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[rachelmanija]

It is pouring rain. I have one Monet water lilies umbrella and one yellow duckie umbrella and possibly one additional umbrella, but I have no idea where any of them are.

Yuletide panic level: BEARS.

PS. What is the "BEARS" thing from? It cracks me up.

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[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

It's from The Colbert Report. They have a segment called the ThreatDown (http://www.threatdowngenerator.com/) wherein Stephen lists the top 5 threats to America. Frequently at #1 are BEARS, those godless killing machines.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

I guess Colbert is not a fan of xkcd, since in that case velociraptors would show up.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

Also, although apparently there is one right-wing radio host who is psychotically afraid of polar bears (said host is in New Jersey), the Stephen Colbert hatred of bears is just a happy coincidence, and not at all related to the crazy fixations of right-wing radio hosts.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Coincidence...or EVOLUTION?!?!

(My high school biology teacher's catchphrase.)

[the-xtina.livejournal.com]

Also perhaps (http://the-xtina.livejournal.com/1087709.html?format=light).

Edited to include icon relevance.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. It never occurred to me to look at the source code for that. That is fucking hilarious.

(And so is your icon.)

[cicer.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. It rained madly here, and though I possess two umbrellas, I couldn't find either of them. Probably because I don't have to use them more than once a year, so they get shoved to the back of closets and hidden under beds and whatnot. Orz.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

You could order a sparkly-ass umbrella (http://glowproducts.com/lightupoutdoorfun/ledumbrella/). Not that that helps right now, but it does make life more cracktastic.

[jeremytblack.livejournal.com]

I have been very lucky in that I found both my umbrellas two weeks ago. I can use the Sierra Club umbrella to cover my head, and the plain brown umbrella to beat the BEARS away.

Colbert does some funny things on bears. I think you'd like it as much as I do. The way he's created this ongoing obsession through the years with the threat of bears just cracks me up. I'd bet if you went to You Tube and searched for Colbert bears, there'd be something up there. If they're short and out of context of his show, they may not be as funny, but I'd hope so.

I'm curious. Where have YOU been encountering the Yuletide threat of bears?

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Other LJ people who are doing Yuletide keep saying (about their unfinished stories, with the deadline nearing), "Panic level: BEARS." It makes sense even with no context!

(Yuletide: http://yuletidetreasure.org/faq.shtml#1)

[isquiesque.livejournal.com]

I don't know myself, being TV-free as I am, but now you and Yoon have in a span of a few minutes posted bear references. So, as I did at her journal, I feel it necessary to point you toward http://www.thingsbearslove.com/

Sadly, I wrote them asking for a shirt that just had the two panels of the fat hiker on the front with no text other than what's in the speech bubble, and they wrote me back and told me no.

And speaking as a park ranger who lives in Alaska and has bears wander through her front yard all the time, I would like to refute Colbert. Bears aren't dangerous (as you can see in my icon, I am standing right up next to one!). But bears are funny, and that is not secret, and Colbert is exploiting that; I can not blame him.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

I never really used umbrellas much when we had a car, but now we don't and all I can find in the closet is one tiny one. D:

I was boggling at how much it rained last night, though. Just kept pouring the whole night.