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Offline Sheriff Roland

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #190 on: November 05, 2009, 06:51:15 am »
Yet another today:


40th Anniversary of Sesame Sreet
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #191 on: November 05, 2009, 09:53:31 am »
Love the Cookie Monster doodle!!!


From the Guardian:

The Big Bird Google Doodle celebrates 40 years of Sesame Street

It's somewhat shocking to discover from a Google Doodle that Sesame Street is 40 years old. The educational show created by the Children's Television Workshop certainly has legs, as they say, and Google has chosen to highlight the ones belonging to Big Bird rather than exploit Kermit, Bert and Ernie, Elmo or other likely candidates…

Well, that's true for the US and Canada, though your local version of Google may vary. There are different logos and different characters in different countries, as The Next Web has pointed out. And in the UK, where Sesame Street (as distinct from The Muppets) has not had the same cultural impact, Google has gone with Wallace and Gromit's 20th birthday instead.

Google's Sesame Street celebration is slightly early -- it should be on 10 November, when there will be an anniversary show featuring First Lady Michelle Obama, with or without Hula Hoop. There will also be a couple of books: Sesame Street: A Celebration of Forty Years of Life on the Street, and Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street.

When I was growing up in Canada in the early 1970s*, I almost never missed Sesame Street, and while Big Bird was never the best character, I enjoyed his jousts with Mr Hooper Hooper. In the UK, however, the series was considered too fast-paced and people frowned on its use of advertising techniques. Of course, a series made for disadvantaged inner-city kids also had lots of elements unfamiliar in suburban Surrey, or even Islington. And even the most brilliant of those early episodes would not pass through the Political Correctness barrier today.

* Technically, I was doing an MA at UBC at the time, but I also did some toddler-sitting with some of Sesame Street's biggest fans.

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #192 on: November 05, 2009, 04:49:25 pm »
I was very happy about Cookie Monster today!   8)
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #193 on: November 06, 2009, 02:38:24 am »
Bert and Ernie today:


Speaking of Ernie, here's my favorite Ernie song:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoteMQ6w0SE[/youtube]

I Don't Want to Live on the Moon

Well, I'd like to visit the moon
On a rocket ship high in the air
Yes, I'd like to visit the moon
But I don't think I'd like to live there
Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I might like it for one afternoon
I don't want to live on the moon

I'd like to travel under the sea
I could meet all the fish everywhere
Yes, I'd travel under the sea
But I don't think I'd like to live there
I might stay for a day there if I had my wish
But there's not much to do when your friends are all fish
And an oyster and clam aren't real family
So I don't want to live in the sea

I'd like to visit the jungle, hear the lions roar
Go back in time and meet a dinosaur
There's so many strange places I'd like to be
But none of them permanently

So if I should visit the moon
Well, I'll dance on a moonbeam and then
I will make a wish on a star
And I'll wish I was home once again
Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I may go I'll be coming home soon
'Cause I don't want to live on the moon
No, I don't want to live on the moon


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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #194 on: November 06, 2009, 04:36:45 am »
More Bert and Ernie:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1Y4xo4XJ4[/youtube]

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #195 on: November 07, 2009, 05:56:25 am »
A new day, a new Sesame Street image

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #196 on: November 07, 2009, 11:07:56 am »



20. Anniversary of Wallace and Gromit
F*CK! 20 years? Shit, thats hard!

My fave of the sesame street ones is the cookie monster!
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #197 on: November 08, 2009, 01:28:06 am »
Elmo:


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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #198 on: November 09, 2009, 12:49:05 am »
In addition to Big Bird and Wallace and Gromit, other Google doodles appeared on November 4th:





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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #199 on: November 09, 2009, 01:25:35 am »
The Count:


Love how numbers are used as letters!