| Re: Season of the Severed Head, resumed |
Plus ca change plus c'es .. |
| elag (elag@cloud9.net) |
2003/09/13 21:35 |
Parry wrote:
>
> elag <elag@cloud9.net> wrote in message news:<3F5EA4BD.9FAF85FD@cloud9.net>...
> > 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:
> >
> > .... . .
> > . . . . . .
> > .... . .....
> >
> > [font = courier]
>
> Which translates roughly as: start your xmas shopping early.
>
> > > 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?...
>
> I believe Walker drew Beetle with a giant scrotum on his head, and it
> was the censor who added the helmets.
I did once see a (1960's) parody in MAD or CRACKED in which Sarge and
Cookie held Beetle's arms and forced off his hat to reveal a tatoo on
his forhead which proclaimed "US out of Viet Nam.
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