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Dea GLIRT and others:


Also, check out the New Yorker from last week, for a spoof on Tinky-Winky's
status, titled:

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"The love that dare not say "eh-oh"  (a brief sample, I had already typed
this out for a friend last week...)


        So many prominent gay couples have come forward of late, proudly
proclaiming their love - Ellen and Anne, Elton John and David Furnish,
Prince Charles and that rugged, leathery fellow he's finally been
photographed with.  So it's time I confessed, freely and without shame:
Tinky Winky was my lover.
        Tinky, the tallest, and to me, most vividly sensual of the popular
Teletubbies video clan, was outed recently by the Reverend Jerry Falwell,
who claimed that Tinky's lavender hue and the rigid triangle sprouting from
his head indicated a coded homosexuality that was being transmitted to
young viewers.  I am particularly disturbed that Falwell would launch a
sexual smear campaign against someone already named Tinky Winky.
        But enough tabloid infighting.  To me, Tinky wasn't a star, or a political
football, or some sad English actor suffocating inside a dumpy purple blob
suit: he was hot...
(...)
        I eventually met Tinky at an industry function.  I was with Blue Power
Ranger, but by midnight I was sharing a Jacuzzi with Tinky, Laa-Laa, and
Dipsy...  Finally Tink and I were alone.  I reached out to caress his
triangle, and he began to sob quietly.  "It's been a long time for you,
hasn't it?" I murmured, and he took my face in his mittenlike paws and
said, simply, "Eh-oh."

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It goes on from there, but you get the idea.  Made even more funny for me
after spending time in front of the Teletubbies program with my sick
daughter last week...

All best,

Wendy


Wendy Botting
Visual Resources Librarian
History of Art Slide Library
Cornell University
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At 01:25 PM 3/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>Check out this web site!
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