[Behind Liberal Lines]

And anyone that had suggested puppet camp to me...I don't know how I would have reacted, but I don't think puppet camp would have interested me. Not without a lobotomy first, but then again, I didn't get that crap pushed on me from birth like this poor kid probably did.

In seventh grade our social studies teacher asked the class (comprised of good wholesome non Ithacan upstate farm kids) if we'd be interested in doing a puppet class. We glared at him. He backed right down. He eventually became a republican.

[Miss Marple]

LOL! The last time I remember making a puppet was in the early years of grade school, when the art teacher had us make puppets out of lunch sacks and construction paper.

It was pretty boring, even in first or second grade. We wanted to paint with brushes and easels, which only the big kids got to do.

Here's an excellent example of evil street puppets that I found this morning. I wonder how many trees died to make this large papier mache puppet?

[general_re]

I can imagine how that must have gone over. I bet if they actually asked today's Ithacan seventh graders if they wanted to have puppets, the response would be prett lukewarm. So their parents resort to the time-honored tactic of making them learn abot the damn puppets ;)