On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Hitomi Ichinohei wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Jordan E Sam wrote:

Barney
went
BANKRUPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How I wish that could be true...

Unfortunately, the owners of the Barney copyright do the show for only 
$35,000.00 american per episode.

And I happen to know the liscencing rights the received last year was 
netted in the amount of around $350,000,000.000 american.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!  That little purple sickly dino?  *That* much?
Ack... Humanity has fallen.  Oh, the stupidity of it all.

Right, that does it.  I'm going to create a little character..  sickly
green in colour, just a blob of Spam.  Yes, thats it.  'Spammy' is your
friend.  etc etc.   With a bit of luck, I can have the children of the
world chanting 'We Love You Spammy' and being brought up in proper
AOL-style ettiquite for when they do get on the net.

Yup, if I can get even a quarter of that, I'll be happy.  Yessirreebob,
I'll be very happy.

They , unfortunately, now also have overseas and translated productions 
as well.

Hmmm - Obviously, the Australian version is something like..

Announcer:  And here's the guest of the week, Barney!!!  And yes boys and
            girls, he's holding a forum on Gun Control!

*BANG*  *BOOM* *various automatic weaponary*

Announcer:  Oh, what a shame.  Barney-bits.  Oh well, looks like a bit of
            wrong timing.  Tune in next week when we invite the Simpsons
            to a debate about corporeal punishment in schools.

                                      ~~~~~
                     The Chaotic Trickster - kergma@sv.net.au
                         Can you tell I *dislike* Barney?