| Re: Season of the Severed Head, resumed |
Plus ca change plus c'es .. |
| elag (elag@cloud9.net) |
2003/09/09 22:12 |
Parry wrote:
>
> 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?
Perhaps he was saving them to use in composing concrete poetry collages like:
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> 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?
Just another silly rule... the navel was considered too sexual... On TV
shows like "I Dream Of Jeannie", Jeannie's navel was hidden and even
filled with putty to hide it, even though her costume bared her midriff.
In reaction to the TV navel ban Gene Roddenberry wrote a series pilot,
"Genesis II" wherein some mutant humans have two navels.
> Who'd want to see Cookie's belly button anyway?
Hagar the Horrible, maybe?
...and did you ever think about what kind of mutation Beetle might have
been hiding under that helmet, hmm-mm?...
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