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#1
09-05-2005, 12:26 PM
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Oz Dopers: Need help with something trivial
My seven year old son has a class assignment where he has to send a picture of "Flat Stanley", a fictional boy who has been run over by a steamroller(?), to somewhere else in the world. It would require you to send him back, filled in and with questions answered about your spot in the world.
Anyone willing to give this a shot? We only need one volunteer, I guess ideally it would come back from a child of similar age, although that's not an absolute restriction from what I've skimmed on the assignment. He would need to get it back before December 1st. 
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#4
09-05-2005, 12:53 PM
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ShibbOleth is in the US... Or at least he was last I heard. And I am completely stumped as to what would be un-PC about it.
I loved Flat Stanley, by the way, what a cute book.
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#5
09-05-2005, 01:05 PM
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Yes, I am also confused. Apparently in the book "Flat Stanley" asks his parents to mail him to interesting places. Since TMINC has read it, maybe she can fill us in.
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#6
09-05-2005, 01:19 PM
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Well, I only read the first one, where he got flattened (I can't remember the steamroller bit, though, I thought a bulletin board fell on him or something). It came in useful - his mother dropped a ring in through a grating, so she tied Stanley to a string and lowered him down to get it. He posed as a picture in a museum, dressed as Little Bo Peep to catch some art thieves. I think one of his friends had recently moved, and it was too expensive for him to go visit, so he asked his mother to mail him instead. She even poured a little milk into the envelope, folded Stanley up nice and neat, and mailed him off to his friend.
He was later reinflated with a bicycle pump. I do believe there were additional books in the series though, but I think they came out later. I never read them, at any rate. Anyhow, I fail to see any way in which the story or the project is un-PC, by any of the common meanings of the phrase...
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#7
09-05-2005, 01:20 PM
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Oh and... if a kid isn't a requirement, I would be glad to participate. However, if you need to mail it off to another child, I'm no help in that regard.
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#8
09-05-2005, 01:22 PM
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Except I notice now it has to be an Oz doper. Whoops.
*crawls back in hole*
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#9
09-05-2005, 01:23 PM
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09-05-2005, 01:25 PM
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#11
09-05-2005, 01:26 PM
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Yeah there's no rhyme or reason with kids and their coolness quotients
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#14
09-05-2005, 06:25 PM
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I have a younger brother in my house and from Australia...pick me! Pick me!
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09-05-2005, 07:22 PM
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09-05-2005, 08:28 PM
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#18
09-05-2005, 09:46 PM
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If that doesn't pan out, I have a 13 year old brother and I'm from Australia.
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#19
09-06-2005, 04:38 PM
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Scarlett, another Flat Stanley fan
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#21
09-07-2005, 02:43 AM
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What fun! Flat Stanley was my favorite book when I was little...one of the first books I remember reading. And I had a bulletin board hanging near my bed, so I dreamed of one day waking up as Flat Kittenblue!
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#22
09-07-2005, 06:41 AM
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Another backup here. I have access to heaps of kids, all ages.
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