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  • #613546
    JustHavingFun
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    Huh?!? I’m stunned. If Hello Kitty is not a cat, then I’m a … (fill in the blanks)….

    Some other stunnning facts are coming out about Hello Kitty:

    I’m so glad this is a top news story today. You can read it in the LA Times and Huffington Post, see it on CNN and CNET(!). Now is the time to make your travel plans for the first ever Hello Kitty Convention in LA from October 30 – November 2 (after you take your sukkah down).

    Meow!

    #1038794
    ari-free
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    #1038795
    Sam2
    Participant

    This has Halachah L’maaseh Nafka Minos, V’hameivin Yavin.

    #1038796
    yehudayona
    Participant

    Obviously, she was invented by a man. That’s why she has no mouth.

    #1038797
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    yehudayona +1

    #1038798
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Sam, ???? ???? ????? ??????.

    #1038799
    IvduEsHashemBsimcha
    Participant

    Sam2: Ani Yavin.

    #1038800
    ernsteyid
    Participant

    Rahmanus that this even made it to the news headlines…

    #1038801
    IvduEsHashemBsimcha
    Participant

    I just read an update from Sanrio (the manufacturers of Hello Kitty) that they meant she doesn’t act like a cat, but she is obviously the personififation ot a cat. Sorry Sam, I guess we’re back where we started 🙂

    #1038802
    Bookworm120
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    Does that mean Arthur the aardvark is a person too? I have always been confused by the apparent separate social distinctions between the sentient, bipedal animals and then their nom-sentient housepets of the same species.

    In layman’s terms, how come Binky the dog gets to wear people clothes and go to school, while Pal, Arthur’s dog, is treated as a mere housepet?

    #1038803
    IvduEsHashemBsimcha
    Participant

    Bookworm: For the same reason that Mickey Mouse has a friend who’s a dog (Goofy) and owns a pet dog: It’s a mystery!

    Although seriously speaking, my guess is that they want to give characters pets, and what else could they do?

    #1038804
    IvduEsHashemBsimcha
    Participant

    Yehudayona, that’s actually not true. She was invented by Yuko Shimizu, a Japanese woman.

    #1038805
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    Actually, she’s a real person, and it’s not her fault she looks like a cat without a mouth.

    #1038806
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    IvduEsHashemBsimcha – They should have people for pets!

    Planet of the Pets, anyone?

    #1038807
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    Bookworm, if you consider them a lower life form, then they should go down the scale and have plants for pets.

    #1038808
    my own kind of jew
    Participant

    Bookworm: The difference is in that one word “sentience.” If you are sentient, you are a “person.” If you are not sentient, then you are not a “person.”

    of course, defining “sentience” is a very….difficult matter. Once of those things where you can point to it and say “that’s sentience!” but giving an actual definition is much harder.

    #1038809
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    Interesting points, everybody. 🙂 I like your point, my own kind of jew, about sentience. That could very well be the defining factor between Binky and Pal. Binky and HK are, in some way, persons (i.e. sentient beings), while Pal and Charmy Kitty are not.

    My next theory is that these are futuristic, mutated beings from the future, descended from humans or perhaps the subject of genetic experiments, trying to imitate the relatively successful culture of the late 20th to early 21st century in hopes that their society will thrive better. 😛

    Arthur and Hello Kitty are science fiction!

    #1038810
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    You are forgetting that Pal is a puppy. Always a puppy. Binky is a dog.

    #1038811
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    Yeah, but Kitty and her cat are both kitties.

    #1038812
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    It’s her cat. Pal is Arthur’s puppy, not Binky’s.

    #1038813
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    True. Do you think Binky would ever get a pet aardvark?

    #1038814
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    Binky might get a pet baby aardvark, and it wouldn’t grow up either.

    #1038815
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    Doesn’t Arthur have a baby sister?

    #1038816
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    Same species as the rest of the family, so she’s not a pet. In the Arthur universe the pet can’t be the same species as the owner.

    #1038817

    all my years, i was never able to figure out exactly what arthur is (what kind of animal)

    #1038818
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    @wannabechasidish – Arthur is an aardvark (aka “ant-eater”). He looked a lot more like the real-life long-snouted creature in the original Arthur books by Mark Brown. I think there’s a story about Arthur getting glasses where he frets about how the glasses will make his snout look long or something like that….

    #1038819
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    Aardvarks are similar to anteaters.

    #1038820

    thanx bookwom!

    #1038821
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    @wannabechasidish – My pleasure. 🙂


    @RebYidd23
    – They aren’t the same…?

    #1038822
    👑RebYidd23
    Participant

    There are slight differences.

    #1038825
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    Right. Likewise, wolverines and wolves are different creatures. And they have little to no similarities. 😛

    #1038826
    Randomex
    Member

    “Hello Kitty Convention in LA” ?!

    Song parody, please! (But it has to be good.) Anyone up to it?

    [“Atheist Convention in LA” – Journeys (Abie Rotenberg)]

    #1038827
    cozimjewish
    Member

    The plane took off on schedule from La Guardia

    On a bright clear sunny summers day

    What a cheerful trio they appeared to be

    to the Hello Kitty convention in L.A.

    Bao-Yu was a teenage girl from China

    From Japan, Akemi had travelled all the way

    And Huan journeyed from Hong Kong, her homeland,

    With the clouds below…..they were on the go

    To the Hello Kitty convention in LA.

    “I’m so glad we’re going to this convention

    To find out about Hello Kitty’s taste in bows,

    We’ll find out answers to the mysteries of life,

    Like why she has no mouth, just eyes and nose.

    There will be speeches that will make us really wonder,

    Does she have a complex about being fat?

    Hello Kitty’s still young at heart is our motto,

    And she’s definitely not a kitten, but a cat.”

    #1038828
    Randomex
    Member

    Nicely done, CIJ! (Though I would’ve appreciated additional original lyrics, I like how you interwove the original and source material.)

    By the way, welcome to the Coffee Room! Your interest seems to lie primarily with music – how do I know that? Read on!

    Here are a couple of general CR resources for you:

    Just testing the various “allowed markup”s ☑️❎🆙

    How do you translate your Hebrew name?

    Also see the 3 “sticky”s at the top of the main page.

    Happy posting!

    #1038829
    cozimjewish
    Member

    thanx randomex! i appreciate the welcome 🙂

    #1038830
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    cozimjewish – Bravo!

    #1038831
    SayIDidIt™
    Participant

    Wasn’t Arthur’s sister DW?

    CIJ, that was very good and cute! Welcome to the CR!

    #1038832
    Randomex
    Member

    SIDI: Wasn’t Arthur’s sister DW?

    Yes, but why do you ask?

    #1038833
    Bookworm120
    Participant

    @SIDI – Yep! And I just remembered by chance the name of his baby sister, Baby Kate.

    Do you reckon Binky will adopt Kate as a pet, the way Arthur has a puppy (baby dog) for a pet?

    #1038835
    Randomex
    Member

    So, who’s at the convention?

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