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Sounds like the sniveling bleat and whine of a lot of my callers on the help desk. “I SWEAR, I’m on a PC! I SWEAR I’m on Internet Explorer! DAMMIT, I JUST HIT THE APPLE BUTTON AND IT’S YOUR FAULT!!!”

I always loved Punch and Judy. Good wholesome educational fun.

Thank you for posting so quickly after the one about the micropoo. It’s nice to have a reason to come here again.

He’s the original version of Chucky … less Americanised nor commercialised.

I’ve been searching my memory, trying to come up with a puppet I did not actively dislike as a child. Kukla, Fran, Ollie? Yuck! Lambchop? Nope. Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit? Hated the moose. The rabbit was trouble.

I did sort of like Albert the Alleycat but that’s because they had him read the local weather forecast and I thought it was funny when he pronounced “humidity” as “hugh-mid-der-y”.

When I first encountered P&J, I admit I was horrified.

My loss, no doubt. My mom did tell me once that I’d not have to worry about entering my second childhood in my old age, since I managed to skip having the first one at the usual time.

Wow! I’m about equal parts horrified and exultant to know that Punch & Judy continues, in an apparently largely unexpurgated edition (what about the baby?)

There’s a wonderful M.R. James ghost story that centers on a P&J performance. . .

Does a person have to be British to understand P&J. I never got the hang of it myself.

O/T: Tony Martin passed away at 98.

Loath puppets, ESPECIALLY Punch and Judy.

The Muppets. I don’t dislike the Muppets.

Isn’t there an alligator involved somewhere along the line?

I certainly hope so. And a big string of sausages.

I actually enjoy Avenue Q when they perform….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc

‘Meet the Feebles’ Anyone?

Talking of Feeble!

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I gotta admit that would be a pretty amusing version, until Punch comes at me with the truncheon.

Meanwhile, back here in what laughingly passes for civilization these days, seems the Chik-Fil-A chain of fast food restaraunts had a rather good sales day yesterday. Only anecdotal evidence so far (it’s all over the web), but if hour-long lines and running completely out of food at locations all over the country are any indication, there you go.

Don’t tell the chickens, weas…

@ Can’t Hark My Cry

Do you know the name of that M.R. James story? I thought I’d read all of his published ghost stories but can’t recall any that have a Punch and Judy show.

Animositas: “The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance.” It is in A Thin Ghost and Others which, if you can’t find it elsewhere, is on Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20387

For puppet perfection—here’s Shari Lewis and Lamp Chop in “The Nanny.” The episode was written after the wardrobe mistress for the television show found a coat trimmed in lamb skin in a second-hand shop and had to have it, not knowing how or when the coat might be used.

It’s one of Lamb Chops more dramatic performances 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUmQYqFTB34

Comment from Stark Dickflüssig
Time: August 2, 2012, 1:45 am

The Muppets. I don’t dislike the Muppets.
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I can see it now. Miss Piggy takes a scale Thompson submachine gun and riddles Punch with tiny little bullets.

Children have always had a taste for the brutal and vicious. Starts somewhere around age 10 or so I think.
Some of them grow out of it.

Then must be some Darwinian purpose to it. I’ve heard a theory that it teaches them to deal with fears and that children with rougher childhoods do better later in life than those who were overly coddled.

I personally believe that, genetically speaking, little savages with a taste for blood were useful for hunting and warfare. Bred in over 1,000 generations, it’s going to take a long time to breed it out. So, stay out of the city, any city after dark.

Punch’s little brother is part of a gang out there.

If this November’s voting booths look like Chick-Fil-A’s yesterday, the pundits are in for a shocking election.

If people are motivated enough wait an hour in the hot sun for chicken sandwiches — though of course it’s also to make a point — we can hope they’ll be motivated enough to get out and vote in November.

I just wish Teh Gayz would decide the gin&tonnix were homophobic, cos I can drink the shit out of those in protest.

Not, the literal shit, though. That might be viewed as a little fey in certain circles.

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Puppets on strings? Boris Johnson pinatas ought to sell well in Argentina, no?

@ Can’t Hark My Cry

Thank you!

Animositas–you’re welcome; always a pleasure to encounter another who likes James.

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