To wish that the train carrying Dora the Explorer would crash

[DrSeuss]

I want to see her in a big, crumpled heap in the wreckage along with that bloody monkey! That'd be worth putting on a map!

Fos :o

And yes Louly, she does flash her knickers too much and is always a bit too all over Iggle Piggle.

I liked Mr Messy as a kid though!

There's not enough violence and crime, is there? Bring back the granny-eating wolf and the roasted witch in the oven. The lying, stealing Jack (poor giant) and the burglar who ate the bears' porridge. Tell it how it is!

Solo We have a really really old Brothers Grimm book and a really old Hans Christian Anderson book. They're both massive collection of the stories and DP wants to read them to 18mo DS!

So, basically. All the lovely fluffy Disney movies that DS watches only with horrific endings...

A child is never too young to face up to the realities of life! Like mermaids dying in the foam as the day dawns and children getting abandoned in the forest by their parents ...

Is that little fucker BackPack still around?
I miss many things about not having very young children anymore but Dora the Neglected Explorer is not one of them.

Does anyone else think postman pat is the worst postman ever? especially since he joined the special delivery service. I regularly see him opening peoples mail (AND letting other people use it), losing items that he has to hand deliver so he has to go back and look for them and breaking things. Not to mention the amount of times he has left field gates open so animals can escape

Royal Mail should sack him and ban use of the helicopter!

Solo I'm sure DP will agree with you and if I have to read the fecking sleeping tiger book one more time, so will I .

My father used to read the evening paper to us, but in a really soft once-upon-a-time, story-telling voice. We fell asleep instantly.

And he used to race through the fairy tales.

So Goldilocks was: ''Little girl goes into house sees porridge on table tries some doesn't like it sits down goes to sleep bears come home wake her up and she runs away. Go to sleep.''

We all learned to read very early, needless to say.

Solo My first thought there was that you're Father is a genius!

He was good at getting kids to sleep!

He also went through phases. When he was being a Marxist Leninist he would interpret nursery rhymes for us in terms of workers' struggles against the bourgeoisie. So the Johnny in your nickname who had to work for a penny a day because he couldn't work any faster, died of exhaustion and his comrades went on strike. The same with Cinderella. It wasn't always hugely entertaining, it has to be said. I preferred his Robin Hood phase where he still redistributed all the wealth but in a more exciting way.

He would probably have liked Dora. And Pat (though his parasitic cat would have to go since he is not economically productive). And Bob the Builder.

Yep- genius Dad

He would agree with you, Curiosity.