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Rspaight wrote:Mr. Green looks sorta like a happy Mr. Yuck.

Ahh, Mr. Yuck. What ever happened to him?

See. There you guys go again--making references to things that I'm unfamiliar with. THERE IS A GENERATION GAP HERE AT FLO [the web site, not the TV character with the saucy disposition].

Mr. Yuck was the creation of some group trying to keep kids from drinking Drano and other lethal household products. He was a round green sticker making a "yuck" face. You could get free sheets of these stickers at your pediatrician. The idea was that if you stuck these things on all the stuff in your house that could hurt your kid if he ate it, your kid would know not to eat it because he had seen the TV commercial that ran during cartoons, which featured the haunting Mr. Yuck theme song:

Mr. Yuck is meeeeeeean...
Mr. Yuck is greeeeeeen...

This is the only decent online image of him I could find, in a *very* odd context:

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/02 ... all17.html

(As far as what happened to him, I'm guessing constant exposure to toxic substances finally did him in, and he puked his little green guts out.)

Of course, these days parents just put locks on all the cabinets, so Mr. Yuck is sort of redundant. If this were sh.tv, a long argument would now break out about whether the "good old days" were better or not.

Ryan

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

A sticker to tell people NOT to drink Drano.

Didn't need it, in my day ! Everyone could figure out, not to drink it.

Er, Mikey, the stickers were for little kids who didn't know what the hell "Drano" was.

Oh.

What's Drano?

Rspaight wrote:Mr. Yuck is meeeeeeean...
Mr. Yuck is greeeeeeen...

I'm surprised that the Mr. Yuck thing never took off as a response/retaliation to the prolific Mr. Happy Face. Plus Mr. Y. looks pretty cool.

This is the first, I've ever heard about it.

Here's another link, though this image doesn't have the all-important poison control center phone number around the outside:

http://www.ispygraphics.com/mryuck.html

Ryan

mikenycLI wrote:Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

A sticker to tell people NOT to drink Drano.

Didn't need it, in my day ! Everyone could figure out, not to drink it.

I don't know what happened. In our day, a little kid just knew better. Kids are stupid today. Emergency rooms are filled with idiots who use Sunlight dishwashing liquid as lemonade flavoring. People today don't read, they don't listen, and their comprehension skills are non-existient.

What the hell is wrong with people?

Hey, sorry for the rant! Hey, yeah, this is the Luke forum...what the FUCK is wrong with people?

Grant wrote:

mikenycLI wrote:Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

A sticker to tell people NOT to drink Drano.

Didn't need it, in my day ! Everyone could figure out, not to drink it.

I don't know what happened. In our day, a little kid just knew better. Kids are stupid today. Emergency rooms are filled with idiots who use Sunlight dishwashing liquid as lemonade flavoring. People today don't read, they don't listen, and their comprehension skills are non-existient.

What the hell is wrong with people?

Hey, sorry for the rant! Hey, yeah, this is the Luke forum...what the FUCK is wrong with people?

Grant,

I guess everyone figures, SOMEONE or SOMETHING else, will do their thinking for them. That's why "thinking for one's self", is so out of fashion.
Why should they ?

Grant wrote:I don't know what happened. In our day, a little kid just knew better. Kids are stupid today.

Grant, I don't care what day you're thinking of, but small children don't know the difference. A 2 year old in 1960 was just as "stupid" as a 2 year old in 2003. "This will rot your insides" means nothing to a little kid.

Emergency rooms are filled with idiots who use Sunlight dishwashing liquid as lemonade flavoring. People today don't read, they don't listen, and their comprehension skills are non-existient.

Children that young simply don't have such skills, period. You think a 2 year old is going to read a warning label?

What the hell is wrong with people?

What's wrong with being 2 years old?

I don't think some of you get it. Little kids don't know what's bad for them - why would they? They have to be taught. Things like Mr. Yuck stickers help them learn. "If you see this sticker, don't touch." Pretty simple.

mikenycLI wrote:I guess everyone figures, SOMEONE or SOMETHING else, will do their thinking for them. That's why "thinking for one's self", is so out of fashion.
Why should they ?

How is putting a sticker on poisons to keep kids from drinking them "doing their thinking for them"? The whole point is it's making them think.

I suppose child proof caps also do children's thinking for them?

As far as thinking for yourself being out of fashion, I really don't know what you mean. That's one of the big things they teach you in school - be yourself, don't just follow what everybody else does.