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Post by swamp on Jan 21, 2015 16:34:43 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2015 16:38:06 GMT -5
I saw this last night, both DH and I were hysterical!
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Post by midjd on Jan 21, 2015 16:41:49 GMT -5
I love it! And the comments are even better.
"HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THIS WONDERFUL BOOK? WHO CARES ABOUT TOMATO ORANGE WALLS AND AN OPEN FIRE IN A BABY'S ROOM?"
Bunch of humorless wackos!
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jan 21, 2015 16:55:57 GMT -5
OMFG! Awesome, just awesome! Good thing everyone else left for the day, so I could laugh out loud at this!
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Post by Bob Ross on Jan 21, 2015 17:02:28 GMT -5
OMFG! Awesome, just awesome! Good thing everyone else left for the day, so I could laugh out loud at this! Are you not allowed to laugh at work?
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Post by swamp on Jan 21, 2015 17:04:12 GMT -5
I love it! And the comments are even better. "HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THIS WONDERFUL BOOK? WHO CARES ABOUT TOMATO ORANGE WALLS AND AN OPEN FIRE IN A BABY'S ROOM?" Bunch of humorless wackos! The illustrator is award winning, world renowned, and trained in Paris. Don't you troglodytes understand the symbolism in the room?!
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Post by 973beachbum on Jan 21, 2015 17:08:22 GMT -5
That room makes more sense than the bathroom in the sitcom "Mad About You". That room was larger than my living room and it was supposed to be a Manhattan apartment. You could have ballroom dancing lessons in that bathroom. The only thing more crazy big in that show was the living room that was larger than the actual apartment would be in Manhattan.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jan 21, 2015 17:17:24 GMT -5
I thought all NYC apartments were huge, I mean look at the ones the broke people in Friends lived in.
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Post by Jaguar on Jan 21, 2015 17:18:25 GMT -5
I had a bedroom bigger than that growing up. My world came tumbling down when Mom sent me to survival camp and moved without telling me. < yes this did happen >
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Post by Bob Ross on Jan 21, 2015 17:19:09 GMT -5
Ok, I just scanned over the content.
It's like the mom jeans of satire. Or mom-satire. Can I coin that term? I just did.
Which probably explains why all you moms out there dig it.
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Post by giramomma on Jan 21, 2015 17:22:04 GMT -5
DD2 Insists that there not, infact cows jumping over the moon, but reindeer.
And the old lady doesn't always whisper "hush." Sometimes she "hushes" at the top of her lungs.
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Post by swamp on Jan 21, 2015 17:24:56 GMT -5
Ok, I just scanned over the content. It's like the mom jeans of satire. Or mom-satire. Can I coin that term? I just did. Which probably explains why all you moms out there dig it. You have not read it 1,748,580 Times.
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Post by Ryan on Jan 21, 2015 17:29:37 GMT -5
Eh, I think the author is trying a bit hard to be funny.
On the topic, I love when I'm reading a kids book and see something that a parent would probably find objectionable. One of the older books I was reading had the cops shooting guns at the robbers...another early curious george book had george smoking a cigar.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jan 21, 2015 17:47:44 GMT -5
I don't find it that funny either, and I've had to read it a million times too. I always figured the kid was visiting the place. I've also seen rooms that size and dollhouses that size that lit up. Yeah, the color combination is ugly. So's my son's Dr Seuss book.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jan 21, 2015 18:20:09 GMT -5
I love it! And the comments are even better. "HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THIS WONDERFUL BOOK? WHO CARES ABOUT TOMATO ORANGE WALLS AND AN OPEN FIRE IN A BABY'S ROOM?" Bunch of humorless wackos! The illustrator is award winning, world renowned, and trained in Paris. Don't you troglodytes understand the symbolism in the room?!No, we are too busy troggling the dytes (or is it dyting the troggles?) to focus on symbolism SAY WHAT? Now that is not funny. It's a miracle you are such a nice person with all you have gone through
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Post by Jaguar on Jan 21, 2015 18:26:24 GMT -5
The illustrator is award winning, world renowned, and trained in Paris. Don't you troglodytes understand the symbolism in the room?!No, we are too busy troggling the dytes (or is it dyting the troggles?) to focus on symbolism SAY WHAT? Now that is not funny. It's a miracle you are such a nice person with all you have gone through Thanks.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 21, 2015 18:31:01 GMT -5
Of course we should compare every single room in every single house to an apartment in Manhattan. After all, almost ALL children in this country live in an apartment in Manhattan. And there couldn't possibly be any other lifestyle or shape of homes and rooms.
The funniest was the one about the radiator. Doesn't most of the country have central heat now?
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Jan 21, 2015 18:34:21 GMT -5
My child's first bedroom also had a fireplace.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 21, 2015 18:37:03 GMT -5
My college boyfriend's parent's house had fireplaces in the bedrooms. It was wonderful on a cold night. His father would go around and build a little fire in everyone's room and it would be out by morning, but it was so toasty and awesome to go to bed in there.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 21, 2015 18:40:33 GMT -5
P.S. That house also had central heat, so the fireplace didn't have to heat the whole room, nor could you see any radiators, but there was a heat register on the floor in every room.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2015 19:00:26 GMT -5
To me all the humour is in the idea that you have read the book so often that you notice all of these things. And have the time to really elaborate on why this would bug you. I didn't take the article as criticism of the book at all.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jan 21, 2015 19:11:59 GMT -5
To me all the humour is in the idea that you have read the book so often that you notice all of these things. And have the time to really elaborate on why this would bug you. I didn't take the article as criticism of the book at all. There is a better way! I had it memorized, so I didn't look at the book at all except to make sure I was turning the right page... It's been a while now, let's see if I still remember it: "In the great green room there was a telephone and a red balloon, and a picture of, the cow jumping over the moon. And there were three little bears sitting on chairs...and two little kittens, and a pair of mittens...and a little house, and a young mouse". I don't know if I got that all right. Fortunately, my younger son didn't like that book so much so I've gotten a couple years' reprieve.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jan 21, 2015 19:30:54 GMT -5
My college boyfriend's parent's house had fireplaces in the bedrooms. It was wonderful on a cold night. His father would go around and build a little fire in everyone's room and it would be out by morning, but it was so toasty and awesome to go to bed in there. Ooh! I want to live with college boyfriend's parents!
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Jan 21, 2015 19:47:24 GMT -5
Well, the fact that they are rabbits living in a house, would they not need small furniture? That in its-self would make the room look huge! BOOM!!! There's your answer The rest
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Jan 21, 2015 19:48:48 GMT -5
Maybe the decor is from the 40's or something?
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 21, 2015 20:25:26 GMT -5
LMAO - the analysis and critique of the decor in the illustrations is hilarious.
Great satire piece.
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Post by teen persuasion on Jan 21, 2015 20:56:18 GMT -5
Eh, I think the author is trying a bit hard to be funny. On the topic, I love when I'm reading a kids book and see something that a parent would probably find objectionable. One of the older books I was reading had the cops shooting guns at the robbers...another early curious george book had george smoking a cigar. Yeah, I love those books, too. I'll read them to my kids (or, did when they were younger), but I watch what I will read at preschool storyhour at the library. A lot of older stories are no longer politically correct now. I love Beatrix Potter's books, but corporal punishment is a touchy subject. One of the stories I previewed for tomorrow was definitely out - Mom and Dad were going out, and wondered if the new babysitter would be dependable. Dad says, "At least Carl is there." Carl the dog gets toddler dressed and they escape through the doggie door and traipse all over, sledding and stealing hot dogs, etc. They get back home and in a window before parents return, Carl even puts clothes in the hamper! I'm sure my storyhour parents would love me planting ideas like this in the preschoolers' minds, LOL. Cute book, but not touching it with a ten foot pole at the library.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2015 21:00:02 GMT -5
Have you ever read Ain't gonna paint no more? First time I read that in front of parents I got some gasps...
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Post by teen persuasion on Jan 21, 2015 21:10:33 GMT -5
Have you ever read Ain't gonna paint no more? First time I read that in front of parents I got some gasps... I know I've read it and considered it, but can't recall if I've read it to the kids or not, it was a while ago. I think I used it. I like outrageous and something that parents can chuckle at, too. The sledding one with Carl wasn't outrageous enough, it was too mild and plausible, if you know what I mean. I could see an adventurous kid trying it out.
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Post by swamp on Jan 21, 2015 21:18:01 GMT -5
Eh, I think the author is trying a bit hard to be funny. On the topic, I love when I'm reading a kids book and see something that a parent would probably find objectionable. One of the older books I was reading had the cops shooting guns at the robbers...another early curious george book had george smoking a cigar. Yeah, I love those books, too. I'll read them to my kids (or, did when they were younger), but I watch what I will read at preschool storyhour at the library. A lot of older stories are no longer politically correct now. I love Beatrix Potter's books, but corporal punishment is a touchy subject. One of the stories I previewed for tomorrow was definitely out - Mom and Dad were going out, and wondered if the new babysitter would be dependable. Dad says, "At least Carl is there." Carl the dog gets toddler dressed and they escape through the doggie door and traipse all over, sledding and stealing hot dogs, etc. They get back home and in a window before parents return, Carl even puts clothes in the hamper! I'm sure my storyhour parents would love me planting ideas like this in the preschoolers' minds, LOL. Cute book, but not touching it with a ten foot pole at the library. RU FKM? It's just a story.
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