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| Parry (parry@perfectmail.com) |
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From: parry@perfectmail.com (Parry)
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Subject: Re: Season of the Severed Head, resumed
Date: 8 Sep 2003 03:23:24 -0700
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hottub@beer.com (hottub@beer.com) wrote in message news:<f7a91eef.0309021706.6658f252@posting.google.com>...
> parry@perfectmail.com (Parry) wrote in message news:<36a623f.0308270907.1f746c3a@posting.google.com>...
> > elag <elag@cloud9.net> wrote in message news:<3F4705BD.42C6263E@cloud9.net>...
> > > Parry wrote:
>
> [snip}
>
> > > Back to navels... I think there was a syndicated comic strip artist in
> > > the 60's who got tired of the navels in his strip being erased by the
> > > censors, so he included a crate of navel oranges in one strip and the
> > > censor gave up. I wish I could remember what strip that was...
> >
> > "Li'l Abner"?
>
> Actually, it was Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey. *sigh* The world has
> changed considerably since then.
>
> Sorry to interrupt. Please carry on.
Why navels? Did some repressed censor have a deep navel fetish? Was it
some kooky christian immaculate-original-conception-sin connection?
Did they think people would mistake them for vaginas? Was it some sort
of line in the sand demarcating a no man's land into which no decent
person should venture? Was that body part chosen randomly in a
censor's lottery? Who'd want to see Cookie's belly button anyway?
-- Parry
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