Mr. Fish Toon- A Free Man

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[hunter]

1. Yep.

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[Greybnk48]

2. The truth. n/t

[dhill926]

3. the K & R....

wow....

[vicman]

4. :)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine k&r

[awoke_in_2003]

6. K&R

sounds like religion, doesn't it?

[smiley]

9. I was thinking the same thing

[mountain grammy]

7. K & R

Kind of reminds me of Garth Brooks:

"We Shall Be Free"

This ain't comin' from no prophet
Just an ordinary man
When I close my eyes I see
The way this world shall be
When we all walk hand in hand

When the last child cries for a crust of bread
When the last man dies for just words that he said
When there's shelter over the poorest head
We shall be free

When the last thing we notice is the color of skin
And the first thing we look for is the beauty within
When the skies and the oceans are clean again
Then we shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight, walk proud
'Cause we shall be free
When we're free to love anyone we choose
When this world's big enough for all different views
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew
Then we shall be free
We shall be free

We shall be free
Have a little faith
Hold out
'Cause we shall be free

And when money talks for the very last time
And nobody walks a step behind
When there's only one race and that's mankind
Then we shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith, hold out
We shall be free

We shall be free
We shall be free
Stand straight, have a little faith

We shall be free

[BlueStreak]

8. I was never a big Charles Shultz fan, but only this minute realized

the implication of "The Great Pumpkin." Shultz' audience was that lily-white, bible-thumpin', Jaysus-preacin' crowd. It was quite a trick to keep dishing out the saccharin over the years while slipping in the subtext of this Pumpkin uber-being. It must have given him considerable devious pleasure to see that Shultz' version of "The Flying Spaghetti Monster" indeed flew right over the heads of his audience.

[nxylas]

15. Schultz was a Baptist and a Sunday school teacher

He maintained that the Great Pumpkin was not an attack on religious belief per se, but on the commercialisation of Christmas. No, me neither, but that's what he said.

[BlueStreak]

16. One has to manage lots of cognitive dissonance in a religion-dominated world

Maybe the "Great Pumpkin" was Shultz' way of dealing with it.

I would rather people would just be honest, standing up saying "This is bullcrap! We shouldn't let these cults dominate our world. We shouldn't fill our children's brains full of this crap. We should recognize we are here together and we have to find a way to get along without having to invent imaginary characters."

But if he did, he would end up like Mr Fish instead of being enormously wealthy. Integrity has its price.

"Over the nearly 50 years that Peanuts was published, Schulz drew nearly 18,000 strips. The strips themselves, plus merchandise and product endorsements, produced revenues of more than $1 billion per year, with Schulz earning an estimated $30 million to $40 million annually."

[Gothmog]

10. Great cartoon

[Schema Thing]

11. dayum.

[Electric Monk]

12. k&r

[Enthusiast]

13. There it is! If you can see it.

Even Linus knows.

[Binkie The Clown]

14. Too many words. Can somebody summarize it on a bumper sticker for me?