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- From: larryh@fawlty.lmc.com (Larry Huntley)
- Subject: Re: What I want for Christmas
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.200847.18864@cabezon.uucp>
- Sender: usenet@cabezon.uucp (uucp sys_admin)
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- Organization: Logic Modeling Corporation Beaverton, OR
- References: <1992Dec23.162227.16625@news.nd.edu> <1hca45INNia8@uwm.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:08:47 GMT
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- In article <1hca45INNia8@uwm.edu> grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (The Crow of Desperation) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.162227.16625@news.nd.edu> rvacca@vyasa.helios.nd.edu (robert vacca) writes:
- >* I need a new TV because the old one played a Fruit of the Loom
- >*commercial that used CSNY's "Teach your Children" as background music.
- >
- >Oh, you mean the one where the little kid takes a piss by himself?
- >
- >I imagine this little foary of independence didn't quite work out, since
- >the dad has to hand the kid a clean pair of underwear at the end.
- >
- No, no, no. You've missed the intended point of this particular piece
- of schmaltz entirely. The inference you're supposed to draw is that
- the toddler has successfully negotiated his *first* piss in the toilet,
- thereby earning a pair of Fruit-of-the-Looms, "Just like Dads." No
- more diapers/Pampers for him. A rite of passage has been undertaken
- and passed.
-
- Bah. As owner and operator of two man-children, lemme tell you that
- this is NOT how it works. They're just as likely to stand at the end
- of the bed, pissing on the floor, screaming at the top of their lungs,
- while you rush in, trying to determine how the fuck they got the dia-
- per off. Teach your children indeed.
-
- This commercial is supposed to be cute and endearing, I suppose. I
- find it infuriating. I know exactly why David needs a new TV.
-
- - Larry Huntley
- PS Mine are teenagers now. That's a real hoot, too.
- --
- (larryh@lmc.com) | I'm going to the love-in to sit
- Logic Modeling Corporation | and play my bongos in the dirt.
- Beaverton, OR | - "Flower Punk", Frank Zappa
-