Turned into a monster for the rest of his life!
A local TV station put this piece of “investigative journalism” on the news, last night.
Remember how you first learned the musical scale?
Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do? That’s what the 8 keys say – and sing in a human sort of voice – on this Fisher-Price Laugh-and-Learn Piano. The reporter was interviewing a couple of young mothers who are filing a complaint with the New Mexico State Attorney General alleging that Fisher-Price is teaching their kids obscenities.
That’s right. If you play the musical notes D-E-F-E, the replica human voice sings the notes as re-mi-fa-mi. Oh, the horror! It’s too much to bear.
It would be laughable if it wasn’t for [a] the ignorance of the offended mothers and [b] the pompous self-righteousness of the TV “journalist”.
The scale notation? It’s called solfege. Been around for a millenium.
I found this clip over at YouTube. Put up last December. Think this is where they got the idea for a lawsuit?
Wait, what?
the replica human voice sings the notes as ra-mi-fa-mi.
Huh?
Wooooosh… I don’t get it… :-/
So fa-mi sounds a little bit like f**k me.
So does fork me.
George Carlin did a whole bit explaining all the “dirty” words, and pointed out that sometimes its only a single letter that makes the word dirty.
For example, c*nt is bad. But “can’t” is ok.
Lets just ban a few letters like WTF and STFU.
Forking cork-suckers. OMFG.
#2 Took me a while to come up with any obscenety that match it, but if you really stretch it, you could interpret “re” as “rape”, “fa” as “fuck” and “mi” as “me”…
It took awhile but I finally ‘got it’.
Mom can’t pronounce English words properly so she thinks fa is fu*k and ra is rape. Oh well, she got the ‘me’ part right.
Everyone involved in this is a ‘moran’!
I guess I don’t get it. They don’t like Sam Raimi films? Maybe I’m a dodo, but I would think playing 2 successive B naturals would sound more offensive than whatever they thing they’re hearing. It’s funny because you’d have to be really perverted to “hear” obscenities from those syllables- I guess the two mothers have a kinky side to them.
Don’t be fooled. These “children” know exactly what they are doing. There has been an underground movement involving these so called toddlers for years now. Those undistinguishable goo-goos and gah-gahs you’ve been hearing are in reality subversive anti-authority speeches and slogans aimed at sticking it to the man. This is merely the next step in a well orchestrated movement in which protest songs are sung using profane street-slang hidden in musical toys. We must quash this now. As a responsible adults, we must remove all musical toys from the grasps of the giant horde of little anarchists!
The stupid cow should be b!tch slapped for naming her kid “unique”.
Jesus God all fuck, if that doesn’t win the fire-brick necklace for unsurpassed Idiocy. Absolutely astonishing that we have to live in a society that actually permits hydrocephic clowns like that to piss in the gene pool. AND that there’s scum amoral enough to permit these brain-dead imbeciles to publicize their idiocy, instead of laughing them off the lot and kicking their sorry asses to the curb…
Yep. A country of people like this really DOES deserve George Bush.
For once, I really AM pissed. That just fucked up my day for good.
So what! My 3 year old can’t say the TR in Truck, either – He uses ‘F’ instead. Very embarrassing when watching Monster Trucks. I’m suing Monster Jam, Kenworth, Mack, Ford, GMC….
Now that’s a stretch. I think these people are hearing what they want to hear. Maybe they should talk to a Freudian shrink. They got violent sex on the mind.
Anyone who names their kid “Unique” should just sit down and STFU.
This is a case of reading into things that’s almost Potterian in magnitude. (You know, the whole “Harry Potter promotes witchcraft” thing…)
I have to admit, when I read the story I thought the mother was insane and idiotic. I still agree they are over-reacting, but after listening to the video on the blog post, Fa-Mi, with the click of the key press cutting off the Fa, does sound funny. I need to get one for my 4 year old now 🙂
They want to use the money to buy missiles for al Qaeda.
This video is even better. What can Fisher-Price have been thinking? 🙂
Kinds of reminds me of some bad “me so horny” movie lines…
buckinghamshire
Reporter says to Jenna,”When did you know Henry Hager was the one?”
Jenna replies, “When I saw the blue line!”
Mom can’t pronounce English words properly so she thinks fa is fu*k and ra is rape. Oh well, she got the ‘me’ part right.
What do you expect, it is New Mexico. Baking under the heat everyday can’t be good for the brain.
OMG Don’t let that kid near a Speak N Spell !
(dated reference. I know.)
“She’s like fa, fa, fa,’ and I was wondering why is she saying that?” Alexis Chacon said. “It was the toy.
“Then she says, ra, ra, ra.’ She’s too small to learn those kinds of words.
”Fa, fa,’ that’s all she say now,” Chacon said.
ridicurous!
These two young mothers are hereby awarded the
Ultimate King Kahuna Moron Award
Too cool!! I’m off to Amazon to get me one of those 😉
Yeah, she’s probably trying to rip some money off of Fisher Price.
Re is a drop of golden sun, dumbass, not “rape”….. what a dumbass!! How do I get the piano to say “dumbass!”? I had to read the whole article before I even knew what the hell she was on about. “Fa” is not fucking word, it’s a sound. (I love how they beep it in the video.) And mind you all, my mind is rooted firmly in the gutter…. I still couldn’t figure out how “ra mi fa mi” was bad.
However, on a much more pleasant note, I do look forward to a monster truck this evening…… 😉
#2 re: Carlin 🙂 Yeah he also wrt politically correct language said: “you can prick your finger but you can’t finger your prick”
Good Grief. (Exasperation)
As soon as it is possible I am get off this
planetinsane asylum.I hope Fisher Price counter sues for defamation.
Might just be the perfect hip-hop sample
I have a parrot with a cleft beak. With a mouth full of raisins he can say FU to the reporter that filed this story, much more clearly than the toy can say FM. I wouldn’t say something as heartless as people like the ones with the complaint should be sterilized, but tax payers should provide them with all the free condoms they can use. Along with a note explaining the free items aren’t bubble gum. I think you can make a business case for that.