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[oggbashan]

I have just found a children's book in a heap I'm sorting.

Although it is a new politically-correct version of an older story, I think someone should have thought about a new title. The book?

Enid Blyton's "Noddy and the Magic Rubber".

Some chapter titles:

05. A Reward for the Rubber
07. What a Peculiar Thing!
09. Master Tubby Bear has a Good Time
10. Little Tubby is Very Naughty
11. Noddy Gets the Rubber at Last

And it was published by the BBC.

What were they thinking?

Can you think of any similarly unfortunately titled children's books?

Og

 

[Emperor_Nero]

I have just found a children's book in a heap I'm sorting.

Although it is a new politically-correct version of an older story, I think someone should have thought about a new title. The book?

Enid Blyton's "Noddy and the Magic Rubber".

Some chapter titles:

05. A Reward for the Rubber
07. What a Peculiar Thing!
09. Master Tubby Bear has a Good Time
10. Little Tubby is Very Naughty
11. Noddy Gets the Rubber at Last

And it was published by the BBC.

What were they thinking?

Can you think of any similarly unfortunately titled children's books?

Og

Was this project coordinated by the same gentleman who about a year ago decided that one of the young girls twin beds sold by Woolworth should have the model name of "Lolita"?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Good Grief! x 10 to the 10th.

 

[DesertPirate]

Amazing

 

[Huckleman2000]

Here's a poem written by Michael Jackson, before the troubles:

Children of the world, we'll do it
We'll meet on endless shores
Making sandcastles and floating our boats
While people fight and defend their point of view
Forever putting on masks that are new
We'll swing the tide of time and do it.

Children of the world, we'll do it
With song and dance and innocent bliss
And the soft caress of a loving kiss
We'll do it.

While traders trade and haggle their price
And politicians try so hard to be nice
We'll meet on endless shores and floating our boats
We'll do it.

While lawyers argue and doctors treat
Stockbrokers quote the price on meat
While preachers preach and ring the bell
Carpetbaggers with something to sell
We'll sing and dance in innocent bliss
With the soft caress of a loving kiss
We'll do it.
Meeting on endless shores
Making sandcastles and floating our boats
We'll do it.

We'll ride the rainbow, a cloud, a storm
Flying in the wind, we'll change our form
We'll reach the stars, embrace the moon
We'll break the barrier and be there soon

While architects plan their buildings high
And trade unions raise their hue and cry
While boardroom squabbles generate heat
And in secret places dealers meet

We'll sing and dance in innocent bliss
And the soft caress of a loving kiss
We'll do it.

While philosophers grapple and continue to tackle
Endless dilemmas of body and mind
Physicists wander, continue to ponder
Perennial questions of space and time
Archeologists survey, continue to dig
Bygone treasures small and big
Psychologists probe, analyze the tears
Of hysterical notions, phobias, fears

While priests take confessions
In a serious session
And people struggle
In the hustle and bustle
In the noise and din
On the meaning of sin
We'll touch the stars, embrace the moon
Break the barrier, arrive there soon
Ride the rainbow, the cloud, the storm
Flying in the wind, changing our form

Children of the world, we'll do it
With song and dance and innocent bliss
The soft caress of a loving kiss
We'll do it.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I just always think of the Al Jolson film they wanted to release in the UK under its original American title, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!

 

[Saucy_Sage]

Enid Blyton's "Noddy and the Magic Rubber".

Some chapter titles:

09. Master Tubby Bear has a Good Time

Og

If all he's doing is masterbearing, why would he need a rubber to have a good time?

 

[oggbashan]

If all he's doing is masterbearing, why would he need a rubber to have a good time?

I think you must have a copy of the book.

Quotes from Chapter 9:

Master Tubby Bear was there, all by himself - and what do you think he was doing? He was using that magic rubber - yes, he really was!

Master Tubby was having a wonderful time!

"Quick - we must stop him!" cried Noddy, and he banged at the window. ..."Little Tubby, stop using that rubber!"

Og

 

[Saucy_Sage]

I think you must have a copy of the book.

Quotes from Chapter 9:

Master Tubby Bear was there, all by himself - and what do you think he was doing? He was using that magic rubber - yes, he really was!

Master Tubby was having a wonderful time!

"Quick - we must stop him!" cried Noddy, and he banged at the window. ..."Little Tubby, stop using that rubber!"

Og

And that, boys and girls, is how Noddy went blind. And ended up in a tub with Inkin and Blinkin. We don't want to go there, boys and girls.