That’s not a typo in the title…

  • Xusontha
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    521 year ago

    oompa loompas dancing

    Oompa Loompa Doopity Doo

    They Signed the Consent Form, So Did You

    • @rotopenguin@infosec.pub
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      141 year ago

      I don’t remember a whole lot of children surviving. They mostly got hauled off screen as some horrifying casualty, and that was that.

      • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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        191 year ago

        I can’t recall with the new one, but the old version; Charlie, Gpa Joe, and Williy Wonka could see the other (umm… modified?) kids leaving the factory with their parents during the glass elevator ride once they bust out through a skylight.

  • FreshLight
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    1 year ago

    “Oompa Loompas dancing in the face of a dying child”-memes will never not be funny to be me.

    There I said it!

    • @seitanic
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      41 year ago

      The illustrations in the original book were very…um… politically incorrect.

    • Sal
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      41 year ago

      I have read that the Oompa Loompas were originally just black people and even for the time the publisher thought that was a bit much.

      • Adlach
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        31 year ago

        They were changed from African pygmies in later versions of the book. You can still find early copies which describe them explicitly as such:

        Willy Wonka tamped down speculation that he made them of chocolate. “They are real people! They are some of my workers!” He advised the group that these tiny black people had been “Imported direct from Africa!” They belonged to “a tribe of tiny miniature pygmies known as Oompa-Loompas. I discovered them myself. I brought them over from Africa myself—the whole tribe of them, three thousand in all. I found them in the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had ever been before.

    • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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      -101 year ago

      Jesus, there are people that just need to shoehorn in some moralizing in every goddamn thread, isn’t there?

      Thanks for that hot take.

  • @HikingVet
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    11 year ago

    So, I didn’t know what would burn purple or if anything did. Looked it up. Turns out potassium burns purple, or at least it can. Metallic potassium tends to be a bit energetic in the presence of moisture though.