Posted on 06/02/2007 12:07:07 PM PDT by gpapa
INDIANAPOLIS -- A math teacher whose name is used in a student film featuring an evil teddy bear that orders other stuffed animals to kill a teacher is suing the four children who made it, alleging it defamed him.
Daniel Clevenger's lawsuit, filed May 16 in Henry Superior Court, is the second round of legal action related to the 78-minute film "The Teddy Bear Master."
Two months ago, school officials settled a federal lawsuit filed by three of the students to fight their expulsion from Knightstown Intermediate School.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnbc.com ...
A name is a very precious thing, you know. It ought not be misused.
For a student movie about Teddy Bear & Co. trying to kill their evil teacher, this is quite a long one.
It was funny 25 years later ~ "Attack of the Giant Killer Rabbit".
Why should a teacher put up with this kind of crap?
He is there to teach, not to serve as a target for adolescents to work off their hostilities and frustrations.
Where are the parents of these kids?
And we wonder why we sometimes have trouble getting good teachers.
I'm not so sure; did you catch the surnames of the students?
Imel, Null, Ours and Overbay
The naming of cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter
When I tell you a cat must have three
different names.
First of all, there's the name
that the family use daily,
Such as Victor, or Jonathan,
George or Bill Bailey--
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names
if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen,
some for the dames;
Such as Plato, Admetus,
Electra, Demeter--
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you,
a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that is peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he
keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers,
or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind,
I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quazo or Coripat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellyrum--
Names that never belong
to more than one cat.
But above and beyond
there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you will never guess;
The name
that no human research can discover--
But The Cat Himself Knows,
and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought,
of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
T.S. Eliot
They should have taken this to Cannes.
The article does not say there age, but this is an intermediate school, not an elementary school. Maybe I am nit picking here, but would not "youths" or "adolescents" be more appropriate?
When I think of 'children' I picture 4-10 year olds.
MSM and fellow travelers speak of our children being killed in Iraq.
Words have meanings and using them has consequences.
vaudine
Well, let’s see. There’s Chicago who I call sweaterboy, then there is Tinker who I call No Neck, Caspian who I call Tiger Head, Barney aka Ass Kicker, Rosebud who is called Buttoon, and Possum who is known as Butthead. Barn cats all.
"There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs,
that is Pete, Georgie and Dim
and we sat in the Korova milkbar
trying to make up our rassoodocks
what to do with the evening.
The Korova Milk Bar sold milkplus,
milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom
which is what we were drinking.
This would sharpen you up
and make you ready for a bit
of the old ultra-violence.
Our pockets were full of money
so there was no need on that score,
but, as they say, money isn't everything. ..."
Good point. When this is done though the word is used to garner sympathy for the soldiers and capitalizing on the fact that such soldiers are always so young.
This though is a news article, meant to be descriptive, yet the author tries to gain sympathy not for the teacher, but for the students. It is a bit of unnecessary editorializing in my opinion.
All this over a movie made by children. Ridiculous.
“He’s a very good person, and a wonderful teacher, father and husband,” Christine said. He just doesn’t have any sense of humor. By the way, how old were the boys, and were the teddy bears Steiffs? LOL!
Do you know how Leonard Skinner got famous?
So—their mothers chose poorly. And they have to live with it. I rest my case.
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