Elmo, Tickle Me Not

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Canadians have again gotten the shaft, this time by Elmo.

Rather than tickle them, the adored Sesame Street muppet ticked off our neighbors to the north when a promotion that had them scooping up talking Elmos by the handful turned out to be open to U.S. citizens only.

Canadians claim there hasn’t been this much controversy since Quebec’s last attempt to secede failed in ’98. Five new Elmos on the market are programmed to deliver news that their owners have won a sweepstakes.



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