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Re: Learning About Forgiveness From Vegetables
Posted By: Kiki, on host 64.20.65.27
Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001, at 16:19:32
In Reply To: Re: Learning About Forgiveness From Vegetables posted by Mousie on Wednesday, January 10, 2001, at 15:01:54:

> > > Wolf "I was thinking that if there hasn't been a V-T skit which talks about the problem of telling lies, then we ought to make one up, and call it 'God Ate my Homework!'" spirit
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> > There is such a video already. It's titled "Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space." I saw the end of it once in a Family Bookstore. Someone (I assume it's Larry) tells a fib, and naturally is visited by a "Fib" from outer space that sort of "feeds" on his lies and keeps getting bigger and bigger until it's 100 feet tall and threatening to destroy Larry's town or something.
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> > Gri"naturally, the Fib is defeated and returns from whence it came when Larry finally tells the truth"shny
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> I remember reading a story once that I thought had to doing with fibbing, but thinking back, it must have been about tattletailing. Whenever a kid tattled, a dark cloud with a tail sticking out of it formed above the kid's head and followed him around.

That would be one of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle stories.

>I want to say it was "The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles" by Julie Andrews (writing as Julie Edwards), but I read that a few years back, and that wasn't it.

great book!!!
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> I also like "The Phantom Tollhouse," in which, if you made an assumption, you were immediately transported to the Ilse of Conclusions -- having jumped there, of course.

ALSO a great book! I must say, Miss Mousie, that your literature tastes are wonderful.

Ki"LOVES good kids novels"ki

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