![]() You had better believe that no one will be able to keep Saddam Hussein's whereabouts secret once the British interrogators deploy their secret weapon: a battered audio tape of the theme to Merlin the Magical Puppy.With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you. Still, I suspect that the coalition forces have not yet made full use of their potential psy-ops armoury. My InterpretationWhen the singer says I love you, he is trying to convey his feelings of care and friendliness to the person that is listening to the song. So pity the poor prisoners, but we parents are made of sterner stuff. Just imagine how effective this could be on those flinty Ba'athist henchmen. Participation - as with Incy Wincy Spider, The Wheels on the Bus and countless other classics - is what turns a song from a melody to a misery. My not-quite-three-year-old, for example, insists that whichever parent is present gets up and dances around the room with her, hugging and kissing where the song demands it. I don't consider that a disadvantage in a marriage, and. ![]() only then do you know the full horror of the psychological warfare that is life with a pre-school child.Īnd how are the Americans playing back the recording of the song? Are the prisoners left alone in a room while music is piped in? That will bring short-term results, but anyone who has heard "I Love You" more than a couple of hundred times learns to block it out.īut no one has the power to resist those dreaded opening bars when a small child demands you participate. I love you You love me Were a happy family With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you. Or rather, they might see it, and that would make them even more cruel. Only when you've been dragged from sleep before dawn, day after day for months on end, to enter Barney's dayglo world. Barneys best-known song is the much-spoofed. ![]() At what time? Middle of the day? Meaningless. Originally airing in 1987, the Barney and Friends television show was aimed directly at the pre-school audience. In fact, the hardened among us know that what the former Fedayeen and Republican Guard are going through now is nothing. Believe me, if Barney had been walking the earth when the Geneva conventions were drawn up, there would be laws against this sort of thing.įortunately, as a parent, you learn to develop your mental sinews to resist such tortures. Which is why the Americans are inflicting him on their prisoners. That's why there's a website for the Jihad to Destroy Barney the purple dinosaur ( which describes itself thus: "The Jihad is a heterogeneous organisation of people on the internet dedicated to the defamation, humiliation, eradication, killing and removal of Barney the Purple Dinosaur of the television show Barney and Friends from the airwaves and from every human's life." That's why a group of teenagers beat up a man in a Barney suit in a Texas shopping mall. HOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLERS FEEL AFTER Peacocks Barney documentary I Love You. ![]() And he's hated by those adults who don't watch the show. You hate me Barney song by diangaming - YouTube 0:00 / 0:12 I hate you. ![]() He's hated by those adults who watch the show. Either that, or one hopes that the hapless GIs will be issued with personal stereos playing something soothing such as ZZ Top.įor Barney has become a hate figure in the US. It's just that simple." One presumes, then, that the military interrogators are all parents who knew the effects the song would have, but who were themselves inured by prolonged exposure. From one Barney-bashing website: "Once anyone over the age of two hears Barney begin belting out that miserable anthem of his - 'I wuv you, you wuv me' - the human dies. It's not hard, however, to find anecdotal evidence. Barney - I Love You Song - YouTube 0:00 / 0:59 Barney - I Love You Song barneyandbj 130K subscribers Subscribe 3. It's hard to find scientific evidence to back up the US military's faith in the misery-inducing power of the purple dinosaur's greatest hit. "In training, they forced me to listen to it for 45 minutes. "Trust me, it works," one US soldier told Newsweek of the use of what Barney-haters term the "I wuv you" song. ![]()
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