Here's what I think. Same guy, slightly faster playback on the new See n Say, causing the increase in pitch. I think they used different takes for some of the animals, but the inflection is identical on a few, making me think it's the same recording, just played faster. And, I'm pretty sure it's not Thurl.

This makes me think.

We feed our kids all this info about farms and farm animals, as there's a sort of traditional precedent that makes us link up children's education and farms. But really, doesn't that come from the days when lots of children were growing up ON farms, and it was only natural they should first be taught about their environment? "But kids LIKE farms," the culture at large responds. Hmm... do they like farms because they genuinely are interested in farming, or because it's what we've been teaching them about and producing toys for all this time? If we were to replace farm themes in early childhood toys, what WOULD we replace them with?

Fun to muse on. Not particularly useful, but fun to think about.

Actually, the video is just showing two relatively similar versions. My new one is totally different, digital instead of analog, new voice, extra animals, and a quiz and song space.

There are lots of "zoo" and "safari" animal toys, as well as "woodland creatures" and "pets". No need to buy farm related stuff.

Is it just me or does CP's current avatar look like the stork just sh¡t the baby out?

I find farming to be a socially important topic to enforce. It's becoming more and more obvious that the level of abstraction between us and the source of our food has unintended and undesirable consequences. We need to continue SOME attempt to keep the idea that where our food comes from is a real, tangible place with life in the social milieu.

Close. More like birthed the baby.

China Illinois

You have your interpretation, I have mine

Either way it must have been quite an unpleasant shock.

Is that version any less preposterous?

Not that I have "issues" with the stork legend, it just seems kind of funny to me to compare a silly myth to a silly illustration.


I meant this to be lighthearted and fear people are going to take great umbrage with my comments. I hope this is taken in the jovial manner in which it was written.

Who delivers baby storks?