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

[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.