Speaking of him, I had a very Charlie Brooker moment this morningWhen I considered that 'Gentle Ben' was possibly an extremely tasteless metaphor for racial tolerance in the deep south; then had to re-evaluate Skippy in the context of a patronising metaphor for the differently-abled.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks,
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