Kermit is 50 years young!
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And he looks nary a year older than when he first entered showbiz!
Sat, 15 Oct 2005
World tour marks Kermit's birthday
Kermit the Frog began a globe-hopping tour to celebrate his 50th showbiz birthday on Friday in this small west Texas town that shares the beloved amphibian's name.
The town of about 5,700, a ranching and oil area about 375 miles west of Dallas, rolled out the green carpet for the singing, dancing Muppet and former Sesame Street star, giving him the key to the city, dubbing him grand marshal of the homecoming parade and crowning him honorary homecoming king.
Kermit's 50-stop tour will cross four continents and last until the end of 2006. Stops include the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower and the Great Wall of China. He's even scheduled to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
"I thought they said bullfrogs," Kermit said in a rare interview. "I'm going to get the heck out of their way."
Kermit made his debut in a 1955 television comedy called Sam and Friends, which aired locally in Washington, but he looked more lizardlike then. Kermit was fashioned from an old coat belonging to the mother of late Muppets creator Jim Henson and was named after one of Henson's childhood friends.
Henson and his two-foot tall puppet joined Sesame Street in 1969. The Muppet Show followed in 1976 and ended its run in 1982.
Henson gave Kermit a voice and a life for 35 years, until his death in 1990. Since then, Steve Whitmire, who had worked with Henson for about 13 years, has taken over his voice and movements.
Kermit offered insight into how he stays so youthful looking.
"I don't think it's a secret: Stay moist," he said, adding that an exercise regimen that includes yoga also helps. "My favourite position is the downward frog."
The town of Kermit was named for Kermit Roosevelt, the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt. He had visited a ranch in northern Winkler County to hunt a few months before the town was named. Kermit, which incorporated in 1938, began as a supply centre for the area's scattered ranches.
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is someone going to come in here to say kermit is gay or sumthing?
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how can he be gay? didn't he had a thing with ms piggy?Originally posted by laurence82:is someone going to come in here to say kermit is gay or sumthing? -
wow... i wonder how he felt as a tadpole if he knew he'd have a hand up his bum all his life?
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eughhhOriginally posted by kalangkabo:how can he be gay? didn't he had a thing with ms piggy?
but ms piggy is manly... -
maybe that's y he's green...Originally posted by the Bear:wow... i wonder how he felt as a tadpole if he knew he'd have a hand up his bum all his life?
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i love count Dracula.....hahahahahaha.....
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Originally posted by the Bear:wow... i wonder how he felt as a tadpole if he knew he'd have a hand up his bum all his life?
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maybe he's gayOriginally posted by the Bear:wow... i wonder how he felt as a tadpole if he knew he'd have a hand up his bum all his life? -
Originally posted by boy in blues:maybe he's gay
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You just did that.Originally posted by laurence82:is someone going to come in here to say kermit is gay or sumthing? -
hahahahaha!!!Originally posted by Wanda:You just did that. -
I luv miss piggy!!!
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But she's fierce. Do you think she's the original diva among the muppets?Originally posted by The man who was death:I luv miss piggy!!! -
my era muppets not so popular liao, i dunnoOriginally posted by Wanda:But she's fierce. Do you think she's the original diva among the muppets? -
She IS!Originally posted by Wanda:But she's fierce. Do you think she's the original diva among the muppets?
But notwithstanding, she's still soooo cuuute, doncha think?
She's the first bwee-swee famous personality!
I love how she goes, "Kerrrmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!" and then swoons all over the poor overwhelmed frog!
And then, when her advances are turned down by the frog, her obsession turns into rage and her snout starts to get moving, and then she goes "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiii- Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!" *punches Kermit right smack on his torso and sends him flying... And then, she goes "Humph!!" and nonchalently tries to tidy up her messed-up hair!
Miss Piggy, ever so memorable!