Killing Smurfs
From the AP News:
It's just another smurfy day in Smurf Village. The perpertually perky blue beings frolic around the fire, holding hands and singing that "tra-la-la-la-la-la" tune as bluebirds flutter by and rabbits hop around. A regular Smurftopia.
But then the bombs come.
Hundreds of them raining down from warplanes in the sky, wiping out the mushroom-shaped abodes. Amid the fiery explosions, Smurfette is killed. Papa Smurf disappears. As the smoke clears, only an orphaned Baby Smurf remains, sobbing among the corpses.
No, this is not some pipe dream of Gargamel. The Smurfocide was instead perpetuated by the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF. UNICEF's Belgian office is using the Smurfs as the centerpiece of a new fundraising initiative to shock viewers into donating money to help children in war-torn regions. The agency also hopes to rehabilitate former child soldiers in Burundi.
Wow, what an amazingly pathetic way to kill some cartoon characters who should have been done in years ago. I hated those little bastards anyway! Man, do the little blue people have an equivalent to Rev's Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to show up in support of their rights? Let the controversy begin! Have the rights of blue people everywhere been compromised in one odd attempt to grab attention for one cause? Isn't singling out one color what all these civil rights gas bags act out against? How long before Rev's Jackson & Sharpton speak out against the abuse of the poor blue folks?
What could be next? Green people? Should we worry?
It's just another smurfy day in Smurf Village. The perpertually perky blue beings frolic around the fire, holding hands and singing that "tra-la-la-la-la-la" tune as bluebirds flutter by and rabbits hop around. A regular Smurftopia.
But then the bombs come.
Hundreds of them raining down from warplanes in the sky, wiping out the mushroom-shaped abodes. Amid the fiery explosions, Smurfette is killed. Papa Smurf disappears. As the smoke clears, only an orphaned Baby Smurf remains, sobbing among the corpses.
No, this is not some pipe dream of Gargamel. The Smurfocide was instead perpetuated by the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF. UNICEF's Belgian office is using the Smurfs as the centerpiece of a new fundraising initiative to shock viewers into donating money to help children in war-torn regions. The agency also hopes to rehabilitate former child soldiers in Burundi.
Wow, what an amazingly pathetic way to kill some cartoon characters who should have been done in years ago. I hated those little bastards anyway! Man, do the little blue people have an equivalent to Rev's Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to show up in support of their rights? Let the controversy begin! Have the rights of blue people everywhere been compromised in one odd attempt to grab attention for one cause? Isn't singling out one color what all these civil rights gas bags act out against? How long before Rev's Jackson & Sharpton speak out against the abuse of the poor blue folks?
What could be next? Green people? Should we worry?
posted by Jim at 6:53 PM
1 Comments:
As someone with occasionally blue body parts... (morning sickness for the wife has it's downsides) I sympathize with the smurf population... Ah, what the hell... Kill em all and let Hanna Barbara sort em out!
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