Google| Subject | Re: Mickey and Donald (Was Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America alone...[wa Re: O |
| From | ?jevind L?ng |
| Date | 08/17/2004 13:10 (08/17/2004 13:10) |
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Laurie Forbessupport
| | >>Speaking of Donald Duck, a while ago someone told me that Americans | >>like Mickey Mouse but never really cared for Donald; that it is | >>Europeans who love Donald. I can't help wondering why this would be | >>so. | > | >Perhaps it's because we never had really great cartoon characters like
| Asterix and Obelix. <g> | | Come now, don't diss Donald! He is a creation of genius. It is true that | most of the time, it is impossible to understand what he says; there is | something of the French philosopher about him; but he really is a | magnificent symbol for the unquenchable opitmism and fighting spirit of the | little man (or little duck).
Oh, give me a break, ironorebreath! I suppose you can cite sites to
this? Let's have 'em.Trask! Caught in the act. I can't provide any link that proves the claim that Americans like Mickey better than Donald, and that it is Europeans who appreciate the magnificent Duck as he deserves. But the reactions of Americans to my post (including yours, Mickey-lover), indicate, to my mind, that the claim is correct.
Mickey is a nice and usually even-tempered guy whose voice is differently-modulated."Ooh! Two little squirrels have destroyed my Christmas tree! Oh, well, it's Christmas. Ha, ha. Pluuuto, leave them alone!" He's a wimp. Sorry, Laurie, but he is the Babbitt of the rodent world. (And he also has another and darker side, of which the less said, the better.)
Donald is a bad-tempered, half-naked whacko who probably covets 9-year-old chicks.I think you are referring to his cousin, Dawud ben Dhuk. (Granted, the way Donald speaks, "Donald" and "Dawud" sound almost identical.) Anyway, in the bird world, a chick of 9 is quite old - a bit on the ancient side, in fact. Are you accusding Donald and his family of gerontophilia?
You Euroswedish leftists ....errrrrr.... Eurotrashist swedlets ... (what was it with the iron ore again?) ....anyway .. where was I? Oh, yes - the sailor half-suit is symbolic of the imperialist rape of theundeveloped,
innocent world ---- a practice euphemistically known as "feathering one's nest."Donald symbolizes the aggressive, implacable will to survive at any cost, the resilience of the true fighter - the spirit of the Romans, the Vikings, the Pilgrim Feathers. Mickey represents timorous suburbia. True, his ears make the upper part of his head somewhat similar to the cap of a bullfighter, but that is merely an attempt of his to hide his cowardice. He is whistling in the dark - or rather, squeaking in it. By the way, I hear that Disney is taking over the Mafia. As the softrat said: "There goes another fine old organization". In the future, all mobsters will be forced to wear Mickey Mouse caps on the job, and they'll be known as "mouseketeers" instead of "racketeers",
| I agree about Asterix and Obelix being wonderful, of course. But I thought | they weren't all that well-known in America?You don't know how to smoke eels!
Of course they are. We know everything.
?jevind
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08/17/2004
