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BEWARE SALLY THE SUNFLOWER: Filth on childrens TV.


demonmike04

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Okay, I was sitting here, minding my own business until I over heard an advert for a kids game called Sally the sunflower.

 

Sally the sun flower game!

Can you stick all your busy bee's all OVER sally's face?

 

Now, I know its not me with the wandering mind, but there is something up with that advert!

 

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Product Features

Be the first player to place all your bees on the giant sunflower

With the power of magnets, not all the bees will stick

Sally the sunflower will move away!

For 2+ players

Manufacturer's recommended age 3 years +

 

I think my mind wanders too much..

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Okay, I was sitting here, minding my own business until I over heard an advert for a kids game called Sally the sunflower.

 

 

 

Now, I know its not me with the wandering mind, but there is something up with that advert!

 

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I think my mind wanders too much..

 

I totally agree. Ban this filth.

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Ah, this reminds me of that infamous "twanger" episode of Rainbow. [here] Filth out oozing out of every wall of the set I tells you. Was that just a joke or dubbed over or actually broadcast or what?

 

Done by the crew as a joke at Christmas one year. Was shown on a "TVs Naughtiest Blunders" programme, but it wasn't broadcast during kids TV if that's what you mean.

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Done by the crew as a joke at Christmas one year. Was shown on a "TVs Naughtiest Blunders" programme, but it wasn't broadcast during kids TV if that's what you mean.

 

But could've been quite easily if no parents had been watching.

Loads of double entendres in kids TV.

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They had a Master Bates I believe but not a Seaman Staines

 

From the Wiki

There is a persistent urban legend, originating in the now-defunct UK newspaper the Sunday Correspondent, which ascribes sexually suggestive names - such as Master Bates, Ben Dover, Seaman Staines, and Roger the Cabin Boy - to Captain Pugwash 's characters. John Ryan successfully sued both the Sunday Correspondent and The Guardian newspapers in 1991 for printing this legend as fact. According to one version of the legend, the character was referred to as "Bates, the ship's master" to avoid making this too obvious. According to another version, "Pugwash" also had sexual connotations e.g. it could be a term for oral sex used in Australia, but no evidence to back this up has ever been found.

 

The wide acceptance of this falsehood probably owes something to the long standing associations in people's minds between sailors and ribaldry, as in the song, "'Twas on the Good Ship Venus". This legend may also have been subconsciously reinforced in some people's minds by the fact that there actually were fictional nautical characters with names a bit like these suggestive names. Swallows and Amazons, a very well-known British children's novel, really did have a male character called "Roger the ship's boy" and a female character called "Titty". In The Onedin Line, a very popular BBC television programme in the 1970s, the ship's mate was called "Mister Baines", which in some people's minds could become merged with "Master Mate" to create "Master Bates", and Charles Dickens regularly refers to The Artful Dodger's accomplice Charley Bates as "Master Bates" in the literary classic Oliver Twist.

 

It has also been suggested that the pronunciation of "Master Mate" was slurred at times thanks to Pugwash's rather nasal voice, and some people could mishear it. Popular industry screenwriting website Scriptmania, presenting a feature on UK Children's television, have produced a soundbite which they claim is taken directly from an episode of the show, containing the supposed words "I certainly did, Master Bate", which can be heard here: - Click this link.

 

There may even be a sly reference to the myth in the DVD of the computer animated series Captain Pugwash - Sticky Moments And Other Swashbuckling Adventures.

 

Nevertheless, it should be stressed that the characters' names were Master Mate, Tom the cabin boy, and pirates Barnabas and Willy

 

DemonMike, I'm curious as to what your wandering mind is wondering about. Is "Busy Bees" slang for jizz in your neighbourhood?

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I want one of these things.

 

I youtubed the video too, and was about to post a link to the exact same one but you beats me to it! Super soakers rock!

To the point, sometimes I wonder about some kid's things, they have jokes in them that kids just would not get, though I'm not complaining, it gives me an excuse to watch cartoons.

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