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and told me in great detail why Beauty and the Beast (Disney version) doesn't make any sense:
1. There are no Beasts
1a. That is, not any that can a. walk b. talk c. wear clothes and d. turn into handsome princes
2. Princes don't turn into beasts and vice versa
3. Royalty doesn't really work like that or act like that
4. Neither do horses, and it doesn't make sense for a horse to get lost just so you have an excuse for matchmaking
5. All the things in your house don't really sing and dance
6. Roses don't really carry messages
7. There was no reason she couldn't've visited home or had her dad visit her sooner
8. It's a stupid story
which just about covers it, I think! She was quite adamant!
She also told me why there aren't REALLY any such things as vampire watermelons:
It's just the wind blowing around watermelons in the night, down hills or wherever, and everybody knows there's no such things as vampires there's only "dead people who go into the ground and turn into dirt".
Of course, as I pointed out, I never said there were such things as vampire watermelons, only that some people tell stories about vampire watermelons.
Ana, for her speaking part in this post, regaled me with the ending of The Birchbark House. Before we had a chance to finish it. Oh, I might never forgive her! What's the rule, kiddies? NO READING AHEAD!
1. There are no Beasts
1a. That is, not any that can a. walk b. talk c. wear clothes and d. turn into handsome princes
2. Princes don't turn into beasts and vice versa
3. Royalty doesn't really work like that or act like that
4. Neither do horses, and it doesn't make sense for a horse to get lost just so you have an excuse for matchmaking
5. All the things in your house don't really sing and dance
6. Roses don't really carry messages
7. There was no reason she couldn't've visited home or had her dad visit her sooner
8. It's a stupid story
which just about covers it, I think! She was quite adamant!
She also told me why there aren't REALLY any such things as vampire watermelons:
It's just the wind blowing around watermelons in the night, down hills or wherever, and everybody knows there's no such things as vampires there's only "dead people who go into the ground and turn into dirt".
Of course, as I pointed out, I never said there were such things as vampire watermelons, only that some people tell stories about vampire watermelons.
Ana, for her speaking part in this post, regaled me with the ending of The Birchbark House. Before we had a chance to finish it. Oh, I might never forgive her! What's the rule, kiddies? NO READING AHEAD!
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Date: 2011-09-19 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-24 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-19 08:40 pm (UTC)Now, of course, you have to teach her the flower language--usually in books about Victoriana--to prove that roses do indeed carry messages, and not just the animated ones.
My love is like a red, red rose. The yellow rose of Texas. "Go, lovely rose--" Red roses for passion, white for purity. The Tudor Rose.
*Excuse for matchmaking or no, they do things against their own best interests pretty much on a continuous basis.
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Date: 2011-09-19 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 05:06 pm (UTC)As I recall, a man is punished for being mean to an old lady asking for help, but redeemed because he does something nice for a hot young girl.
That said, I wish a few twenty-somethings I know were as adamant in their belief that vampires do not exist.