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Oh, No They Didn’t!

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I love The Wizard of Oz. Love it. My cell phone plays “Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead” when I get a call. Back in the dark ages, when it was only on TV once a year, I’d get extremely upset if I missed it. I have plans to make a flying monkey costume for Junebug so we can go out for Halloween one of these days. The Wicked Witch of the West still scares me, and I still can’t watch when the Wicked Witch of the East’s feet curl up and shrink under the house.

So it really pains me to read something like this.

Is nothing sacred?

8 thoughts on Oh, No They Didn’t!

  1. Well, I’m sorry Zooz, but it makes a certain amount of sense to re-cast it in a political setting.

    Scarecrow played by Dubya (needs brain)
    Tinman played by Rushbo (needs heart)
    Cowardly Lion played by Harry Reid (needs courage)

    Any other nominations?

  2. I recently forced my boys to watch that movie because you JUST HAVE TO WATCH that movie. Its the Wizard of Oz, dammit! Its a childhood rite of passage to have your pants scared off when the Witch starts throwing fire balls at the Scarecrow from the ROOF. Powerful stuff!

    You know, now that I read that post I can’t get the image of Dorothy and her friends all trying to keep their hands off of each other while desperately trying to hang onto their v-cards on their way to Oz. I mean, you just know that journey was long, and they must have had to sleep sometimes, and there was that whole poppy field thing that would have reduced the inhibitions and three men and one girl… and all that…

    Although I think the Tinman probably lost his virginity already, he seemed a bit Don Juan-ish wiht all that I-Need-A-Heart crap… and he had the rust to prove he’d been around the block.

    Yuck.

  3. “Come join the Abstinence Clearinghouse in Kansas City, the home of hot jazz and spicy barbeque!”

    And if there’s one thing that goes with hot jazz and spicy barbecue, it’s abstinence-based education!

  4. My mother in law loves the Wizard of Oz. I went trick-or-treating with my in-laws twice with the whole family in WOz costumes.

  7. Throw water on these people and maybe they’ll dissolve amid piteous sobs?

  8. I got ticked off when my high school US history teacher tried to tell me that WoO was about socialism and prohibition. But this is just going too far!! And an “Abstinence Idol Contest”??
    *sigh..*

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