[Miss Marple]

I have discovered a horrifying sub-set of these liberal street puppets: WORSHIP PUPPETS!!

The above is labeled a "worship puppet" at the United Church of Christ web site, where they also feature the anti Colombia petition and other liberal things.

I have never heard of worship puppets, unless we are really speaking of idols.

[general_re]

I've never heard of worship puppets either, but I'm going to go waaayyyy out on a limb and guess that they're mainly present in your more liberal congregations ;)

[dead]

I've constructed a set of about 20 "worship puppets".

They look up to me, and make me feel powerful.

If they are insufficiently animated in their worship of me, I smite them.

[Billthedrill]

OK, I'm convinced - the Marple index has been needed for a long time now. Will there be a benchmark? Like, say, the Earth Day party in Ithaca having an index of 1.0? And what unit shall we use, Marples? I figure the WTO thingy in Seattle ought to come in at around 2.75 Marples, counting the somewhat fragmented cardboard sea turtles (cardboard sea turtles in rainy Seattle - yep, it turned out just about how you'd figure...)

But not all puppets are evil. Bunny Rabbit. He was the only redeeming character on the Captain Kangaroo show, and look how they silenced him. That commie Mister Moose was responsible.