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...markets of Warsaw and Prague in those early years of freedom, the symbols of communism - badges, pins, posters - were sold off, their proceeds helping folk survive in the wild and freewheeling free market. But there was also a knowing embrace of the absurdity of it all. A popular Polish cartoon showed a man clutching a Polish flag stepping out of the jaws of a vicious-looking fish labeled Socjalizm and straight into the open mouth of an equally angry-looking fish labeled Kapitalizm...
...throne - a flush toilet was found in a tomb of a Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D. 24) king - and they invented toilet paper in the 6th century. Modern Toilet owner Wang Zi-wei, 29, an ex-banker, got his idea from the Japanese robot cartoon character Jichiwawa, who loves to play with poop and swirl it on a stick. Inspired by that image, Wang began selling chocolate ice cream swirls on paper squat toilets. Customers loved them and wanted more edible excretion experiences, so he opened Modern Toilet in 2004. The theme-restaurant chain now has seven outlets...
...early, primal animated features mined infant emotions of fear, loss and reconciliation, and branded the Disney name on their receptive brains. On '50s TV, The Mickey Mouse Club and Disneyland sold young viewers not just a theme park but a sanitized ideal of childhood. Walt also sold them friends: cartoon characters you could pack your school lunch in, fall asleep with or wear on your wrist. (The marketing genius of the Mickey Mouse watch cannot be overstated...
...Murdoch, Rupert • New York Post cartoon depicting Obama as a monkey riddled with bullets is apologized for by • Rev. Al Sharpton is - huge surprise coming here, wait for it - dissatisfied with apology...
...assure you--without a doubt--that the only intent of that cartoon was to mock a badly written piece of legislation.' Media mogul RUPERT MURDOCH, chairman of the New York Post, apologizing in a written statement for the cartoon...