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Chaz

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Apr 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/14/98
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Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.
Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!

King/Furnish

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Um, hello - Tinky Winky & Dipsy *are* male. Laa Laa & Po are female. It
has nothing to do with their sexuality... it's just a funny aspect.


Steve/Beth George

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Apr 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/14/98
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Chaz <An...@connmed.co.uk> wrote:
: Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.

No assumption. The announcer always uses the pronoun 'he'?

: Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!

A) You've confused cross-dressing with homosexuality

B) You've forgotten that the Teletubbies act like children of the age of
their audience, and that very small children haven't had gender-
stereotyping thrust upon them yet (eg "Purses are for girrrrrrrulllllls")

C) And if he is gay, so what?

--Beth

Mindslider

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Apr 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/14/98
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In article <892544136.22762.0...@news.demon.co.uk>, "Chaz"
<An...@connmed.co.uk> wrote:

>Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.

>Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!

Yeah, so? Tinky Winky's handbag rules... If I had one I'd proudly parade the
streets of Canterbury with it!

M

david horsfall

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Doesn't anybody realise that this show is a complete waste of airtime. Its
aimed at very young children and it makes me ashamed to be English...

Brian Watson

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Chaz wrote in message
<892544136.22762.0...@news.demon.co.uk>...

>Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.
>Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!

I've surprised you're not more concerned about the lack of clothes...

:-)

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Damien Malcolm

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Apr 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/14/98
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What about that tu-tu thing?


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Saz

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Apr 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/14/98
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Does anybody care if Tinky Winky is queer or not? Everone should just get
over it.


Brian Watson

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david horsfall wrote in message
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>Doesn't anybody realise that this show is a complete waste of airtime. Its
>aimed at very young children and it makes me ashamed to be English...

So, unless you are a very young child, it's not aimed at you so it's not too
surprising you don't find it appealing.

Is this *all* that makes you ashamed to be British?

Angela Rayner

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Apr 14, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/14/98
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In article <892586672.5814.2...@news.demon.co.uk>,

br...@spheroid.demon.co.uk ("Brian Watson") wrote:

> Chaz wrote in message
> <892544136.22762.0...@news.demon.co.uk>...
> >Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.
> >Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!
>
> I've surprised you're not more concerned about the lack of clothes...
>

Yeah, but they're wearing baby-gro type clothes, just look at the feet of
the toys.

ciao for now


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bert hubert

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Apr 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/15/98
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998 09:56:53 +0100, Chaz wrote:

>Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.
>Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!

The BBC have stated that "sometimes, a bag is just a bag" :-)

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Ouroboros

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Chaz said...

: Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.


: Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!

Well according to what it says in some of the tubbywebsites, He
supposidaly is. He doesn't seem to pay much interest to Laa Laa, I think
he prefers Dispy, so you could be right.

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Ouroboros

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Apr 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/15/98
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Mindslider said Chaz said...

: >Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.
: >Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!

:
: Yeah, so? Tinky Winky's handbag rules... If I had one I'd proudly parade


the
: streets of Canterbury with it!

LOL... now whe know who burst in on The arch Bisshop's Mass at Cantebury
Cathederal... Only Joking, anyway I think He is making a statement.
Finally saying that it is alright for men to have handbags too. Good on
him.

Ouroboros

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Brian said CHaz said...

: >Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.
: >Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!
:

: I've surprised you're not more concerned about the lack of clothes...

What about the velvity thiny. They count as clothes surely? The
teletubbies are a super human breed that have evolved to grow their own
trendy clothes. also as the tubbies ahve to private parts it hardly
matters

Mindslider

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Apr 16, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/16/98
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In article <01bd6889$2692b900$LocalHost@default>, "Ouroboros"
<no....@my.address.please> wrote:

>What about the velvity thiny. They count as clothes surely? The
>teletubbies are a super human breed that have evolved to grow their own
>trendy clothes. also as the tubbies ahve to private parts it hardly
>matters

Aha, but how do you know they have no private parts? Who knows what they
keep inside those clothes? They may or may not be grown on, maybe they're
made out of those sarcastic flowers!

M

Jim Kane

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Apr 16, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/16/98
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And where the hell are you from noo-noo features !?

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Ouroboros

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Mindslider said I said...

: >What about the velvity thiny. They count as clothes surely? The


: >teletubbies are a super human breed that have evolved to grow their own
: >trendy clothes. also as the tubbies ahve to private parts it hardly
: >matters

: Aha, but how do you know they have no private parts? Who knows what they
: keep inside those clothes? They may or may not be grown on, maybe
they're
: made out of those sarcastic flowers!

They are not sarcastic. They are very Nice, albeit a bit stuck up. They
need no private parts. all waste is converte into television pictures, and
they have sex by jumping into each over's tummies. We see this at the
stard of the program. As these are the remains of human civilisation after
a nuclear Holocaust. Due to mutation in the DNA, they bear rabbits instead
of children.

Brian Watson

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Apr 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/17/98
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Jim Kane wrote in message <6h610p$994$1...@apple.news.easynet.net>...

>And where the hell are you from noo-noo features !?

Noo-noo features? From the front or the back? And how would you know?

I'm in Britain. It seemed to me that the misanthrope who posted the message
to which I responded was looking for things to be ashamed of. Silly boy.

I wondered what else made his life such a misery.

If he could lighten up a bit and take pleasure from some of the simpler
things of life *like* The Teletubbies (which was not written for people of
his agegroup) he might find his day to day existence rather less like hard
work.

Mindslider

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Apr 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/17/98
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In article <01bd6975$6b571080$LocalHost@default>, "Ouroboros"
<no....@my.address.please> wrote:

>They are not sarcastic. They are very Nice, albeit a bit stuck up. They
>need no private parts. all waste is converte into television pictures, and
>they have sex by jumping into each over's tummies. We see this at the
>stard of the program. As these are the remains of human civilisation after
>a nuclear Holocaust. Due to mutation in the DNA, they bear rabbits instead
>of children.

And have you seen how close they sometimes get to rolling on those poor
rabbits and squashing them?? One day it's gonna happen, you mark my words!
That reminds me, did anyone see that thing on Points of View a while ago,
where someone wrote up worried because one of the rabbits looked dead? They
said it was just keeping very still, but I think that Po had squashed it, as
she was looking slightly more red that day. Definitely looked like guilt to
me...

M

Simon Slavin

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Apr 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/17/98
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In article <01bd6888$037e6d20$LocalHost@default>,
"Ouroboros" <no....@my.address.please> wrote:

> Chaz said...


>
> : Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.
> : Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!
>

> Well according to what it says in some of the tubbywebsites, He
> supposidaly is. He doesn't seem to pay much interest to Laa Laa, I think
> he prefers Dispy, so you could be right.

Get this: the TTs are babies ! They haven't started having sexual
feelings yet. They haven't developed a sexual orientation.
They've barely been exposed to gender-reinforcement. They're so
young their bottom still honks when they sit down.

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Ouroboros

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Mindslider said I said...

: >They are not sarcastic. They are very Nice, albeit a bit stuck up. They


: >need no private parts. all waste is converte into television pictures,
and
: >they have sex by jumping into each over's tummies. We see this at the
: >stard of the program. As these are the remains of human civilisation
after
: >a nuclear Holocaust. Due to mutation in the DNA, they bear rabbits
instead
: >of children.

: And have you seen how close they sometimes get to rolling on those poor
: rabbits and squashing them?? One day it's gonna happen, you mark my
words!
: That reminds me, did anyone see that thing on Points of View a while
ago,
: where someone wrote up worried because one of the rabbits looked dead?
They
: said it was just keeping very still, but I think that Po had squashed
it, as
: she was looking slightly more red that day. Definitely looked like guilt
to
: me...

LOL! Sounds like it. Squashed rabbis

And of course it's only time untill we get

Tubbiemiximitosis!

Mindslider

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Apr 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/18/98
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In article <01bd6a3a$fad5b980$LocalHost@default>, "Ouroboros"
<no....@my.address.please> wrote:

>LOL! Sounds like it. Squashed rabbis
>
>And of course it's only time untill we get
>
>Tubbiemiximitosis!

Hmm, well I think squashed rabbis would be an entirely different matter...
Lots of Jewish people would definitely complain to Points of View about that
one... But I can't see it happening on TT at the moment, thankfully <g>

M

Terry Wiley

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Apr 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/18/98
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In article <B15D7FEC...@hearsay.demon.co.uk>,
slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost (Simon Slavin) wrote:

> They're so young their bottom still honks when they sit down.

I hate it when that happens, don't you?


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Brian Watson

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Apr 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/18/98
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Simon Slavin wrote in message ...

>In article <01bd6888$037e6d20$LocalHost@default>,
>"Ouroboros" <no....@my.address.please> wrote:
>
>> Chaz said...
>>
>> : Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.
>> : Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!
>>
>> Well according to what it says in some of the tubbywebsites, He
>> supposidaly is. He doesn't seem to pay much interest to Laa Laa, I think
>> he prefers Dispy, so you could be right.
>
>Get this: the TTs are babies ! They haven't started having sexual
>feelings yet. They haven't developed a sexual orientation.
>They've barely been exposed to gender-reinforcement. They're so

>young their bottom still honks when they sit down.

Hey, I'm 49 and *my* bottom honks when I sit down. Age has nothing to do
with it, but they do all appear to have very full nappies (that's diapers
for our American readers)

Brian Watson

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Apr 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/18/98
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Mindslider wrote in message <6h8p8l$t62$1...@rockcake.bt.net>...

>In article <01bd6a3a$fad5b980$LocalHost@default>, "Ouroboros"
><no....@my.address.please> wrote:
>
>>LOL! Sounds like it. Squashed rabbis
>>
>>And of course it's only time untill we get
>>
>>Tubbiemiximitosis!

Apparently it's caught from Tubbiemiximatoast.

Karen Morgan

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Apr 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/18/98
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Seeing as Mindslider <minds...@lineone.net> wrote an intelligent <g>
post I decided to reply to it

>In article <01bd6975$6b571080$LocalHost@default>, "Ouroboros"
><no....@my.address.please> wrote:
>
>>They are not sarcastic. They are very Nice, albeit a bit stuck up. They
>>need no private parts. all waste is converte into television pictures, and
>>they have sex by jumping into each over's tummies. We see this at the
>>stard of the program. As these are the remains of human civilisation after
>>a nuclear Holocaust. Due to mutation in the DNA, they bear rabbits instead
>>of children.
>
>And have you seen how close they sometimes get to rolling on those poor
>rabbits and squashing them?? One day it's gonna happen, you mark my words!
>That reminds me, did anyone see that thing on Points of View a while ago,
>where someone wrote up worried because one of the rabbits looked dead? They
>said it was just keeping very still, but I think that Po had squashed it, as
>she was looking slightly more red that day. Definitely looked like guilt to
>me...
Apparently Po had squashed a rabbit when on her scooter,
And someone told me that oneof the teletubbies sat on one as well
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Rob Nicholson

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>Apparently Po had squashed a rabbit when on her scooter,
>And someone told me that oneof the teletubbies sat on one as well

I saw a clip showing La La kicking a rabbit.


Ouroboros

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Simon S said I sadi Chaz said...

: > : Assume for a moment Tinky is supposed to be a male Tubby.
: > : Now see how much he likes to carry a handbag!
: >
: > Well according to what it says in some of the tubbywebsites, He
: > supposidaly is. He doesn't seem to pay much interest to Laa Laa, I
think
: > he prefers Dispy, so you could be right.

: Get this: the TTs are babies ! They haven't started having sexual
: feelings yet. They haven't developed a sexual orientation.
: They've barely been exposed to gender-reinforcement. They're so
: young their bottom still honks when they sit down.

How do youknow? they could just be permanantly like that because they are
the end reult of human evolution after a nuclear holocaust. They just act
like that because they are high on the addictive substance in the tubby
custard.

Ouroboros

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Apr 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/18/98
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Mindslider siad I said...

: >LOL! Sounds like it. Squashed rabbis


: >
: >And of course it's only time untill we get
: >
: >Tubbiemiximitosis!

: Hmm, well I think squashed rabbis would be an entirely different


matter...
: Lots of Jewish people would definitely complain to Points of View about
that
: one... But I can't see it happening on TT at the moment, thankfully <g>

Good.


Lovebug

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In article <aMVdtHAr...@ivy-cottage.demon.co.uk>, Karen Morgan
<Ka...@mehousedowntheroad.co.uk> writes

>Seeing as Mindslider <minds...@lineone.net> wrote an intelligent <g>
>post I decided to reply to it
>>In article <01bd6975$6b571080$LocalHost@default>, "Ouroboros"
>><no....@my.address.please> wrote:
>>
>>>They are not sarcastic. They are very Nice, albeit a bit stuck up. They
>>>need no private parts. all waste is converte into television pictures, and
>>>they have sex by jumping into each over's tummies. We see this at the
>>>stard of the program. As these are the remains of human civilisation after
>>>a nuclear Holocaust. Due to mutation in the DNA, they bear rabbits instead
>>>of children.
>>
>>And have you seen how close they sometimes get to rolling on those poor
>>rabbits and squashing them?? One day it's gonna happen, you mark my words!
>>That reminds me, did anyone see that thing on Points of View a while ago,
>>where someone wrote up worried because one of the rabbits looked dead? They
>>said it was just keeping very still, but I think that Po had squashed it, as
>>she was looking slightly more red that day. Definitely looked like guilt to
>>me...
>Apparently Po had squashed a rabbit when on her scooter,
>And someone told me that oneof the teletubbies sat on one as well
there real rabs? i thought they were computorised in...


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Lovebug

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In article <35394012...@news.demon.co.uk>, Lintilla <lintilla@field
ing.demon.co.uk> writes

>Terry Wiley wrote:
>
>>In article <B15D7FEC...@hearsay.demon.co.uk>,
>>slavins.at.hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost (Simon Slavin) wrote:
>>
>>> They're so young their bottom still honks when they sit down.
>>
>>I hate it when that happens, don't you?
>
>Embarrasing, yep.

definatly

Karen Morgan

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Apr 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM4/20/98
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Seeing as Lovebug <Lov...@zoneworlds.demon.co.uk> wrote an intelligent

<g> post I decided to reply to it

>>>And have you seen how close they sometimes get to rolling on those poor


>>>rabbits and squashing them?? One day it's gonna happen, you mark my words!
>>>That reminds me, did anyone see that thing on Points of View a while ago,
>>>where someone wrote up worried because one of the rabbits looked dead? They
>>>said it was just keeping very still, but I think that Po had squashed it, as
>>>she was looking slightly more red that day. Definitely looked like guilt to
>>>me...
>>Apparently Po had squashed a rabbit when on her scooter,
>>And someone told me that oneof the teletubbies sat on one as well
>there real rabs? i thought they were computorised in...

Yep they use Flemish and British giant rabbits

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