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Why was Gerald (Little Milton) Bostock disqualified as first prize winner in the Literary Competition?

Question #145662. Asked by serpa.
Last updated May 21 2021.
Originally posted Apr 22 2018 10:09 PM.

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Viewers protested to Bostock's reading of the poem due to its use of adult language, as well as interpretation of it to be a series of short poems instead of a single work. Based on viewer complaints, judges reevaluated and found Bostock and his poem to be unfitting of the award due to questionable topics, based on review of child therapists.
THE SOCIETY FOR LITERARY ADVANCEMENT AND GESTATION (SLAG), announced their decision late last night to disqualify eight year old prizewinner Gerald (Little Milton) Bostock following the hundreds of protests and threats received after the reading of his epic poem "Thick as a Brick" on B.B.C. Television last Monday night.
A hastily reconvened panel of Judges accepted the decision by four leading child psychiatrists that the boy's mind was seriously unbalanced and that his work was a product of an "extremely unwholesome attitude towards life, his God and Country". Bostock was recommended for psychiatric treatment following examination "without delay".
link https://stormwatch.github.io/TSCC/


Response last updated by gtho4 on May 21 2021.
Apr 22 2018, 11:28 PM
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The newspaper story was a complete fabrication, created as the cover art for the Jethro Tull album 'Thick as a Brick', released in 1972.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DirkvdM_thick_as_a_brick.jpg
link https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BC16oLUzlSIC&pg=PA134




Response last updated by gtho4 on Apr 23 2018.
Apr 23 2018, 1:07 AM
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Indeed, it was first page "news" on the St. Cleve Chronicle album cover art for 'Thick as a Brick.'

Apr 23 2018, 3:46 PM
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