OUTRAGE!!!!

[teaonthestairs]

THEY ARE CHANGING THE NAMES IN THE FARAWAY TREE!!! WTF?!?! 

FRANNIE!?!?!
RICK?!?!

What is WRONG with DICK and FANNY!?!? I grew up with them and I turn out fine!! PEOPLE!! They are shotting my childhood in the head!!

Here are some of the changes:
* The Faraway Tree - Fanny, Dick, Jo and Bessie are now Frannie, Rick, Joe and Beth.
* The Adventurous Four - Mary and Jill are now Zoe and Pippa (more modern).
* Dame Slap is now Dame Snap and she no longer smacks naughty children.
* "Queer" is now "odd"
* "Horrid common voice" is now "horrid mean voice".
* Americanisations include changing "I say" to "hey" and "biscuits" to cookies". 

(My sister and I already had an outraged rant about it in the kitchen - mostly it consisted of WHAT?!?! I KNOW!!)

Comments

[katiegsr.livejournal.com]

Holy of all things holy WHAT THE HELL.

I love the Faraway Tree have since I first had it read to me at a tender age by my mum.

Changing things in this story is everything gone to mental.

[rosiew.livejournal.com]

I KNOW!!! WTF?!?! ITS CENSORSHIP AND DISCRIMINATION AND PLAN OLD STUPID!!

It was a stable of my growing up! I still have my books, in there beautiful warn out and wonderful shape!!

[katiegsr.livejournal.com]

plain old stupid

agreed its PC-ness going WAY too far.

I have them too and adore them to bits though rugged and worn from much love and moving.

[missymeggins.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! I knew about Rick & Frannie but NO DAME SLAP??!!! That's ridiculous! Grar. And seriously WTF Zoe and Pippa? What kind of retarded names are those? Would "Zoe" & "Pippa" survive stranded on an island full of birds? I THINK NOT!

*Fumes*

I am happy to see that someone else love Enid Blyton as much as me though! ;D

[rosiew.livejournal.com]

Its ALL RIDICULOUS!! What do they think they are DOING!?! WHAT THE HELL!?!? Zoe and Pippa couldn't survive a tunneling out of a wet paper bag!!!

*fumes with missy*

I loved loved loved her as a kid, she was so my favourite author! THEY ARE DISHONOURING HER!!!

[raskol-nikov.livejournal.com]

THAT IS RIDICULOUS!!!

I can barely even grasp at words right now but RICK? and FRANNIE??? And what the heck was wrong with Jo and Bessie?

I'm so with missymeggins - as if "Zoe" and "Pippa" would've lived through the night!

Dame Snap?! The whole point was that she was SCARY! Are you scared of snapping? I'm not scared of snapping! Is anyone scared of snapping?

What I *am* scared of is "Hey" and "Cookies"! Let me guess, they're going to say "guys" now? and "ass" and oh may as well put "bitch" and whatever else you want really...we wouldn't want people to think Enid Blyton wasn't COOL enough!!!

"I say" and all those English schoolboy terms are one of the most enticing things about Enid Blyton's books!

Okay rant over...for now!

[rosiew.livejournal.com]

HA!! I love the title of your deleted comment, made me giggle.

I KNOW!! HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO US?! HOW DARE THEY!?!?! AND MISS SNAP?! I woul laugh at her face and then slap her myself because its just STUPID!!

"I say" was one of the most awesome thing in Enid books! I HATE THEM!!

I'll Rick your Frannie!

[raskol-nikov.livejournal.com]

They'll probably be eating McDonalds instead of bread and cheese and jam tarts and ginger beer and orangeade!

I told my parents and they laughed a lot and sneered more.

Re: I'll Rick your Frannie!

[rosiew.livejournal.com]

And then they will get out their ipods and miss the Faraway ENTIRELY!!! And then they will go to a disco (because that’s what all the cool kids are doing) and take acid and then hallucinate Moon Face.

That’s because your parents are cool.

[xanya.livejournal.com]

I'm so completely outraged too, Twinness! This is despicable! How dare they? This is making me so angry and confused and they're just WRONG!

Frannie? Rick? I mean, I can understand that - I don't think it's right, but I can understand it - but what's wrong with the name Bessie? I know someone called Bessie! That name is not out of date or salacious or anything. Zoe and Pippa? WHAT THE BANANAS? This whole thing is so bizarre!

Dame Slap was the coolest! What the hell is Dame Snap? What does she do - snap her fingers at you? Whhhhhaaaaaaaaaattttt???

And they're not going to say "I say" anymore? Any of them? THAT'S THE BEST PART! I'm going to start saying it just to spite those evil, soulless editors or wahtever they call themselves.

LET'S KILL THEM ALL!

[rosiew.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why they are changing OUR HISTORY, its an example of the culture of the time!! They are changing something because they don't think its relevant to todays world, they thinks its outdated and wrong but thats WHY its relevant! I don't understand! Just because it isn't their culture, it isn't politically correct tehy change it - but then we only have a whitewashed verison of history! It gets me so irritated! And WHY are tehy changing the I Say!! And the bisicuts!! They might not be American but HEY!! The FarAway tree isn't SET in the US!!

Okay, I didn't meeean to rant at you, sorry! But Gah!! it gets me SO annoyed! That's OUR childhood they are changing!!

Killing them would be a kindness!! They need to feel pain!!