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(Chicago Tribune)   Seven billion candlepower beacon causing sleeping difficulty in downtown Chicago   (chicagotribune.com) divider line 29
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2001-08-30 03:57:01 PM
I want a coupla dees things to go on my monster truck (wonce I get da monster truck)
 
2001-08-30 04:08:39 PM
environmentalists expressed fears that the beacon would create more light pollution, waste energy and interfere with migrating birds

1. What is light pollution?

2. Waste energy? No shiat!

3. What kind of bird migrates at night?
 
2001-08-30 04:15:37 PM
You'd think a law student would know better than to call 911 cause a "flash bulb bright" light that is "uncomfortable to look at" is shining in his apartment.

Why the poop is he looking into the light?
 
2001-08-30 04:16:50 PM
Light pollution, well down here in the swamps the light gets pretty hairy what with all that moss blowing off the cypress trees and all. Darn hard to see some times and that there dirty light can make yer eyes burn like all get out.

Been times I've walked out my own door and fell over the randomly placed dog, 'I'm blind!" I'd screem and the little wife would tell me I had to much to drink and to open my eyes a little.
 
bug
2001-08-30 04:23:06 PM
Flamingoes migrate at night
 
2001-08-30 04:24:35 PM
Bug-In Chicago?
 
2001-08-30 04:26:37 PM
Gee, isn't this overkill on the lighting?
 
2001-08-30 04:29:06 PM
Now that makes since, be'n pink and all darn birds would naturally fly by night.
Many times I've seen them pink suckers all froze up on someones lawn, now I know, it's the light that does it.
 
2001-08-30 04:34:28 PM
I shall make a light with seven billiooon candles. Or we can just steal a nuclear warhead and hold the world hostage.
 
2001-08-30 04:47:23 PM
Can anyone else see birds bursting into flames flying into the path of that beam?
 
2001-08-30 04:50:01 PM
We need a couple of Chicago Farkers to get a batman beacon cut-out and put it on the lense of that thing. Note: Wait until its a cloudy night.
 
2001-08-30 04:51:55 PM
Light pollution is light that is directed into the sky. Its the reason you can see so many more stars in rural areas.

I'd take a clear night sky over a dumb lighttower any day\night.
 
2001-08-30 04:56:21 PM
Karpage-Thanks. Now can you answer what bird migrates at night?

Albert-Getting my scissors right now
 
2001-08-30 04:56:41 PM
A batman cutout is an absolutely brilliant idea.... i volunteer
 
2001-08-30 05:04:05 PM
Been done, do a cutout of cliche kitty.
Catman da da da da da da da da
three nights a week for sure.
 
2001-08-30 05:09:27 PM
link I found in 9 seconds using Google

Twice a year millions of birds migrate across the Americas to and from ancestral breeding and wintering grounds. For most species, the migrations occur under cover of night and for thousands of years this passage has been clandestine to all creatures but those who listened to the birds' nocturnal flight calls.


found this 30 seconds later,/a>

sparrows, warblers, bluebirds...
 
2001-08-30 05:10:03 PM
The test continued until about 2 a.m

Then it flashed several times to indicate last call.
 
2001-08-30 05:10:26 PM
dammit
 
2001-08-30 05:11:56 PM
ALERT! ALERT!
The Rite Aid on Fairfax and Sunset has a shortage of Ex-Lax! Please remain calm. We should have plenty in stock within the hour. I urge you all to remain calm and stay away from the Rite Aid on Sunset and Fairfax in Hollywood. With my partership with the LAPD and LAFD no problems should arise. Again, please remain calm, all will be well.
 
2001-08-30 05:12:47 PM
Karpage-Kudos! Now I can sleep better tonight knowing that.

Thanks
 
2001-08-30 05:46:33 PM
hey, a got this HUGE bomb. But don't worry. It won't make any noise. Trust me.
 
2001-08-30 05:50:56 PM
Same kind of issue with me. I use to have God and Angels visit me at night once in a while and the holy light was really bright and it bothered my neighbors, it killed some birds and really pissed off the star watchers in our area, I guess they missed a chance to see Whitney Houston.
 
2001-08-30 06:43:53 PM
Can't we all just sing-along-to-that-old-Debbie-Boone-or-some-other-sentimental-honkey-girl-song -"You-Light-Up-My-Life" along?
 
2001-08-30 08:12:53 PM
A high powered rifle would solve the problem.
 
2001-08-30 09:04:57 PM
RodneyKing: you crack me up! I love your posts!

BUT there is one thing which always irks me, and I hope I'm not going to piss you off...but you always forget to put the word "get" in front of "along". Its kinda like when Bugs Bunny plays the piano and keeps pressing the wrong key, and drives Yosemite Sam up the wall. It'd really save my sanity if you could stick that one word in there!

Thanks for your time! :)
 
2001-08-30 09:11:19 PM
Is the beacon grail-shaped?
 
2001-08-30 09:20:55 PM
Tsubaki, it just wouldn't sound right. Don't mess with the theme. Shhhh.
 
2001-08-30 09:26:45 PM
Tsubaki: All the hyphonated crapola is a replacement for the verb "get". This illustrates the difficulty in 'getting' from the actual to the ideal.
 
2001-08-31 03:38:18 AM
"hello operator?! im stareing into a bright light and it hurts help me!"

She deserves to be shot in the face with a high powered lazer. That too bright!?!
 
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