Yes, I think Pete has been having fun with some of the authors as well as the titles!Robert Houghton wrote:LOL! That contents page is somewhat amusing!!
Banned and Offensive...but hoping to cash in on the fact?!
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Re: Banned and Offensive...but hoping to cash in on the fact
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
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Re: Banned and Offensive...but hoping to cash in on the fact
Pete is such a rascal! Yes, I can see that Safety First bit offending some, it is about ten little guys having a few problems with the traffic in ten verses until there is only one left - use your imagination as to why it is offensive! 
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Re: Banned and Offensive...but hoping to cash in on the fact
Yes - what we quaintly call 'The N word' these days. 
I can see how it could be offensive, but it also illustrates perfectly that Enid's books were actually far from offensive - in fact she used the word far less than some of her contemporaries. It was just a normal word back then - like 'indians' was when I was a lad.
I can see how it could be offensive, but it also illustrates perfectly that Enid's books were actually far from offensive - in fact she used the word far less than some of her contemporaries. It was just a normal word back then - like 'indians' was when I was a lad.
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Re: Banned and Offensive...but hoping to cash in on the fact
Oh, that.Tony Summerfield wrote:Pete is such a rascal! Yes, I can see that Safety First bit offending some, it is about ten little guys having a few problems with the traffic in ten verses until there is only one left - use your imagination as to why it is offensive!
Didn't Agatha Christie once use the same theme to great and chilling effect?? 
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
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Re: Banned and Offensive...but hoping to cash in on the fact
was that Ten little N*****Courtenay wrote:
Oh, that.
or
Ten Little Indians
or
Ten Little Soldier Boys
or
And then there were none?
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Re: Banned and Offensive...but hoping to cash in on the fact
Funnily enough it was used in the last book I read, A Holiday to Remember by Mary Kennedy, published in 1951. Someone offered to sleep on the floor and his boss said "you can't as you have done the work of six n****** today!"
Re: Banned and Offensive...but hoping to cash in on the fact
Thanks anyway, Pete. Most kind of you.Courtenay wrote:Oh, I don't necessarily want to read the whole thing (or to see it essentially re-published online).I'm just wondering what in particular is offensive about it!! I'm guessing it's something racial, but I may be wrong...
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