Anne - I have not. But now I suspect I want to.

Hec, look here.

Loving the story of Jilli in the record store.

My parents' view of sex'n'violence was not very consistent. I was not allowed to watch "Three's Company" due to the bawdy humor, but going to see "Life of Brian?" Fine and dandy with them. Ditto with Mel Brooks.

(In retrospect, I think the 3C ban was due to the overweening badness of the show, and not due to the content.)

I won't say no to that at ALL. Everyone else may commence with the being jealous now.

No. We're just all going to kiss you, too.

My parents' view of sex'n'violence was not very consistent. I was not allowed to watch "Three's Company" due to the bawdy humor, but going to see "Life of Brian?" Fine and dandy with them. Ditto with Mel Brooks.

I couldn't watch/see any of those. I also couldn't watch Love Boat and Fantasy Island. Shows that were on when I was up were seldom, if ever, violent, so it wasn't an issue. I wouldn't have liked them if they were, so it wasn't even a potential issue.

See? No. Fun.

Anne, your father did the statues outside of Busch Stadium? So cool.

There's one of Ozzie. [link]

Hec, look here.

Holy fuck, Anne! He's a genius. I particularly like the Gibson and the Schoendist. Wow.

Love Boat was the one adult show I remember watching. We loooved that show!

My parents told me to never tell anyone they watched Love Boat.

I particularly like the Gibson and the Schoendist.

Yeah, the Schoendienst one is fabulous.

I particularly like the Gibson and the Schoendist. Wow.

The Gibson one is probably my favorite of the baseball statues. He said the hardest part was figuring out how to brace the thing so he could get the effect of the follow-through off the mound.

I was allowed to watch Love Boat and Fantasy Island, but not Montey Python or Saturday Night Live. I was also not allowed to have comic books or Mad Magazine.

There's a distribution center in Chicago, which means there must be ice cream parlors that carry it.

Thanks, Maria. I'll look into it.

Maybe I'll go do a flavor check for Kalshane later.

Shiny!

I also continue to be amused, or is it outraged, by the fact that the whole point of GTA is killing people and dealing drugs and other sorts of crime, and yet it's the sex download that everyone's up in arms about. I mean, right?!?

Well, the problem is the code was already in the game, the hack just unlocks it. So the question becomes why was it even there in the first place?

Still, the game is rated M, and while the additional content would bump it up to AO (Adults Only), it's not like the game was about hugs and puppies in the first place, so no one really should be that surprised.

The problem is a lot of parents don't pay attention. They think "video games are for kids" and are outraged when their pre-conceptions are shattered, despite the clear labeling on the box. (My copy of Halo 2 has the "M: Mature 17+" label on the front, while on the back the label is expanded with "Blood and Gore. Violence". Likewise, my copy of BtVS has "T: Teen" on the front and "Blood and Gore, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes" on the back. I've never played any of the GTA games, though I've watched friends and relatives play them, so I couldn't tell you exactly what the box says.) These parents tend to have similar preconceptions about cartoons and comic books.

Growing up, my parents didn't want us to see either sex or violence, but it was made clear to us that violence was worse than sex. Sex was a natural part of life, but not something children should be concerning themselves with.

One of my co-workers, on the other hand, allows her kids to watch the goriest things imaginable, but won't let them watch anything with nudity in it.