Protest of the Year: Save Cookie Monster Petition
List of contents for Ten Best of Two Thousand and Seven edition
- International Blog of the Year: The Cool Hunter
- Indonesian Blog of the Year: Budayawan Muda
- Event of the Year: Armin van Buuren Universal Religion 3
- Celebrity Wear of the Year: Wimar Witoelar’s Crocs
- Cyber Entity of the Year: Achmad Sudarsono
- Hotspot Cafe of the Year: Anomali Coffee
- Protest of the Year: Save Cookie Monster Petition
- TV Show of the Year: Republik Mimpi
- Person of the Year: Jerry van den Brink
- Fact of the Year: Results Graph on the Seven Roman Virtues
::Protest of the Year::
Yes, there have been countless number of protests throughout the year and we could easily choose series of protest against Malaysia as the most impactful protest of the year. However, as how The Lightbeamers go, we prefer to choose things that are dear in our hearts. So, we’re here for Cookie Monster.
Apparently since year 2005, Cookie Monster has been metamorphing into some kind of *Veggie Monster*, I did not know this until this year; the local TV doesn’t run Sesame Street anymore, not even its re-runs. Last time we watched it on TV, it was 100% dubbed. Tried to look it up and found an article from Associated Press dated April 8th 2005 [Link].
C is not for Cookie, C is for Carrot now, that’s basically the point. For that particular reason, thousands of people have gathered and signed an online petition named the Save Cookie Monster Petition–compiling around 3000 signatures and counting until this very day. There’s also a similar petition named “Boycott ’sesame street’ for changing the name of Cookie Monster to Veggie Monster” and the “Keep Political Correctness Out of Sesame Street” Facebook group that is pretty much updated daily. Somehow 2007 is the year for everyone to save Cookie Monster, instead of how it is two years ago.
Eventhough I’m not a Canadian or American, I take this one personally. If it wasn’t for Sesame Street, I wouldn’t be writing this blog post right now.
Num-num.
Sunny day
Sweepin’ the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street
Come and play
Everything’s A-OK
Friendly neighbors there
That’s where we meet
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to Sesame Street
It’s a magic carpet ride
Every door will open wide
To happy people like you–
Happy people like
What a beautiful
Sunny day
Sweepin’ the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame street…
How to get to Sesame Street
How to get to…
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