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One of my childhood favourites

Posted: October 13th, 2008, 9:37 pm
by bohonato
Happy 50th Paddington!

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Here's to a world where everything is better after getting rather sticky eating a jar of marmalade.

Paddington Bear makes everything better, ever political discourse:

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and dig this piece:
http://www.thechap.net/content/section_news/bear.html

It may be slightly reactionary, but I can't get enough of that dry British humour.

Posted: October 15th, 2008, 6:44 am
by Dave The Dov
Say wasn't there a teacher who got into trouble for doing something similar?
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Posted: October 16th, 2008, 5:40 pm
by bohonato
For the satire? Probably, I can understand people keeping upset about it. I'm not familiar with the situation, so I don't want to comment too much, but I think losing one's employment over satire is a little extreme. But then again, as they say in the film Ridicule, the first rule of witticism is to know one's place.

Posted: October 17th, 2008, 2:06 pm
by Dave The Dov
I think it was something were she I guessed she named a teddy bear Mohammad and this made a whole lot of people not too happy.
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