quote:This week is Banned Book Week, one of those things it used to be hard to believe was needed in America. To "celebrate," I'd like to spotlight one title each day from the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged books for the years 1990-2000. I'll tell you a bit about the book and ask anyone who's also familiar with the work to chime in with their thoughts.
Our first title, number 88 on the list, is Martin Hanford's title of endless quest, Where's Waldo.
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quote:We're talking about a boob measuring around 1/16". (The one in the book, that is; no data available on the size of the complainant.)
Yeah, that pretty much covers it.
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Did you see that last comment on the original article? I dearly hope that person was being ironical.
Alas, I suspect that even if irony was intended, the message was exactly what the Ban Waldo people would say.
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Oh my DOYC! The world will surely come to an end, now.
ComicBookGeek, click on this - quote: - in the original post.
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I clicked this link and I'm shocked, scarred for life even, I say we ban DaGuyWithBluGlasses from this board for posting this vile thing. All in favor for banning say Aye.
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I clicked this link and I'm shocked, scarred for life even, I say we ban DaGuyWithBluGlasses from this board for posting this vile thing. All in favor for banning say Aye.
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Aye! But, I only say this because if you look to the NNW of the boob, you will see a Black dude and a White dude having sex with each other in front of DOYC and everybody!
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...and that man in the white shirt and red pants...where's his other hand?! He must be masturbating while ogling those women in bikinis!!!
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quote:Aye! But, I only say this because if you look to the NNW of the boob, you will see a Black dude and a White dude having sex with each other in front of DOYC and everybody!
I'm soooo glad I'm not the only one who noticed that, Signora!! heheheheheh
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What about the SET of man-boobs just South of her.
Why is the blond just North of her holding that guys ankles?
Why is the old man hiding behind the towel/blanket?
Is the man in armor wearing pants?
Why does the guy next to the 'male couple' have his legs (and blanket) in the air?
And the man just South of her--is that really a shovel, or is he just happy to see the Waldo-boob?
The whole lot of them are pervs!
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quote:Originally posted by Wicked Tinkerbell: The whole lot of them are pervs!
So, anyone else looking to join the party?
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quote:Originally posted by Wicked Tinkerbell: The whole lot of them are pervs!
But none more than the man with the brown shorts standing directly to the right of the boob lady. He is the one who got this whole orgy started in the first place. He obviosly used the umbrella he is holding to knock the bikini top off the woman to show her boobies to the whole beach. That's what started the whole mating frenzy going on in this picture in the first place. It's all his fault and he should be banned or possibly lynched!!!
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quote:Originally posted by Cervus: ...and that man in the white shirt and red pants...where's his other hand?! He must be masturbating while ogling those women in bikinis!!!
I think he is looking at the woman at his feet and her missing hand! The look on her face explains exactly what she is doing.
Speaking of faces, what the heck is that guy doing directly above Miss Boobage (just right of the feet of the guys "fighting")? Just what is going on behind that striped thing he is in?
Wait a minute! Is that guy in the lower left corner naked?
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What I want to know is why all these people are camped out in swim wear in the middle of a desert. (I don't see any water, but I do see a saguaro ...)
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quote:Originally posted by Seaboe Muffinchucker: Did you see that last comment on the original article? I dearly hope that person was being ironical.
Alas, I suspect that even if irony was intended, the message was exactly what the Ban Waldo people would say.
Which comment did you mean? This one?
quote:I used to read and enjoy those books until I read this. I looked back into my collection and I actually found it! Good thing I didn't give this to my 3 year old son!
It's not at the end any more - the comments are still active.
I don't think that people who complain about these things necessarily believe what they're saying. I tend to come into contact more with people who are activists in a different political sense - and one I tend to agree with - but I often don't agree on specific points, and I do wonder how much thought they themselves put into it that they can espouse their particular positions with such certainty (even though I tend to agree with those positions).
So, basically, I reckon some people make these complaints for a hobby because they're not particularly into it but are told to by somebody who might be even less into it than they are, but is also doing it for "reasons of decency" or whatever the cause is.
Actually, thinking about it, I can't see any cause that's so absurd as to lead people to complain about "Where's Waldo / Wally?" unless somebody at some point is taking the piss. So I reckon that one person who was taking the piss incited a lot of people who vaguely agreed about "decency" to complain about something they had no personal opinion on.
Either that, or the original person genuinely believed their complaint and was insane.
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Did anyone mention the woman in the black two-piece just south of the man in the red pants? No doubt about what she's doing.
Are we all eee-bil?
Has anyone else thought what I just thought? I think we should all go back over to that site and post our observations. I'll go first and post a link to the pic.
ETA: Sorry, vanilla. I just saw that you mentioned the woman in question.
ETA: I just posted on that site but don't know if it "took" or not. It seems that comments are reviewed before they appear on the page.
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quote:Originally posted by Wicked Tinkerbell: The whole lot of them are pervs!
But none more than the man with the brown shorts standing directly to the right of the boob lady. He is the one who got this whole orgy started in the first place. He obviosly used the umbrella he is holding to knock the bikini top off the woman to show her boobies to the whole beach. That's what started the whole mating frenzy going on in this picture in the first place. It's all his fault and he should be banned or possibly lynched!!!
See, my interpretation of the scene is that the woman was sunbathing facedown with her top unstrapped (presumably in order to get a more even tan on her back), and then some guy came along and poked her back with his ice cream cone. I don't blame her for flinging her arms in the air, arching her back, and exclaiming loudly. (Speaking of things that seem dirty...) And yes, that lewd, crude, rude dude who did it should be banned from the beach!
You can totally see her nipple protruding. Or something like that; it's a little hard to tell because it's so tiny. But still! EVIL!
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: What I want to know is why all these people are camped out in swim wear in the middle of a desert. (I don't see any water, but I do see a saguaro ...)
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The saguaro is there as an ebil phallic reference, silly! A double reference since cacti are 'prick'ly!
Wicked 'Or is the sand happy to see her' T.
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: What I want to know is why all these people are camped out in swim wear in the middle of a desert. (I don't see any water, but I do see a saguaro ...)
- snopes
The saguaro is there as an ebil phallic reference, silly! A double reference since cacti are 'prick'ly!
Wicked 'Or is the sand happy to see her' T.
Now, that was sheer genius, especially the pun.
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quote:Originally posted by Signora Del Drago: Now, that was sheer genius, especially the pun.
Thank you, Ma'am!
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I can't imagine what ya'll think of me... I've read a good many of the books on that list...
though I have not been topless on a beach or desert since age 4. does that help?
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quote:Originally posted by daisyslegs: I can't imagine what ya'll think of me... I've read a good many of the books on that list...
though I have not been topless on a beach or desert since age 4. does that help?
I just counted and found that I've read 26 of them. "Dang me, dang me. They ought to take a rope and hang me."
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Bummer. I need to put Banned Books Week on my calendar for next year; I always miss it.
However, I do make sure that the little shoes & I read at least one of the banned books as soon as I figure out it's banned books week. :-D
Can anyone explain to me why A Wrinkle in Time is on the list? Then again, I don't really understand why anyone wants to ban books anyway.
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At the risk of great personal pain and embarrassment, I ventured into our community's new Children's Library to see if I could spot the controversial "Waldo boob" in its native habitat.
The "At the Beach" scene is the second scene in the first "Waldo" book ("Where's Waldo?"), and much to my surprise I found that scene does not show a topless sunbather -- the supposedly topless sunbather's top is not lying on her towel, but rather is securely fastened around her chest:
The book I scanned this from is the second edition (1997), and it's clearly different from the original edition (1987) because it advertises on the cover that it's a "Special New Edition" and Waldo is "Somewhere New in Every Scene!"
So, if the topless woman really exists, she's apparently only in the first edition of "Where's Waldo?" (which our library did not have a copy of).
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Is everyone on the beach still having sex? That's the part that matters.
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snopes, I suppose there were myriad protests which led to the covering up of the suspect boob in the second edition. (?)
Canuck, check out the upper left corner. Apparently that action and everything else is the same.
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The topless woman does exist-- I found her myself by accident many, many years ago, and had a mild juvenile chuckle from it...
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quote:Originally posted by babyshoes: Can anyone explain to me why A Wrinkle in Time is on the list?
I'm guessing that as it features witches it would be due to occult/satanism, as shown on the Challenges by Type list. It makes interesting reading, top scorer is "offensive language" with 811, whilst "innacurate" only gets 36.
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I don't know about the rest of them but The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice), probably shouldn't be anywhere a child might get a hold of them. Actually they should probably be on a seperate shelf- with a warning.
Don't get me wrong- they are good books, I actually own a copy of the first and third books, but I am not sure if they belong in the public library.
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