05-03-2003 04:06									#421
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My kids got a whoopy cushion in a show bag at the Canberra Show last weekend. This has constituted endless hours of fun for them. They never tire of the noise it makes.

	05-03-2003 04:10									#422
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike I just thought up a character too......one that bears more than a slight resemblance to you as it happens. This, of course, is a complete coincidence.

Sorry, I've been done before - Rasputin, Idi Amin, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc, etc.

	05-03-2003 04:11									#423
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse My kids got a whoopy cushion in a show bag at the Canberra Show last weekend. This has constituted endless hours of fun for them. They never tire of the noise it makes.

Q.E.D.!

	05-03-2003 04:28									#424
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They don't even hide the damn thing, sit on it themselves and giggle.

Burping of any kind is another sure winner. Anything involving poo.....the baby was dunking hankies in the toilet bowl this morning and walking around with them, much to the amusement of his brothers.

Boys will never stop other kids from doing gross things....they get such a buzz out of it.

	05-03-2003 05:20									#425
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse Burping of any kind is another sure winner.

We have a burping contest in one of the stories. Guess what? One of the producers hates it.

	05-03-2003 05:30									#426
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Jeez these people don't sound like they know a lot about kids - I fear for your project.

For example if the baby is eating snails in the garden I can always rely on my boys - to find more for him to eat! They'll just stand around and egg him on.

Another interesting area is doing dangerous and stupid things. If there's a way to make something dangerous, they will find it. I think every male child was born with a Darwin Award nomination. This morning the baby was trying to drink ironing starch from the spray bottle.

Christ, my life with these little guys.......

	05-03-2003 05:54									#427
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quote: Originally posted by finbar Sorry, I've been done before - Rasputin, Idi Amin, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc, etc.

Jeez, my character that reminded me of you was more of a bumbling oaf than pure evil......you shouldn't think so badly of yourself.

	05-03-2003 06:03									#428
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bumbling oaf? No, that's my son Hydey.

	05-03-2003 06:51									#429
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Damn stupid system ate half the post!

	05-03-2003 06:52									#430
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse Jeez these people don't sound like they know a lot about kids - I fear for your project.

It's fairly typical.

quote: Another interesting area is doing dangerous and stupid things. If there's a way to make something dangerous, they will find it. I think every male child was born with a Darwin Award nomination. This morning the baby was trying to drink ironing starch from the spray bottle.

The Australian Broadcasting Authority polices - strictly - what can and can't be shown in terms of dangerous situations. If there's a whiff of a possibility of a kid in the audience copying the on-screen situation and doing itself an injury - it's out. For that matter, on-screen kids can't be seen to be arguing with or bucking authority figures, and if on-screen kids happen to do something wrong during the course of an episode, they have to be seen to suffer some penalty for it. Presumably this explains why we have so many pre-pubescent psychopaths running around.

	05-03-2003 08:31									#431
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Its rather Orwellian when you think about it.

	05-03-2003 17:03									#432
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse Its rather Orwellian when you think about it.

Actually, it's more the good old bumbling bureaucracy. We could never make here some of the stuff they make overseas for kids.

	05-03-2003 21:01									#433
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Geez...over here its all giant robots beating the crap out of each other, or sickening purple dinosaurs with obvious sexually predatory tendencies.
Must admit, my young chap loves Teletubbies, which is fairly good if you can get yourself into a two year old frame of mind (less a stretch for some than others, eh?).
Just make them do "funny" things like stick vegetables up their noses and such...doesn't sound like they've given you much of a palette to work with.

	06-03-2003 02:27									#434
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse bumbling oaf? No, that's my son Hydey.

I do take after my father

	06-03-2003 02:31									#435
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I hope you have included the episode where the little rascles break into dads beer fridge and get themselves smashed.

	06-03-2003 03:41									#436
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quote: Originally posted by SuperSneak Just make them do "funny" things like stick vegetables up their noses and such...doesn't sound like they've given you much of a palette to work with.

We've managed to sneak some things through. The format is essentially "Lassie" - boy and his dog, and the dog always, somehow, saves the day. But it's a pretty tired old format, particularly when the show's target audience gets off on things like the "Simpsons". I've managed to tweak it so that the boy is always claiming the dog has saved the day, but others around him tell him he's a d*ckhead because that sort of thing only happens in films. And the audience is never quite sure whether it was the dog because I omit key moments. It could be the dog, it could be human intervention.

	06-03-2003 03:42									#437
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quote: Originally posted by Hydey I hope you have included the episode where the little rascles break into dads beer fridge and get themselves smashed.

An anecdote from your autobiography?

	06-03-2003 05:09									#438
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not I

	06-03-2003 10:37									#439
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I could play tonight one of our regular games...

	06-03-2003 11:12									#440
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so could I.........

	06-03-2003 12:25									#441
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I can play tonight, but I am not in one of your regular games, and the one I started with horse and finbar didn't have deity...

	06-03-2003 12:30									#442
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quote: Originally posted by Alexander's Horse so could I.........

just maybe you could find father and son together tonight

	06-03-2003 12:30									#443
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well, that's a worry!

	06-03-2003 12:36									#444
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If hYdey and Trev show maybe we get a regular Thurs nighter with SR going?

	06-03-2003 12:38									#445
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not another freaking new game...........

but yeah, I hate to see people left out.

	06-03-2003 12:40									#446
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Finbar may be hanging out at timezone doing research for his project

	06-03-2003 12:42									#447
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maybe a 2x1x game with SR?
IF no Trev.
SR around till mis April...

	06-03-2003 12:45									#448
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quote: Originally posted by deity SR around till mis April...

Mis April is very cute

	06-03-2003 12:47									#449
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Hydey has it coming out of both ends so he may or may not show

	06-03-2003 13:04									#450
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Yes I am beginning to understand how deity feels all the time.