admin | October 1st, 2004

 

Alert reader sends in October 2004:

Surly icon Anti-curl sentiment is alive and well, and besides being barraged by the media, now I find it in all things, a children\’s book distributed by Cheerios. The book, Judith Viorst\’s \’Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest\’, is a book included free in a large box of Cheerios. I thought it would be fun to read. The book chronicles a sister\’s frustration at her messy, chaotic and revolting younger sister. And guess what? In case it was missed in the illustrations, the messy sister has curly hair. Just an excerpt: \’Like Sophie\’s got this hair - this frizzy, fuzzy, curlyhair, and it sticks out around her head like a cloud or a nest…Hey Sophie, who\’s living in there -a couple of birds, a family of mice?…If you\’re looking to see messy hair…just look at   Sophie.\’ I\’m seriously disgusted.

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