It seems that the fuzzy ‘Lil’ Cookie-Monster that we all know and love is going to get a makeover Click Here.
I guess they feel in our new and politically correct world, The cute little Cookie-Monster needs to serve as a better role model for our children and not eat so many cookies. They feel he needs to just eat “a few” cookies mixed with a healthy diet.
If we are going to focus on “Role Models” in this country… why don’t we start in places like Baseball? For the past decade, our “Role Models” have been pumping obscene amounts of steroids into their bodies while everyone looked the other way.
Or how about we take a look at the music industry, where our rapper “Role Models” are promoting a criminal way of life?
Maybe we can examine our religious “Role Models” a bit and ascertain why so many preists are molesting little boys?
I could go on and on about this, but don’t ya think there are some bigger “Role Model” fish to fry? Let’s leave the damn Cookie-Monster alone!
I understand what you’re saying Mike, but lets face it, kids are out of shape. How many have we seen and comented on as we looked out our “window on the world”? Tons and I do mean TONS. If the Cookie Monster promoting fruit and veggies helps to prevent one kid from weighing 300 pounds at the age of 18 then I’m all for his change of venue. What are you always saying? Choose your battles. Well, this battle belongs to the parents and if Cookie Monster can help, I’m all for it!
I miss you terribly Phyllis, you were one of my favorite people to argue with! If we can’t do it face to face, the I-Web will have to do. I’m gonna have to disagree with you wholeheartedly on this one.
If we follow your line of reasoning to it’s conclusion, one could also argue that we need to modify the eating habits of the cartoon character Wimpy. Unlike Popeye, who eats healthy spinach, Wimpy consumes enormous piles of Hamburgers, hundreds at a time if I remember correctly. Can’t have a glutton like that influencing our children can we?
And then it’s not just about eating habits, it turns to other topics. Should we make Tom & Jerry stop beating the crap outta each other because that could make our children violent?
Should we make Superman lose his cape and tights from fear the influence might turn our boys gay?
The Cookie Monster has been around for what, 30 or 40 years? This obesiety problem in children has been surfacing over the last decade or so. One can hardly accuse Poor ‘Lil” Cookie-Moster of being a contributing factor!
You did get one part right though, the battle does belong to the parents. It’s their responsibility to make sure their kids excercise & eat healthy.
What has changed in the last decade? Children used to go out and play regularly and eat square meals at home. Nowadays, an evergrowing portion of them spend most of their time stagnant in front of the Television or Game Console. Nowadays, they are eating a steady diet of fast food because nobody has time to cook them a healthy meal. Put the blame where it belongs Phyllis, don’t make the Cookie Monster pay the price for our own stupidity!!
Mikie, Mikie, Mikie! I am not making the Cookie Monster pay a price for anything! I am only saying that if his promoting a healthy life style helps one child loose weight, then he has served a good cause. Who but you would argue against that?
No one reads Popeye cartoons anymore, Old Man, and so that is hardly a viable arguement. Ditto Tom & Jerry. The discussion is about eating habits, not violence. And your comment about Supermen is rediculous! It’s about eating habits. As I recall, you yourself used to eat some pretty nasty lunches until I introduced you to Just Plain Good! By the time I left you had quit smoking, lost about 30 lbs, and were eating healthy foods! Salads even! Now, if I could influence you to choose a healthier life style, can’t you see what good the Cookie Monster could do for our nation’s youth????????????
I miss argueing with you too. You make winning so-o-o-o easy!
Tsk…tsk…tsk… Phyllis. It appears that nobody but you and I give a rat’s ass about the Cookie-Monster anyways!! But before i unload on you, we need to get a couple of things straight here. First and foremost, you never saw me eating a salad in your whole life!! Why in the world would I waste my lunch money on rabbit food? Second, one should hardly term Just Plain Good as “healthy eating”. I submit to you as proof, the Monte Cristo. Last but not least… someone who asked for the day off so they could spend it in their bathroom with a bottle of magnesium phosphate should NEVER call me an “Old Man”!
That all being said, I will give you the comment about Superman being a little out in left field but your missing my point totally!
Lemme just say this… the Cookie-Monster’s eating habits have about as much a chance of influencing the obesity of children around the world as Ashley has a chance of looking good in a thong!! You do remember Ashley right? Now, since you and I are probably the only folks on the face of the planet that will be able to fully appreciate that comparison. I’ll leave it at that.
Peace out.
Oh, Mikie, you poor miss-guided fellow! Everyone love’s the Cookie Monster!
While it is true that I never saw you eat a salad, it is also true that I saw you eat an Angus Burger with lettuce on it and that for you IS a salad!
Next I submit that Just plain Good is leaps and bounds above the hot dogs that you used to bring into the office and eat. The hot dogs that had puppy diarrhea on them! Ick! Or the McCardiac Arrest Combo Meals with extra grease!
As for the Magnesium Sulphate, that was for a test for cancer. Some day SOON you’ll get to have that wonderful experience and I can’t wait! Boy will I have fun with that one!
Ashley’s thong aside, you are the one missing the point. The point is health. Not thongs. Not Magnesium Sulphate. Not Superman. Health.
I reiterate. By the time I left 1523, you had quit smoking, lost 30 lbs. and were taking your health seriously.
If I could do that for/to you, think of the influence that Cookie Monster could have on little kiddies.
Silly Wabbit!!
Claiming to have reformed my eating habits are you?
Did you invent the Internet too?? Oop’s sorry, I forgot! Al Gore did that!!
The employee’s at Just Plain Good had acid green mohawks, were into self mutilation & I daresay their sexual orientation was questionable.
The damn Cookie-Monster could eat like a rabbit for all the good it would do in this country while parents are shoveling gross amounts of carbs and sugars onto their kid’s plates & parking them in front of the Playstation!
Let’s encourage the “Lil Fuzsucker” to jog a couple of miles a day. Ya think that would help? How about we give him some Aqua-Ban, Stacker II’s, Duirex, Xenadrine, Dexatrim, Trim-Spa & then have him wash it down with a 6pack of Slimfast and a 32oz jug of Hollywood Diet? One could even throw in some of that Magnesium Phosphate for good measure.
Or here’s a better idea…. he could eat all the cookies, then force himself to regurgitate them! Then they could rename him the “Bulemia Monster”!
Again, leave the Cookie-Monster alone… focus on the ROOT of the problem. The BASIC question at hand here, is… WHY in the last decade have children in THIS country (Not any other) become fatties?????
If you honestly think the Cookie-Monster falls anywere into that equation, then I have some Beach-Front property in Arizona I want to sell you Ms. Phydda!
Michael, the subject is eating habits. Why have the youth of this nation gained so much weight? Because they put junk food in their mouths and don’t get enough exercise. I guess not everyone has a soccor Mom. I remember when I was a kid (back when all the cars were shiny black and the TV was black and white) my Mom was always saying, “No, you can’t have that. It will ruin your appitite for dinner”. She was home. She controlled what I ate and how often I ate and she made sure that I went out to play. No sitting around the house.
Mom’s arent’t home much these days and so if the Cookie Monster is babysitting, at least let him try to be a good influence on the kiddies. Lord knows the kids need someone to give them direction and limits.