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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/11/2025 04:08, spike wrote:<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt">Before you get offended at the linked video, keep in mind it was made back in the days when politically incorrect material of this nature was not only allowed, it was encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This link documents an incident involving an actual animated cat and an actual animated mouse, in their struggles against an automated automaton. Recognizing that with our marvelous modern bandwidth, our collective attention span has grown far shorter than when this insightful documentary was created. More specifically, our modern internet-enabled attention spans are shorter than that of typical preschoolers from those benighted times (I aughta know, I was there.) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p
class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This is the first three minutes of that ancient documentary, sufficient to give you the idea: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2Yl9h-QJI"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2Yl9h-QJI</a></span></p></pre>
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I used to watch Tom & Jerry when I was a bean sprout, it was my
favourite cartoon. I remember that actual episode. But I don't
understand why you're calling it politically uncorrect, or why
anyone might get offended by it. There's not even any graphic
violence in it (Roadrunner was/is much worse for that).
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Ben</pre>
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