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[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I recently read L'il Ty one of his children's books about a family of foxes and three farmers trying to kill them. It was creepy.

I was thinking about reading him Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he's not all that tuned into candy and I'm worried about calling it to his attention and glorifying it. Probably this is silly.

Am now reading him a book called The Tale Of Despereaux. Recommended. Despereaux is a mouse who has parents, but they stand uselessly by when the head mice send him to the dungeon for talking to humans.

Out of nostalgia I picked up The Adventures of Peter Rabbit and was surprised to (re)discover that, although Peter has a mother, he almost ends up crushed in a sieve by that brute down the lane (what was his name?)

SPOILER


Part of the backstory and the reason for Mother's admonitions is that Peter's father became stew.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I recently read L'il Ty one of his children's books about a family of foxes and three farmers trying to kill them. It was creepy.

I was thinking about reading him Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he's not all that tuned into candy and I'm worried about calling it to his attention and glorifying it. Probably this is silly.

Am now reading him a book called The Tale Of Despereaux. Recommended. Despereaux is a mouse who has parents, but they stand uselessly by when the head mice send him to the dungeon for talking to humans.

Do you pronounce Despereaux as the french would?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I recently read L'il Ty one of his children's books about a family of foxes and three farmers trying to kill them. It was creepy.

I was thinking about reading him Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he's not all that tuned into candy and I'm worried about calling it to his attention and glorifying it. Probably this is silly.

Am now reading him a book called The Tale Of Despereaux. Recommended. Despereaux is a mouse who has parents, but they stand uselessly by when the head mice send him to the dungeon for talking to humans.

The rodents in the Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh used to freak me out.

ETA: Mrs. Frisby, widow. She always sort of reminded me of the rabbit widow in the animated Robin Hood.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The rodents in the Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh used to freak me out.

i think that was a cartoon and it was FREAKY

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I recently read L'il Ty one of his children's books about a family of foxes and three farmers trying to kill them. It was creepy.

I was thinking about reading him Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he's not all that tuned into candy and I'm worried about calling it to his attention and glorifying it. Probably this is silly.

Am now reading him a book called The Tale Of Despereaux. Recommended. Despereaux is a mouse who has parents, but they stand uselessly by when the head mice send him to the dungeon for talking to humans.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is excellent. I read it to Sidd Jr. a few months ago -- we still have the copy I had when I was a kid. What's creepy? The farmers are trying to kill the fox, Elmer Fudd tries to kill the Wabbit. It's the circle of life.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Do you pronounce Despereaux as the french would?

Oui.

My son looked concerned when I called the mouse DES-per-ee-ah-ucks, and it tended to slow things down.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Fantastic Mr. Fox is excellent. I read it to Sidd Jr. a few months ago -- we still have the copy I had when I was a kid. What's creepy? The farmers are trying to kill the fox, Elmer Fudd tries to kill the Wabbit. It's the circle of life.

The Fox and the Hound is another Disney movie that traumatized me/I refuse to ever see again.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Fantastic Mr. Fox is excellent. I read it to Sidd Jr. a few months ago -- we still have the copy I had when I was a kid. What's creepy? The farmers are trying to kill the fox, Elmer Fudd tries to kill the Wabbit. It's the circle of life.

So are snuff films, then? The farmers' efforts to kill the fox seem both excessive and gratuitous. I say this in my capacity as the member of the household who will be up for letting L'il Ty see The Matrix long before Ms. Slothrop.

[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
In Land of the Lost, it was Dad who caused them to be stuck among the sleestaks. You can just see their mom at home, pacing and seething and cursing her luck for having such a dolt of a husband. Hmm, maybe Land of the Lost was really a story about a custody dispute.

Don't be so hard on Marshall. After all, it was a routine expedition.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by soup sandwich
Don't be so hard on Marshall. After all, it was a routine expedition.

A routine expedition during which he sealed his daughter's fate as future sex slave of the sleestaks.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
A routine expedition during which he sealed his daughter's fate as future sex slave of the sleestaks.

Being a pimp ain't easy.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by dtb
A month's worth of sex? You're married now, so what's that? Once?

With her, or with my mistresses?

[soup sandwich]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
A routine expedition during which he sealed his daughter's fate as future sex slave of the sleestaks.

Please, how was Marshall to know that the greatest earthquake ever known was going to hit while they were rafting?

Sleestaks fascinate me. I recently found out that the sleestak with the vest, you known, the one who could talk, was named Enik. Much like Marshall, Will and Holly, Enik was from a different time. Enik always figured that he was from the future and that the mean, war-loving sleestaks who populated the Land of the Lost were an early evolutionary form of sleestak. Enik surmised that talking, vest-wearing sleestaks like himself evolved from these primitive sleestaks.

However, Enik was devastated to discover that he was not from the future, he was from the past. A glorious sleestak past. This meant of course that he did not evolve from the primitive sleestaks, rather, Enik’s glorious sleestak civilization de-volved into these horrible creatures. Truly devastating in a “Charleton Heston seeing the statue of liberty on the beach” sort of way.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by robustpuppy


SPOILER


Part of the backstory and the reason for Mother's admonitions is that Peter's father became stew.

mmmm, lapin.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So are snuff films, then? The farmers' efforts to kill the fox seem both excessive and gratuitous. I say this in my capacity as the member of the household who will be up for letting L'il Ty see The Matrix long before Ms. Slothrop.

Right. I was talking about snuff films.

Twit.