KTXL-TV
[Sacramento, CA]
23 May
2019
Oakdale Man Arrested for Halloween Candy Hoax
OAKDALE —
A Northern California man was arrested after investigators determined he lied
about finding metal objects in his kids’ Halloween candy. Last year, Mathew
Blackcloud claimed he discovered small metal objects in five pieces of his
children’s trick-or-treating candy. He told detectives he didn’t know how the
objects ended up in the commercially packaged pieces of candy. […]
[For a
roundup of reports of tampered Halloween treats from last year, see my Halloween
Candy (2018) file.]
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The new Aladdin movie inspires a journalist to
revisit rumors of a subliminal message in the 1992 version. See also Lisa
Bannon, “How a Rumor Spread About Subliminal Sex in Disney’s Aladdin,” The Wall Street Journal, October 24, 1995, A1, A6, republished here.
Slate
24 May
2019
Why Everyone Thought Aladdin Had a Secret Sex Message
If you
were a kid in the ’90s, or even if you weren’t, the rumors were as familiar as
a white vinyl VHS case: Did you know there’s a hidden phallus on the cover art
for The Little Mermaid? And by the
way, the minister definitely pops a boner during the wedding scene. Oh, and
there’s a cloud spelling S-E-X floating over Simba in The Lion King. Perhaps most iconically of all, in Aladdin, as the titular prince tries to
woo Princess Jasmine for a magic carpet ride from her balcony, he secretly
whispers some lascivious words to the adolescent audience: “Good teenagers,
take off your clothes.” […]
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Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine, 22 May 2019.
Inappropriate use of LOL.
According to popular
belief, the initialism LOL can lead to misunderstandings, especially across
generations. For another comic strip take on this theme, see
John Deering and John Newcombe, "Zack Hill",
12 January 2009
John Deering and John Newcombe, "Zack Hill",
13 January 2009
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