Mickey Mouse

[Petertherock]

It's not good enough for Disney to endorse and promote the homosexual agenda, now they have to take Mickey Mouse, the last remaining symbol of anything good in this country (at least from the secular standpoint) and turn him evil...



http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/11/05/mickey-mouse-gets-his-edge-back/?icid=main

Mickey Mouse gets his edge back

Quick! Describe Mickey Mouse's personality in six words or less. Having a hard time? All right, what was the last wacky thing you saw him do? Still stumped?

Mickey is a lot of things, but specific he isn't. One of the world's most identifiable characters has become little more than a corporate mascot who is rolled out whenever the Disney company needs to sell something. Mickey is a placebo, a blank slate of a cherub upon whom children and adults alike can project their fondest make-believe fantasies. Even when he makes personal appearances, he's usually silent.

Mickey could be said to be stuck in 1955, but Disney is aware it's nearly 2010. So its image-makers, aware that Mickey's "aw-shucks" act has grown stale and won't last forever in a world filled with ironic and savvy kids, are taking a risk with their flagship character. Breaking the code Mickey has followed for the past half-century, it has authorized a new image for His Mouseness, which could turn off millions of parents who treasure the genial personality they're used to. Harking back to his early years, he'll become a colorized version of his 1930s self: wiry legs, sharp angles, a stockier belly, a whip-like rodent tail, and a peaked brow that can twist into a variety of perturbed expressions to match his flashing temper.

Epic Mickey, coming out next year for the Wii console, will feature a new Mickey based on a very old concept. In the Wii game, Mickey travels back to the black-and-white cartoon world he abandoned in the 1930s, squares off against the Walt Disney character he replaced (Oswald the Rabbit) and runs around trying to eradicate other cartoon characters with paint thinner. Then he continues his quest to other locations and scenes from Disney history.

Marketing experts, who care nothing for honoring history, are made nervous by the shift, likening the coming change to the introduction of New Coke. Seen through the prism of Disney history, that's nonsense -- if anything, it's a return to the original Coke, and this "new" Mickey is closer to what Walt Disney himself created and voiced -- but their nervousness is well-placed, because our current generation of American parents has grown used to the Placebo Mickey.

[Herr_Mannelig]

Mickey isn't so innocent. You should see some of the things they had back in the day!

He also is used by terrorists:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzlFPm7bymY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzlFPm7bymY</a>

[Petertherock]

Hmm, being creative with this, if they took the "angry" Mickey and had him go after the homosexual loving, immorality spreading Disney execs and eliminating them with paint thinner now that would be something I could go along with.

[WhollyRoaminCatholic]

This is good news for the anthropomorphic mouse.  It's about time they brought his edge and spunk away from the castrated poof that he's become now.

[INPEFESS]

Marketing experts, who care nothing for honoring history, are made nervous by the shift, likening the coming change to the introduction of New Coke.

"New Coke"? What on earth is that supposed to be? - the official drink of the New World Order?

[charlesh]

Actually, Bert of "Bert-n-Ernie" fame turned out much worse than Mickey:

[i.p.i.]

Marketing experts, who care nothing for honoring history, are made nervous by the shift, likening the coming change to the introduction of New Coke.

"New Coke"? What on earth is that supposed to be? - the official drink of the New World Order?

do you really not know the history of 'new coke' and 'classic coke'?  or are you just messing around?

[Herr_Mannelig]

Marketing experts, who care nothing for honoring history, are made nervous by the shift, likening the coming change to the introduction of New Coke.

"New Coke"? What on earth is that supposed to be? - the official drink of the New World Order?

do you really not know the history of 'new coke' and 'classic coke'?  or are you just messing around?

I don't know...so please enlighten us.

[Baskerville]

Actually, Bert of "Bert-n-Ernie" fame turned out much worse than Mickey:

[INPEFESS]

Marketing experts, who care nothing for honoring history, are made nervous by the shift, likening the coming change to the introduction of New Coke.

"New Coke"? What on earth is that supposed to be? - the official drink of the New World Order?

do you really not know the history of 'new coke' and 'classic coke'?  or are you just messing around?

I really have no idea. Maybe I've been living in a box, but I don't drink soft drinks anyway, nor do I concern myself with the latest marketing trends in high fructose corn syrup. Perhaps you could help me out...

[Herr_Mannelig]

I really have no idea. Maybe I've been living in a box, but I don't drink soft drinks anyway, nor do I concern myself with the latest marketing trends in high fructose corn syrup. Perhaps you could help me out...

* If you've been living in a box, but do not know it, drinking soft drinks is not advisable. They are quite sticky when spilt and will attract vermin.
* You do not concern yourself with the latest marking trends, yet you wish to be helped on this matter? Do you mean that you want to be concerned?

[INPEFESS]

I really have no idea. Maybe I've been living in a box, but I don't drink soft drinks anyway, nor do I concern myself with the latest marketing trends in high fructose corn syrup. Perhaps you could help me out...

* If you've been living in a box, but do not know it, drinking soft drinks is not advisable. They are quite sticky when spilt and will attract vermin.

Thank you for your wisdom. 

* You do not concern yourself with the latest marking trends, yet you wish to be helped on this matter? Do you mean that you want to be concerned?

No, I mean that I do not wish to concern myself with them.

From Merriam-Webster:

(As used in this context) Concern 4 : engage, occupy <he concerns himself with trivia>

I do not allow my decisions to be affected, altered, or changed by the marketing schemes of HFCS distributors. To understand what they are, however, is only a quest for knowledge.

I might not concern myself (to be concerned) with the participation in "x" thread on this board, but I do like to know what thread "x" is. Yes?

[Herr_Mannelig]

No, I mean that I do not wish to concern myself with them.

From Merriam-Webster:

(As used in this context) Concern 4 : engage, occupy <he concerns himself with trivia>

I do not allow my decisions to be affected, altered, or changed by the marketing schemes of HFCS distributors. To understand what they are, however, is only a quest for knowledge.

I might not concern myself (to be concerned) with the participation in "x" thread on this board, but I do like to know what thread "x" is. Yes?

From Merriam-Webster:

Pedant 2b: one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge

Joke 1b: the humorous or ridiculous element in something

[INPEFESS]

No, I mean that I do not wish to concern myself with them.

From Merriam-Webster:

(As used in this context) Concern 4 : engage, occupy <he concerns himself with trivia>

I do not allow my decisions to be affected, altered, or changed by the marketing schemes of HFCS distributors. To understand what they are, however, is only a quest for knowledge.

I might not concern myself (to be concerned) with the participation in "x" thread on this board, but I do like to know what thread "x" is. Yes?

From Merriam-Webster:

Pedant 2b: one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge

Joke 1b: the humorous or ridiculous element in something

Oh, well I didn't know that the second "*" was a joke. I know you were saying it a teasing way, but I thought you were trying to point out a legitimate incongruity.

[INPEFESS]

The joke's on me I guess. I tend to read your posts as "serious" unless you indicate otherwise.

I guess your first "*" was the indication. It just seems that you usually say things like that and, though you are making light of it, you are serious.