Ethel Roberts
From The Rubber Chicken
Ethel Roberts is an elderly, conservative woman with a stern dislike of witchcraft, Satanism, drug dealing, Al Qaeda membership, communists, and most of all Harry Potter. She has contribtued on several occasions to ThatChickenSite.com with essays expounding upon the moral corruption and decay besetting our so-called society.
Ethel has been known to voice her opinions on Contemporary Web Store Amazon.com, where she inevitably attracts "Not Helpful" votes from fellow users.[citation needed]
She has also appeared in episode 105 of The Rubber Chicken Podcast, voiced by Chris.
Known Works
Ethel's ever-changing signature lines in her email debate with teacher and author Scott Baldwin reveal her to be surprisingly multimedia-savvy, and willing to harness as many fields as needed to spread her message. Known works include:
- What Your Children REALLY Get Up To! (a bestselling novel)
- Jesus is Totally Rad! (a sing-along organ gospel music album for teenagers, with The Bluesman)
- Buyer Beware: The Dangers of Ham Casserole (public safety DVD)
- Public Nudity is A-O-K!!! (motivational seminar)
- 2 Kool 4 SaTan (clothing range for young Christians)
She has also briefly dabbled in preaching by way of hopitality.
Behind The Scenes
Ethel is a fictional character used by Alastair to incite feelings of fear and bewilderment in people not accustomed to the concept of satire. In his efforts to lampoon these people, he published a series of essays under Ethel's name, beginning with this one, making sure to get as many facts about the series as possible completely wrong in the hope of generating amusing hate mail. Such mail did in fact eventuate, in very large quantities, and continued to do so for years after the original essay's publication. Alastair's increacingly absurdt corespondance with some of the more tenacious letter-writers is chronicled here and here.
See also: P.J. Sheppard's review of Popular X-Box Game Halo 2.
