First there is the TeleTubby show/craze. I think I channel-surfed across this program for a brief instant one fine day. I found it soooo mind-numbing that my brain immediately seized control of my thumb and kept me safely surfing on to other channels. Yet I was there long enough to recognize the character. In these days of marketing you'd almost have to live in a cave to not know who the TeleTubbies are. Fortunately I don't know their names! But for one....

Thank you Jerry Falwell! Now we as a nation know of "Tinky Winky". The TeleTubby that allegedly spouts pro-alternative lifestyle propaganda that will assuredly damage the morals of our children. Really, Mr. Falwell, have you nothing better to do? Or is this just some publicity stunt gone terribly wrong?

Finally it seemed that all the Gay TeleTubby furor had died the quick death it so deserved.

Until I happened to be prerusing today's paper. There in black and white was news that almost made my blood run cold. People are actually buying up "Tinky Winky" dolls in a desperate gamble that they may become collector's items! Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!