Posted on 05/27/2004 7:25:15 AM PDT by qam1
"Wheel of Morality, turn turn turn. Tell us the lesson that we should learn."
can't we all just get along?
now, lemme tell you the true secret of Speed Racer:
Speed Racer has a mean-tempered domineering career-driving father...
Speed Racer has a high-pitched voice and looks pretty girly...
Speed Racer has a mysterious older brother with a history of violence and disobedience...
Speed Racer hangs out with a cute chick but so far as we can tell he never gets down with her...
Speed Racer has a pet chimp...
Speed Racer likes to hang out with a little boy...
Speed Racer is... Michael Jackson!
See? I, too, have now played the Race Card.
*fleeing for my life*
Although on the leading cusp of Boomerism, I have always been mystified by the antics of some of the Boomers. But, we should cut them a little slack because after all it was the Greatest Generation that created the threat of Thermonuclear Annihilation and drove many weak-sister Boomers to prefer chemical absurdity over the absurd reality. It, post-modernism, was nothing compared to modernism, neither in depth nor width, but thankfully both are over now and we can face our dingy, SSDD world with eyes open and deal with what we see.
ooo! Racing away now might be a good idea
shame on you both!
on a thread like this one, the proper sound effect is indubitably "Ka-BONNG!!!"
consider this (#62) payback for introducing me to South Park!
I saw one episode where he threw a grenade into the laps of the ever-present frogmen and then shot ricochets off the front of back-hoe to kill another around a corner. Those were the good old days when the exploding plane did not have 4 parachutes always emerging.
toon in
I never realized Cobra was al Qaeda!
shame on you both!on a thread like this one, the proper sound effect is indubitably "Ka-BONNG!!!"
hehe !
El Kabong !!!
Wonder if what cartoons we like means anything. My four year old needs his Tom and Jerry fix every morning. Thankfully, it's the old one, not the new version where they become wussy friends.
That's b/c "Speed Racer" was a Japanese show, not American. American animation has almost always been overly "kiddie-fied." Only until relatively recently with the animated "Batman" and "Superman" shows or the very underrated "Exo-Squad" was the violence inherent in warfare and crime given any exposure to kids.
Remember that scene in 'Second Hand Lions' where Duvall kicks those teen-agers butts while giving them a speech about being a vet and loving just one woman 'that a flea' like them couldn't begin to understand; and then later gives them the "man talk"? Boys need more of that. Men teaching boys.
Boys also need to get their butts kicked once in a while, helps them understand what kind of behavior is unacceptable and why. John Wayne beating people up was the core of my morality for many years, if you never do anything The Duke ever beat anybody up for you're well on your way to being a good person.
We know! Boy do we know!! ;) keep it coming....we like it.
ah-ha! Evidence that Warner Bros. is not completely deceitful.
I'm an X'er but we had fights all the time too when I was in elementary and middle school (early 80s). There was more control through chemistry probably than you had though. Teachers wanted to put me on Ritalin but my mom (being a RN and knowing the dangers) said "No way". Some of my friends were not so lucky and they changed quickly. Hard to tell if it was just adolescence or the chemistry.
I recall just about the same intervention by the teachers. "Break it up you two"--yikes that phrase brought back some memories. We also used to get in snowballs fights, squirt gun fights (along with water balloons) and sometimes rock fights in the neighborhood. All in semi-rural CT.
We also used to run, play and shoot frogs with our BB guns from sunrise to sunset and I don't recall my parents saying anything other than "Be back by dinner".
We live in a society that doesn't let its boys be boys or boys grow up to be real men. Instead they have to find their 'sensitive' side to live and breath in it apparently. Maybe cartoons were a man's answer to feminism.
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