Zeke Newbold
Carbon based biped.
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So I once knew a chap - same generation as me (now fifties) -who told me that when he was growing up (hence the seventies) in some southern town, the local post office or gift shop would sell postcards - postcards! - which featured graphic scenes of rail and traffic accidents on them together with headings like: `The dead and the dying`.
On similar lines I recall listening to a local radio `phone in show (East Midlands) - this would have been late Nineties - where an irate father rang in to complain about some sweet manufacturer (there was some issue of him not being allowed to name the company) who sold their wares - targeted at children -together with collectable novelty cards (like they do). In this case though the cards featured characters and innuendo of a highly adult nature - I think he said that one of the characters was called `Frigid Bridget` or something like that.
Both of these claims have a whiff of urban myth about them - along the lines of razor blades put in baby food or various rumours about hidden innuendo in children's TV shows - except that they were told by people claiming direct experience of the matter at hand, rather than the old `friend of a friend` routine.
And yet I have heard nothing about them since from anybody else.
Can any one confirm or deny these outrages?
On similar lines I recall listening to a local radio `phone in show (East Midlands) - this would have been late Nineties - where an irate father rang in to complain about some sweet manufacturer (there was some issue of him not being allowed to name the company) who sold their wares - targeted at children -together with collectable novelty cards (like they do). In this case though the cards featured characters and innuendo of a highly adult nature - I think he said that one of the characters was called `Frigid Bridget` or something like that.
Both of these claims have a whiff of urban myth about them - along the lines of razor blades put in baby food or various rumours about hidden innuendo in children's TV shows - except that they were told by people claiming direct experience of the matter at hand, rather than the old `friend of a friend` routine.
And yet I have heard nothing about them since from anybody else.
Can any one confirm or deny these outrages?