News: VooDoo Dollys Becoming Popular in China
From MSNBC/NEWSWEEK:
Curse of the Bureaucrats, Voodoo dolls are all the rage in China—especially now that the government has banned them.
By Quindlen Krovatin
May 24, 2006 - Not content with jailing subversive reporters and restricting access to prodemocracy Web sites, the Chinese government has turned its attentions to a new destabilizing influence: voodoo dolls. Central government authorities are so bothered by the political implications of the dolls that they banned them entirely from Beijing’s retail stores in April.
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Rocket — On 5-25-2006 at 2:08 pm
Is this where Dolly came from??
Porter Venn — On 5-25-2006 at 2:20 pm
No, Dolly was born in the land of lollipops, in a patch of daisys surrounded by Unicorns, she was nutured by Matilda, the good witch, and was being groomed to take over the Kingdom of the loving tickle pixies, when one day…..something went wrong…. something went very very…..very…wrong.
Leonard — On 5-25-2006 at 2:42 pm
What’s wrong with Vodoo Dolls?? You can change their clothes and braid their hair and once you have cut off it’s arms and legs you can sew them back on switched around!! I think the chinese government is just scared that the majority of their society is sticking pins in the dolls with *their* pictures on it!
Porter Venn — On 5-25-2006 at 3:49 pm
Well there’s Voodoo Dollys… and then there is…. Dolly. The one and only Dolly, the Lord of the Underworld, the future ruler of the Universe. All Hail Dolly.
Kevin — On 5-29-2006 at 10:51 am
What is Dollys diplomatic stance?
Porter Venn — On 5-29-2006 at 10:59 am
As Dolly is the head of state, and has a Royal bloodline that may be traced back to the original “Joining” of the Poppy Queen Pixie with the Bark Willow, Dolly is in no need of this “Stance” as you speak. Dolly is a god amongst us mortals, when you speak of her name I’m sure you can feel the trembling in your breath, or the nimble numbness in your fingers as you type Dolly, why is that? because Dolly is watching, always. She knows all.
Kevin — On 5-29-2006 at 11:38 am
Do you think she caused the four pips in the orange segment i just ate. That’s quite annoying.