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Are Fraggles a form of Muppet?

Are Fraggles a form of Muppet?

NO! Fraggles are not Muppets--AND the Muppets would beat them in a fight too!
10 (34.5%)

NO! Fraggles are not Muppets!
1 (3.4%)

Yes...Fraggles are Muppets, but they are a lesser form or sub-type of muppet.
5 (17.2%)

Yes...Fraggles are Muppets.... (I guess) :p
13 (44.8%)

Total votes: 29
Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
Join date: 5 Sep 2003
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11-27-2004 19:16
Of course they aren't, everyone knows this...besides their puppet-atomy is entirely different!

But since some stubborn individuals *ahem*teeny aaron camille?*cough* insist on repeating this Fraggle propaganda in a futile attempt to establish Fraggle equality with the superior Muppet race, now it must be put to the test with a completely non-biased objective poll!
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
Cross Lament
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11-27-2004 19:19
What? Fraggles are indeed muppets. :D
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Garoad Kuroda
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11-27-2004 19:21
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo :(

You're getting confused with "puppets"! They're puppets not muppets!!!!11
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
Nick Fairlight
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Join date: 19 Jun 2003
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11-27-2004 19:24
Neat, you can put smilies in polls ...


Oh, yeah ... I voted the top one.

Muppets > Fraggles.
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Cross Lament
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11-27-2004 19:38
From: Garoad Kuroda
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo :(

You're getting confused with "puppets"! They're puppets not muppets!!!!11


Henson made 'em, they're Muppets. Hell, Yoda was a Muppet. :D
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Garoad Kuroda
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11-27-2004 19:41
Ooooh, you're gonna go to Muppet purgatory for that one... :D
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!
Aaron Levy
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Join date: 3 Jun 2004
Posts: 2,147
11-27-2004 19:48
They are Muppets. Henson called 'em Muppets. Like the previous poster said, even Yoda was a Muppet.
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Akuma Withnail
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11-27-2004 20:20
Didn't Henson call his creations muppets because they were a cross between hand puppets and marionettes? If this definition was good for him, then it's good for me too. I think anything that is controlled by a combination of a hand up it's ass and strings is a muppet.

Therefore if someone lassos the leg/wing of your Thanksgiving turkey whilst you are in the process of stuffing it, you have an impromptu muppet.
Willow Zander
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Join date: 22 May 2004
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11-27-2004 22:02
leave my poor fwaggles alone :(
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Torley Linden
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11-28-2004 00:05
Fraggles ARE Muppets, according to creator Jim Henson himself and other canonical sources. Refer to these articles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muppet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock

:)
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Malachi Petunia
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11-28-2004 02:42
Come on, ya gonna believe Henson on a matter like that? He's too close to the subject, too emotionally involved. Fraggles are what muppets become when they are bad, sorta the Dorian Grey of muppethood.

Fraggles rank among airport personnel who have done whatever you have to do to be consigned to riding those litttle golf carts around the airport that go "beeeeeep-beeeeeep-beeeeep" continually. You just hear them momentarily as they go by, the drivers hear them for an entire shift. I bet they are still hearing "beeeeeeep" as they go to sleep at night. That may be the first circle of hell as described by Dante.
Teeny Leviathan
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11-28-2004 03:32
From: Aaron Levy
They are Muppets. Henson called 'em Muppets. Like the previous poster said, even Yoda was a Muppet.


Gotta disagree. Yoda's only connection to the Muppets was that he sounded suspiciously like Frank Oz. Henson had nothing to do with Yoda.
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Torley Linden
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11-28-2004 04:02
From: Malachi Petunia
Come on, ya gonna believe Henson on a matter like that? He's too close to the subject, too emotionally involved. Fraggles are what muppets become when they are bad, sorta the Dorian Grey of muppethood.

Fraggles rank among airport personnel who have done whatever you have to do to be consigned to riding those litttle golf carts around the airport that go "beeeeeep-beeeeeep-beeeeep" continually. You just hear them momentarily as they go by, the drivers hear them for an entire shift. I bet they are still hearing "beeeeeeep" as they go to sleep at night. That may be the first circle of hell as described by Dante.


Hahaha... here's my shout-out... SEVENTH CIRCLE! SEVENTH CIRCLE!!! :D

And for anyone who's interested in a previous discussion regarding this... we need only go back 6 years:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&threadm=364712f1.4476124%40news.rff.org&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522fraggles%2520are%2520muppets%2522%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26as_qdr%3Dall%26tab%3Dwg

Ugly URL, I know ;)
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Dismay Wilde
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11-28-2004 05:14
NO! Fraggles are not Muppets--AND the Muppets would beat them in a fight too! :p :p
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Willow Zander
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11-28-2004 05:19
stop DISSING FRAGGLES!!!

:(



Dance your cares away,
Worry's for another day.
Let the music play,
Down at Fraggle Rock
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Garoad Kuroda
Prophet of Muppetry
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11-28-2004 22:35
Aha, see that link CLEARLY shows that the term was only used as a marketing trick! But does that change the definition of the word? No!

If Fraggles are muppets, why wasn't it called MUPPET ROCK? HMMM? Aha....because there is a difference....

Besides, that wikipedia site is obviously biased!

The dissing of the fraggles will cease when the admit to being lesser beings to the muppets, and agree to stop corrupting people's minds with their propaganda...just look at that poll... I see there is much work to be done! :mad:
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WTF is C3PO supposed to be USEFUL for anyway, besides whining? Stupid piece of scrap metal would be more useful recycled as a toaster. But even that would suck, because who would want to listen to a whining wussy toaster? Is he gold plated? If that's the case he should just be melted down into gold ingots. Help the economy some, and stop being so damn useless you stupid bucket of bolts! R2 is 1,000 times more useful than your tin man ass, and he's shaped like a salt and pepper shaker FFS!