UK - KERMIT THE FROG URGES STUDENTS TO THINK GREEN IN SPEECH TO OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S FAMED DEBATING SOCIETY.

Record ID: 571895

  • Title: UK - KERMIT THE FROG URGES STUDENTS TO THINK GREEN IN SPEECH TO OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S FAMED DEBATING SOCIETY.
  • Date: 28th October 1994
  • Summary: OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM (OCTOBER 28, 1994) (REUTERS TELEVISION (RTV) - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV /TRACK KERMIT THE FROG ON TOUR OF CITY (6 SHOTS) 0.27 2. SV KERMIT MEETING STUDENTS/ HAVING PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN (5 SHOTS) 0.46 (NIGHT SHOTS) 3. HAS,GV/PAN/SV STUDENTS WAITING TO ENTER HALL (3 SHOTS) 1.03 4. SV STUDENTS TURNED AWAY BECAUSE
  • Embargoed: 12th November 1994 12:00
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  • Location: OXFORD, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVAB186O18QAXQ6OZVYEATJQVXKP
  • Story Text: Kermit the Frog, actor, singer, environmentalist and amphibian, on Friday (October 28) urged students at Oxford University's famed debating society to think green and clean up their rooms.

    He also warned the debating chamber against kissing frogs who might turn into princes, saying the scandal-plagued British royal family has enough problems already.

    Kermit followed in the footsteps of Mother Teresa and United States President Ronald Reagan after being invited by fervent Muppet fan Joanna Carr, the Oxford Union librarian.

    Kermit urged students: "If the earth is our home then, on behalf of all the animals in the world, I am asking you to please clean up your room." The speech revealed the star of the Muppets was thin on academic qualifications.

    "With several thousand tadpoles in my family, we couldn't afford the tuition. Of course, like most frogs, I could have gone into biology and majored in dissection but I wasn't really cut out for that," he said.

    Kermit, now a 40-year-old who has written his own "New Age Man" autobiography and just released a "Kermit Unpigged" album, has for years been pursued by Miss Piggy on television and in films.

    Originally made out of a winter coat owned by the mother of puppeteer Jim Henson, who died four years ago, Kermit does not feel threatened by women and boasts a range of designer clothing in the United States for the dapper frog about town.

    But trouble could strike if he is caught looking at other women through those ogling eyes originally made out of two ping pong balls. "If Miss Piggy catches me with them, I definitely feel threatened by her." But, with Britain's monarchy rocked by scandals over the broken marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, he cautioned against the fairytale solution of kissing a frog to turn him into a prince.

    "I think the royal family has enough problems without Miss Piggy hanging around Buckingham Palace," Kermit said.


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