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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!
This has Halachah L’maaseh Nafka Minos, V’hameivin Yavin.
Obviously, she was invented by a man. That’s why she has no mouth.
yehudayona +1
Sam, ???? ???? ????? ??????.
Sam2: Ani Yavin.
Rahmanus that this even made it to the news headlines…
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 🙂
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?
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?
Yehudayona, that’s actually not true. She was invented by Yuko Shimizu, a Japanese woman.
Actually, she’s a real person, and it’s not her fault she looks like a cat without a mouth.
IvduEsHashemBsimcha – They should have people for pets!
Planet of the Pets, anyone?
Bookworm, if you consider them a lower life form, then they should go down the scale and have plants for pets.
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.
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!
You are forgetting that Pal is a puppy. Always a puppy. Binky is a dog.
Yeah, but Kitty and her cat are both kitties.
It’s her cat. Pal is Arthur’s puppy, not Binky’s.
True. Do you think Binky would ever get a pet aardvark?
Binky might get a pet baby aardvark, and it wouldn’t grow up either.
Doesn’t Arthur have a baby sister?
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.
all my years, i was never able to figure out exactly what arthur is (what kind of animal)
@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….
Aardvarks are similar to anteaters.
thanx bookwom!
@wannabechasidish – My pleasure. 🙂
@RebYidd23 – They aren’t the same…?There are slight differences.
Right. Likewise, wolverines and wolves are different creatures. And they have little to no similarities. 😛
“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)]
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.”
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:
Also see the 3 “sticky”s at the top of the main page.
Happy posting!
thanx randomex! i appreciate the welcome 🙂
cozimjewish – Bravo!
Wasn’t Arthur’s sister DW?
CIJ, that was very good and cute! Welcome to the CR!
SIDI: Wasn’t Arthur’s sister DW?
Yes, but why do you ask?
@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?
So, who’s at the convention?
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