Posted on 08/09/2022 3:43:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Smokey Bear turns 78 and you can join in on a celebration happening Tuesday.
From 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, a virtual birthday party will be held for Smokey on a live stream. The party will be hosted by PBS host Darley Newman and representatives from the U.S. Forest Service.
Smokey was born Aug. 9, 1944, as a campaign to prevent forest fires but the real Smokey came to be six years later.
In the spring of 1950, a young bear cub was found alive after being caught and badly burned while taking shelter up in a tree in a burning forest within New Mexico’s Capitan Mountains. The firefighters later named him Smokey.
Smokey lived at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., until his death in 1976. After his death, he was returned to the Capitans and was buried. He is also celebrating his 70th birthday this week.
I am going out to the woods and smoke.....
Its Smokey THE Bear. Smokey The Bear. The science is settled.
The oldest black bear lived to be 39 in the wild.
Smokey is twice that which shows that a diet of cigarettes, beer and honey is very healthy.
https://bearwise.org/faq-items/how-long-to-wild-black-bears-live/
Smokey the Bear
Smokey the Bear
Prowling and a-growling
And a-sniffin’ the air
He can smell a fire
Before it starts to flame
That’s why they call him Smokey
That’s how he got his name.
They taught us that in elementary school and I remember it to this day. We also learned how to play it on the recorder.
It’s a different country now.
Similarly we were in a universe where the cereal was spelled Froot Loops, but in this universe it has always been Fruit Loops.
Many more examples to search out on YouTube.
Always THE bear.......
I had no idea that I am older than Smokey the Bear. Not by much though. Hahahaha
Smokey the propaganda Bear
Smokey came out as a gay, transgendered BBOC (black bear of color)
Great.
You bring up celebrating one of the most iconic gaslighting figures of the 20th century and expect all of us to sing Kumbaya?
C’mon, man.
I remember seeing Smokey in the National Zoo when I was little.
Did he come out as gay or trans yet?
Yup. Big time.
Dunno.
If a bear comes out in the woods, does it matter?
Now, if people started coming out in the woods to bears, I might sell tickets.
Too bad Smokey...nice try. California policies give us the fires.
Happy birthday, Smokey the Bear!
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