If, as Mandingo has brought to our attention, the Presbyterian Church USA honestly believes that George W. Bush brought down the World Trade Towers, took out one side of the Pentagon and made a farmer’s field in Pennsylvania into an impromptu mass grave—all to further the cause of America’s world empire—then I can air my own conspiracy theory. Besides, it’s our blog, it’s our16th anniversary and I can do what I want.
Our local PBS station recently began airing a new animated series based on the Curious George books by the Margaret and H. A. Rey. Of course an animated series demands that you fill in a lot of details children’s book authors can glide over. For example, that ubiquitous dachshund that follows George through many of the pictures in Curious George Takes a Job is given a home on TV. He lives in the same apartment building where the Man with the Big Yellow Hat lives, and apparently belongs to the doorman.
Now follow me closely here. This morning I heard the doorman address the dog as “Hunley”.
Get it? “Hunley”. Pretty sinister, don’t you think? No? Not too quick on the uptake, are we?
The Hunley, as all of the better element know, was the first and only submarine used in the American Civil War. It went down on its first mission with all hands and not too long ago portions of it were successfully raised from the bottom. All that is interesting, of course, and one smiles as the small jest of naming a long, brown dog after a long, brown submarine. But can we keep that smile functioning after we realize that the Hunley was a Confederate vessel?
I thought not. As they say at PBS, “If we won’t do it, who will?” Indeed. Leave it to this superannuated relict of the Summer of Love, this outmoded, outclassed dinosaur that would be extinct save for massive, unwilling taxpayer support, this ceaseless mouthpiece of a long-discredited worldview, to foist Cotton State propaganda on our innocent children.
Mr. Peperium
Huzzah!
Posted by: Andrew Cusack | September 15, 2006 at 10:50 PM
Did Mr Cusack get a job at PBS? And if so, can it be long before little Hunley the Dachsund is pictured wearing an Austro-Hungarian pickelhaube?
Posted by: MCNS | September 16, 2006 at 10:57 AM
And cheers on your anniversary, and many happy returns!
Posted by: MCNS | September 16, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Is it a satire? Life is one big satire for the NYT!
Thanks to the not so hidden agenda of the New York Times here is another happy couple that will celebrating a one year aniv. next year:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1703061/posts?page=1
Posted by: Mandingo | September 17, 2006 at 11:31 AM
They just don't make cartoon books like they used to. I loved Curious George.
Mandingo, I could have gone all my life without seeing that picture.
EWWWWWWwwaaaaa!
Posted by: Debbie | September 17, 2006 at 05:15 PM