Comments on: Antarctic Item 020 http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2009/03/antarctic-item-020/ The art of recycling in Antarctica Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:40:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mbartalos http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2009/03/antarctic-item-020/comment-page-1/#comment-179 mbartalos Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:59:59 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/?p=3379#comment-179 Yes I’ve always found Mr Peanut awesomely surreal and meeting his 1940s incarnation in the Dry Valleys, of all places, was doubly surreal. This object is among my very favorite Antarctic finds.

]]> By: Donovan Rittenbach http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2009/03/antarctic-item-020/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Donovan Rittenbach Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:32:05 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/?p=3379#comment-170 This is hilarious, and surreal. In 1916 though, it must have been very eye-catching as it still is today.

I always thought the Planter Peanut (could be a woman, given its feminine posture, but it has a monocle) was one of the weirdest corporate representatives ever. It was right up there with Charlie the Tuna that could never trick the fishermen into making him into Chicken of the Sea.

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