The toy distributors, instead of thinking like reasonable people that it is a well known tune and children aren’t going to think it says paedophile, only their slightly warped parents will, bowed to public ignorance and removed the product from the shelves lest anyone should take offence at their inability to hear things properly.

One parent said “Luckily my children are too young to understand.” Too young to understand their parents are deluded I assume they meant.

Have a listen for yourself at the Sun website. I personally didn’t think it sounded like paedophile until I tried to put my head in the frame of mind of an enraged parent and kept repeating the word paedophile to myself while listening to it.

Thanks to Phil Plait for the link.

The king of pop lives on!

In a greasy oven dish.

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