Posts Tagged thanks a bunch BP

Thank You, Internet: BP Photoshops are All the Rage

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, LOL on July 21, 2010

People are photoshopping the BP command and control.

Check out a few:

via @amboy00

via @bpglobalpr

all via #BPphotoshop

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A BP Minute: “Are you f–king happy? Are you f**king happy? The rig’s on fire!”

Posted by mistergroonk in Interviews on July 2, 2010

Quote of the year.

A few clicks later and we tracked down a nice link citation.

The sailor, who Buzbee refuses to name for fear of costing him his job, was on the ship’s bridge when Deepwater Horizon installation manager Jimmy Harrell, a top employee of rig owner Transocean, was speaking with someone in Houston via satellite phone. Buzbee told Mother Jones that, according to this witness account, Harrell was screaming, “Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”

Whoever was on the other end of the line was apparently trying to calm Harrell down. “I am fucking calm,” he went on, according to Buzbee. “You realize the rig is burning?”

At that point, the boat’s captain asked Harrell to leave the bridge. It wasn’t clear whether Harrell had been talking to Transocean, BP, or someone else.

via nick holmes, mother jones, newsweek

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A BP Minute: British Petroleum’s Extravagant Oil Spill PR Campaign. Tries to Spin Crap to Gold.

Posted by mistergroonk in Macro, USA, World on June 17, 2010

Fast Company shared, on Tuesday, the latest BP effort to save their name.

Among the various PR efforts that BP is engaged in, they’ve apparently sent out a “reporter” to file missives about the company’s efforts to stem the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

And what “Paula Kolmar” is writing tips well over the line of self-parody, into some kind of bizarro world where bullshit smells like puppies and champagne–and where cleaning up the oil spill while being slathered in tar balls and oil fumes is a bit like being embraced by Fabio in a grocery-store romance novel.

Get BP’s bullshit straight from the source, if you like.

We thought the words of BP Reporter “Paula Kolmar” fit perfectly with images from the Gulf Shore. So we spun-up the old Photoshop and threw together 3 macros for the occasion.

A couple more under the jump.
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A BP Minute: Aquaman is Not Immune

Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Panel Perfect, USA on June 10, 2010

via scifiwire

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A BP Minute: Wherein We Ponder the Wisdom of Nick Holmes.

Posted by mistergroonk in Uncategorized on June 9, 2010

We’ve enjoyed actor Nick Holmes Tumblr for quite some time now. It is a breath of fresh Internet and brevity of wit on a daily basis.

When he does speak, we can’t help but to wonder…

“There’s an American flag on the moon, a robot on Mars, I can practically make a feature film on my phone; and they can’t stop a leak.” -Nick Holmes

Why is Nick Holmes not famous yet?

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“A Tangle of Dull Grey,” NASA Views Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill from Space

Posted by mistergroonk in Space, USA on May 4, 2010

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite captured a natural-color image. The oil slick appeared as a tangle of dull gray on the ocean surface, made visible to the satellite sensor by the sun’s reflection on the ocean surface. On May 1, most of the oil slick was southeast of the Mississippi Delta.

via NASA

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