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What a bunch of Dopeys

By ANTHONY FRANCE
PANTOS of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs are being censored — to outlaw the word DWARF.

A shocked village drama group sent off for a script and found Dopey and his pals — played by kids — had to be called “gnomes” instead.

Ray Lionet, 73, of the Coxheath Players in Kent, said the ban was to avoid offending short people. He said: “It’s madness.”
 
I think you people are misisng the point here. Of course the term dwarf is offensive. However, the censoring of the play is not sufficient. The same people who censored the play need to be required to force astronomers to cease referring to dwarf stars. Similarly, the same people who censored the play need to be required to force biologists to cease referring to certain plants as dwarf (e.g. dwarf cornel, dwarf huckleberry).

The assignments should keep the censoring people busy for some time, perhaps forever. This will be good.

JMNTHO.
 
Svenskaflicka said:
But... but... they ARE dwarves!

Are they gonna censor LOTR, too? :confused:


You betcha:

Saruman isn't a traitor, he's a diferentially morally aligned separatist:
Gandalf: Mystically inclined age challenged person
Hobbits: Diferentially heighted persons
Orcs: Aesthetically challenged, societally dysfunctional persons

:rolleyes:
 
Those people who were born with a genetical thing that makes them short are not dwarves, they're just people-born-with-a-genetical-thing-that-makes-them-short! Dwarves are the short, bearded creatures who work in mines and fight with axes. You know, fairy tale creatures?
It's one thing that people-born-with-a-genetical-thing-that-makes-them-short don't want to be confused with dwarves, just like ugly people don't want to be confused with trolls or orchs, but there IS a difference between dwarves and gnomes, and I don't think it's fair that one can't use the word dwarf because some morons can't tell the difference between dwarves and people-born-with-a-genetical-thing-that-makes-them-short! What next, are we gonna forbid trolls in fairy tales because it might offend ugly people? :rolleyes:
 
Colleen Thomas said:
You betcha:

Aesthetically challenged, societally dysfunctional person

:rolleyes:

and here I thought that was a description of my boss...
 
Svenskaflicka said:
...or my ex.

..or my current...

no wait: that doesn't include anything about "thought police" so it would thus be incomplete...
 
Colleen Thomas said:
No, your boss is still a rat bastard :) Even the terminally PC have some vestige of sense ;)

on behalf of the rat population I must stand up and say that this is clearly offensive, as their species has standards much to high to include such personages...
 
Svenskaflicka said:
Those people who were born with a genetical thing that makes them short are not dwarves, they're just people-born-with-a-genetical-thing-that-makes-them-short! Dwarves are the short, bearded creatures who work in mines and fight with axes. You know, fairy tale creatures?
It's one thing that people-born-with-a-genetical-thing-that-makes-them-short don't want to be confused with dwarves, just like ugly people don't want to be confused with trolls or orchs, but there IS a difference between dwarves and gnomes, and I don't think it's fair that one can't use the word dwarf because some morons can't tell the difference between dwarves and people-born-with-a-genetical-thing-that-makes-them-short! What next, are we gonna forbid trolls in fairy tales because it might offend ugly people? :rolleyes:


Technically, IIRC, a dwarf is a person who is very short, but not in proportion. A midget is soneone who is short, but who is, for the most part proportioned to the shorter body.

However, in legends and lore and fairy tales, Dwarves ar short, stout, generally fight with axes or mauls and are miners. Gnomes are thinner, less stoutly proportioned and have an aptitude for mechanical devices. Every different fairytale world has variations on the theme.

I don't see how calling a fairytale dwarf a dwarf is in any way offensive to real life people. Of couse, those who are PC left good sense behind long ago. the object of language is to communicate. When you set out to complicate every single definition someone finds offense, you are baically diluting the language. Inm y case, you are also rednering yourself incomprehensible, because I'm not about to sit down and try to figure out who the fuck you are talking baout when you are using such rediculous monosyllabic descriptions to avoid using a word that is commonly used to indicate the same persons.
 
Belegon said:
on behalf of the rat population I must stand up and say that this is clearly offensive, as their species has standards much to high to include such personages...

totally off on a tangent, but have you ever noticed the only real and obvious difference between a rat and a squrrel is the tail? Amazing how a fuzzy tail makes one cute and the the other give you the wilies :)
 
We have the same kind of idiots in the US. If anyone has not heard "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," by the Charlie Daniels Band, it is an amusing little country song about the Devil challenging a young fiddle player to a fiddle playing contest with the young man's soul bet against a fiddle made of gold. The young man kicks the Devil's ass and takes the golden fiddle!

'Devil' Cast Out of Pr. William
Hylton High Band Pulls Song Over Resident's Letter


After the devil went down to Georgia, it seems, he got censored in Prince William County.

In preparation for a guest appearance at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, the marching band at C.D. Hylton High School had a logical and seemingly innocuous idea: play a Georgia-themed song. They decided on "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," by the Charlie Daniels Band.

But early this month, a local newspaper, the Potomac News, published a letter by a Woodbridge resident who, after having seen the C.D. Hylton Bulldawg Marching Band perform the country-western hit at a football game, wondered how a song about the devil could be played at school events, because of the separation of church and state.

Fearing bad public reaction, Hylton's longtime band director, Dennis Brown, pulled the song from the playlist. "I was just being protective of my students. I didn't want any negative publicity for C.D. Hylton High School," he said.

But Brown's strategy backfired. The decision has created a furor, and even Charlie Daniels has weighed in.
 
R. Richard said:
We have the same kind of idiots in the US. If anyone has not heard "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," by the Charlie Daniels Band, it is an amusing little country song about the Devil challenging a young fiddle player to a fiddle playing contest with the young man's soul bet against a fiddle made of gold. The young man kicks the Devil's ass and takes the golden fiddle!

'Devil' Cast Out of Pr. William
Hylton High Band Pulls Song Over Resident's Letter


After the devil went down to Georgia, it seems, he got censored in Prince William County.

In preparation for a guest appearance at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, the marching band at C.D. Hylton High School had a logical and seemingly innocuous idea: play a Georgia-themed song. They decided on "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," by the Charlie Daniels Band.

But early this month, a local newspaper, the Potomac News, published a letter by a Woodbridge resident who, after having seen the C.D. Hylton Bulldawg Marching Band perform the country-western hit at a football game, wondered how a song about the devil could be played at school events, because of the separation of church and state.

Fearing bad public reaction, Hylton's longtime band director, Dennis Brown, pulled the song from the playlist. "I was just being protective of my students. I didn't want any negative publicity for C.D. Hylton High School," he said.

But Brown's strategy backfired. The decision has created a furor, and even Charlie Daniels has weighed in.


C.D. Hylton High School will in the future only play "The Socially Dysfunctional Person Went Down To Georgia".
 
Belegon said:
..or my current...

no wait: that doesn't include anything about "thought police" so it would thus be incomplete...

She's aligned with my current: common sense-challenged/analytic dysfunctional
 
Does this mean all "ladies of the evening" will be wanting some commission for everytime the song "Hi Ho - Hi Ho, it's off to work we go?" is sung during the play?
 
I think that Mr Lionet has generated some significant publicity for the pantomime - and that is what he intended.

Pantomimes are by definition politically incorrect. Our local ones usually poke fun at our politicians especially if they are sitting in the front row.

The afternoon performances are child-friendly. The evening performances tend to include double-entendres similar to those in the 'Carry-On' films. The last night can become very adult...

Og
 
oggbashan said:
Pantomimes are by definition politically incorrect. Our local ones usually poke fun at our politicians especially if they are sitting in the front row.

Og


Oh poking fun at politicians Og, that really is the last 'straw'.

It's too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel
 
I wouldn't stoop so low. Well, not for the next few minutes anyway.
 
Now that makes me want to go see plays in your town, Og. Innuendo asides make the play so much more interesting. Besides, that's the best part of The Taming of the Shrew.

I was at a writer's conference when a speaker (an editor from a mainstream national magazine) who gave a long, and boring talk about using PC speech in essays opened the floor for questions from the audience. One woman stood up and said, "I'm deaf. I'm not hearing challenged. There is no challenge to it. Either you stop being lazy and speak clearly with your whole mouth so I can read your lips, or I don't get to know all of what you're saying. Don't insult me by hinting that there is something I'm failing to do, that I'm not up to the challenge. I'm deaf, dammit."

We all applauded.

I have a friend who insists that he is a Dwarf (he also insists that Dwarf should always be capitlized since it is a proper name, just like American). So what I want to know is what the Dwarves think of someone saying that they can't call themselves Dwarves.

There are also Gnomes who, in America at least, are short, round people who wear garish clothes and are generally kicked around alot, especially if they sit on the lawn.

Speaking of barrels, Chris, the only problem with shooting politicians in a barrel is that you can't fit enough of them in the barrel at one time.
 
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