Saturday, September 19, 2009

What Goes Through a Rabbit's Mind When It's Being Chased?

Just thought I'd ask.

12 comments:

  1. Surely Thwap you've seen Watership Down? One could get lost in it trying to sort out matriarchal roles and the spoils of war.
    Kisses to your talking toddler.

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  2. Hi Toe D .... [?] [!]

    I didn't think real rabbits were as smart as all that. But I wouldn't really know having never stopped to talk with any.

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  3. MISTERMCGREGOR'SGONNAKILLMEEEEE!!!

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  4. Someone from Watership Down?

    This is turning out to be a very confusing subject!

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  5. Everything you know is wrong...

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  6. >smacks Thwap!<

    Shame on you for not recognizing the allusion to The Tale of Peter Rabbit!

    (And I've barely ever read the thing myself!)

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  7. I still think Beatrix Potter was the founder of the Fabian Society.

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  8. Oh, come! Old Whiskers wrote that there are plenty of things to laud the bourgeois for. Writing entertaining books is one (I don't think Potter's as vile as the one who wrote the Thomas the Tank-Engine bilge).

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  9. Rev. Aubrey? (I'm always watching "Thomas the Tank-Engine" on YouTube with the two-year old.) (I wonder how true they are to the stories that I don't think I'll ever get around to reading.)

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  10. I think that's him.

    Here:

    http://scottneigh.blogspot.com/2005/11/gramsci-sesame-street-and-thomas.html

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  11. Ah, that was a nice one from Scott.

    I've noticed that too and find the paternalism and class divisions described their to be irritating.

    But when young James wants to watch "Thomas!" sometimes it means 7 minutes of relative peace, as opposed to the 1-2 minute youtube videos of GO trains and freight-trains ("ding-ding trains") that he otherwise wants to see.

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  12. >sigh<

    Yes, it's hard to strike a balance between living in the world and trying to do something right (even harder for like-minded parents).

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