Funny how stuff works...
I was just thinking this morning that our nation needs a new 'Looney Tunes': something that the kiddies can watch at one level and laugh, and their parents laugh because of the current events and culture reflected in the characters.
When I looked at my FB news feed, my friend Mary from St. Elizabeth Seton parish had posted this reminder from the old 'Bullwinkle' show from the 1960s, which is OUR generation's take and worked its same magic of humor on us and on our parents. Many of us formed our attitudes towards atheistic totalitarian Communism as practiced in the old Soviet Union from watching Boris and Natasha...
I 'get' the jokes in Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes because I was a fan of the music and movie stars of my father's era, but most folks who see the caricature of Al Jolson or Bing Crosby and have no clue what the joke is.
I miss the days when we all SHARED in the same TV shows and movies... today's society is much more fractured, just like the Fractured Fairy Tales show, and we garble many of the things we have been entrusted to hand down.
So... to keep us mindful of our duties to educate our kids and grandkids... a few Fractured Fairy Tales:
"Beauty had bored all the ordinary people in the kingom into a deep, deep sleep... " by her incessant chattering...LOL.... yeah, this one's a special reminder for me!
