Google| Subject | Re: Mickey and Donald (Was Don't aspire to succeed - that right belongs to America alone...[wa Re: O |
| From | Laurie Forbes |
| Date | 08/21/2004 18:55 (08/21/2004 18:55) |
| Message-ID | <v8LVc.35880$Kt5.21253@twister.nyroc.rr.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | ?jevind L?ng |
| Followups | ?jevind L?ng (4h & 55m) > Laurie Forbes |
"?jevind L?ng" <dnivejo.gnal@swipnet.se>wrote in message news:dHlUc.16528$qn2.2772@nntpserver.swip.net... | "Laurie Forbes" <moc.rr.eniam@1sebrofr>skrev i meddelandet | news:tAfUc.151952$bp1.146825@twister.nyroc.rr.com... | | [snip] | >Oh, give me a break, ironorebreath! I suppose you can cite sites to | support 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.
So, where are we? You're trying to claim that your own reading/viewing of the comics should take precedence over thousands of days of animation tradition? You can appreciate the duck all you want, but don't forget that he is oUrS, to define as we will. He waddles on Swedish soil at our sufferance, sort of like McDonald's does - note the similarity in the names. Now, YOU, on the other hand, are no more than a jolly backpeddler just opening his pack of lies and flames. (Note my clever use of .... nothing..... to say absolutely... nothing.)
| >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.)
Oh, you wouldn't know good manners and an even temper if they were shaped like eels! Mickey, who cut down the tree and brought it in the house, has enough of a sense of fair play to know that he gets what he gets with respect to any "bonus" flora or fauna. (I hope you're not thinking of his gloves.)
[snip]
| 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.
[snip]
So you had a semester of philosophy, too? Well, you're not going to take the mickey out of *me* *I* had a semester of psychology! Trump *that*, Donaldite!
There's a reason he's called a "duck" and that "duck" is also a verb. In its charmingly economical way, English shows us there's often nothing of substance (mere feathers and fluff) beneath the assertive, "fly (if only) off the handle" Type A personality. Donald can perform his little "ass on fire," even-less-coherent-than-usual, hissy-fits and apologize afterward; but that behavior is clearly much less effective than Mickey's patient, kindly belief that all is, or can be, well and that everyone is doing his best.
Now stop blustering and diverting everyone's attention from the *real* issues, and just step forward and confess to that iron ore. (And don't slip on the ball bearings as you approach the lectern.)
| You don't know how to smoke eels!
The softrat has shown you - in a sort of zig-zag way - that we do.
-- Laurie Forbes
08/21/2004
