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November 16, 2005 4:36 PM   Subscribe

The use of puppets dates back thousands of years. The first may have been shadow-puppets, which are mentioned in Greek philosophy. Sock Puppets are a popular and affordable (but not necessarily simple) form of puppet enjoyed by many children and surprisingly, grown men around the world (cheaper than taxidermy, and nothing has to die). Of course, Henson's Muppets brought puppetry into our living rooms, and cute puppets are fun. Heck, you can even teach yourself this fine art at home. However, some people aren't very nice to them. Indeed, they can be scary at times, and a bit(probably nsfw) controversial(nsfw) too.
posted by mullingitover (27 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: puppet post earlier today



 
Woah, is this like thumbing your nose or something?
posted by billysumday at 4:42 PM on November 16, 2005


I guess this wasn't good enough.
posted by Eekacat at 4:46 PM on November 16, 2005


Uh... related. What is it, like international puppet day or something?
posted by whir at 4:46 PM on November 16, 2005


The muppets stopped being funny when Jim Henson died prematurely.
posted by longsleeves at 4:53 PM on November 16, 2005


Yea, Puppet Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by snsranch at 4:53 PM on November 16, 2005


I was going to spit out some long-winded apology for this quasi-dupe and offer to commit seppuku. On second thought, fuck it! I hereby declare today Puppet Day at Metafilter.
posted by mullingitover at 4:57 PM on November 16, 2005


Possibly the rudest post I've ever seen on the Internet.
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 4:59 PM on November 16, 2005


wtf?
posted by keijo at 5:07 PM on November 16, 2005


This is officially through the looking-glass, considering that the other thread had a weird genesis in MetaTalk.
posted by smackfu at 5:07 PM on November 16, 2005


smackfu: would you say that this whole thing is, like... meta?
posted by billysumday at 5:14 PM on November 16, 2005


Sock Puppets are a popular and affordable (but not necessarily simple) form of puppet enjoyed by many children and surprisingly, grown men around the world

This reads so strange, considering yesterday's fracas in the Gray.

Through the looking glass, indeed.
posted by pjern at 5:14 PM on November 16, 2005


Bwa ha ha ha ha!

Sorry. *cough*
posted by jokeefe at 5:20 PM on November 16, 2005


Okay. so I had a few beers...but was this deleted and reposted.

Cause I saw it this afternoon and now at 8:30pm it is at the top of the page?????? How did it get resurrected?
posted by Lola_G at 5:27 PM on November 16, 2005


The four of us love this post.
posted by cortex at 5:27 PM on November 16, 2005


:)
posted by caddis at 5:28 PM on November 16, 2005


I was just watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann and he's doing some sort of puppetry thing too, so apparently whatever the fuck is going on it's nearing pandemic status.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:28 PM on November 16, 2005


this is pretty awesome.
posted by drpartypoopercrankypantsesquire at 5:32 PM on November 16, 2005


I can't believe that someone wrote a whole NYT article about lashing puppets to the front of trucks. Why is it "region" and not "style"? is 'Andy Newman' just a pseudonym that Helaine Olen uses?
posted by delmoi at 5:43 PM on November 16, 2005


As for the actual content of the post... I'm a large fan of the final scene from Se7en redone with a monkey puppet. It's pretty impressive how this obviously very amateur movie was able to capture shot for shot the last, awful minutes from that movie. The eyes of the blue puppet playing Kevin Spacey's character are especially creepy.

If I had the time, this would be the kind of useless hobby that I engaged in :)
posted by mikeweeney at 5:52 PM on November 16, 2005


Well, actually, I do have the time... but instead I juggle, which is equally as useless.
posted by mikeweeney at 5:53 PM on November 16, 2005


Lisa: "Dad what's a Muppet?"
Homer: "Well it's not quite a mop. It's not quite a muppet but man hehehe....so to answer your question i don't know."
posted by tamujudo at 6:51 PM on November 16, 2005


It's hard to find work as a puppeteer in this wintry economic climate.
posted by bingo at 7:02 PM on November 16, 2005


Wasn't the 15th declared the official Metafilter Puppet day?

Cortex: The four of us love this post. Such Gold(hoyt)!
posted by shoepal at 7:23 PM on November 16, 2005


Didn't really mull this one over, huh?
posted by knave at 8:13 PM on November 16, 2005


So it's a not-entirely-subtle mockery. It's still a solid and worthwhile post, not involving news or politics.
posted by Saydur at 8:34 PM on November 16, 2005


This is mean.

[On the other hand, we probably set the communal weblog record for most links to penis puppetry in one day (if you count the TWO in the other thread, one of which was my fault).]
posted by kosem at 9:52 PM on November 16, 2005


Yeah, puppets are fun.
posted by Colloquial Collision at 3:40 AM on November 17, 2005


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