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[BJ_M]

got what ?

i don't get it ..

[EvilWizardGlick]

I think some of the other stories on that site are funnier, such as:

FCC CRACKS DOWN ON ANIMAL PLANET OBSCENITY
“Animals are like people. They should have the same rights,” says Waxler. “They should be covered up on TV. It’s humiliating for these poor creatures to be shown on TV with everything hanging out. Everybody has made such a big deal about Janet Jackson’s nipple. But just two months ago, Animal Planet showed 16 tits in one particular segment on cows. Where was the uproar then?”
http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=243

That one kind of happened.
Allan Sherman details the story in Rape of the A.P.E ( American Puritanical Ethic).
http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/detail/celeb/197291
" With a friend, posed as co-founder of The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA), a fictional organization that linked animal nudity to the moral decay of Western civilization; appeared on various talkshows to discuss the matter; admitted to the hoax when the organization began gaining in popularity."
http://home.earthlink.net/~sarasohn/aboutaa.html
"ALAN ABEL is best known for his satirical spoof, S.I.N.A., the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals. With Abel as its spokesperson, S.I.N.A. asserted that the low moral standards of the American public were due to "lewd naked animals" at every street corner in our cities and in every pasture in the country. "A Nude Horse Is a Rude Horse," was one of their slogans. S.I.N.A. went on to urge that "all animals should wear clothing for the sake of decency, namely horses, cows, dogs, cats and other domestic animals that stand higher than four inches or are longer than six inches." Thousands rushed to join and/or contribute money to this "worthy cause," only to discover - in the end - that it was all an outrageous hoax."
http://www.adam.com.au/bstett/SkepticsAnimalDecency34.htm
"f Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse and performing monkeys wear clothes why not extend this dignity to all self conscious animals?

The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA) apparently wanted to dress: "all naked animals that appear in public, namely horses, cows, dogs and cats, including any animal that stands higher than four inches or is longer than six inches."

From 1959 to 1964 SINA, led by G C Prout Jr. and publicist Alan Abel, organized demonstrations, TV and radio appearances and a SINA Marching Band.

A SINA excursion to the Bronx zoo received wide publicity as did threats to picket large American corporations with hundreds of clothed animals.

A lot of us humans are quite gullible. We believe in lost continents, missing links, levitation, spoon bending by mind power, astrology, tarot readings, monsters, flying saucers, crystal ball gazing, etc,

We accept the methods and products of science and technology when the results are cars, TV sets, medicine and computers but may reject the results when the same basic methods of science refute beliefs thoughtlessly accepted.

Many of us don't consult the right sources, or ask the right questions, or use the right methods. We fail, for example, to consult reputable scientific journals, or fail to ask for the observation or experiment which allegedly supports a claim, or fail to ask who duplicated the experiment and where it was published.

Therefore we're easily conned as were believers in SINA.

SINA was a hoax which continued so long, five years, because people seemingly wanted to be conned. Its official address was a broom closet and no animals were actually clothed except for media photos. When the hoax was admitted many refused to believe the admission. "
http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/features_detail.html?id1=88
"Stop Smiling: How did SINA come about? Was it your idea?

Buck Henry: No, a friend of mine named Alan Abel came up with it and engaged me in this fraud because I had nothing else to do. Then it just kept reawakening itself every couple of years. He would call and say, “They want us at the San Francisco Zoo.” And because I didn’t really have much to do at the time, I would go. But then it got to the point where I said, “Alan, this is it, this is the last time I do G. Clifford Prout, Jr.” As it happened I did an interview at the Griffin Park Zoo in L.A. for a very well known CBS newsman who passed it on to New York and put it at the end of the Cronkite show. I had no idea that was going to happen.

SS: You were playing this fairly straight, right?

BH: Yeah, but if you listened to this geek standing in the middle of a zoo, playing the ukulele and singing the SINA marching song, if you’re going to take that seriously there is something wrong with you. But it never occurred to me that Cronkite would put it on. And I didn’t see it. I didn’t know it was on. The next day I was driving to New York from L.A. with a friend of mine. We took about five days. And by the time I got there I heard that Walter Cronkite was very angry with me. And I thought, “Jesus Christ, I love Walter Cronkite!” I would never have done anything to upset him in the slightest. I hear from people now and then that the mention of my name is not a good thing with him.

SS: Would SINA members appear at these various media events?

BH: Well, it was all television, except for this one week when Alan Abel and I, with Alan Abel posing as Bruce Spencer, vice president of SINA. He was the Great Oz behind the scenes manipulating everything. So the San Francisco Chronicle took us out for a week, put us up, and put a [reporter] on us. He followed us around. And we went to like five places to further my work in convincing America of the immorality in the presence of naked animals. Now the zoo was the main one, which I had previously condemned as the burlesque show of the animal world. And there were lots of pictures every day on the front page of me trying to put a pair of shorts on a baby elephant, that sort of thing. It was the week the cosmonauts went up, and we were getting equal play in the paper. This was not a good thing. And the great thing was the writer who did these pieces never broke, never smiled, kept a straight face through it all. And a great number of people wrote in, either saying we should be strung up or that they thought it was an interesting concept and they wanted to join the organization, and that their son had been unduly influenced by a well-hung dachshund. It was ridiculous.

SS: But other than Walter Cronkite getting pissed, there was no real backlash?

BH: There was a backlash that I had nothing to do with later on that’s so complicated I can’t describe it. I had already said to Alan Abel, “Leave me out of this.” So he put a bunch of phone lines into an office that was really just a drop with the SINA telephone numbers and a bunch of weird messages. And people started calling it in such large numbers that the lines burnt out. The telephone company refused to replace the lines saying it was his fault. Then he got a bunch of hippies down in Greenwich Village – nasty looking people – he had them picket AT&T or whatever it was then. And he had them carry these signs that said things like, “Let’s not ask how many drunks and child molesters there are at the AT&T main office, what about so-and-so who has been accused in some circles of making off with hundreds of thousands of dollars?” So AT&T got pretty angry and they got a giant court order out against him and against G. Clifford Prout. So I’m sitting in the Gary Moore writers’ room in what is now the David Letterman theater, waiting for a show to start one day and this guy comes in and sits around for a while and he lays down a half-a-million-dollar injunction against me. And I was not happy. So that was the end.

SS: What was the lifespan of SINA?

BH: SINA had to start in the late ‘50s, and it ended in ’62 or ’63.

SS: And whatever happened to Alan Abel?

BH: He was a drummer and also lecturer and went on to write a number of books on practical jokes. He finally managed to have his obituary printed in The New York Times even though he wasn’t dead. And I didn’t know about it and I read it out on the west coast and I felt terrible about it. But I should have known. I just didn’t think you could con The New York Times.

SS: Did SINA have any effect on your work on Day of the Dolphin?

BH: Possibly, sub-consciously. But I never, ever attempted to dress a dolphin. A hat, yes, but that was it."

[MOVIEGEEK]

got what ?

i don't get it ..

I don't get what you don't get. :P
Seriously,I for one got the humor in your post.

[MOVIEGEEK]

5 days and many clues later
Give the man a cigar

Sorry MOVIEGEEK but I had to do it :P

I'm so poor I can't afford a clue.