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Date Posted: 23:52:50 04/16/04 Fri
Author: Matthew Villani
Author Host/IP: cache-dtc-ad04.proxy.aol.com / 205.188.116.198
Subject: Re: Hunted For Food
In reply to: Arrowhead 's message, "Hunted For Food" on 10:39:09 12/18/02 Wed

>I enjoyed that series of hideous M&M commercials where
>humans would try to eat those cute little M&M's. I
>want to use the word cannibalism, but that's not right
>because the humans aren't eating other humans, even
>though the M&M's seemed human. It was so outrageous
>that I loved it. I know that the ads are kind of old.
>I'm not sure they're even showing them anymore, but
>who cares? I loved it. I remember wondering what I
>would do if faced with a chocolate urge while being
>around an oversized, walking M&M with a good
>personality. I said to myself, "Self," I says, "What
>if it was your friend (or lover) and you cared for it,
>even LOVED it?"
>
>And then I wondered, "Would I make it the point that
>we even had such a deep, complex relationship, or
>would I eat it before we got that far?" The question
>was answered when I bought a bag of peanut butter
>M&M's and imagined that they were alive. Would I spare
>them? Little PEOPLE, as human as I, that are probably
>friends with each other, related to each other, family
>members. A little community in a bag, innocently
>living out their lives? Separate, distinct
>personalities with goals and dreams, assets as well as
>faults, who cry and laugh and try their hardest? It
>was the best bag of M&M's that I've ever eaten.

Sounds EXACTLY like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. Once he made a bunch of snowmen then acted as if he was terrorizing a town. In another strip he built a bunch of sand sculptures right where the tide hits and called it "Stupidopolis - Thriving coastal city" and laughed in delight as the "town" was flattened by the tide.

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