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La Linea (“The Line”) is an Italian anim­ated series cre­ated by the Italian car­toon­ist Osvaldo Cavan­doli. The series con­sists of 90 epis­odes which are about 2–3 minutes long each which were pro­duced ori­gin­ally broad­cast in the Italian chan­nel Rai between 1972 — 1991. Over the years the series aired in more than 40 coun­tries around the world.

If like me you grew up a ded­ic­ated fan of this cult clas­sic, per­haps you take a look at You­Tube and spend a few minutes (or hours?) reliv­ing your youth.

Click here to be a child again.

Link to Alan Becker’s .swf

…some of you may have read my (now deleted) post on Disney’s sub­lim­inal mes­sages — or so-called sub­lim­inal messages.

In my morn­ing haste I pos­ted up the link without much back­ing — some­thing I’ve now had the time to go over.

It seems that the con­tent of the art­icle I pos­ted was mostly based on BS.

How­ever, I came upon some­thing else of interest — Disney’s atti­tude towards nature.

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…one of the first ‘sites I encountered — circa ’98.

doodie.com is still going strong, des­pite it’s unusual con­tent — faecal-infested animations.

With con­tinu­ously fresh* con­tent, they really do deserve their due credit.

* any pun brew­ing in your mind is solely your own fault.