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December 3, 2007 9:34 PM

Coloring is fun! Engage kids and get your message across with soothing, simple style!

Print these .pdfs for the little ones in your life to color. Together, learn a little grown-up wisdom about Being a Witness in Federal Court, Disaster Preparedness, Food Safety with Thermy™, Why Elephants Cry, Biomedical Research with the Lucky Puppy, or how the United Nations is a very bad organization made up of foreign countries who do not want you to be free, with Brasco!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur (43 comments total)

Readers will be after this link shortly.
posted by Miko at 9:37 PM on December 3, 2007 [2 favorites has favorites]

The Japanese government, with the help of bad people in America, want to take away your right to own and enjoy guns. They tell people that America should be more like Japan, where the people can’t own guns. They don’t tell people that in Japan, people can be held in prison without food or water until they confess to crimes they didn’t commit.

-Brasco the Bear, 1998

How fun!
posted by Pants! at 9:50 PM on December 3, 2007

If you act now, you can still get Brasco the Bear T-shirts featuring the rifle-toting cartoon bear with the all-caps legend "SOME LAWS ARE BAD." Ash grey "golf" shirt, Adult small only. I just ordered 5.
posted by contraption at 9:57 PM on December 3, 2007 [8 favorites has favorites]

They don’t tell people that in Japan, people can be held in prison without food or water until they confess to crimes they didn’t commit.

I like how we import all the best parts of japanese culture to america!
posted by b1tr0t at 10:13 PM on December 3, 2007 [1 favorite has favorites]

That Brasco shirt is so insanely awesome. Half Winnie the Pooh, half Teddy Roosevelt, 100% ready to defend the right of Americans to own firearms. Hopefully they will replenish their stock in time for oral arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller.

Yes, yes, bear arms, I know. I got it. Brasco the Bear.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 10:14 PM on December 3, 2007

Admiral, I think he resembles Cheney a bit, too.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:28 PM on December 3, 2007

Excuse me for a moment. I'm going to go grab a glass of milk and whip up a batch of Goody Guns* so I can have a snack while I do my coloring.

*from the front page of jpfo.org
posted by freshwater_pr0n at 10:31 PM on December 3, 2007

Goddamnit! This Large Adult wants a Brasco the Bear t-shirt! That has to be the most awesome shirt I've seen in months.
posted by lekvar at 10:43 PM on December 3, 2007

Metafilter: SOME LAWS ARE BAD.
posted by Avenger at 10:59 PM on December 3, 2007

Metafilter: NO LUCKY!
posted by papakwanz at 11:20 PM on December 3, 2007

The Black Panther Coloring Book.

You'll never look at your 'flesh colour' crayons the same way again.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 11:41 PM on December 3, 2007

Excuse me for a moment. I'm going to go grab a glass of milk and whip up a batch of Goody Guns* so I can have a snack while I do my coloring.
posted by freshwater_pr0n at 10:31 PM on December 3


Cookies? Sammiches? Meatloafs?
posted by louche mustachio at 11:50 PM on December 3, 2007

Do your part to save our kids – if you don’t, the American dream will die, and your children and mine will be slaves.

This was 1998. Are we there yet?
posted by mumkin at 12:00 AM on December 4, 2007

This was 1998. Are we there yet?

Fortunately, Al Gore was defeated in 2000, so no not yet.

(Duck... and cover; Duck... and cover; quack quack quack)
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 12:18 AM on December 4, 2007

somehow I did get the lucky puppy from the original link and it's hilarious. Color in the pills we feed to animals!
posted by cogneuro at 12:23 AM on December 4, 2007

Christ PETA, show, don't tell.
posted by felix betachat at 12:57 AM on December 4, 2007

the "Law & Order" coloring book.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 2:17 AM on December 4, 2007

Gotta love the "crying George Washington" pic in the last link.
posted by primer_dimer at 2:49 AM on December 4, 2007

Darn. Pater Aletheias beat me to it. I love that L&O coloring book.
posted by davidmsc at 5:30 AM on December 4, 2007

Looks like I will never know the fun of a gun.
posted by Deathalicious at 6:23 AM on December 4, 2007

Re: the Black Panther Coloring Book, it's proported to be an FBI COINTEL propaganda piece.

Hilarious, though.
"THE PIG IS RUNNING AWAY FROM BLACK PEOPLE. RUN, PIG, RUN."
posted by SPUTNIK at 6:28 AM on December 4, 2007

How have I never explored "MetaFilter posts tagged with propaganda" before today?
posted by pineapple at 6:30 AM on December 4, 2007

"Brasco" was the most putrid thing I've ever read. I feel ill now. I really hope it's a joke.
posted by mike3k at 7:12 AM on December 4, 2007

Most. Distressing. Coloring books. Evar.
posted by CaptApollo at 7:20 AM on December 4, 2007

My dad brought the kid an NSA Cryptokids coloring book after his visit to a gift shop in an undisclosed location.

Also, an NSA teddy bear we call Spy Bear, as in "See? He's spying on you right now, honey."
posted by gregorg at 7:27 AM on December 4, 2007 [1 favorite has favorites]

M is for Mathowie. Mathowie is one of the worst dictators on the Internet. If you interfere with the operations of Metafilter, he will have you and your family killed in your sleep.

Every night after dinner, he drinks a pint of baby seal blood from the skull of a kitten.

If you believe the things Mathowie tells you, you will never know the fun of <>.
posted by sparkletone at 7:50 AM on December 4, 2007 [2 favorites has favorites]

This is an awesome post.
posted by fungible at 7:50 AM on December 4, 2007

From the makers of Brasco the Bear comes Freedom Music ^TM! In particular, "Blues Thang" (mp3, pops) makes me want a gun.
posted by CaptApollo at 7:51 AM on December 4, 2007

Aww. It looked all right in preview, but I guess trying to type "img" between the "<>" with a space on either side of the word doesn't work.

FURTHER PROOF OF THE MALEVOLENCE OF THE HOWIE GOVERNMENT.
posted by sparkletone at 7:52 AM on December 4, 2007

I can't decide if I'm genuinely disturbed, or ironically-creeped-out.
posted by aramaic at 7:58 AM on December 4, 2007

Great post. I love the way the researcher helps both the puppy and the "sick mice" get better. No dead lab rats to color!

"So, how did the mice get sick in the first place, Doctor?"
"Never mind. Here's your puppy, kid."

[Not RESEARCHIST]
posted by misha at 8:03 AM on December 4, 2007

That music is really awful. Who knew that rhythm was so important in music?
posted by Deathalicious at 9:20 AM on December 4, 2007

Law & Order coloring book is officially my contribution to the office yankee swap. Oh boy.
posted by naoko at 9:33 AM on December 4, 2007

Fortunately, Al Gore was defeated in 2000, so no not yet.

I love it when ludicrous partisan fools make Al Gore jokes. Next time you should follow it up with a Kennedy joke, or maybe one of those fantastic Lewinsky laughers.

"hey, our foreign policy is a complete disaster that has killed hundreds of thousands, angered millions and wasted hundreds of billions of dollars.... but Al Gore is boring and Clinton got a blowjob, ha ha ha ha ha"
posted by Tacos Are Pretty Great at 9:54 AM on December 4, 2007

Dammit, the Brasco t-shirts appear to be sold out. (At least, they no longer appear on the site.)

Oh and, previously on Metafilter....
posted by sock it to me monkey at 10:04 AM on December 4, 2007

The Federal Court coloring book looks like a pamphlet right out of The Simpsons.

"SO YOU'RE GOING TO COURT."
posted by Spatch at 10:11 AM on December 4, 2007

RRRRGH, the Metafilter effect: Did you guys corner the market on Brasco Tees? "Proud to be a High Caliber Couple" just doesn't cut the mustard this holiday.

L'chaim, y'all.
posted by not_on_display at 10:21 AM on December 4, 2007

My computar is somehow unable to load these new-fangled PDF files. Darn.

I'm just going to have to assume that these are as awesome as the L&O coloring book. Though that's hard to imagine as it's one of the awesomest things since sliced awesome.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 12:07 PM on December 4, 2007

You forgot the "TM" notification after Brasco. There's something cute about a pretend 11-year old trademarking the name of his bear.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 12:22 PM on December 4, 2007

Don't want to be casting aspersions on the post, but these PDF's could use a bit of compressing. 4Mb is a bit large for what they contain.
posted by mattoxic at 2:09 PM on December 4, 2007

We have gun control in Australia, and let me tell you. You're for ever tripping over concentration camps, gulags and killing fields.

Fact, you can't HAVE a killing field without gun control.
posted by mattoxic at 2:13 PM on December 4, 2007

. Lucky Puppy
posted by yoHighness at 4:54 PM on December 4, 2007

"Just say no to murder." That slays me!
posted by sneebler at 5:30 PM on December 4, 2007