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Cats Against Frist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:44 AM
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Boobah
I know there are some people sitting out there in DU land, with some little kids.

Why was I not notified of this show, sooner? Does Ashcroft know about this? What kind of psychedelic alien brain trip are they trying to take my son on? Is this a project of the Raelians/Clonaid preparing our children for the return of Elohim?

And what's with the "Pink Floyd" kids shows, anyway? The Great Space Coaster, Lidville, "The Neighborhood of Make Believe," Teletubbies, Boobah. I really love it -- but I'm just kind of curious about what makes these things appropriate not only for a young child, but for partying at 2 a.m.

And I'm assuming the Teletubbies have a hand in Boobah. Do you think that they purposely make these shows symbolic, as to entertain their "deconstruct everything," quasi-philosopher parents, sitting at home? I've had many a conversation about Teletubbies and totalitarianism. Boobah seems to have gone in a whole new direction.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:46 AM
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1. Weird, isn't it?
I don't know anything about Great Space Coaster, Lidville, or The Neighborhood of Make Believe... I'll have to look those up.

Someone told me that Boobah is teaching physics concepts. If it's true it totally misses me. But then so did whatever was philosophical about the Teletubbies.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:47 AM
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2. the same woman that invented the Teletubbies invented Boobah
the central idea behind the show is "kids shouldn't be a passive audience" so Boobah encourages them to bounce around like jumping beans and thus participate in the show.

My son seems much happier actually running around outside and not watching day-glow penises floop around all afternoon. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:57 AM
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5. That's day-glo
FARTING penises, dear...musn't leave out the flatulence. ;)



My 4 yr old watched it rabidly for a few weeks, and then one day just got up and turned the tv off. I guess she'd had enough of them too.

:D
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:59 AM
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6. Same here
My four year old watched two episodes and figured she'd seen all they had to offer.
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Cats Against Frist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 12:29 PM
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9. I had never seen it
We don't usually watch PBS, but we watch Noggin, so it just happened to be on when I was flipping the channels, and my son goes "Boobah!" -- and apparently they let him watch it at school, sometimes. He was really excited, at first, but then basically ignored the whole show.

It just tripped me out, because a lot of the imagery in it, seems eerily similar to Raelian/Clonaid literature, and it apparently has a lot of similar themes.

Just wondering if anything was going on there.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:47 AM
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3. I have no answers, but my 2 year old Lab/GSP mix is obsessed with it
as soon as she hears BOOBAH she goes wild with jumping.

Same producers as Teletubbies.
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Wabbajack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 11:53 AM
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4. I somehow
accidentally stumbled apon the Boombah website and it totally freaked me out.
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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 12:04 PM
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7. Do you mean this ?
Edited on Tue Aug-10-04 12:06 PM by bearfan454
http://www.boohbah.com/

My granddaughter plays around on this one.
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DeadHead67 Donating Member (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 12:18 PM
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8. Animated, Abstract, Expressionism,. . . .
. . . for kids. (and stoned big 'kids')
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 12:30 PM
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10. Boobah = LSD
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Cats Against Frist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 12:45 PM
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13. I just connected all the dots
So George Bush is one of the master race of shape-shifting reptilians, that just so happen to be the Elohim of Raelian lore. Now, interestingly, both the Raelians and the Christians believe in the preservation of Israel -- because some "big temple" has to be built, before the "people from the sky" come back. Now, we know about MK Ultra as well as George Bush's "mental health" tests -- meaning that they want us in some king of altered state or MAYBE just not know the difference between an altered state and reality. They are parading these images of "cuddly, friendly aliens" and their psychedelic rainbows of telepathy and shape shifting, so they don't really know what's "normal," and what's "Elohim." "Oh, Elohim, I used to watch them on TV, when I was a kid." This is, of course, all orchestrated from Freemason and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, all across the world. Get it -- George Bush -- alcoholic. Next time you see him, ask him if he wants Stoly or "a freshly cooked human thigh."
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 12:49 PM
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14. Interesting - worth exploring
HEy Ashcroft - got a sec? - you gotta see this!
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 12:35 PM
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11. I've only seen the show once
but from that oone time, I am convinced that the show is a secret mind-control program to indoctrinate our children in an attempt by aliens to take over the planet. The show is eerily similar to "training" on an abstract level...
Spooky, huh?
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cheezus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-04 12:38 PM
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12. well, it's fun to watch high
so I'd guess the little tykes like it as well (being a kid is like being perma-stoned)
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