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Posted on 03/19/2009 3:15:28 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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"The Tin Woodman represents the industrial worker, the Scarecrow is the farmer and the Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan."
To: JoeProBono
What was Toto, who caused many of the troubles, supposed to symbolize?
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posted on
03/19/2009 3:22:21 PM PDT
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bgill
To: bgill
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posted on
03/19/2009 3:29:52 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: All
http://w
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posted on
03/19/2009 3:34:15 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: bgill
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posted on
03/19/2009 3:35:16 PM PDT
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johnthebaptistmoore
(Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
To: johnthebaptistmoore
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posted on
03/19/2009 3:49:21 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
One of the delegates to the Bob Dole convention in San Diego wore a GREAT “Dorothy” outfit, but I don't think the MSM gave any of us much attention at all!
Anyway, not to pretend that I am an expert on all things OZ, I invite you to visit the Museum:
http://www.ozmuseum.com/
Here is a good Wiki link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)
Many of us, in Kansas, who have studied the issue, have always believed that their was a political point in the original story.
Kansas populism, with William Allen White's “What's the Matter with Kansas” and with the “Kansas Nebraska Act” and John Brown and the days of “Bloody Kansas” has been a political bell weather several times in history.
It is not at all hard to believe that politics was at play here, in the Wizard of Oz.
Silver slippers? Yellow Brick Road? The major issues being gold or silver or bi-metal standards for our currency?
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03/19/2009 3:51:08 PM PDT
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Kansas58
To: JoeProBono
Another good Wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_(Oz)
The Wizard went by “Oz” because his initials, otherwise, would spell:
PINHEAD!
NOW tell me that there was NO political purpose!!
LOL
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posted on
03/19/2009 3:54:32 PM PDT
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Kansas58
To: Kansas58
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posted on
03/19/2009 4:00:20 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
LOL
Kinda timeless, the OZ economic theme, huh?
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posted on
03/19/2009 4:02:46 PM PDT
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Kansas58
To: Kansas58
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posted on
03/19/2009 4:08:42 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Nonesense! You’re all paranoid!
Next you’ll start reading political messages into Jonathan Swift’s stories.
To: bgill
I have heard the economic message theory about Wizard of Oz before. A more substantial claim is that it is an allegory for the Spiritism which Baum believed in.
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posted on
03/19/2009 4:14:11 PM PDT
by
lastchance
(Hug your babies.)
To: Born to Conserve
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03/19/2009 4:16:31 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Kansas58
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posted on
03/19/2009 4:19:51 PM PDT
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fanfan
(God, Bless America, please.)
To: fanfan
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03/19/2009 4:23:28 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
My favorite allegory.
It’s as American as apple pie IMO
Innocence and good overcomes evil with the aid of intelligence, heart, and courage.
Now it’s our turn to implement that lesson.
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posted on
03/19/2009 4:25:01 PM PDT
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JMJJR
(Newspeak is the official language of Oceana)
To: All
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posted on
03/19/2009 4:26:15 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JMJJR
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03/19/2009 4:29:27 PM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: fanfan
Nope, in the original novel, they were SILVER SLIPPERS!
The color was changed for TV, long after the political ramifications were forgotten.
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03/19/2009 4:34:04 PM PDT
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Kansas58
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