[robowombat]

A short bulletin from the pc front.

[Slyfox]

Any word on Bert and Ernie?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Which one will it be?

Bert or Ernie?

;-)

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Unreal.

[jalisco555]

Do kids today even watch Sesame Street? Back in the 80's and early 90's my kids and I watched this show a lot but now with Nickelodeon etc. there is a ton of childrens programming. In fact as soon as my youngest discovered this fact that was the end of SS.

BTW, I don't remember this PC nonsense being a part of SS in the 80's. This must be just about unwatchable for most parents, a large part of SS's audience.

[joesnuffy]

This is great..how about small pox muppet or dysentary muppets (nope cleanup in aisle five)
I know how about Syphillis/Gonnoreah/Herpes/Chlamidia muppets...

[maximus@Nashville]

Thankfully, my kids are just past the Sesame Street watching age. I can imagine the questions now:

"Whatis HIV?"

"What is AIDS?"

"What is a Homo-sexual?"

"What is sex?"

"Ewwwww! Why would you want to do that?"

Just like the Linda Ellerbee special on Nickelodeon, they are trying to introduce inappropriate subject matter to a audience too young to understand what the subject is.

[Dakmar]

Maybe Oscar could be diagnosed with cirrhosis.

[Mr. Bird]

Besides the obvious ridiculousness of the whole idea, how would they go about even working the fact into any possible story line? These are kids, for cryin out loud. Would our hero be faced with the prospect of having unprotected sex as a 6 year old? Maybe she could discuss, over coffee and cigarettes, the dangers of shooting smack and sharing needles? And how did she get it? Can't use the ol' blameless transfusion bugaboo. Gotta talk about behaviors. Nobody sneezed on the little sock and gave her AIDS.....

[Chebornik]

What's next??? Tourette Syndrome Barbie? Oh, they already did that: http://www.rock103.com/crew/asheard/?crewAsHeardPage=t-barbie.html

[NYer]

The character -- which has yet to have a name or final colour or form -- will travel to many if not all of the eight other nations that air versions of the educational children's show that began in the United States in 1969, said Joel Schneider, vice president and senior adviser to the Sesame Street Workshop.

What are the INS regulations on admitting HIV positive visitors to the U.S.?

[dead]

It's not just the muppets.

I wasn't going to say anything, but Barney's been getting alarmingly thin and has developed skin lesions and a reedy cough.

[patriot_wes]

"HIV-Positive Muppet Coming to Sesame Street"

you know, I'm getting so sick of these queers and their disease being paraded in front of everybody!!!!! I think carriers of this killer should be quarantined, not put up on a pedastile.....

did I spell that correctly?

[Kermit]

"...Joel Schneider, the vice president and senior adviser to the Sesame Street Workshop, made the announcement Thursday at the 14th International AIDS Conference now underway in Barcelona, Spain."

Another first for AIDS, the only disease with a pathogen that has civil rights, the only disease that has political conventions, now, AIDS is the only disease with a cartoon character on tv.

I predict they will make the HIV character in South Africa "white". They don't want to encourage stereotypes by making it "black".