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Post by Nonsuch Ned on Jan 22, 2020 18:23:16 GMT
The Three Stooges. According to my mother they were the parental video game scare of its day. "Kids are going to imitate those films! Won't somebody please think of the children?!"
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Post by miles on Jan 22, 2020 19:38:38 GMT
The Three Stooges. According to my mother they were the parental video game scare of its day. "Kids are going to imitate those films! Won't somebody please think of the children?!" This is true. Some kids had to go to one of their friend's houses to watch them after school, as they were banned by the stricter parents. As negative role models, they were replaced by Bart Simpson and finally South Park.
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Post by Mare on Jan 22, 2020 23:26:59 GMT
The Three Stooges. According to my mother they were the parental video game scare of its day. "Kids are going to imitate those films! Won't somebody please think of the children?!" I babysat two kids that were not allowed to watch The Three Stooges or Heckle and Jeckle. The Simpsons usually had some kind of lesson in each episode (except that one where Lisa Simpson says there is no lesson) so I watched with my kids. There were parents at the grade school the kids attended that didn't let their kids watch and kind of turned their noses up when I told them mine watched and I did, too. Maybe they never heard of Aesop or fables. There were some very witty literary references in The Simpsons. Tom and Jerry was not as bad as The Road Runner, the coyote got the crap beaten out of him all throughout each cartoon. Itchy and Scratchy is taking the concept out to the maximum carnage level.
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Post by donavan on Jan 23, 2020 18:21:15 GMT
Courage the Cowardly Dog. That was frightening and brilliant. But Salad Fingers tops them all.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jul 23, 2022 3:26:11 GMT
For Raymond Chandler, I think his best novel was The Long Goodbye, interesting in that it was considerably different than this other Phillip Marlowe novels. Much longer, with Marlowe far more vulnerable emotionally. But still just as cynical as his other books.
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Post by donavan on Jul 23, 2022 5:32:51 GMT
For Raymond Chandler, I think his best novel was The Long Goodbye, interesting in that it was considerably different than this other Phillip Marlowe novels. Much longer, with Marlowe far more vulnerable emotionally. But still just as cynical as his other books. "Much longer" The clue is in the title. 😉
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jul 23, 2022 17:20:54 GMT
I don't know--I mean, I've read The Big Sleep plenty of times, yet I still have fucking insomnia.
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Post by donavan on Jul 23, 2022 21:04:39 GMT
and you are still alive.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Jul 23, 2022 22:31:36 GMT
Unless I am really a bot.
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Post by bluedemon25 on Jul 23, 2022 22:46:48 GMT
Unless I am really a bot. Intro-bot
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