From Rodney Perkins Sent Fri, Mar 12th 1999, 22:35
You should try to hunt down the "Dysfunctional Family Circus" cartoons where some clever individuals replaced the wholesome captions with just the sort of "filth" your message describes. Choice! -----Original Message----- From: Ethan <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> To: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 4:17 PM Subject: (idm) (off topic) quick before they notice > >take a look at these fine examples of an active, vibrant online community: > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449148076/002-8668652-1158428 > >I've reprinted the best one here in case it's been pulled. > >I'll Shovel the Cards >by Bill Keane > >Customer Comments > >Strom Thurmond >xxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx from The >good old US of A! , March 9, 1999 > >This type of smut must be outlawed! Within the confines of this great >Republic we call the United States, a quiet plowman infects our youth. No, >not the iconographic Johnny Appleseed afforesting our tables with Mom's >Apple Pie, but a more sinister, inauspicious cultivator. Bill Keane, once >apprehended in Connecticut for his failure to pay alimony, has once again >invenomed the wonderful world of the United States. This book, filled with >the grossest immoralities and wickedness the Old Testament can't match, >has been released to a largely unaware audience. We look upon the Ida Know >character in this seething cauldron of angst Mr. Keane calls "Family >Circus" as nothing more than a harmless imp, a Puck if you will, spreading >mischief and innocent mayhem. But I say look closer friends, and recoil in >the understanding that Ida Know has created the work of the devil. >Cleverly backdropping this demonic entity into the idyllic paradise the >family otherwise enjoys, Keane lulls us into believing that life is >controlled by the whims of supernatural beings. I say, where's the >American Family Circus? God has blessed this country with the greatest >leaders in the world, but Keane's depiction is quite frankly blasphemous. > >And it only gets worse, my fellow American. Read page 32 of this text. >Little Billy is essentially forced to view his mother and father in a >panel that pertains directly to the sexual. Barfy's bone? I don't think >so. Then there's Uncle Roy's blatant lust for his NIECE! His flagrant >homosexuality blazing across the pages with abandon! His frequent >references to the sexual tension between Daddy and Neighbor Bob! How much >more can our country afford to lose? In the end, will there be a country >worth fighting for if this smut is allowed to propogate? My fellow >citizens, I am proposing a bill. Senate Bill #57684 will directly outlaw >Bill Keane's outlandish and nauseating filth from the face of this great >country once and for all. > >Please email me with your name for a confidential petition getting this >Bill off the ground. Thank you. > > >