Moo-NO!
OK, this has just come back to me and it's made me go a bit funny.

I've mentioned before that I'm half Danish. As such, I spent a fair amount of my childhood being shipped between Ribe and Struer.

Back then, in the mid-80's, Denmark was slightly behind on the old technological sensation that we call 'television': to whit - there was only telly from 6pm to 11pm, the first hour of which was Childrens Hour.

Which brings me to my irrational hatred of something that many, many people the world over love.

The. Fucking. Moomins.

Tove Jansson is singularly responsible for me retreating to my bed night after night being absolutely fucking terrified that the Groke was going to come and get me.

The problem is that I know the Moomins weren't bad creatures - it just happens that the original animations were that very very freaky Scandinavian stop motion animation. Absolutely ruddy terrifying.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 15:33, 4 replies)

They...
...loved the laughter and they loved the living, the MooOOoomins!

Believing and caring and sharing and giving, the MoooOooOOoomins!

They're always happy and always at play,
The moomins are having fun day after day,

The Moooooomins
The Mooooooomins

The mooo-ooomins.

I Have no idea how i still remember that.

Sorry.
( The Pollitt chooses to listen to Enya on, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 15:38, closed)

serenfuckingdipity
My ex girlfriend was a truly wonderful woman but had the body temperature of that bronze age bloke they found on the glacier and fingers like skeletor.

I used to liken her (lovingly), to that witch thing in the moomins that sat on fires and put them out... only I couldn't remember what she was called. I've spent 6 years asking people, and no-one could remember her name. Of course, google is but a click way, but I was absolutely bloody adamant that my childhood was going to remain purely fucking analogue and that I was going to find out the hard way.

Don't ask why, I can't explain it.

But you just made me jump out of my chair and very nearly punch my fist in the air. Thankyou.

The groke. If I knew where she was right now I'd call her up and tell her.
(pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 15:47, closed)

Oh god this QOTW is bringing some of the old phobias back into life
The bloody moomins.

*shriek*
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 16:14, closed)

Balls to The Moomins
It was the Moomin Trolls that scared the shit out of me with their light up eyes! Who thought that would be a good thing for children to see???
( Gleeballs is mostly made out of chocolate and hate., Thu 10 Apr 2008, 18:28, closed)