Team Oprah has insisted that a golliwog be removed from a Melbourne shop window. TO is on the money. Americans are right - "darn tooting", if you will - to protest against slavery, oppression, cruelty and the Richmond Football Club.
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To make amends, the RFC should get her down to Punt Road, get her into a Richmond heritage jumper (the Black and Yellow vertical stripes one), and give her a yellow bandanna. Take a few promotional shots, have the network news there, ... she can make a big thing of it!
... wait, what?
Oh!
Posted by: TKYCraig | 12/09/2010 at 03:07 PM
... and now that I read the link, and see that old boot-in-mouth Jeff Kennett is making a fuss that it had to be removed.
Perhaps the garments the golliwog is wearing are really yellow and brown! It's actually a Hawthorn FC 'ambush marketing' stunt!
Posted by: TKYCraig | 12/09/2010 at 03:11 PM
Kennett covets the golliwog demographic.
Posted by: Tony | 12/09/2010 at 04:18 PM
quote, Jeff, "I love golliwogs"
Can see this quote making a comeback during the season.
Posted by: michael | 12/09/2010 at 04:58 PM
Didn't Harry O'Brien want to meet Oprah or have I got my stories COMPLETELY mixed up?
Tangental.
Posted by: Adsy | 12/09/2010 at 07:16 PM
I haven't yet heard the phrase political correctness gone mad. You know the type: if I'm not offended by golliwogs, no-one else has a right to be.
Posted by: Lad Litter | 12/11/2010 at 01:49 PM
they're offensive.
they caused a lot of the troubles that Noddy had
(not Noddy Holder)
Posted by: Ann O'Dyne | 12/11/2010 at 10:37 PM
speaking of offensive - the breaking news on Shane Warne schmoozing Mrs. Liz Hurley Nayan has elicited this comment in a thread on The (London)Sun:
Sorry Warnie but I can't see her trading in her textile heir for your textile hair.
9:09AM, Dec 11, 2010 Njmac
Posted by: Ann O'Dyne | 12/12/2010 at 07:53 PM
Golliwogs are cool and I have several.
Posted by: Professor Rosseforp | 12/12/2010 at 10:08 PM
I prefer golliwogs to elves. Blame Peter Jackson.
Ann, what part of that is offensive? It's a golden quip.
Posted by: Tony | 12/13/2010 at 04:51 PM
Didn't Harry O'Brien want to meet Oprah or have I got my stories COMPLETELY mixed up?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/collingwood-footballer-harry-obrien-wants-to-meet-president-obama/story-e6frf7jo-1225863362749
What a goofball.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 12/13/2010 at 05:05 PM