Slim Pig - a bad role model for children?
Shez
about a paper-thin pig whose negligible thickness enables him to have
all sorts of adventures.
Surely this is a bad influence on small children. Expounding the
benefits of a slender build on this age group may lead to anorexia.
-Shez.
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SJ Emmons
>CITV are running a programme called "Slim Pig" at 15:45 in Wednesdays,
>about a paper-thin pig whose negligible thickness enables him to have
>all sorts of adventures.
>Surely this is a bad influence on small children. Expounding the
>benefits of a slender build on this age group may lead to anorexia.
Hey don't stop there! How about Fat Tulip, Peter Pan encouraging jumping from
windows, Alice in Wonderland encouraging drug taking, Hansel & Gretel's
murder of an old lady and not forgetting the horror and violence of Tom &
Jerry!
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Shez
>On 19-Aug-98 14:26:34, Shez wrote:
>>CITV are running a programme called "Slim Pig" at 15:45 in Wednesdays,
>>about a paper-thin pig whose negligible thickness enables him to have
>>all sorts of adventures.
>
>>Surely this is a bad influence on small children. Expounding the
>>benefits of a slender build on this age group may lead to anorexia.
>
>Hey don't stop there! How about Fat Tulip, Peter Pan encouraging jumping from
>windows, Alice in Wonderland encouraging drug taking
But she was very careful to check that the bottle didn't say "POISON"
before drinking from it. But as to her eating magic mushrooms, I
entirely agree.
> not forgetting the horror and violence of Tom &
>Jerry!
Tom & Jerry is totally sick. By chance I saw it one day just after
watching "Itchy & Scratchy" and to be honest there was little difference
as regards explicit violence, and T&J was perhaps even less as funny.
-Shez.
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Mark Stevens
wrote:
>Hey don't stop there! How about Fat Tulip, Peter Pan encouraging jumping from
>windows, Alice in Wonderland encouraging drug taking, Hansel & Gretel's
>murder of an old lady and not forgetting the horror and violence of Tom &
>Jerry!
Heh -- you can't beat a good ol' Looney Tune or Merry Melodie. Quite
ironic really when you consider that the majority of today's kids
cartoons are all full of fluffy, clean-cut characters, trying to
enforce a decent set of moral standards -- none of which appear to be
succeeding. Yet back in the 1950s and 60s, when the Looney Tunes were
at their peak, you'd be hard pressed to find one of them that didn't
feature one character trying to kill/eat/maim/shag another character,
with increasing inventiveness.
/\/)ark
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SJ Emmons
>On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 03:43:14 +0100, Shez <Gn...@xerez.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>>Tom & Jerry is totally sick. By chance I saw it one day just after
>>watching "Itchy & Scratchy" and to be honest there was little difference
>>as regards explicit violence, and T&J was perhaps even less as funny.
>Exactly, it surprised me the other day watching T&J to realise that
>every single one of the jokes is based on an act of excruciating
>violence. Normally it's one of the same 3 or 4, that "being hit on the
>head with a pan / spade / lawn roller and it taking on the shape of
>the victim's head" joke just gets funnier and funnier and funnier down
>the decades. How the hell did they get away with that for so long?
>Apparently the original Hanna / Barbera ones are funnier.
Yep, can't stand the newer Chuck Jones productions. Should have stuck
with Road Runner. And as for Tom and Jerry talking and becoming friends,
don't get me started!
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Nick Cooper
s...@greenaum.demonARSE!ARSE!ARSE!.co.uk (Sam.) wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 03:43:14 +0100, Shez <Gn...@xerez.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>Tom & Jerry is totally sick. By chance I saw it one day just after
>>watching "Itchy & Scratchy" and to be honest there was little difference
>>as regards explicit violence, and T&J was perhaps even less as funny.
>
>Exactly, it surprised me the other day watching T&J to realise that
>every single one of the jokes is based on an act of excruciating
>violence. Normally it's one of the same 3 or 4, that "being hit on the
>head with a pan / spade / lawn roller and it taking on the shape of
>the victim's head" joke just gets funnier and funnier and funnier down
>the decades. How the hell did they get away with that for so long?
>Apparently the original Hanna / Barbera ones are funnier.
Specifically, you want the early HB ones produced by Fred Quimby
(possibly the inspiration for Mayor Jo Quimby in 'The Simpsons'?), not
those weird sixties versions.
Nick Cooper
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["Stan, you need to lay off the cough syrup, alright? Seriously, I'm worried
[about you, man!"
Mark Wayt
Actually, I'm surprised that;
1: Some fanatic religious sect haven't banned it for being racist (it's
a pig)
2: Some Politically Correct council from Birmingham haven't banned it
for being racist (Remember when the council in Birmingham said you can't
have P for Pig, it had to be P for Panda.!!!)
Also another person from the same religious sect got the police to make
a woman remove her pottery pig collection from her window ledge because
it was offensive to him!
Oooh..
(Sorry If I have offended anyone with this post - no offence was
intended. It was just a point to be made!!!)
What a bloody crazy world we live in.
Mark.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shez [mailto:Gn...@xerez.demon.co.uk]
> Posted At: 19 August 1998 15:27
> Posted To: misc
> Conversation: Slim Pig - a bad role model for children?
> Subject: Slim Pig - a bad role model for children?
>
>
> CITV are running a programme called "Slim Pig" at 15:45 in Wednesdays,
> about a paper-thin pig whose negligible thickness enables him to have
> all sorts of adventures.
>
> Surely this is a bad influence on small children. Expounding the
> benefits of a slender build on this age group may lead to anorexia.
>
> -Shez.
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>
> Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand
> progress.
Shez
>Hold on, what's actually wrong with this?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shez [mailto:Gn...@xerez.demon.co.uk]
>> Posted At: 19 August 1998 15:27
It's a bit unfortunate your newsreader put that nifty little mail button
in there, as mail to that address is automatically bounced! Most people
put spoilers in their addresses these days.
-Shez.
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