I always wonder about the parolees. I reckon the only way to achieve such status is to come in loosing a string of f-bombs or racial epithets. Such a thing strikes me kind of funny, even as I recognize the need to quell it.
That last being, because, as with people, it's much easier to separate soul and body than to put 'em back together. Let me illustrate.
I belong to another bbs - a Yahoo E-group of former Flint-schoolers. These were tall ship sailor/students back in the 70's/early 80's. There was a guy there I knew while aboard who had a problem with encropresis due to the fact that he was extremely anal-retentive. For those who don't know, encropresis is a process by which wet, more mobile bits of ker-rap flow past the large plug of built-up refuse that blocks and desensitizes the anus of the retentive. The result is that they sort of ker-rap their pants little by little. Of course, when you're on a pair of relatively tight ships with 100 other people, others start to, uh, "become aware" that you've got that problem. Indeed, in that guy's case, people thought an animal had got aboard, at first, because they were finding random dookies all over the ship. Thankfully, I was amidships on the "other" ship. He was fo'c'sle on his.
Well, here we are, 30 years on. The guy with the former encropresis problem (probably still has it, for all I know) gets kind of mouthy (wordy and critical) in pixel with a former fo'c'sle inhabitant. That was a mistake because, when push came to shove, the first weapon to come out of the drawer in the resultant flame-post pi**ing contest was, "Hey so-and-so, did you learn to wipe your prettythang yet?"
Things spiralled downhill from there. Neither one participates in the group discussions any more.
So, you see, Skuzzie is helping to ensure that no one here gets inappropriate like that.
As for me, I saw that one coming - and laughed and laughed when it hit. It reminded me of a cartoon in which the cat hides an anvil behind his back. You KNOW he's going to drop it on the mouse first chance he gets. I also think it regrettable that they let something like a little flame war deter them from participating - especially when the guy who dropped the anvil was living in H'burg Pennsylvania so broke (and alcoholic) he had to keep his heat at 50 degrees last winter. Surely that was a rope the mouse could've tied to the cat, threaded through a knothole, then attached to a runaway train outside.
I saw that once on PunkinPuss and MushMouse, btw. MushMouse tied PunkinPuss to a rope while he was sleeping, then ran the rope through a knothole and tied it to a freight train. Of course, PunkinPuss got dragged through the knothole and ended up looking like a piece of spaghetti. His comment after it happened was priceless, "I feel like I just got dragged through a knothole".
Viva cartoons violente! Viva James Coburn!
More on PP and MM from:
http://www.toonopedia.com/mushmou.htmInsulting stereotypes of African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Americans of practically every other ethnicity were well on their way to being excised from the media in 1964. But the insulting stereotypes represented by Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse (like those of the later Hillbilly Bears) were aimed at residents of the U.S.'s Southeastern region, and that was (and, to a large extent, remains even today) perfectly acceptable. Despite their political correctitude, they didn't become outstanding stars.
