Posts Tagged: ‘Muppets’
A brief commentary on the Internet, from the Muppets: It seems like candles would be a deadly threat to a Muppet. Perhaps they are treated with a flame retardant. [[[Jump to previous Funny...]]]
If you spend any amount of time watching the Muppets, it becomes really easy to start thinking of them as their own entities. It isn’t so much that they’re alive or that they’re people — they’re just uniquely themselves. Once you’ve suspended your disbelief, being reminded that you’re seeing inanimate objects brought to life by puppeteers can be surreal. It’s a phenomenon I wrote about late last summer after seeing Trace Beaulieu and Bill Corbett — the puppeteers behind Crow T. Robot of “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ — at Dragon*Con.
This weekend, I felt that same sensation, only in reverse, when I had the privilege of attending a lecture and workshop by Steve Whitmire. Find out why it was surreal after the jump.
Yet again, Facebook appears to be at the heart of a scandal. Except, this time the scandal isn’t so — well, scandalous. My friend Sarah shared this story with me this morning. It appears that Principal Thomas Murray at Danvers High School in Massachusetts objects to students saying “meep” in school. According to the Associated Press, students were using Facebook to coordinate a major disruption.
So the school sent out an automated call that told parents about the ban on meeping. Theoretically, that should be it. But GeekDad’s Matt Blum thinks that with other technological means, the kids will still find a way to meep. They’ll text message one another and coordinate that way.
Sarah Netter at ABC also wrote about the meeping. The word can mean whatever the speaker wants, according to her research at the Urban Dictionary. She also quoted Syracuse University professor Bob Thompson, who said he’d heard students meeping a year ago as they watched a TV show in class.
Podcast Goodness: Nuclear Bomb Stealing Muppets?!?
by Charles W. Bryant | August 28, 2009
Holy cow, everybody. Can I just say that it’s raining so hard right now in Atlanta that I canoed to work? Boy howdy it’s coming down. Typically days like this mean glum Chuck is in the house, but the podcast goodness of this week has stymied that business.
Jim Henson’s Muppets, including the beloved Kermit the Frog, first came to life in the mid-1950s. Join Josh and Chuck as they explore the history and nitty gritty details of the world’s most famous puppets in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
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