"Little Bunny Foo Foo" is a children's poem, about a rabbit harassing a population of field mice. The rabbit is scolded and eventually punished by a fairy known as "The Good Fairy" (who turns the disobedient rabbit into a goon.)
The poem consists of four-line sung verses separated by some spoken words. The verses are sung to the tune of French-Canadian children's song "Alouette" (1879), which is melodically similar to "Down by the Station" (1948) and "Itsy Bitsy Spider."
The person performing the song usually includes hand gestures, e.g. for scooping and "bopping."
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Field mice.
Dave said:
Field mice. I guess that propaganda story seems a bit familiar so I probably did hear it in kindergarten or somewhere. This bad bunny kept hitting mice on the head, and defied the good fairy (representing the teacher or future boss) who gave Foo Foo 3 chances to stop. So she turned him into a Goon as punishment. Let that be a lesson for you disobedient brats! Conform! In a later version of the story, after being transformed into a horrible Goon, Foo Foo seized the busybody fairy and ate her. Which served her right.
Public education's true purpose: to indoctrinate children that they "have" to conform to their future employers' rules. Being on time and never skipping school (later work) is highly stressed.
Photos: I'm not sure what a Goon is, but this is a Goon from the old Popeye cartoons. Way cooler than being a rabbit I think | Homer Simpson fighting the power | Little Bunny Foo Foo bopping a mouse with a big hammer.
Alan J answered:
Field Mice.
Harry M. wrote:
Field mice
Mac Mac responded:
Field mice
zorch replied:
He's bothering the field mice.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
"Little Bunny Foo Foo" is a children's poem, involving a rabbit harassing a population of field mice.
Deborah said:
"Scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head.
Have you looked at the dark messages in nursery tales? Yikes.
mj responded:
Bunny Foo Foo was regarded as a terrorist among the field mice he
mercilessly bopped on the head.
Joe S replied:
Joe sent an image, with the correct answer, that I can't retrieve tonight (will resolve the issue when I have a 'real' computer again).
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, wrote:
Field mice. Foo Foo bops 'em on the head, then the buzzards eat 'em.
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• At a concert featuring hardcore group Black Flag, a bouncer unnecessarily roughed up a woman in the audience. Black Flag bassist Chuck Dukowski saw what was happening, did not like what he saw, and hit the bouncer's head with the end of his bass, resulting in the bouncer going to a hospital to get stitches. After the show, Black Flag's kick drum was missing, and a different bouncer said that to get the kick drum back they would have to go to the manager's office. The kick drum was there, and so was the manager - who felt safe because his bouncers were also there. The manager criticized the Black Flag members, calling them "f**kups," but they got the kick drum. They also learned that the club's owner had called other clubs that Black Flag was going to play at and told these clubs not to pay Black Flag because they were troublemakers. Unfortunately, at this club and at other clubs women are often not safe at music concerts. In 1984, during a Black Flag concert in Hamburg, Germany, three women in the audience had their tops torn off. Mr. Rollins gave his shirt to one of the women, but his shirt was also torn off her body. Mr. Rollins says, "So much for my good deed." And at a club in Los Angeles, Mr. Rollins noticed that the security guys were frisking everybody who came in. He says that "[t]he girls got searched extra carefully" because "the security guys [were] getting in a good feel when they could." One way in which Mr. Rollins - a big, muscular man - is sensitive is that when he notices that he is walking behind a lone woman, he will slow down and let her put some distance between him and her. He knows that often women are afraid that they will get attacked on the street. He also knows that they can be scared by his presence. He says, "I've had girls run into stores and wait until I pass before they come out." Unfortunately, women sometimes have good reason to be afraid of men.
• When Count Basie put together his 15-piece Count Basie Orchestra, it took time for the band to jell. They were playing at the Grand Terrace in Chicago, and they were supposed to play a score that the ballroom provided. Unfortunately, many of the musicians in the band could not read music, and they were forced to fake it. Trumpet player Buck Clayton said, "We had to do the best we could, which was nothing. We abused that show every night we were there." Fortunately, bandleader, composer, and arranger Fletcher Henderson saw the show, realized the musicians were struggling, and helped them. He lent Count Basie his own arrangements for the show, and he helped coach the musicians on how to play his arrangements. Count Basie said, "He was the only bandleader in the business who ever went out of his way to help me. Without his help, we would have been lost." Of course, the band soon jelled and became famous, and Count Basie helped other musicians, including a young Quincy Jones, whom he had met when young Quincy snuck backstage at a show by carrying under his arm a music instrument case - which was empty. Years later, Count Basie tried some of Quincy's arrangements and liked them very much - and made popular records out of them. Of course, Count Basie learned a lot while making music in St. Louis, Missouri, where musicians played hours and hours, including hours and hours after the show ended. One song could last a very long time. Pianist Sammy Price remembered those long jam sessions: He played, and then he left for three hours. He said that when he returned, "They were playing the same song."
• Country singer/songwriter Hank Williams could be very generous. One day he was in a car with guitarist Clent Holmes driving. The car was filled up with various items, including fishing poles, but when they saw a hitchhiking hobo, Mr. Williams told Mr. Holmes to stop the car. Mr. Williams told the hobo, "We're full up and can't you take you anywhere, my friend, but here's some money so you can buy some food." (Hank Williams fan and biographer Paul Hemphill wrote in Lovesick Blues, "The way he [Mr. Williams] spread the wealth when he had it, you can be sure he didn't just give the fellow a couple of dollar bills." By the way, Mr. Williams worked with Fred Rose when recording his music. Mr. Rose helped manage Mr. Williams' career and once went to Decca and several other labels trying to find the right record company for Mr. Williams. After Mr. Rose walked out of a Decca executive's office, the Decca executive telephoned Mr. Williams and tried to take Mr. Rose's place, saying, "What can Fred Rose do for you?" Mr. Williams was loyal and snapped, "He's got you calling me, ain't he?" before hanging up.
So, remember a few months ago, when there was talk of how ISP's could throttle sites, especially smaller ones, at will, and they said, oh no, we'd never do that.
Well, I'm beginning to think they were lying.
2 regular readers have recently written about how they can't access the e-page until it's a day late.
They aren't newbies and are fully aware of how to re-load a page.
Both are usually in the first 3 responders on trivia - they know what time the page is updated.
It appears to me that there is some mischief afoot with (at least) a couple of internet service providers.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'The Neighborhood', followed by a RERUN'Big Bang Theory', then a RERUN'Bull', followed by another RERUN'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Tom Hiddleston and Marie Osmond.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Constance Wu, Neil Patrick Harris, and Sheryl Crow.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'American Ninja Warrior', followed by the infomerical '2019 NBC Primetime Preview Show'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Sen. Kamala Harris, Lilly Singh, and Charli XCX featuring Christine and the Queens.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Dax Shepard, Lilly Singh, and Yesod Williams.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Mindy Kaling and Rainn Wilson.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Anthony Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell, Melanie Martinez, Whitney Cummings, Jeff Ross, Natasha Leggero, and Henry Winkler.
The CW offers a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us', followed by a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?', then another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY reycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'Live PD: Police Patrol', another 'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', then another FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue: Emergency Response', then another FRESH'Live Rescue: Emergency Response', and 2 more 'Live PD: Police Patrol'.
AMC offers the movie 'Independence Day', followed by a FRESH'The Terror', then a FRESH'Lodge 49'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 14-A Matter of Perspective
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 15-Yesterday's Enterprise
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 16-The Offspring
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 17-Sins of the Father
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 18-Allegiance
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 19-Rise
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 20-Favorite Son
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 21-Before and After
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 22-Real Life
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 23-Distant Origin
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 24-Displaced
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 25-Worst Case Scenario
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 26-Scorpion, Pt. 1
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1-Scorpion, Pt. 2
[8:00PM] CONTACT (1997)
[11:30PM] CONTACT (1997)
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 25-Worst Case Scenario
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 26-Scorpion, Pt. 1
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1-Scorpion, Pt. 2 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', followed by a FRESH'Below Deck Mediterranean', another 'Below Deck Mediterranean', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has 2 hours of old 'The Office' and 'The Comedy Central Roast Of Alec Baldwin'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show is Sonia Sotomayor.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Bill Burr and Jim Jeffries.
FX has the movie 'Jurassic World', followed by the movie 'World War Z', then the movie 'Independence Day: Resurgence'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers: Police Patrol', and another 'American Pickers'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
[8:00A] Galaxy Quest
[10:30A] Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
[12:30P] Trading Places
[3:00P] That '70s Show - Sleepover
[3:30P] That '70s Show - Eric Gets Suspended
[4:00P] That '70s Show - Red's Birthday
[4:30P] That '70s Show - Laurie Moves Out
[5:00P] That '70s Show - Eric's Stash
[5:30P] That '70s Show - Hunting
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - Hi, Mr. Horned One
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - Sleep Tight, Puddin' Pop
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - That Voodoo That I Do Do
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - Madame and Her Special Friend
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - Something Salted and Twisted
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - Santa's Village of the Damned
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - That Special Tug
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Humiliation Is a Visual Medium
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Love Isn't Blind, It's Retarded
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - My Tongue Is Meat
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - Ergo, the Booty Call
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - The Unfortunate Little Schnauser
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - Grandma's Pie
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - Mr. Hose Says Yes
[1:00A] That '70s Show - Sleepover
[1:30A] That '70s Show - Eric Gets Suspended
[2:00A] That '70s Show - Red's Birthday
[2:30A] That '70s Show - Laurie Moves Out
[3:00A] That '70s Show - Eric's Stash
[3:30A] Sherman's Showcase - Ray J's Showcase
[4:00A] Silent House (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00am] M*A*S*H
[6:30am] M*A*S*H
[7:00am] M*A*S*H
[7:30am] M*A*S*H
[8:00am] M*A*S*H
[8:30am] M*A*S*H
[9:00am] M*A*S*H
[9:30am] M*A*S*H
[10:00am] M*A*S*H
[10:30am] M*A*S*H
[11:00am] M*A*S*H
[11:30am] M*A*S*H
[12:00pm] M*A*S*H
[12:30pm] M*A*S*H
[1:00pm] M*A*S*H
[1:30pm] M*A*S*H
[2:00pm] M*A*S*H
[2:30pm] Anaconda
[4:30pm] Sleepwalkers
[6:30pm] Fright Night
[9:00pm] The Outsiders
[11:00pm] The Outsiders
[1:00am] Days of Thunder
[3:30am] Once Upon a Time in Mexico
[5:30am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Power Rangers', followed by the movie 'Jack The Giant Slayer'.
A majority of Americans think action needs to be taken right now to address climate change. Most consider it at least to be a serious problem - including more than a quarter who say it is a crisis. Seven in 10 think human activity contributes a lot or some to climate change, and most feel they have a personal responsibility to do something about it, although many say they cannot afford to.
Opinions on the subject are marked by partisan divisions.
Most - 67% - think humans can do something about climate change - though more say we can only slow climate change (48%) than believe we can stop it entirely (19%). Those who believe humans don't contribute much to climate change are less likely to think humanity can do something about it.
Roughly a third of Americans do not think climate change needs to be addressed soon. When asked why, the top reason they choose is that climate change is being exaggerated (39%), followed by "there's really nothing we can do about it" (26%).
Nearly all Americans (91%) think the earth is experiencing climate change in some way, even if there is disagreement on whether the primary cause is human activity or natural patterns. Only 9% believe climate change is not happening.
A political advertisement during a commercial break in Thursday night's Democratic debate, hosted by ABC News and Univision, caused an uproar for disturbing content that showed progressive icon Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being consumed by fire, followed by a black-and-white image of skeletons in an apparent reference to Cambodia's Khmer Rouge genocide in the 1970s.
The controversial ad, placed on several local ABC stations but not across the network, was paid for by a Republican super PAC called New Faces GOP.
The ad's narrator featured the executive director of the outside group behind the ad, Elizabeth Heng, who says: "Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know the horror of socialism? My father was minutes from death in Cambodia before a forced marriage saved his life. ... Mine is a face of freedom. My skin is not white, I'm not outrageous, racist nor socialist. I'm a Republican."
Heng formed the group in March following her unsuccessful bid in 2018 for a seat in California's 16th Congressional District, losing to Democratic Rep. Jim Costa by 15 percentage points.
She began her political career by working for the Oregon Republican Party in 2010. She later worked under Congressman Ed Royce, R-Calif., as a press and legislative assistant before taking on the role of his deputy campaign manager in 2012. Heng also worked for the U.S. House's Foreign Affairs Committee from 2013 to 2017 before she launched her congressional bid.
Jeffrey Epstein's tangled web leads down some surprising paths, including, possibly, to Sophia the robot.
The female robot styled after Audrey Hepburn made headlines in recent years for her eerily lifelike skin and appearance, complete with a diverse set of facial expressions, and the artificial intelligence she uses to spout off quotes like "OK. I will destroy humans." She also got in a Twitter fight with Chrissy Teigen.
In a new essay detailing a journalist's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein over the past three decades, Edward Jay Epstein (the two are not related) says the wealthy financier told him in April 2013 that he was funding a Hong Kong group to build "the world's smartest robot," named Sophia.
Since the last conversation the two had on February 25 this year, Epstein was arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy. He had previously been convicted in 2008 on two counts of soliciting prostitution from underaged girls in Palm Beach, Florida. He died by suicide in jail in August while awaiting trial.
Epstein expressed a vision for Sophia the robot as early as 2013, but her makers deny he was involved in financing her
Republican pollster Frank Luntz (R-Satan's Wingman) told Business Insider Today that candidates in the 2020 presidential election are on track to spend $2 billion on trying to sway 1.2% of the US population.
Luntz said that the 6% of voters that are "truly undecided" are the greatest hurdle to campaigns for 2020 hopefuls.
"If you're that undecided now when everybody else has made up their minds, it's going to be very hard to move you," Luntz said. "All this money and all this time and all this effort is going to be spent on 6% of the country."
Luntz specified that the 6% included people who were "conflicted, the ones that liked aspects of the Trump presidency, but not all of it, or the ones who disliked much of what he's done," not those who could flatly deny a candidate.
Media analytics groups have projected the 2020 Election would break records for the most expensive election yet, with anywhere from $6-10 billion spent on political ads, in comparison to the estimated $6.3 billion that was spent on the 2016 Election.
The Justice Department told a judge Friday that the House Judiciary Committee shouldn't get access to secret grand jury material amassed during the special counsel's Russia investigation, even as it weighs whether to pursue impeachment.
The response comes nearly two months after the committee filed a petition in federal court arguing that lawmakers need to obtain the grand jury material in order to determine whether to recommend articles of impeachment.
In court papers filed in federal court in Washington, the Justice Department argued the committee hadn't provided a sufficient explanation about how the material would help in the panel's investigations of President Don-Old Trump (R-Grifter). The government also argued that any potential impeachment proceeding in Congress wouldn't be considered a "judicial proceeding" under law, for which the information could be disclosed.
"What may come of this investigation - if anything - remains unknown and unpredictable," the department said in the filing.
The Justice Department also argued there is a "continuing need for secrecy" about recent grand jury proceedings because there are several investigations still underway that grew out of Mueller's probe, according to Friday's filing.
A hobby hunter from Florida has been given permission to can import a lion trophy from Tanzania - the first time the US has allowed such an import since it ruled the species should receive special protection three years ago.
Carl Atkinson shot the animal dead during an £80,000, 21-day safari in 2016.
But he had not been allowed to take the trophy - the head and mane - home because lions in Tanzania are classed as a threatened big cat under the US's Endangered Species Act. An application was turned down shortly after his trip.
Now, however, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which administers such licences, has waved through the import - signalling an shift in policy under Don-Old Trump (R-Dowdy).
Two weeks ago it was Hurricane Dorian. This week Tropical Storm Humberto is working its way through the Atlantic toward Florida and there are several other systems behind it. If it feels like big weather events are becoming more common in the last few decades, it's because they are -- and it's not just hurricanes.
Since 1980, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data show extreme weather events are starting to pile up with big impacts on people and property. And as the climate debate rages on in Washington, those are the kind of impacts that seem likely to catch the attention of politicians.
There were 93 named storms in the Atlantic in the 1980s. There were 110 named storms in the Atlantic in the 1990s and a whopping 151 in the first decade of this century. The tally sits at 150 for the current decade and we are still at the peak of the 2019 season.
The number of major hurricanes, above category 3, is also up since 1980, though down a bit from the last decade (so far).
But the growth of extreme weather extends beyond hurricanes. An analysis of weather disasters that did more than $1 billion in damage from the National Centers for Environmental Information finds that such high-cost events are up markedly since the 1980s. (The dollar figures for the events were adjusted for inflation.)
Over 3,600 meters above sea level on the blinding white plain of the world's largest salt flat, landlocked Bolivia is dramatically ramping up production of lithium to cope with soaring global demand for the prized electric-battery metal.
Bolivia, among the poorest countries in South America, sits on one of the world's largest lithium reserves, at the Salar de Uyuni -- or Uyuni Salt Flats -- ready to take full advantage in the coming age of the electric car.
But while it sits at the apex of South America's "lithium triangle," along with Chile and Argentina, Bolivia has not had the capacity to produce the metal on a commercial scale.
State company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB), established by the government of President Evo Morales in 2008 to exploit lithium in the salt flats, aims to make Bolivia the fourth-largest producer by 2021.
Morales, a leftist and former coca farmer, is counting on lithium to serve as the economic engine that lifts his country out of poverty.
It wasn't quite enough to take down Pennywise the clown, but Jennifer Lopez and the scheming strippers of "Hustlers" topped even the high expectations they brought to the weekend box office.
"It: Chapter Two" brought in $40.7 million in the U.S. and Canada to keep the top spot in its second week and has earned a total of $153.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The original, the biggest September release ever, had earned more than $200 million at the same point two years ago.
"Hustlers," riding stellar reviews, film-festival buzz and Oscar talk for Lopez, earned $33.2 million, a record for a film from STX Entertainment, which was launched less than five years ago.
The film, budgeted at just $20 million, became the rare recent hit that was neither a sequel nor a reboot nor part of a series. It was also the biggest opening ever for a live-action Lopez film, and had numbers comparable to co-star Constance Wu's hit "Crazy Rich Asians," whose long-term box office success could be a model for "Hustlers."
The week's other new release, "The Goldfinch," landed with a thud, bringing in just $2.6 million. The adaptation of Donna Tartt's acclaimed 2013 novel, starring Ansel Elgort, got reviews as dreary as those of "Hustlers" were strong.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "It: Chapter Two," $40.7 million ($47 million international).
2. "Hustlers," $33.2 million ($4.5 million international).
3. "Angel Has Fallen," $4.4 million ($4.9 million international).
4. "Good Boys," $4.3 million ($1.8 million international).
5. "The Lion King," $3.6 million ($6.9 million international).
6. "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw," $2.8 million ($8.1 million international).
7. "Overcomer," $2.7 million.
8. "The Goldfinch," $2.6 million ($985,000 international).
9. "The Peanut Butter Falcon," $1.9 million.
10. "Dora and the Lost City of Gold," $1.85 million ($4.4 million international).
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