Oooh, do tell!
No kidding! Where others see “modeling bad behavior” it would seem that I see "teaching valuable life skills).
Quick answer: It’s called a “squishy,” and was introduced in The Adventures of Captain Underpants vs. the Bionic Booger-Boy, or something along those lines.
- Get two ketchup squeeze packs.
- Find an unattended toilet.
- Lower the seat.
- Bend the ketchup packs in half, and place them under the seat’s forward cushions so the bend is facing outward.
- When victim sits on the seat, the packs will erupt, spraying ketchup on the victim’s legs. Hilarity ensues.
And to be fair, this wasn’t just a gratuitous prank that the author inserted – a variation of the trick was later used (in the next book, mind you) to defeat a pair of rampaging giant bionic boogers from space…
Here? http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwkit/adultposter/adultposter.htm That’s about as good as it gets, I’m afraid; I can email the quotes to you if you like, though. (I didn’t do the website so I can’t just add the quotes. It’s a good idea though.)
No, the dumbest possible reason for deciding which books to read is “They’re on the best-seller list!” followed by “I heard there’s a dirty word on page 114, tee-hee,” and “they read it on Oprah’s book club.”
Sorry, Oprah. 
Also, it does my irony-lovin’ self good to see that The Handmaid’s Tale made that list of challenged books. Lemme guess who objected to that one…
So very, very true.
bows head to Marley23
Yep, I’ll second the Oprah Schtick. I hate to see a book go to Oprah. I read The Contenders just because the auther told Oprah to stuff it - when she picked his book to be on her list.
I notice a lot of those have ‘conflicted with values of community’ as the reason for being banned/challenged. So anytime a character in a book does something that is not the same way everyone else in the book does it, it’s suddnely a bad book? So Aticus Finch on ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is a horrible person because he dared to defend a black person, in a town where they were all seen as vile trash? (Please tell me that’s what the book is about…I haven’t read it in nine years.)
The obvious assumption is that racists want the book banned, but I think it’s equally possible that some people are horrified that racism is depicted in the book, so they don’t want Sonny and Daughter exposed to the awful people who think that way. Even though bigotry is so thoroughly repudiated by the book. There are many kinds of idiot.