"agency. A number of other animals were considered as the mascot, including a ladybug, rainbow trout, elk and raccoon. An owl was ultimately chosen because of the belief that owls are wise, can see polluters from treetop perches, and can live near cities and towns. Bell and the others envisioned Woodsy Owl with a broad mission, unlike Smokey Bear, who focused almost exclusively on forest fire prevention. The owl would be used to advocate environmental programs and urge American children to fight pollution and help the environment. Woodsy Owl became most famous for his motto, ""Give a hoot, Don’t pollute""."
"States Forest Service campaign to raise awareness of protecting the environment. Woodsy's slogan was officially introduced on September 15, 1971 by Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin. The first Woodsy Owl public service spot was created by U.S. Forest Ranger Chuck Williams, who was the Forest Service's technical consultant for the ""Lassie"" TV show which featured a Forest Service Ranger and his family. Williams, along with Bell and Glenn Kovar, also of the U.S. Forest Service, brainstormed the idea for the Woodsy motif name together in Los Angeles, California, in 1970. In 1974, the U.S. Congress passed the Woodsy Owl Act"
"Smokey Bear Smokey Bear is an American advertising icon created by the U.S. Forest Service with artist Albert Staehle, possibly in collaboration with writer and art critic Harold Rosenberg. In the longest-running public service advertising campaign in United States history, the Ad Council, the United States Forest Service (USFS), and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) employ Smokey Bear to educate the public about the dangers of unplanned human-caused wildfires. A campaign featuring Smokey and the slogan ""Smokey Says – Care Will Prevent 9 out of 10 Forest Fires"" began in 1944. His later slogan, ""Remember... Only YOU Can"
"Hoots the Owl Hoots the Owl is a fictional character on the children's television program, ""Sesame Street"", performed by Kevin Clash. He was an owl that plays a saxophone. His voice sounds similar to Louis Armstrong. Perhaps his most famous song was ""Put Down the Duckie"" in 1988, a song inspired to help Ernie not squeak while playing his saxophone (to play without holding his rubber duck). Hoots debuted on Sesame Street for the 12th season (1980), but was retired from the show in the 32nd season (2001). Hoots has a saxophone solo in a well-known segment with Little Richard"
"one skeptical of Big Bird's supposed sadness. Hoots the Owl Hoots the Owl is a fictional character on the children's television program, ""Sesame Street"", performed by Kevin Clash. He was an owl that plays a saxophone. His voice sounds similar to Louis Armstrong. Perhaps his most famous song was ""Put Down the Duckie"" in 1988, a song inspired to help Ernie not squeak while playing his saxophone (to play without holding his rubber duck). Hoots debuted on Sesame Street for the 12th season (1980), but was retired from the show in the 32nd season (2001). Hoots has a saxophone solo"
"The second part of the meeting features a shorter talk by an Owl which, because of its purposeful inconsequence, is nicknamed “The Waste Paper Basket”. A second musical item closes the evening. By convention, speakers are requested to avoid such references to religion, sexual matters and party politics that may give offence; English is the only language used for the addresses. If possible, the delivery should be what one of our great former presidents referred to as “A light touch with something behind it”. The speaker is not subjected to interjections, nor is he required to answer questions after his"
"call is a series of eight accented hoots ending in ""oo-aw"", with a downward pitch at the end. The most common mnemonic device for remembering the call is ""Who cooks for you, who cooks for you all."" It is noisy in most seasons. When agitated, this species will make a buzzy, rasping hiss and click its beak together forcefully. While calls are most common at night, the birds do call during the day as well. John James Audubon illustrated the barred owl in ""Birds of America"" (published, London 1827–38) as Plate 46 where it is shown threatening a grey squirrel."
"Pollution Facebook Widget, Real-time Air Pollution Email Alerts (Beta), an iPhone app and Daily Lunchtime Roadside Pollution Tweets. These tools give the public immediate, updated readings about air pollution and, in some cases, push alerts, in a convenient, readable format, allowing them to stay on top of air pollution conditions in real time. Of particular significance is a public service announcement CAN released. The video stars popular celebrities Daniel Wu, Ana R., Simon Yin and Cara G, and is shot in the style of a 1980s-style infomercial. The PSA is a fake advertisement about canned oxygen brand and takes a"
"lines: ""You are a working-class dog. You are a producer for the Kevin & Bean Show. You work hard at 106.7 KROQ. You are a working-class man."" In 1996, Murphy was hired as executive producer of the syndicated Mark and Brian show based at KLOS. Mark & Brian would refer to him as ""Mr. Owl"" due to his love of trivial information. He participated in the annual ""Football Bet,"" always choosing to support the Washington Redskins. His unusual punishments included cleaning a public restroom, collecting semen from a bull and picking the nose of a stranger. He was also known"
"on 9 September 2015 to mark the 30th anniversary of CBBC. Otis the Aardvark Otis the Aardvark was a puppet presenter on Children's BBC. Otis mainly presented the afternoon links on BBC One alongside the main CBBC presenters. Otis was thought to be inspired by the 1992 Children's BBC idents which ended with a voice proclaiming ""Tell that aardvark it's a wrap"". These idents led to much speculation as to what the phrase meant. However, these idents were dropped just before the character of Otis appeared in late 1994. Otis is said to have obtained his name from the OTIS"
"outcome, but to identify low turnouts in target precincts so that the campaign could take action by contacting missing voters and urging them to go to the polls. Gitcho commented: ""The Obama campaign likes to brag about their ground operation, but it's nothing compared to this."" The name ORCA was chosen to reference the Obama GOTV system, called Project Narwhal; in nature, the orca or killer whale is the only known non-human predator of narwhals. In a training call for Republican volunteers on October 31, they were told: ""There's nothing that the Obama data team, there's nothing that the Obama"
"to its original color. It was originally known only as the ""Big Blue Bug,"" a name coined by Providence traffic reporter Mike Sheridan, until it received the name Nibbles Woodaway in a contest in 1990. Geraldine Perry of Tiverton submitted the winning name. The bug has made numerous media appearances, including the films ""Dumb and Dumber"" and ""Dumb and Dumber To"", the television programs ""The Today Show"", ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"", ""The Daily Show"", and ""Family Guy"", the comic strips ""Zippy the Pinhead"" and ""Bosquet"", and the books ""Providence"" by Geoffrey Wolff, ""Roadside America"" by Mike Wilkins, Ken Smith, and"
"Inanimate Objects Party The Inanimate Objects Party (IOP) is a joke political party at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, United States. The IOP has been an RPI tradition since 1997. The party's main candidate is Arthur Galpin, an inflatable whale, who runs for Grand Marshal, and other positions. The other major candidate is Alby the Albino Squirrel, an albino squirrel that lived at RPI and now occasionally runs for President of the Union. The fork is a symbol of the IOP. Pre-history: In 1968(?) a group of independent students (i.e. not fraternity-affiliated) formed the Apathy Party in protest"
"Mr. Know It Owl Mr. Know-It-Owl's Video School was a series of videos released on videocassette, and later repurposed to interactive CD-ROM, and is hosted by a purple owl puppet. The Mr. Know-It-Owl series was copyrighted by Apollo Educational Video (the home video arm of AIMS Media, later AIMS Multimedia). Aimed at younger children, Mr. Know-It-Owl (a play on ""know-it-all""), attempts to educate children in safety, health, grammar, and the three Rs. There were over 10 videos released and a series of CD-ROM. The main characters were Phineas (a firefly), Scooter McGruder (a puppet child with red hair), and of"
"shirt/blue overalls. Pig-Will's catchphrase is, ""I will! I will!"" Pig-Won't's catchphrase is, ""I won't."" Goldbug: a cricket who works as a roving news reporter for the ""Busytown Action Bug News"" and drives a small yellow van, appearing in ""Busytown Mysteries"". Bully Bobcat: a bobcat who decides Squeaky. Mr. Root: a armadillo who works at the community garden. He can be a bit demanding. Ngorongoro Crater: a hyena who is a photographer and whose camera gets a parking ticket. John Parr Miller: a terrier at the town party, apparently a chef, named after a Disney animator who then moved into illustration"
"(now a campus of SUNY Stony Brook) awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Amphibious Letters to Muppet Kermit the Frog. Although some students objected to awarding a degree to a Muppet, Kermit delivered an enjoyable commencement address and the small college received considerable press coverage. The degree was conferred in recognition of efforts in the area of environmentalism. Said the university: ""His theme song, 'It's Not Easy Bein' Green,' has become a rallying cry of the environmental movement. Kermit has used his celebrity to spread positive messages in public service announcements for the National Wildlife Federation, National Park Service, the Better"
"Great horned owl The great horned owl (""Bubo virginianus""), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the ""winged tiger"" or ""tiger of the air"") or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an extremely adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas. Its primary diet is rabbits and hares, rats and mice, and voles, although it freely hunts any animal it can overtake, including rodents and other small mammals, larger mid-sized mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. In ornithological"
"Johnny Horizon Johnny Horizon was a mascot used by the Bureau of Land Management in the United States in the 1970s primarily for its anti-litter campaign. First used in 1968, and resembling a cigaretteless Marlboro Man, Johnny Horizon reached his greatest use in the years leading up to the United States Bicentennial celebration, with the ""Johnny Horizon '76 Program"". September 15, 1974 to October 15, 1974 was proclaimed ""Johnny Horizon '76 Clean Up America Month, 1974"" by President Gerald R. Ford. Like the better known Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl characters of the United States Forest Service, use of the"
"New World ""scops"" owls became more and more prominent. Namely, the scops owls give a whistling call or a row of high-pitched hoots with fewer than four individual hoots per second. This call is given in social interaction or when the owl tries to scare away other animals. The screech owls on the other hand are named for their piercing trills of more than four individual notes per second and as noted above they also have a kind of song, which is absent in the scops owls. There are a few other differences such as brown coloration below being common"
"ad campaign's opening years, Burd was a common sight at various fairs and functions as the Dusty character. In December 2014, a bi-weekly Capitol Hill-based publication from National Association of Counties featured the Dusty character in a word search puzzle. Dusty the Dusthole Dusty the Dusthole was a Clark County Department of Air Quality & Environmental Management mascot created 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The character and his trademark slogan """"Don't Be a Dusthole"""" were seen by millions of residents and tourists in the state of Nevada via a massive media push consisting of billboards, radio ads, public appearances, TV"
"Otis the Aardvark Otis the Aardvark was a puppet presenter on Children's BBC. Otis mainly presented the afternoon links on BBC One alongside the main CBBC presenters. Otis was thought to be inspired by the 1992 Children's BBC idents which ended with a voice proclaiming ""Tell that aardvark it's a wrap"". These idents led to much speculation as to what the phrase meant. However, these idents were dropped just before the character of Otis appeared in late 1994. Otis is said to have obtained his name from the OTIS Elevator in the CBBC building at BBC Television Centre. Dave Chapman"
"Orville the Duck Orville the Duck was the most famous puppet often used by the ventriloquist Keith Harris (1947–2015) and was named after Orville Wright (one of the Wright Brothers). Orville is a green duckling who wears nothing but a nappy with a large safety pin on the front. He speaks with a falsetto voice. Orville appeared on BBC television from 1982 to 1990 on ""The Keith Harris Show"", which featured assorted puppets such as Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey. At the peak of their popularity in December 1982, Harris and Orville released the single ""Orville's Song"", reaching"
"campaigns. However, Bambi was only loaned to the government for a year, so a new symbol was needed, leading to the creation of Smokey Bear. Bambi and his mother also make a cameo appearance in the satirical 1955 Donald Duck short ""No Hunting"": drinking from a forest stream, the deer are startled by a sudden trickle of beer cans and other debris, and Bambi's mother tells him, ""Man is in the forest. Let's dig out."" In 2006, the Ad Council, in partnership with the United States Forest Service, started a series of Public Service Announcements that feature footage from ""Bambi"""
"announcements for the National Forest Service featuring Smokey Bear. Bell was hired as a technical advisor for the long-running, popular television show, ""Lassie"". The concept for Woodsy Owl was developed on the set of ""Lassie"". Bell teamed with three other Lassie teachnical advisors - United States Forest Service rangers, Chuck Williams and Glenn Kovar, and colleague Betty Hite - to create Woodsy Owl as the new mascot for the United States Forest Service for the first Earth Day in 1970. The United States Forest Service had requested that Bell and the others develop a new message and symbol for the"
"intentionally plays up certain quirks and flaws. West also voices the C-3PO-esque robot which appears early in the Professor's flashback. He accomplished the voice effect by speaking into a coffee cup during the recording of the lines. This episode was nominated for an Environmental Media Award in the television episodic-comedy category in 2003, it lost to the ""King of the Hill"" episode ""I Never Promised You An Organic Garden"". The episode has been used to highlight the dangers of global warming, particularly the retro-style public service announcement shown to the Planet Express employees at the beginning of the episode. A"
"series of short, one-minute vignettes, broadcast during commercial breaks. The series, produced for the CWS by the National Film Board, has been airing on Canadian television since 1963. In the original announcements, a distinctive refrain of flute music (John Cacavas' ""Flute Poem"") opens the ad, and is accompanied by the low-key style of the narrator, John Livingston (originally the executive director of the Canadian Audubon Society), describing the animal over footage of it taken in the wild. The end of each message, where viewers were reminded to contact the Canadian Wildlife Service for additional information, varied. The earliest instalments from"
"a series of Interactive CD-ROM in 1997 where he was voiced by AIMS Multimedia co-president and an executive producer of the series- David S. Sherman, Ph.D. Scooter is a curious young boy with red hair, green eyes, and a yellow shirt with the letter ""E"" on it in red. He is often the one that is instructed by Mr. Know-It-Owl. Phineas is a firefly that lives with Mr. Know-It-Owl in his treehouse; his full name is Phineas T. Firefly. Over 10 videos of the Mr. Know-It-Owl series were made. The following video titles are listed below, along with their summaries."
"Orange Bird Orange Bird is a Disney character first created in 1970 as a mascot for the Florida Citrus Commission in exchange for them sponsoring the Enchanted Tiki Room attraction at the Magic Kingdom. Orange Bird is an animated fictional orange canary. Unlike other animated birds, Orange Bird is incapable of singing or speaking and instead communicates with orange-colored smoke clouds. Orange Bird appeared on national television, print and radio ads for Florida oranges alongside singer Anita Bryant. In 1971, Bryant narrated a record album telling the character's story. The album included an illustrated 10-page storybook, and included back-up singing"
"Energy Hog Energy Hog is an energy efficiency campaign developed by the Ad Council and run by the Alliance to Save Energy that engages children and raises awareness of the benefits of energy efficiency. The villain of the commercials is an evil pig named Boss Hogg, who wastes energy in the home (along with his henchmen, Freddie, Sammy Swine, Ivanna Hamm, Kelvin Bacon, Mork Pork, Hal Hogg, Penelope Pigg, Charlie, and small Energy Hogs). The campaign is a non-profit effort with more than twenty sponsors, including The Home Depot, the U.S. Department of Energy, and several state energy offices. The"
"(Public Law 93-318) to protect the image of the character. Despite the documented history of Woodsy Owl's creation, various rival claims to his parentage have emerged over the years. Several individuals have stated that they invented Woodsy Owl as children as part of a nationwide poster contest. The Forest History Society has said that no evidence of such has been provided. Several songs have been used in conjunction with the Woodsy Owl environmental campaign, including ""The Ballad of Woodsy Owl"" and ""Help Woodsy Spread the Word"". Jon ""Bermuda"" Schwartz, the drummer for ""Weird Al"" Yankovic, recorded ""The Woodsy Owl Song."""
"Public service announcement A public service announcement (PSA), or public service ad , is a message in the public interest disseminated without charge, with the objective of raising awareness of, and changing public attitudes and behavior towards, a social issue. In the UK, they are generally called 'public information films' (PIFs); in Hong Kong, they are known as 'announcements in the public interest' ('APIs'). The earliest public service announcements (in the form of moving pictures) were made before and during the Second World War years in both the UK and the US. In the UK, amateur actor Richard Massingham set"
"beast gets a name, we'll let the people decide."" The announcement of the new mascot was made fun of by College of William & Mary alumnus Jon Stewart, who stated on the April 8, 2010, broadcast of ""The Daily Show"", ""William and Mary has announced a new mascot. It is a griffin, which is ancient Greek for the rare pantless tailed eagle. Sorry, but in my day running through campus with no pants on was the students' job."" The new mascot was also welcomed into the group of college griffin mascots in a faux ""open letter"" to ""USA Today"" by"
"Sid the Slug Sid the Slug is an advertising character employed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom as the face of the ""Salt - Watch it"" campaign to warn the public of the risks of excessive salt consumption. The multimedia campaign, including advertising hoardings, television commercials and Internet coverage, was based on the premise that salt kills slugs, and can harm humans too. The campaign infuriated the Salt Manufacturers' Association (SMA), who complained to the Advertising Standards Authority - their complaint being that the information presented was misleading. The Advertising Standards Authority did not uphold the"