Juvenile Delinquency Puns

This is the article:

By Kim McCone. It’s titled: Werewolves, Cyclopes, díberga and fíanna: juvenile delinquency in early Ireland.

It’s from Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 12.

It's cited in so many places, but I can't find anywhere I can actually read it!

Would really appreciate any help!

Jesse's parents are probably the worst examples of "good" parents that you can have. Meek personalities, and everything they do pushes their child in the wrong direction. They're not my parents or even real, but still I have this urge to rebel whenever there's a scene with them. Just so incredibly misguided, and they piss me off more and more with every rewatch. It will be a miracle if their other son's future at all matches with the trajectory they expect after all his straight A's and awards.

Warm up your irradiating iron maiden for The Atomic Brain! Mrs. March is the most horrible old Skeksis on Earth, and she's ready for a brand new body. So, she hired Dr. Frank to slap brains into new bodies, strip them naked and irradiate them, thus magically making the brain work again in the new body. Her plan? Import three cute maids, butcher two for science, and keep the prettiest one for her new ride. Well, as you can imagine, this female version of The Brute Man's shopkeep is absolutely horrid, and so is this film. The point is literally treating cute girls (and a token ugly ethnic girl, that's it's whole own problem) as meat, and that's about as happy as we get. There's a pretty zombie girl that the old creepy guys like to have wander around in a night gown, there's maulings and murders, and a very sparse soundtrack that actually highlights how quiet the rest of the thing is when there is no music. And there's even a venomous, condescending narrator to explain the plot, because we needed help I suppose. Honestly, the most notable thing about this movie is Mrs. March's actress, a minor player with some interesting appearances like My Three Sons, Mary Poppins, and, oh, she was the face of Emperor Palpatine in the original releases of The Empire Strikes Back, though you'd have to find a pre-re-release copy and peer through her makeup to tell. I don't have a VHS player, so I can't.

But wait! Why try to find pictures of old women pretending to be space wizards when you can watch A SHORT! And not just any short, but a Herk Harvey short! That's right, the director of Carnival Of Souls and Shake Hands With Danger is back to teach us a bleak, heavy handed lesson in What About Juvenile Delinquency! When the local high school toughs roll their father of one of their own, he gets cold feet, and is torn between his idiot mugger buddies (which I think goes pretty far beyond juvenile delinquency, but whatever) and the school nerds. This is a stark little thing, most notable for a way too on the nose, straight on close up of an middle aged white authority telling the kids he wanted them to be a part of cleaning up the problem. Oh, Herk, go back to the salt flats, buddy. Centron doesn't deserve you.

As you can guess from what we've gone through so far, the riffing has some very heavy lifting to do here. It does well, but three riffers can only do so much. This is one of the rare occasions where the riffing on the short, while good, isn't starkly better than the mov

So, short story on me. My name is Erica, I have been pretty well behaved all my life, and never got into much trouble. I got caught taking an ecological strike to far (damaging a large regional gas pipeline)

My ‘supportive family' thought sending an A* student, three-time inter-school chess champion, and only virgin in my school, to a camp in a small German town centred around an old fort would help. Things here however, have gotten strange (besides a messy internet connection)

I made some friends within the small excursion group. One being Thato – she's really smart, but more outgoing than I, but there's an extreme of her who’s name is Michelle. A friend who thought spiking my drink on the first day together was a good idea.

The first day was when I should have noticed things with the ultra-strict ‘Mother' weren’t probably going to be great.

“I won’t tolerate screams, laughing, or any form of juvenile entertainment. I’m here to teach you all about discipline. “, Mother spoke.

With a hiss at every point of her speech, Mother dragged us all to our duties. We arrived their at noon, and spent that day brushing tiles with a toothbrush. Thato made jokes, as Michelle laughed out loud, as Mother gave us a stare at us.

Michelle had snuck Thato, and I across an old fence to see an abandoned storeroom that night. A strange pitch-black night that had began as early as 1600 ( 4pm). The townspeople explained on our tour, that it happened seasonally, and was caused by a rare celestial event.

It was too our benefit, that we came at such a season, as sneaking around was much easier. This wasn’t the usual thing I do, but the fort still relied heavily on a local coal power station, so justifying my actions was easy.

“Go down!”, Michelle said.

“What do you see?”, Thato asked.

Michelle nudged our heads to a lamp light in the window. We watched for any movements, and were suddenly shocked to see the nude Mother, with some other male, and female townspeople. What they were doing is best left for imagination...

We slowly moved away from the scene, and laughed manically as we closed into the dorms. We never knew the stickler could be such an ‘explorative’ person.

I was slightly unnerved that an over 60+ woman was more sexual active than myself.

We snuck back to the dorms, and continued with chores assigned till 1800. When we finally could eat, and rest.

Thato, and I, as the brainacs of the posse, chose to take the leisure time

So I enrolled in this course as an elective and I can’t find many reviews about it. For those who have taken it in person or online how was it? And what was the grade breakdown?

I love nerdy media. Comic books, broadway musicals, cheesy B-movies via "Mystery Science Theater 3000", you name it. In consuming these over the years, I've noticed a pattern. Over and over again in the 1950s, American pop culture seemed to reflect a fear of "juvenile delinquency." Media reflected teenagers getting out of control and violent. There appears to be a secondary theme that poor parenting is the cause of the juvenile delinquency. The juvenile delinquency theme peters out in later decades. Some examples of the media that reflects this are:

• The 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent by Fredric Wertham, which is directly responsible for the creation of the Comics Code Authority, which self-censored comic books into the 21st century.

• The 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story replaces the rival families of Genoa from Romeo and Juliet with rival gangs of juvenile delinquents in 1950s New York City. This is best reflected in the lyrics to the number Gee, Officer Krupke. Snippets of the lyrics below:

    Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke
    You gotta understand
    It's just our bringin' up-ke
    That gets us out of hand
    Our mothers all are junkies
    Our fathers all are drunks
    Golly Moses, naturally we're punks!
  
    Gee, Officer Krupke, we're very upset;
    We never had the love that every child oughta get
    We ain't no delinquents
    We're misunderstood
    Deep down inside us there is good!
  
    . . .
  
    Dear kindly Judge, your Honor
    My parents treat me rough
    With all their marijuana
    They won't give me a puff
    They didn't wanna have me
    But somehow I was had
    Leapin' lizards! That's why I'm so bad!
  
    . . .
  
    In my opinion, this child don't need to have his head shrunk at all. Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease!
  

• The 1956 movie The Violent Years, written by infamous B-Movie schlock Ed Wood features a violent gang of teenage girls robbing and murdering. The last 10 minutes of the movie are a judge lecturing the main character's parents about why they were terrible parents and how they were ultimately responsible for their daughter's fate. This movie was featured in a 1994 episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000", which is how I came to see it.

• ~~Finally, the term "Juvenile Delinquent" still lingers around a bit in American English, despite it not being used by professionals in decades. The ter

ISBN-10: 0132987317

ISBN-13: 9780132987318

I can only find edition 3