NEVER TOO OLD FOR BUGS & CO.Byline: -- Rob Lowman Before your kids decide they are too sophisticated to listen to you (that comes at about age 7 -- isn't it terrible to become so hip so young?), introduce them to something subversive -- and liberating. ``What's up, Doc? you ask. Precisely. It's ``Looney Tunes -- Golden Collection, Volume Four,'' that's what, starring the king of wiserabbits, Bugs Bunny, in some hare-raising tales, like ``Roman Legion-Hare'' (Warner; $64.98). In that one, Yosemite Sam For the shortwave radio station, see . Yosemite Sam is an animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The name is somewhat alliterative and is inspired by Yosemite National Park. , who is the head of a Roman legion, is ordered by Emperor Nero to find a victim to toss to the lions. Sam sets his sights on Bugs, but the wascally wabbit wabbit - /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may have descended (if only by inspiration) from hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a knows how to turn the tables. As he does in ``Southern Fried Rabbit,'' where Bugs heads toward the record carrot crop in Alabama but runs into Col. Sam, who is under orders not to let any Yankees across the Mason-Dixon line Mason-Dixon Line, boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland (running between lat. 39°43'26.3"N and lat. 39°43'17.6"N), surveyed by the English team of Charles Mason, a mathematician and astronomer, and Jeremiah Dixon, a mathematician and land surveyor, . Not only will your kids get some laughs, they get to learn a little history, too. The rest of the Warners animated crew -- Porky Pig Porky Pig is an Academy Award-nominated animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators (particularly , Daffy Duck Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Daffy was the first of the new breed of "screwball" characters that emerged in the 1930s to supplant traditional everyman characters, such as , Sylvester the Cat, Speedy Gonzales, and Wile E. Coyote and his nemesis, the Road Runner -- are on board in this looney four-disc set. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (Bugs Bunny) |
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