A parents group I belong to jokes about Disney’s willingness to kill off all the mothers in their movies. I made an offhand remark to Princess at lunch one day about it. She was totally surprised! She went through all our animated movies in her head and realized it was true, and she’d never even noticed. Even those protagonists who had mothers weren’t with them -Sleeping Beauty was sent away to be raised, and Dumbo’s mother was incarcerated. The only exception was Mulan. Why? she asked. I told her it was because mothers tended to protect children from the trouble they get into in fairy tales. And that made me realize that Disney is doing it right. We can tell our kids that the frightening things that happen in fairy tales could never happen to you, because mama protects you. Maybe cinema matricide isn’t such a bad idea after all!

Fling: Forever is Overrated (via Super Punch)

Something to remember when you storm the castle.

The original version of Sleeping Beauty was nothing like the tale Disney told us.

Peter Pan finds his Tinkerbell!

Buy your own magic frog that turns into a prince! (via Dump Trumpet)

8 Fairy Tales And Their Not-So-Happy Endings.

Nursery rhymes we didn’t have as kids.

Annie Leibovitz photographed celebrities as Disney characters for a Disney ad campaign.

THE WORLD'S SHORTEST FAIRY TALE

Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?"

The girl said, "NO!"

And the guy lived happily ever after and went fishing, hunting and played golf a lot and drank beer and farted whenever he wanted. (Thanks, Linda!)

And the girl got to have her nails done and she didn't have to pick up icky gym socks off the floor, and she didn't have to wash his dirty underwear. She tossed her razor in the garbage and SHE lived happily ever after. (Thanks, Desiree!)

THE END

What Classic Fairy Tale Are You?
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Besides the atrocious spelling in that quiz, I’m not sure I much like being Cinderella. She is just a victim of circumstances, whose only real action in the story is to make wishes. Besides, the shoe thing is kinda creepy. Even more creepy when I found out the origins of the story. There are many versions of the Cinderella story, but the oldest is from China, the land of the original foot fetish. In the Chinese Cinderella story, Yeh Shen, the king never even meets her at the ball, but becomes obsessed with finding the girl who has such small feet to fit in the lost shoe. Now honestly, doesn't that sound kinky to you?

FAIRY TALE TECHNOLOGY

If you think technology has changed the work world, just take a look at what's happening in never-never land. A recent

update reports that today:

Little Bo Peep never loses sheep because of their embedded silicon identity chips.

Cinderella searches for her prince on Match.com - and leases her pumpkin-colored SUV at Avis.com.

Hansel and Gretel use the GPS rather than bread crumbs but have reported problems stuffing the wicked witch into her microwave oven.

To avoid travel stress, Alice now plans her Wonderland vacation with travelocity.com.

A reformed Ebenezer Scrooge sends Bob Cratchett to update his certification for Excel and Quiken.

Jack's making a fortune on his bean stalk bioengineering breakthrough.

Old McDonald uses voice recognition to make ordering easy at his agricultural auction site http://www

.eieio.com.

Romeo and Juliet avoid tragic problems by keeping in touch through their cell phones.

With her early Web capabilities, Charlotte is now a motivational speaker at tech conferences around the world.

The Pied Piper switched career fields after his tunes were bootlegged on Napster.

King Arthur has replaced that expensive round table with satellite video conferencing.

Gulliver is on sabbatical using up all his frequent flyer miles.

Jack and Jill order their Evian on peapod.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Snow White Ad

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are roaming in the forest when they come across a lake. The water was enticing and Snow White decides to take a bath. So she tells the Dwarfs to turn around while she is taking a bath in the lake.The Dwarfs protest vehemently because they want to take a bath too. Snow White relents and says "When I get into the water and you hear the splash, you can turn around."

Snow White undresses and as she is about to jump into water, at that very moment, she is startled by a frog who jumps into water before she can. The moment the Dwarfs hear the SPLASH, they turn around and see Snow White standing NAKED. Now, given that this incident is an idea for a TV ad, what product is being advertised? Come on now, this should be easy for a person of your mental powers! The product being advertised is...
SEVEN UP!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Previously at Miss Cellania: The Frog Prince and other Fairy Tales, Disney Princesses, Tortoise and Hare, and Oz.

Thought for today: Long fairy tales have a tendency to dragon.

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