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Title: Oscar the Grouch
Post by: Frances144 on June 05, 2006, 03:16:50 PM

Has anyone got this trash app?

Oscar the Grouch came out and sang "Oh I love trash, I love it because its trash"

Apple forced the maker to remove it and never distribute it again - miserable bunch.

Just wondering
F

Title: Oscar the Grouch
Post by: RNKIII on June 05, 2006, 03:34:04 PM

Used to have a 'trash' icon in OS 7 or 8 that Oscar would pop up when you 'dumped' something in the waste bin.....but have not seen anything like it since then.

Bob K.  rnkiii

Title: Oscar the Grouch
Post by: Texas Mac Man on June 05, 2006, 05:59:32 PM

Although I used OS 7 years ago, I never had Oscar Trash. I guess because I didn't have little kids then. I did a quick Google search & found the info below. It was not Apple that stopped it. I found a graphic, but not the trash one.



"For some people, though, Apple made deleting files entirely too easy. There was a trash can modification available that featured Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch in a trash can. If you dropped in a file, Oscar would pop out and sing a line or two of his hit song, "I Love Trash." It was really cute.

Actually, it was entirely too cute. Speaking from personal experience, you should never mix file deletions, singing characters and an unsupervised three-year-old (who knows how to turn on the computer by himself) — unless you are prepared to find every file on your hard drive in the trash can awaiting deletion."

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"In the olden days...there was a similar program. Every time you put something in the trash, Oscar the Grouch popped out and sang "I love trash." There were only two problems: Kids liked seeing the animation so much that they were basically throwing away their parents' whole hard drive! And Sesame St. of course didn't like it that they were stealing Oscar and made them stop."

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"This was probably done in collusion with Children's Television Workshop (CTW) so that they can prevent someone from making an OS X version of "The Grouch", one of the greatest MacOS hacks ever.

It was great. Empty the trash, and Oscar the Grouch would come out of the trashcan singing. Then CTW sued the the muppety pants off the author and it pretty much disappeared."

Title: Oscar the Grouch
Post by: Gregg on June 05, 2006, 08:22:36 PM

QUOTE

Actually, it was entirely too cute. Speaking from personal experience, you should never mix file deletions, singing characters and an unsupervised three-year-old (who knows how to turn on the computer by himself) — unless you are prepared to find every file on your hard drive in the trash can awaiting deletion."

 

Title: Oscar the Grouch
Post by: Jack W on June 05, 2006, 08:40:53 PM

I used to have Oscar, and really liked it.

But, alas, times change and progress "happens".

Jack

Title: Oscar the Grouch
Post by: krissel on June 05, 2006, 10:06:00 PM

Kind of reminds me of a dancing plastic plant I had in my classroom many moons ago when I first started teaching.  I had originally brought it in to use as a gauge for how loud the kids were while they were in class on independent work time. The 'plant' would activate when the decibels got to a certain point and I told the kids that if the plant moved they would lose a privilege because they were too loud.

Well, obviously that was going against type. I was leary of whether it would work but thought I'd try anyway. You can guess what happened. They didn't care about the 'punishment' cause watching the plant dance was too much fun.



Took it home the same day.

Lesson learned...by the teacher.

Title: Oscar the Grouch
Post by: Frances144 on June 06, 2006, 05:14:00 AM

I have asked someone on Konfabulator to make me a widget!   Here is hoping....

BTW, I sold a plastic flower on Ebay for trillions of pounds!  Very strange!

Title: Oscar the Grouch
Post by: kelly on June 06, 2006, 09:21:29 AM

I have that Extension somewhere.  

I'm not sure it even works with OS 9.x Much less Classic.