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Matthew Ota
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Re: Little Ceaser's Commercial gets a laugh
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#5708552 - 03/02/13 10:58 AM
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Thanks for sharing that Toyota commercial. It puts our obscure hobby in a good light. A definite keeper.
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Little or NO research was done!!!....can't an amateur astronomer get a little respect around here?!?!?
NO member of the public--not one--will notice the misbegotten position of the scope or the lantern. What they will notice is a father and son having fun watching the sky. AND this single silly little commercial will have more impact than any "accurate" PR the Astronomical League, for example, cooks up, I guar-ron-tee.
I still prefer Toyota's excellent "Camp Evening" star party spot, but this is cool. 
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faackanders2
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Re: Little Ceaser's Commercial gets a laugh
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#5711175 - 03/03/13 06:30 PM
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Our little hobby is so obsure. I recall reading accounts here on CN about dobsonians being mistaken for cannons. My SCT has been mistaken for a television camera, or as a searchlight.
One of our club members was observing with a 10" dobsonian after 9/11 and while he was observing he noticed a chain of police cars approaching with their lights on, and when they apprached him, they told him to lie face down on the ground. Apparently someone called saying there was a motar on the hill getting ready to fire down on the town. The police just laughed and joked with him looking through his telescope after they realised it was not a mortar at all and just a telescope.
Maintence groomers once asked if that was a cannon in the garage. I obliged and said "Yes, my hobby is being a human cannonball".  
I just couldn't resist.
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okieav8r
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Loc: Oklahoma!
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Re: Little Ceaser's Commercial gets a laugh
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#5711734 - 03/03/13 11:26 PM
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Our little hobby is so obsure. I recall reading accounts here on CN about dobsonians being mistaken for cannons. My SCT has been mistaken for a television camera, or as a searchlight.
One of our club members was observing with a 10" dobsonian after 9/11 and while he was observing he noticed a chain of police cars approaching with their lights on, and when they apprached him, they told him to lie face down on the ground. Apparently someone called saying there was a motar on the hill getting ready to fire down on the town. The police just laughed and joked with him looking through his telescope after they realised it was not a mortar at all and just a telescope.
Maintence groomers once asked if that was a cannon in the garage. I obliged and said "Yes, my hobby is being a human cannonball".
I just couldn't resist.
There have been a few times little kids have asked "what is that?", referring to my Obsession dobs. I tell them it's a cannon that we use to shoot misbehaving children out of.
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