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icymist

(15,888 posts) Fri Feb 6, 2015, 10:35 PM Feb 2015

Captain Kangaroo Offers Tips on How to Talk to Your Anti-Vax Friends

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Perhaps it's time to look back to a time when people could remember what life in America was like before the advent of widespread, affordable access to the simple, necessary, life-saving prophylactic procedure.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2015/02/03/captain-kangaroo-offers-tips-on-how-to-talk-to-your-anti-vax-friends

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Captain Kangaroo Offers Tips on How to Talk to Your Anti-Vax Friends (Original Post) icymist Feb 2015 OP

I'm afraid it would go over their heads . . . . . . . n/t annabanana Feb 2015 #1

I love Mr. Moose! mucifer Feb 2015 #2

I watched Captain Kangaroo every day when I was little. LuvNewcastle Feb 2015 #3

me too d_r Feb 2015 #4

Me too dflprincess Feb 2015 #7

"Public Health". The Common Good. Cal Carpenter Feb 2015 #5

K&R for the Captain. hunter Feb 2015 #6

Oh, no! Silent3 Feb 2015 #8

You mean, "before the advent of widespread dumbfuckery". Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #9

Can we just drop ping pong balls on their heads? cyberswede Feb 2015 #10

Precisely Sherman A1 Feb 2015 #12

add me to the ranks of the CK lovers also! nt steve2470 Feb 2015 #11

Thumbs up to the Captain! (Yes, I'm an old fart who watched.) nt ladyVet Feb 2015 #13

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

1. I'm afraid it would go over their heads . . . . . . . n/t

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 10:47 PM

Feb 2015

mucifer

(23,558 posts)

2. I love Mr. Moose!

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 10:58 PM

Feb 2015

LuvNewcastle

(16,849 posts)

3. I watched Captain Kangaroo every day when I was little.

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 11:06 PM

Feb 2015

I loved that show. My mom would drop me off at Grandma's house on her way to work every day and Grandma would watch the show with me. Good times.

d_r

(6,907 posts)

4. me too

Reply to LuvNewcastle (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 11:23 PM

Feb 2015

Happy Friday night-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2876767095&feature=iv&src_vid=SSpPyTNSlTU&v=0aa1nCG-5tg

dflprincess

(28,082 posts)

7. Me too

Reply to LuvNewcastle (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 7, 2015, 12:24 AM

Feb 2015

and when my grandparents were visiting or we were at their house my grandpa and I always watched it together.

Cal Carpenter

(4,959 posts)

5. "Public Health". The Common Good.

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 11:26 PM

Feb 2015

These weren't dirty words then. Oddly enough, in the midst of the cold war, they weren't called socialist or communist either. They weren't dismissed and derided by either party. They were part of a social agreement.

These days they are demonized or just plain forgotten. I'm not romanticizing the past in any overarching way, mind you, frankly the systemic issues we had then and now made this future inevitable. But I digress...

As an aside, I'm weirdly grateful to be old enough to have loved Captain Kangaroo. LOL.

Thanks for posting this.