'd pay real money to see the following crawl under the cartoons:

"No bears were harmed in the making of this animated entertainment. Real bears do not wear stupid, Ed Norton-looking hats and ties, nor do they talk. As a matter of fact, some are big enough to eat you. And yes, they DO poop in the woods."

[Marty]

It was funny, but not in the way anticipated. The commercial brought revolting images to my mind--after all, the stuff is designed to create regularity in the bowels, and with the surge of Old Faithful....all I could think of was a surging bowel movement, a geyser of.....

[Nucluside]

Why don't we sell off one-half of those parks so we can fire some of those fed dumb asses and turn them in to money makers?

[Treebeard]

What a country...you'd think that the visual metaphor of hot, sulfurous, gas infused liquid exiting an orifice at high speeds and at more or less regular intervals would have HELPED a laxative company.

[FreedomCalls]

From the Yellowstone web page:

MORNING GLORY POOL
Temperature 171.6°F Dimensions 23x26.6 feet. Depth 23 feet. A deep, funnel-shaped pool with a dark blue center. The resemblance to the corolla and color of a morning glory is responsible for its name in the early 1880s. It has been a popular thermal feature and a symbol of Yellowstone. The early stagecoach and automobile road came within a few feet of this pool until 1971 when the road was rerouted. Early visitors carelessly removed the delicate scalloped border and dumped debris into the pool. In 1950 the water level was lowered by siphoning which induced the pool to erupt. Socks, bath towels, 76 handkerchiefs, $86.27 in pennies, $8.10 in other coins came up; in all, 112 different objects were removed from Morning Glory. The debris had reduced the flow of water and contributed to the decline in temperature, causing bacteria to grow in the cooler yellow and orange edges of the pool.

BLUE STAR SPRING
Temperature 192°F Dimensions 9x10 feet. Depth 6 feet. It received its name from the star-like sinter formation around the edge of the pool. Extensive ledges have formed three to four feet over the crater, creating an illusion of a small spring. The ornate scalloped border of the ledge also extends along the overflow channel. This spring has had a history of vandalism. In 1946 during cleaning, a pile of debris three feet in height by six feet in width was collected. A bison calf fell into the pool in the mid 1980s and the bones can still be seen on the bottom. No known subterranean connection exists with other thermal features. The spring discharges approximately four gallons per minute.

CHINAMAN SPRING
Temperature 200° Dimensions 28x34 inches. Depth 12.5 feet. A small spring located along the Firehole River. Chinaman has erupted 20-30 feet high, but all known eruptions were man-induced. The first incident of a known eruption occurred in the 1880s when a Chinese laundryman pitched his tent over the spring and used the hot water as a clothes boiler. The clothes were suspended in the boiling water by a wicker basket. When laundry soap was added the spring erupted for the first time and a column of water ejected the laundry and collapsed the tent.

[GladesGuru]

How typical of the Department of the Inferior!

The "Armed and Rangerous" have far too much tax money and time on their hands. Budget cutting time must be just around the corner.

A Modest Suggestion:

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.

That way the NPS fears for those with geysers in their yards being "endangered" by the ad will be quieted. Or at least covered by coast to coast laughter.

[jigsaw]

Build an old-fashion outhouse over the darn geyser and tell Chirac his personal bidet is ready.