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Airstrikes Rock Smurf Village
The Register ^ | today | Lester Haines

Posted on 10/10/2005 10:59:19 AM PDT by day10

Here's a poser for you: you're trying to knock together a TV ad highlighting the effects of war on children. What's the plan?

Well, you could go down the traditional route of earnest voice-over accompanying footage of said kids miserably awaiting a better life or, on the other hand, you could arm up a squadron of attack aircraft and go and raze a Smurf village to the ground. Let's face it, it's a toughie.

Not for Unicef Belgium though, which earlier this week reduced an enchanted Smurf hamlet to smouldering rubble - much to the horror of some TV viewers across the Channel - when it aired a 25-second burst of animated warnography on the country's TV screens.

(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antichildren; childrenandwar; deathtosmurfs; jihad; mediajihad; ridiculous; rush; smurf; smurfs; un; unicef; unitednations
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Just heard this on Rush so I looked up an article. Complete lunacy.

Forgive if duplicate, search came up with nothing

1 posted on 10/10/2005 10:59:25 AM PDT by day10
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To: day10
Those little blue b@stards had it comin'.

I never trusted that Papa Smurf. He was always hidin' somethin'

I hope we blow them all the way to Fraggle Rock.

2 posted on 10/10/2005 11:02:04 AM PDT by keithtoo (Howard Dean is a Rove plant, Rove is a NeoCon plant, NeoCons are Trilateralist plants....)
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To: day10
Forgive if duplicate, search came up with nothing

Same subject, different article and source: Unicef bombs the Smurfs

3 posted on 10/10/2005 11:02:05 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: day10

I want to know where it can be downloaded so I can watch it again and again and again and again, hahahahahahaha!


4 posted on 10/10/2005 11:02:28 AM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: day10

George Bush doesn't like blue people.


5 posted on 10/10/2005 11:02:58 AM PDT by dinasour (Pajamahadeen)
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To: day10

Death to the Smurfs ! /sarcasm

This must be the new "trick or treat" for UNICEF.


6 posted on 10/10/2005 11:03:22 AM PDT by axes_of_weezles (mainstream extremist (Ha))
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To: day10

We had to destroy the Smurf village in order to save it.
I got some rice in my butt and 3 purple hearts...

7 posted on 10/10/2005 11:04:09 AM PDT by SquirrelKing (I'm not mean, you're just a sissy.)
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To: TheBigB

Papa Smurf link needed here! LMFAO!


8 posted on 10/10/2005 11:05:48 AM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (The most dangerous place in America is a mother's womb.)
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To: day10

Weren't the Smurfs all communists anyway?


9 posted on 10/10/2005 11:06:09 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
The best part is the ending:

Of course, the Smurfs are a Belgian invention, first appearing in comic form in 1958. This might explain the horrified reaction over there. We reckon, on the other hand, that if the Smurf apocalypse TV ad were shown in Britain, Blair and Bush's approval rating for military action abroad would treble in a flash among adults more than willing to support any initiative which involves dropping munitions on Smurfs.

10 posted on 10/10/2005 11:07:14 AM PDT by dangus
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To: reagan_fanatic

>> Weren't the Smurfs all communists anyway? <<

No, they were homos, not pinkos.


11 posted on 10/10/2005 11:08:07 AM PDT by dangus
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To: day10
"...you're trying to knock together a TV ad highlighting the effects of war on children."

And what would the point of THAT be?

Isn't it enough to say, "Not good?"

I'd certainly concede the "not good" argument.

12 posted on 10/10/2005 11:08:31 AM PDT by Redbob
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To: George Smiley

I have been searching around a little, but haven't found a download yet.

I never really paid attention to the Smurfs, too old for these cartoons by the time they were popular, so I dont have strong feelings about leveling their village.

Now, Barney the dinosaur is another story altogether.......


13 posted on 10/10/2005 11:08:42 AM PDT by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)
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To: dangus

Umm... but, seriously folks... shall this not be exhibit A of "Why the USA should not fund the UN-SSR"?


14 posted on 10/10/2005 11:09:35 AM PDT by dangus
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To: day10
...guess the UNICEF people thought slitting the throats of innocent people might offend certain religious groups.


*smirk*

Doogle
15 posted on 10/10/2005 11:09:54 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF...7thAF ..4077th TFW...408th MMS..Ubon Thailand.."69",,Night Line Delivery..AMMO)
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To: day10
It's the SMURFPOCALYPSE!
16 posted on 10/10/2005 11:11:12 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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To: dangus

"No, they were homos, not pinkos."

What do you expect when their entire race only had one female.


17 posted on 10/10/2005 11:13:29 AM PDT by Trampled by Lambs (I think, therefor I Zot!)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Papa Smurf always came across as a Pedophile to me.


18 posted on 10/10/2005 11:15:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flower Mound, TX)
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To: All
... Smurf apocalypse ...

“Drop the Bomb. Exterminate them all.”

19 posted on 10/10/2005 11:19:20 AM PDT by dighton
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To: day10

Smurf-tastic!


20 posted on 10/10/2005 11:20:22 AM PDT by Thrusher ("...there is no peace without victory.")
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