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Fathers in the kitchen and no more pretty stewardesses

posted by Zed on December 14 2005 07:55

I loved Richard Scarry as a lad. Here’s a Flickr photoset of some of the ways the edition of Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book differed from what kids these days are seeing.

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=v= The 2019 edition will go through some more changes:

  • Dad is back out of the kitchen, in his Men-Are-From-Mars "cave," drinking martinis.

  • You won't be able to tell the officer's sex, since he/she will be ensconced in riot gear, because you never know when some sort of dissenter needs to be clubbed as part of the neverending War On Terra.

  • The letter carrier will be replaced with someone from FedEx, DHL, or UPS -- depending on who coughs up the most for product placement.

  • The pilot will become "heroic." The flight attendant will be a sex worker from Singapore. The airline passenger will need to be naked, for security reasons.

  • There will be no "Boats & Ships" section, because that sort of information only helps terrorists.

  • The witch's broom will be removed. It will not be replaced with Ramadan accoutrements.

  • Yellow ribbons don't mean they're girls. Yellow ribbons mean, "Support our Troops by which we specifically mean obey whatever the authorities tell you. Have you forgotten?"

  • The farmer will be replaced by a milking machine, and the carpenter will be replaced by an offshore factory worker.

  • The judge will become a secret tribunal judge. The reporter will be switched from a cat to a lapdog.

    • Posted by Jym on December 18 2005 20:59

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