Bugger Me Elmo reminds me of (what I foolishly imagined to be) a rather innocent piece of whimsy I wrote a few years ago suggesting a press conference in which G.I. Joe and Tickle Me Elmo acknowledged that they were living in a “committed monogamous relationship”.
I literally caught online hell from all over the country for that one! One person even suggested I was facilitating a Holocaust against gay people with such writing.
Paul Somerville
Oklahoma City
Re: let that be a lesson to you, bub
The second worst trouble I got into was when I joked about Quebec separatism by suggesting a divorce between the strong, wholesome Ottawa North and his beautiful but fickle wife, Francoise Quebec du Nord.
Just caught Billy Hell for that one.
If I ever offend gay Canadians, I’m a dead man!
Paul Somerville
lullaby pit 
Bugger Me Elmo reminds me of (what I foolishly imagined to be) a rather innocent piece of whimsy I wrote a few years ago suggesting a press conference in which G.I. Joe and Tickle Me Elmo acknowledged that they were living in a “committed monogamous relationship”.
I literally caught online hell from all over the country for that one! One person even suggested I was facilitating a Holocaust against gay people with such writing.
Paul Somerville
Oklahoma City
let that be a lesson to you, bub
There’s no such thing as “innocent” whimsy. It’s all fun until somebody gets poked out. An eye poked out, I mean.
Re: let that be a lesson to you, bub
The second worst trouble I got into was when I joked about Quebec separatism by suggesting a divorce between the strong, wholesome Ottawa North and his beautiful but fickle wife, Francoise Quebec du Nord.
Just caught Billy Hell for that one.
If I ever offend gay Canadians, I’m a dead man!
Paul Somerville
Re: let that be a lesson to you, bub
And if you don’t offend gay Canadians, it certainly won’t be for a lack of trying.