Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 16, 2010

Well, everyone DOES love Ringo…

How about Graham Chapman, from The Life of Brian.

♬And always look on the bright side of life…

Or Graham Chapman from Yellowbeard

Or Sir Patrick Stewart?

Stewart’s a little to stuffy, ‘ow bout Andy Capp.

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Sean Connery is Scottish.

Better yet, David Bowie… then they could do these BP announcements as song verses.

“Spill control to Major Tom… taking our protein pills and putting the well cap on….”…

Noted. Just don’t tell the Scots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnR1BrGgRVM

Well here’s a corker of a suggestion - Tony Blair. Do read the comments!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7832228/BP-oil-spill-Tony-Blair-is-the-right-man-to-be-BP-chairman.html

I’ve finally got round to listening to Tony Hayward talk…. his accent IS ‘average bloke’. Its not fancy at all. He may have been born in Eton but he’s no Old Etonian (cf David Cameron - isn’t the difference obvious?)

GT may well realise this.

Actually, Dukedoug, It’s NOT ‘British Petroleum’. Your President has been lying to you. It’s ‘Beyond Petroleum’ (naff, I know) and has been for at least ten years, ever since they merged with AMOCO and AMOR. BP is now 40% American.

And Tony Blair is what you guys would call a ‘snake oil salesman’. His ‘snake oil’ is prettified socialism and BO sells the same stuff. GT is another snake oil merchant.

I wonder if snake oil kills wildlife the way crude oil does. I’m thinking, probably not…

Stewart Patrick is a great idea.

Engage!

Love the suggestions.

Despite all these good suggestions, Duke (and GT) is a little behind the curve. BP won’t let Tony talk any more. We’ll be hearing instead from their chairman/president, Carl-Henric Svanberg (a former hockey player). Anybody familiar with Anglo-Svensk?

Wikipedia sez that “Beyond Petroleum” is a “tagline” not the name of the corporation. The name is just BP. In other words, more corporate slinky wiggling to avoid direct responsibility. BP literally doesn’t stand for anything.

palin drome -

is that like the chef on the muppet show?

anyone remember the “good ol’ days” when oil drillers were HAPPY when they brought in a gusher? whatever happened to our priorities?

maybe duke can “spin” it as a great way to give lots of students summer jobs sopping up the oil wearing plastic suits (a petroleum product, of course…) in the broiling sun…

If I was Hayward I would do Ozzy Ozbourne. No one would understand a word I was slurring and they’d eventually leave me alone.

Just talked to my teabag son. It’s all the government’s fault, making the oil companies drill so far off shore in such deep water. The moratorium will cause the rig owners to move farther out and lease to China, etc. causing dire unemployment along the Gulf. (Admit that could be true.) Overlooked that there are a lot of other rigs drilling way out there with no trouble, SO FAR, but sure hope they have decided to double check THEIR safety plans. Hope the moratorium is lifted or really shortened.

“…and then he bit the head off of an oil-soaked pelican.”

Remember the oil-soaked bird that landed on Duke’s hardhat as he talked to reporters last Saturday?

I suspect GT is alluding to what policy-makers call a “black swan”–that unpredictable (because low-probability) event that causes markets and governments to crash.

(Click on tag above to see the strip.)

He needs to try Tom Waits when he is singing (?) “Jersey Girl” Now that would be a change that could appeal to the common man…

In other words, more corporate slinky wiggling to avoid direct responsibility.

Not really. It was just rather daft to have a multinational with less than 50% British ownership, and the UK govt had sold out and relinquished their ‘golden share’ still called ‘British’. Nothing sinister

well, it’s nice to see that some things never change - (no, not the government)

we can count upon the fact that duke will never change.

mjpankr

How about some rhyming slang – like sending BP to catch a swear & cuss down the long frog & toad.

I’m surprised Duke doesn’t think of Amy Winehouse.