Sesame Street is pure evil.

So in response to my previous post about the letter ‘m,’ my cousin Lindsay linked to this video in the comments (if you haven’t read the other post, do it now, it’ll change your life quicker than Garden State ever could, I swear):

If you haven’t read the other post, that video probably makes absolutely no sense to you. If you have, you may find it amusing and chuckle a bit. Clearly it would have been better had I found this video earlier and put it with the other post… almost to the point where its kind of silly for me to put it up. But there was something else I wanted to bring up; after watching the video, I came to a conclusion, and that conclusion is…

Sesame Street is pure evil.

Just watch that video… to think we grew up on that! Though on the surface it looks harmless (if only a bit creepy), if you actually listen to the words, you can see the awful prejudice and injustice it promotes!!!

What’s that you say? You say there is absolutely no way our beloved Sesame Street would do such a thing! Check out from 0:21 to 0:28 one more time… It says, and I quote: “The word man starts with ‘m.’ Daddy’s a man, and men have mustaches”

“…and men have mustaches” !?!??!!

This video clearly perpetuates the stereotype that in order to be a real man, one must have a mustache! There are millions of people in this world who choose not to have a mustache, why should that make them any less of a man! Its a personal choice! Are the bourgeois mustached producers over at Sesame Street unable to feel empathy for those who cannot grow a mustache?! Why must they go through life being second-class citizens! This is an outrage, its so disgusting to see things like this, almost makes me wish I lived in Canada.

The worst part, this is only one little clip. I’m sure if we comb through the Sesame Street archives, it only gets uglier… So I ask you to boycott Sesame Street, Duke students and fellow people of America! If you believe in freedom, liberty, and/ or ghosts, you believe the cookie monster’s cookie eating days should be over! End tyranny, no taxation without representation, and definitely don’t tread on me! To semi-quote Mel Gibson from the movie Braveheart: “They may take our lives, but they will never take, our lack of mustaches!”

(Thanks Lindsay for the video!)

My Second Impression…

Given that the title of this blog is ¨Making a good second impression,” I find it fitting to try and do just that with my second post. So here goes nothing…

The website I’m using for this blog, wordpress.com, keeps records telling you how many views your blog gets from people who found your site by using a search engine, like Google. They also tell you exactly what the person searched for. For example, if a person typed into Google “Awesome blog written by super cool cat that talks about zebras, Barbara Walters and pets named after famous people,” they find my site, click on it, and wordpress tells me about it!

So a few days ago I had a rather interesting one. Apparently somebody found my site by googling, and I quote: “What to tell interviewer how much I am m.” Alright, so you’re probably just as confused as I was when I first saw it, as it doesn’t seem to make much sense at all. But I think I figured it out.

“What to tell interviewer how much I am m” was clearly typed by neither man nor woman, but rather by a large walking, talking, living, typing lower case letter ‘m.’ Just get a good image of that in your head, a human sized living, breathing letter ‘m,’ sounds fun right? I know you guys are probably all banging your heads on your keyboards as you realize how it obvious it is (perhaps hitting the ´m´ key)!

Now beyond this, I am not 100% certain why he searched that, but I can make an educated guess. The most likely scenario seems to be that this ´m´ had a job interview, and it didn’t go very well. I mean, imagine an interviewer’s surprise when a talking lower case letter ‘m’ walks into the office. Here he thought the ‘ichael’ was accidentally left off the applicant’s name on his resume, but really, the guy is just a large letter ‘m.’

So this interview goes badly, as expected. The interviewer is shocked right when ‘m’ walks into the room. ‘m,’ seeing this, becomes nervous and starts to perspire. He starts mumbling his answers, becoming very anxious as the interviewer stares at him in awe. ‘m’ then makes some sudden movements, attempting to feign enthusiasm only to have his suit rip at the seams (you try getting a suit tailored to fit a walking letter ‘m!’) The interview ends, and as he walks out in shame, he gets stuck in the doorway, forgetting that doors weren’t built for wide letters (he also becomes sad he isn’t a letter “I”).

The letter ‘m’ goes home and, hoping to avoid the embarrassment he felt at the interviewer’s shock, googles “What to tell interviewer how much I am m” trying to find a better way to tell an interviewer about his “condition.” His eyes light up as he finds my blog promising a good second impression! Unfortunately he is let down, as my first post probably didn’t help him.

So in case ‘m’ stumbles upon this blog again, I thought I’d offer some advice for a good second impression. ‘m,’ if your out there, I suggest you give up the corporate world where your unique talents are lost. Instead, I think you should really look to apply for a job at Sesame Street. I hear the last ‘m’ had an identity crisis (stood on her head all day hoping to become a ‘w’), and there’s an opening in their letter of the day department.

Most importantly though ‘m,’ just be yourself! If the first impression goes badly, there’s always a second. Now if you blow that one too, sorry, I can’t really help you. Maybe there’s a “Making a good third impression” blog out there somewhere?!?

(Thanks Chris for the links…)