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# professor yaffle
don't forget gabriel the toad and madeline the rag doll
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:14, archived)
# There's something about Bagpuss
which always made me cry... I think it's one of the most maudlin children's progs ever made. It emphasised the ephemeral nature of existence, stressing to 3 year olds they were going to die one day
(I helped save b3ta! dotmund .co.uk, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:15, archived)
# Not me.
I am inwincible.
(wilesy, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:16, archived)
# I'm actually made out of wood, so, yeah.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:17, archived)
# Just keep applying the ronseal.
(wilesy, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:18, archived)
# or
It's about capitalism: Cod-communist readings of Bagpuss abound - you know, where the mice are the oppressed workers, and Bagpuss the corrupt media, presided over by Professor Yaffle as a corrupt politician and Madeleine as a tired aristrocrat, and the toad is just, well, a singing toad

easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stephenbalchin/bagpuss.html
(I helped save b3ta! Roxy_Hart is so so old, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:18, archived)
# That's as mad as the Marxist reading of the Wizard of Oz
And that's mad.
(wilesy, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:19, archived)
# Well we all know Noddy is a symbol of the dichotomous nature of post-feudal Japan
and the dilemma facing its younger generation as they struggle to accept their place in a changing society and the remnants of a defunct empire.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:20, archived)
# yeah
and don't even get me started on the Wombles. Those Stalinist Common stuff-gatherers...
(I helped save b3ta! dotmund .co.uk, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:20, archived)
# And there's the Situationist interpretation of "The Flumps"
Life is art, especially if you live in a compost heap.
(wilesy, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:21, archived)
# The Flumps are sacred
and should only be treated as a religious text.
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 15:00, archived)
# And Dave the Thai crackwhore.
Oh, wait. Bagpuss.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:15, archived)
# I don't remember any of those :(
right i'm off for a shower then to wake vulga and make him go out for something to eat. Byee all
(DMQOB, Sun 11 Jan 2004, 14:16, archived)