Muppets Diss Fox News In Response To Accusations Of Being Anti-Oil

[vienna]

Hey vienna and Steve, I have a little side question: was the dunce cap still common during the time you guys went to school?
I'm asking because I know this cap only from Disney comics from the 50s/60s (and earlier) - however the artists who drew them went to school at the beginning of the last century.

Are you trying to say we're beyond old? "Beginnig of the last centrury", indeed!! Why, I have half a mind to...to..wait, what was I saying?...I think I need to go lie down...where's my shawl?...

Actually, I went to a Catholic parish school in San Francisco, my original hometown. I was born in December 1950 and started school in kindergarten in 1956 (because my birthdate was after the September school year start, I had to wait until the following year) and graduated out of school in Spring of 1965, so a total of 9 years in the same school. The school was run by the Jesuits, but almost all the teachers were nuns, with a few "lay" teachers. The school and the church were built of granite blocks in the European Gothic style at the beginning of the 1900s, between 1900 to about 1910. If you ever see the movie "Sister Act" starring Whoopi Goldberg, that's the church and school used in the movie.

The nuns were of the old school sort: fully dressed in black robes and wimples with starched white cowls around their faces and a very large rosary/crucifix around the waist as a sort of belt. They were truly fearsome. We didn't have dunce caps, but a common punishment was to sit on a stool in the corner facing the wall. There were also physical punishments ranging from slaps on the hand or face to swats with rulers or chalkboard pointers. There was one nun who used to wake up daydreaming students by throwing, at full force, chalkdust laden board erasers at their heads. The student was not allowed to clean off the chalk dust and spent the rest of the class with dust all over his face and shoulders. In about the 2nd grade, I was once punished by being locked in the cloak room that ran along the length of the classroom. It like an enclosed hallway with a door at either end and we would walk into the classroom in a line and, in order, hang our coats on an assigned hook and place our lunches on a shelf above the hook. I was locked in the cloak room for about 2 hours and, after a short time, I was very bored. The only light came from a small stained glass window too high for me to see through. I decided to amuse myself by switching around the coats and lunches from their assigned locations randomly. When lunchtime came around, the class lined up in order, started to enter the cloakroom, only to be thrown into utter confusion. I do believe that was the first of many, many trips to the Mother Superior's office.

BTW, the education I recieved in that school was the finest I ever had at any school. I deliberately flunked the Catholic high school admissions test to avoid going to an all-boys school. When I entered the public school system, I was astounded by how far behind the schools were in comparison to the Catholic schools. Even though I had been in a school that was a near to Victorian as you could imagine (we wrote with fountain pens, sat at heavy wooden desks with inkwells and cast iron frames), the level of education was far and away better than the public schools...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by vienna

I was born in December 1950...

Ah, the awful truth is finally out. I have eight months on you.




Punk!
...no, wait!

[USS Drum]

Originally Posted by Oberon

It's worse than you think:

Kermit the fuher?

[vienna]

Ah, the awful truth is finally out. I have eight months on you.

Eight months over a span of 60+ years is a small slice of time; or, as an acquaintance of mine once said: "Geezer is as geezer does"...

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by vienna

Are you trying to say we're beyond old? "Beginnig of the last centrury", indeed!! Why, I have half a mind to...to..wait, what was I saying?...I think I need to go lie down...where's my shawl?...

Wait, what did I write, oh, sorry, I forgot, must be my teenage alzheimers... haha, I just saw ya geezers together and you're the both who could tell me about school in the 50s, as the infant Penguin didn't set foot into an American high school before the late 80s.

As a Donaldist it is part of my longing for wisdom to find out if the comics are a snapshot of the time they were created. So while the artists used the contemporary technology in Duckburg,it seems they used they childhood memories regarding school: Al Taliaferro, who drew the earlier Donald strips was born in 1905, Disney was born in 1901, so was Carl Barks, the godfather of the Ducks.

A very interestibng portrait of your school, vienna. Did you have a religion class in "regular" school, or was this part of (involuntary) extracurricular activities and took place in the mess? In Germany we have religion classes in regular (state) schools btw.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Ah, but Kermit had a long career before joining either of them, making his first appearance in 1955.

Oh, I didn't know that. Maybe he was a landscape painter and hobby strategist before he went to SS (the acronym for Sesame Street, another proof that this is a Nazi show )

[CaptainHaplo]

What is sad is that what the muppets do passes for news....

But then again - it is the HuffingtonPuffingtonPost......

What is sad is that what the muppets do passes for news....

Indeed

But then again - it is the HuffingtonPuffingtonPost......

It is a story that came from FOX as news.
Is Haplo actually unwittingly condemning the murdoch media and their "liberal conspiracy" theories they sell to muppets?

Anyway everyone knows Kermit was at the forefront of the green movement.

[CaptainHaplo]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Indeed


It is a story that came from FOX as news.
Is Haplo actually unwittingly condemning the murdoch media and their "liberal conspiracy" theories they sell to muppets?

Anyway everyone knows Kermit was at the forefront of the green movement.

Tribesman - if it came from FOX news first, then Fox bears just as much if not more responsibility for reporting it as "news". Its not. Regardless of what channel.

As for undermining a liberal conspiracy regarding the muppets - remember the quote from P.T. Barnum.... and recall that the more stupid someone is, the longer you can fool em.

For the record - I have always been a big fan of Kermit. I just think he needs better taste in females....

Tribesman - if it came from FOX news first

If????
FOX is in the title of the topic, it's in the headline of the article, it is in the story, the FOX piece is provided in the link .
How can there be any "if"?
Unless of course you are choosing to comment on a topic without going any further than "Huffsucks" and just spouting on that.

recall that the more stupid someone is, the longer you can fool em.

good point, where was that study about fox viewers being slightly dumber than the general population.

[CaptainHaplo]

If was speaking generally - not to the specifics of the story itself. Inane babble being passed off as news is inane babble being passed off for news, regardless of its source.

[MH]

Fox News-don't mess with Piggy.

[vienna]

A very interestibng portrait of your school, vienna. Did you have a religion class in "regular" school, or was this part of (involuntary) extracurricular activities and took place in the mess? In Germany we have religion classes in regular (state) schools btw.

I don't know about nowadays in Catholic schools, what with political correctness and the "i'm OK, Your OK" sort of atmosphere, but when I was in school, the day started off with an hour of religion class. The instruction was not limited to just Catholicism; we were taught, in depth, about all the other religions and philosophies as a means of understanding and comparing beliefs (although, there did seem to be a bit of a bias against the Lutherans, [wonder why?]). Our school was a Jesuit-based school. The Jesuits are known as the scholars of the Roman Catholic Church and have long required their members to be college educated and to seek advanced degrees. This means our school was open to discussion of varied viewpoints. The religious instruction was not mandatory as there were a few students who were not Catholic and attended the school because of the high quality of education being offered. However, I don't recall any of those students not participating. It is interesting to note that we were graded on "Religion" as a subject and we were also graded on our participation in Sunday Mass, which the Catholic students were required to attend as a group...

BTW, the school name is St. Paul Catholic School and, as I previously stated, was part of a parish complex built in Gothic style with large garnite blocks. The site was enclsed by black iron fences and gates. The main gate at the front of the church and school had the initials "S.P." in iron and gilded at the top of the gate. We students used to tell people who asked that the initials meant "State Prision". Also, the nuns who taught at the school were from the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary or, as abbreviated, B.V.M.; thus, each nun was known as "Sister Mary [Name], B.V.M." We students used to maintain the B.V.M. stood for "Black Veiled Monsters"...

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by vienna

Also, the nuns who taught at the school were from the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary or, as abbreviated, B.V.M.; thus, each nun was known as "Sister Mary [Name], B.V.M." We students used to maintain the B.V.M. stood for "Black Veiled Monsters"...

Did anyone ever say that when one of those "Black Veiled Monsters" was present?

[vienna]

Did anyone ever say that when one of those "Black Veiled Monsters" was present?

Suicide is a sin in the Catholic Church...