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Title: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: etiolate on July 15, 2009, 03:20:08 AM

(http://www.geocities.com/letterfolks/lp_stickers.jpg)

My kindergarten teacher had a stuffed B person

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: CrystalGemini on July 15, 2009, 03:45:24 AM

Does not look even remotely familiar.   ???

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: Yeti on July 15, 2009, 12:29:19 PM

Letter people :bow2


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Such a cracked out educational tool

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 15, 2009, 12:37:04 PM

i remember that shit from preschool

there was some song about "tall teeth mister t" which was jacked

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: tehjaybo on July 15, 2009, 12:38:54 PM

I remember my kindergarten teacher having a Mr. T plush.  Only now do I see the humor in "Mr. T".

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 15, 2009, 12:41:14 PM

I loved the letter people, because they were letters.  The only thing that could've been better is if they were numbers.

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 15, 2009, 01:08:30 PM

Does anyone remember the Sweet Pickles books?  I always thought those characters were a little freaky.

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 15, 2009, 01:10:23 PM

Oh God. OH GOD. It's kindergarten all over again!!

The only one I remember is Mr. M and his munchy mouth.

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: Yeti on July 15, 2009, 01:12:21 PM

Apparently there is some new politically correct version of the letter people out there. Like, they don't segregate the consonants into males and vowels into females anymore, they make it completely random what gender each letter is.

From Wikipedia:

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In 1990, Abrams & Co. Publishers Inc. of Waterbury, Connecticut bought the rights to The Letter People from the previous owner, Norwalk, Connecticut-based New Dimensions in Education, Inc. The company gave the program a major facelift, updating and revising it. They first of all changed the look of the characters and the associated materials. For example, lowercase letters were added to the back of each Letter Person (previously they had been placed on each character somewhat randomly). Abrams also made sweeping changes to over half of the Letter People themselves, most obviously equalizing the proportion of male to female characters (vowels are now distinguished by their ability to light up via "LetterLights," which appear as yellow suns on their right shoulders). The men also changed from "Mister" to "Mr.", the women also changed from "Miss" to "Ms.", and all references to "junk food" were deleted (Mr. D's "delicious donuts" were exchanged for "dazzling dance", for example). In addition, any Letter People that Abrams deemed as expressing negative images were changed to be more positive (Mr. H's horrible hair became happy instead, while Mr. X is no longer all wrong (mixed-up), he's "different"). The Letter People storybooks were rewritten with an eye toward teaching conflict resolution and problem solving skills.

So lame. Mr. X is "different"? That doesn't even have an x in it. WTF.  :maf

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 15, 2009, 02:37:38 PM

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In addition, any Letter People that Abrams deemed as expressing negative images were changed to be more positive (Mr. H's horrible hair became happy instead, while Mr. X is no longer all wrong (mixed-up), he's "different").

this bit is awful, though I support the gender equalization as a glut of sexually frustrated male letters are the last thing we need in our English language

Title: Re: The Letter People were freaky
Post by: tehjaybo on July 15, 2009, 02:46:09 PM

(http://i29.tinypic.com/r08r9v.jpg)