Elmo ensured my family ate foods other than pizza. FACT.
Elmo aided in the elimination of asthma inducing agents from our home. FACT.
Elmo preserves and promotes parental urinary tract health. FACT.
Elmo saved my mental health. MOSTLY.
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
Wash ,'The Message'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 14, 2005 7:23:54 am PDT #9858 of 10001
What is even happening?
Frankenbuddha - Jul 14, 2005 7:25:25 am PDT #9859 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Elmo preserves and promotes parental urinary tract health. FACT.
Not in person (muppet?) I hope.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 14, 2005 7:26:33 am PDT #9860 of 10001
What is even happening?
That's between you and your muppet, Frank.
brenda m - Jul 14, 2005 7:27:18 am PDT #9861 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
On the news. Grr. Some muckety-muck in the government is saying that cities and states need to pay more of the security costs for public transportaion, that the federal government is already spending a fortune on airplanes. As he put it..."An airplane can kill 3,000 people. A bomb on a subway might kill thirty."
Lovely. And for the two-fer, the Senate has just reaffirmed the principle that rural Wyoming needs just as much if not much much more protection as do NYC, LA, etc.
sarameg - Jul 14, 2005 7:27:37 am PDT #9862 of 10001
Oh, I'm sure my brother and SIL would agree he was useful. They tolerate the red menace for the reasons you listed.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 14, 2005 7:29:23 am PDT #9863 of 10001
What is even happening?
How old are their children, sara? Tolerance may yet bloom into love, or at least loyalty. This tender feeling may be bolstered by the idiocy of the shows their children will want to watch, once they've outgrown Elmo & co.
Gudanov - Jul 14, 2005 7:30:54 am PDT #9864 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Right now Cyberchase is King with both my kids. Postcards from Buster comes in a close second for my daughter.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 14, 2005 7:32:30 am PDT #9865 of 10001
What is even happening?
I like Cyberchase. It sneakily promotes thinking. The same is true for Blue's Clues (Steve was far superior to Joe, though, imo). I like most of the shows on Noggin, too. And I love the Noggin music.
This summer, we're limiting TV, though. This is making me UNpopular.
sarameg - Jul 14, 2005 7:32:59 am PDT #9866 of 10001
The nephew is just 2.5. They don't avoid the elmo, not at all. They just find him really really annoying, but the kid loves him, so....
JohnSweden - Jul 14, 2005 7:34:38 am PDT #9867 of 10001
I can't even.
Speaking of TDS, Jon was en fuego last night with Bernard "Fathead" Goldberg.
I love it when Jon doesn't let people away with their crap. His point of "you're a smart guy, why are you writing about Barbra Streisand instead of Karl Rove?" was dead on, and Goldberg couldn't wiggle away from it.