Are there any bisexual muppets?

(I wrote this in 1999, but now thanks to YouTube I have the video to back me up)

Are there any bisexual muppets?

By Tom Limoncelli

Are any of the muppets bisexual? I mean, there are tons of famous bisexual people, but what about muppets? I’m asked this all the time. You wouldn’t believe how often.

Some people talk about Ernie and Burt being gay. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about being bisexual. And besides, I don’t think Ernie nor Burt are gay. Well, maybe Burt is. However, in the late 60’s when the show was created, the Children’s Television Workshop was progressive but they weren’t that progressive. Ok, for those of you that won’t let me continue until we put this issue to rest, let’s agree to disagree. However, if you think they are gay, then you have to accept my theory that the men in The Odd Couple are gay. (both left their wife, Felix is super clean, Oscar is a bear, etc. etc.)

Anyway, so about about bisexual muppets? Ladies and Gentlemen, and transgendered people of all ages, here is my case that Cookie Monster is bisexual.

That’s right. Cookie Monster.

First of all, he’s blue. It fits perfectly with BiNet/USA’s “bi-phobia makes me blue” campaign. In fact, C.M. invented that.

Secondly, he’s left clues all over the place for us to find. The earliest clue would have to be from his groundbreaking record “C is for Cookie”. There is a sketch called “Cookie Poetry” on this album and one of the poems is:

Cookies come
both round and square.
I like both kinds.
I don’t care!
With the audacity of Oscar Wilde himself, he blatantly comes roaring out of the closet in a beautiful and poetic way. He does it not just by saying it, but by relating it to the one thing that truly makes Cookie Monster unique... his love of cookies.

I think its just beautiful.

--tal
November 4, 1999

Watch the video where Cookie Monster comes out as bisexual.

Montage of YouTube women

Montage of YouTube women.

Watch on YouTube

France Nuclear Power

Ironically, the French nuclear program is based on American technology. After experimenting with their own gas-cooled reactors in the 1960s, the French gave up and purchased American Pressurized Water Reactors designed by Westinghouse. Sticking to just one design meant the 56 plants were much cheaper to build than in the US. Moreover, management of safety issues was much easier: the lessons from any incident at one plant could be quickly learned by managers of the other 55 plants. The “return of experience” says Mandil is much greater in a standardized system than in a free for all, with many different designs managed by many different utilities as we have in America.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html

Yet another example of where freemarket competition fails to be better than cooperation.

(Hey, you know what would be a great reply to this post? Idiot libertarians making wise-ass remarks about “freedom fries” and how French things are never good.)

Too much posse

I hit the 750 friends limit on my LJ today (hi cuddlebunni3!). Thus, I have started removing people. So far I’ve only removed people that weren’t in any of my “groups”, which means they aren’t losing access to anything secret that they had access to previously; and it also means that I don’t read their LJ either since I have a group for that.

Hurray for backups!

Nuf sed.

Correction: Hurray for restores!