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andrew	Jo some institutions have banned it and some libraries don't have adaptions of it. My only gripe is I haven't seen a good Lunch and Judy in years. Either they don't use the squeaky voice or its toned down too much. I loved it as a kid and never turned me in to a wife beater or a law breaker. Being with an ex partner that has beaten me and financially manipulative. That's something that police don't care about. Either man up (which will then be a lawsuit) or go find somewhere else to live (women have refuge houses).
Jo	I'm surprised it's still around. You'd think health and safety or the PC police would have ended it by now. Two articles, eight years apart, about the same Punch and Judy puppeteer make the future of P&J sound grim: Last Punch and Judy 'professor' is left stranded One of Britain’s final Punch and Judy shows set to close as puppeteer is sick of kids throwing rocks at him
giles2008	Was it really a kiddies entertainment JK?. I often wonder. As Peter Linebaugh puts it in his fascinating book " The London Hanged- Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century" "‘Punch and Judy’ ‘expressed class rage against family, police, courtiers, physicians and householders’, but at the same time, ‘Punch, in murdering friend and foe alike, suggests to us that the London working class was doing Jack Ketch’s job for him’. The show is a miniature representation of violent crime and violent punishment that acknowledges their interconnection; embodying at once a working-class cynicism about Law and an authoritarian insistence on social control." Jack Ketch being.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ketch www.amazon.co.uk/London-Hanged-Society-E...entury/dp/1859845762
JK2006	Home cooking before Mr Punch beats his wife and the policeman to death (I always felt rather sorry for the crocodile). What an odd children seaside entertainment that was. Does it still exist? www.kingofhits.co.uk/component/option,co...d,64/?g2_itemId=5231