http://www.thevillagenews.com/story.asp?story_ID=16833
“Since then, she has not stopped mentioning Barney’s p***s. This has shaken the bedrock of our family.”
I’d really like to believe that this is a joke.
I’d *really *like to believe that.
If viewing the non-existent genitalia of a fictional character is enough to traumatize that girl, I don’t want to be her husband on her wedding night. The sight of an actual penis would really pop her cork.
Robin
We have a Barney talking plush toy - the batteries go in a vulvar recess accessed via the “nether regions” of Barney. It’s a two-inch “slit” with slightly darker purple lining the “inner labia” with satin lining of a dark pink color further inside where the batteries are.
I call it the Vaginasaur.
:: shudder ::
I am hoping that the pastor was as baffled at this guy’s panic over his daught being exposed to the word penis as I am.
That’s really weird. Until I read this post and went back to check the link (the man’s name is Bryan) I just assumed the piece was written by her mother. I wonder what that says about my thought processes.
As near as I can tell, it wasn’t even an image of a penis. It was just the words, “Barney’s Penis,” apparently rearranged on the marquee of a local theater by “hoodlums.”
And is anyone else as tickled as I am to find someone who uses the word “hoodlums” in an apparent non-sarcastic manner? I didn’t think such people existed, anymore.
And he wants the market to apologize for the work of a few pranksters? Why?
Knowing a bit about kids, I’d say the reason the kid keeps yelling PENIS is because of her dad’s reaction. “Look! When I say Penis it makes dad turn all red! I’m gonna keep saying it! Free entertainment!”
I thought it was the classic “cock and balls” drawing on a poster. Even if I’m wrong, the rest of my post still stands. She’s going to be fun on her wedding night.
Robin
Vile? How is the word “penis” vile in comparison to say, 9/11? FEMA’s response to Katrina? So-called “honor” killings in the Mid-East (you know, where to protect the family’s “honor” they take some poor rape victim out and kill her)? Or hell, just about anything else you can name? The reason his 6 year old daughter is saying “penis” over and over again, is that she no doubt finds it funny to see daddy’s face get all purple just like Barney’s when she says it. If daddy stopped freaking out whenever she said “penis” the word would soon lose her interest and she’d go on to other things. Heh, I bet that’s going to be a real interesting household when she enters puberty. 
This made me laugh out loud, not just LOL, but actually laugh…out loud.
I’ve been taking this far too literally, once I understood that the offending Barny’s Penis was created from words rearranged on a marquee. I went to an anagram generator to try to figure out what movie name could be so rearranged, not thinking, duh, that one might create that phrase from letters borrowed from a number of movie titles.
But the results of my anagram search were quite entertaining! Here are a few that perhaps COULD be movie titles:
EARN BY SNIPS
PASSERBY INN
BRA PENNY SIS
PANSY BRINES
It’s not necessarily a movie title. Evidently the “unlawful teenagers” simply rearranged letters on the sign outside Daniel’s Market (I assume a supermarket or convenience store), so it could have just been an advertisement for beer. The girl just thought it was an ad for a Barney movie.
Obviously she had already learned the word “penis” somewhere else. One wonders where exactly she came across this “vile obscenity.”
Who taught the kid to read the word ‘p***s’, and what it means?
IIRC, Dick and Jane from ‘Friendly Village’ never said “See Spot’s Penis.”
What are Kindergartners/1st graders using as readers these days that they know such ‘horrid’ words?
There is an “E” in “Barney.”
I would have went with “PENIS BARN, YES!”
I didn’t know Ned Flanders had a daughter. I thought it was just Rod & Tod.
It’s not like “penis” is a difficult word to figure out how to pronounce, if you already know how all the letters are supposed to sound. And there’s no indication at all that she knows what it means, just that saying it makes daddy’s face turn funny colors.
Any Beer Spins?
Pansy Beer Sin?
Sans Beery Nip?
Beery Spa Inns?
Pa’s Beery Inns?
I think we need to call Protective Services. Any parent who’d take their child out in public without a blindfold, knowing that they might be exposed to the sight of the word penis written as graffitti on the side of a building, is obviously unfit.
Of course, if he’d asked me for advice, I’d have tried reason, “Jeez, man, if you’re this upset because your six year old daughter saw a penis, how are you going to react in ten years when she’s putting them in her mouth?”
This is the kind of response that keeps me from being a clergyman.