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Frosty Says "Coal is Totally Clean!"

By gregladen on December 17, 2008.

"There must have been some magic in clean coal technology; for when they looked for pollutants there was nearly none to see"

Huh?

Do you know "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!"? If not, discover it. NPR, weekends. But go to the gym and work out your core body first because otherwise you might hurt yourself laughing.

Anyway, one of the routines they do is to describe three (or four?) unbelievable stories ... items in the news ... all but one of which is in fact not true. The contestant (oh, did I mention that this is a sort of game show?) has to determine which of the unbelievable store is is real.

Last weekend, one of the unbelievable stories consisted of the words to the song in the video below. The contestant had to determine whether or not it was true that the Coal Industry has produced an advertizing bit with a song done to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman" ... but retitled "Frosty the Coal Man."

Remarkably, this is real.

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