Re: GH: Hilarious Racist Writing

Seth J. Bookey wrote:

In <drgagm$8nf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Nyssa <Nyssa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:



Aisling Willow Grey wrote:





On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:11:40 -0500, Nyssa wrote


(in article <drfu2s$8na@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):



Aisling Willow Grey wrote:



On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:38:14 -0500, Leigh wrote


(in article <2dKdna-zLZegnkbenZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>):

The 'Danger Island' segments of the Banana Splits comes


immediately to mind for some reason.<<


Whoa, I think my head just exploded! I haven't thought of the Banana Splits in _years_! Anyone else happen to remember an old British kids' show called "The Double Deckers"? (Yes, it's OT, but it's the one show I've never been able to find ANYONE else who recalls, and since children's tv was brought up...)



I remember it. It was pretty good too as those things go.

The kids used an old big red bus as a clubhouse/hangout.
I seem to remember some singing and dancing too by the kids.

No super heroes, no shooting and fighting...yep, the olden
days.

Nyssa, who has a long memory for old TV shows and wonders
why nobody remembers the comedy called "It's a Great Life"<<


With this (the fact that you actually remember the show!) and your MicroSuck-bashing post elsewhere on the newsgroup this morning, Nyssa, I think you're my new best friend! :-D



Right back at ya, Aisling! ;)





We non-MicroSloth-users have to stick together to keep
the world safe from the sheeple who keep buying poorly
designed and written operating systems and applications.





Meanwhile OnTopic, a previous poster refered to the scene
being in Africa with Africans. Nope, the setup caption said
it was the Maarkham Islands. And that accent the chief had
sounded more like from Oz than Zimbabwe for sure. There are
black non-Africans in the world, after all.





I thought the whole thing was silly and showed poor writing,
but that isn't exactly a surprise for this show. It's like
a roller coaster; one week we've got a keeper of a show with
on-the-mark writing and acting, but then we get something like
Friday out of an old Abbott and Costello movie.





But, boy howdy, didn't Tristan Rogers look *good*!! So much
for all the people who have been saying he hadn't aged well.





Nyssa, who wouldn't turn Robert Scorpio away from her door



Well, I missed the legend saying Markham island, but any way you slice it, it was racist. And considering the real Markham Is. is an unihabited one, why would there be a chimp there?

--Seth



You're applying real world 'logic' to a soap.
Go not there for that way lies madness (?)

If they were in Tazmania (or any where else in the Oz/Kiwi corner
of the globe) why would there be a chimp there anyway?

I mean, I *could* probably make up a bizarre story about one of the locals
volunteering for some wierd pan-ex-British-colonial aid program,
ending up in Africa, and eventually finding himself the surrogate
'parent' of an orphaned chimp and managing to bring it home with
him, but that'd be weird even for a soap (except Passions, I guess).

But I guess the real question is:
Why ask why?
It's just a deus ex machina anyway....

--Leigh

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