Over the 30 years he has been making jewelry, Rosenthal has accumulated a tight circle of friends, dealers and collectors who speak of him in worshipful tones and don't answer questions without his approval.

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Miss Piggy and Kermit get to be the A-story every week, which makes sense because they're the money Muppets, but doesn't always set the best of tones because frenzied Piggy and surly Kermit are not necessarily native incarnations of either character.

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Sometimes the words are difficult to understand or are prayed in flat and boring tones as though the celebrant doesn't believe them.

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As anyone who has suffered through these terrible commercials (and who of us hasn't, many times over) knows, they are clearly targeting children with their rather juvenile 'tones and, ala Joe Camel and friends, cartoony characters.

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