Sunday, March 27, 2011

Debatable

Chase has entered [or accelerated] an annoying phase.

She likes to debate EVERYTHING.

Unfortunately her base of knowledge is as yet quite limited. Making the debates sometimes laughable and other times just extremely irritating.

If she asks you the time, heaven forbid that it change in the time that it takes her to go check a clock. Because you won't hear the end of it for hours.

If she wants to know how to spell something, you better hope that it agrees with what she is thinking in her mind. I had an entire afternoon of being yelled at about the word "Princess." In Chase's opinion, the C should be an S.

And today, Mickey and Minnie's marital status was of utmost importance. I for one voted for unmarried. After all, they each have their own houses and are often going on dates in the cartoons. But Chase was insistent. And since I couldn't remember for sure that I had never seen the two marry, I decided some research was in order. And Chase wins this one.

I have to take Walt's word for it from a 1933 interview, "In private life, Mickey is married to Minnie. A lot of people have written to him asking this question, because sometimes he appears to be married to her in his films and other times still courting her. What it really amounts to is that Minnie is, for screen purposes, his leading lady. If the story calls for a romantic courtship, then Minnie is the girl; but when the story requires a married couple, then they appear as man and wife. In the studio we have decided that they are married, really."

Hopefully this one win doesn't go to her head.

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