Soooo, okay then. This is an interesting idea reported by the BBC on Friday.

The United States is funding a Pakistani remake of the popular TV children’s show Sesame Street.


In a new effort to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, USAID – the development arm of the US government – is donating $20m (£12m) to the country to create a local Urdu version of the show…


The remake will star a puppet called Rani, the six-year-old daughter of a peasant farmer, with pigtails and a school uniform, according to Britain’s Guardian newspaper.

Presumably for realism purposes their heads are detachable, and Miss Piggy will be forced to marry her 57 year old uncle. But how does the whole Miss Piggy / pork thing work then? Or the Bert and Ernie are gay line?

This post, incidentally, was brought to you by the letter “I” and “J” which stand for Islamist Jihad…and the number 72…as in 72 virgins waiting in Heaven for all suicide bombers.

This idea is so stupid you’d be amazed to learn that the UK Foreign Office isn’t chipping in money too. How did we avoid funding this one?

..and randomly…here’s Robert DeNiro pretending to be Elmo. Enjoy…