the hinterland who's who!!!

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so the cbc has announced it will revive these venerable tv vignettes, thanks in part to a bequest from a fellow who willed his entire estate to the Canadian Wildlife Fund.

the new versions - available here tho they won't play for me - will be shown in "classic" and "youth" formats (featuring a "modernized soundtrack" thanks to the cbc's eternal focus-group wisdom: "When we focus-tested the originals with some high school students, they rolled their eyes. They were like, `Oh my God, this is so boring,'" - CWF's Danielle St-Aubin in the Toronto Star)

(the mention on last night's National featured the same sort of chuckling "oh we were so corny back then" chagrin - compared to NOW?? this corporation is demented)

jones (actual), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(c or d: i say classic obviously)

"When attacked, the adult muskox, standing shoulder to shoulder, form a defensive ring. This maneuver was designed for their principal enemy the wolf and proved useless against men armed with rifles" :(

YAY THE MUSKOX!!!

jones (actual), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope the piping plover is ok

THE PEREGRINE FALCON HAS EYES LARGER THAN A MAN'S!! between this and the recent news that the universe might be finite and shaped like a dodecahedron, i don't understand how traffic doesn't just come to a lurching halt worldwide.

(hey somebody should link to the hinterland clips on Proven By Science)

jones (actual), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

jones, is this thread about sex?

adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

you're thinking of the "nether-regions what's what" i think

jones (actual), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...
I have a bunch of Hinterland Who's Who information leaflets that my cousins sent away for in the 70's. bless the Canadian Wildlife Service and their tireless quest for public education.

Poppy (poppy), Friday, 7 November 2003 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

how did I miss this?

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 7 November 2003 08:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really like the CBC Country Canada commercial, where they make fun of them.

d k (d k), Friday, 7 November 2003 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)


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