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October 27, 2008 |
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Minnie Mouse and a Mini Person
FOUND by Nicole Espinola
in Huntington Beach, California
I found this at a swap meet.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
gimme the cheese, or the kid gets it.
Cute little guy. (Be a shame if something were to happen to him)
I'm guessing he'd be around 51 or 52 years old now. Certainly old enough to beat the tar out of that mouse that scarred him for life back in '61.
Seriously, a cute photo and I'm sure the man and his 80-ish year-old parents would love to have it back.
this isn't as you might assume a picture of a DisneyLand vacation.
It's actually the only picture of this man as a child, with his birth mother.
She was a professional lab rat in the cosmetics field, his father a lab technician, and well the makeup they tested just made her look so dang good he fell for her.
a child was soon born as a result, and the little family had several happy years together.
until shortly after this picture was taken a group of extremist animal rights hippies broke into the lab one night and freed/kidnapped all the lab animals.
ignoring the poor mother rats protests that she was happy there(assuming it to be nothing but Stockholm syndrome), they released her into the wild (even taking away her bow and skirt, because forcing animals to wear clothing is oppressive) where she lived out the rest of her life.
the young man(whose looks he luckily inherited from his fathers side) was so young when it happened that he eventually forgot all about his birth mother.
his father remarried quickly feeling his son needed a mother, and the boy would grow up assuming she was his real mother.
years later when he found this picture in the attic, his only thought would be "hhmmm, I don't remember ever going to Disneyland".
and his only remaining reminder of his rodent mother would forever be an oddly intense fondness for cheese.
the moral?
maybe animal cosmetic testing isn't so bad after all, maybe rodents want to look pretty too...
cool picture, love the lil guy's face - but it doesn't leave me pondering too much.
the only thing i'm left wondering:
what's a swap meet?
This is adorable! :)
@ Procrastinator: A swap meet is what it says on the tin. It's a place where people meet up and swap stuff they don't want for things they do. Like a rummage sale but with no money changing hands. Like a "take one, leave one" book bin. Could be anything: used clothing, DVDs, books, machinery, whatever.
Spam: 28x 15. This capcha really needs to go away. I hate it and I keep getting it. I can't remember the answer from one day to the next.
Sadly, they're siblings (pre- and post-Three Mile Island).
For those of you who complain about having to do the spam math: can you turn on 'autocomplete' in Windows Explorer? I have it turned on, so I only have to enter the first number or letter of the answer and choose from the short list of previous answers. If you use Windows Explorer:
In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
Click the Content tab.
Under Personal information, click AutoComplete.
Select the check boxes for the AutoComplete options you want to use.
Autocomplete makes it a lot faster/easier for me.
Somehow I can't login anymore. So it's spam protection time for good ole Indy, too (spelling a word backwards).
Anyway - I wonder what became of that person wearing the Minnie suit (I take it they use women for Minnie and men for Mickey, don't they?). I know they're not supposed to talk or taking their masks off during work, but this always makes me wonder all the more what the guy/gal may look like. Is it some pretty student or an elderly women?
It's Ok to love your animals - just don't looovvee yourr animals..
@ monkey in denial ... great story!!
Also this picture is reminding me of one taken of moi when I was about the same age as the kid here. We lived in London then and my folks wanted to snap a photo of me standing next to one of those scary guys in the red uniform and bearskin hat. Yowza! In our photo I'm about 5 feet from the guy and look like I'm certain he is about to kill me.
And, come to think of it, I've never been back to London since we moved. Hmmm.
Ugh! This mouse is almost as creepy as a clown!
Why isn't the kid smiling?
Please an someone tell me what a swap meet is???
Sorry I mean please can....
Looks like Minnie fell asleep at a party, since she's missing half her eyelashes.
zoe, the explanation is up higher, just read through the comments.
Baby basil, i think its cute that you can't remember the answer to 28x15. Your illicit herb friends would be disappointed. (4:20 is the universal time to smoke dope. I'm not sure where that comes from, there are various theories. A friend of mine kept having her house number stolen from the side of the road, cuz she lived at 420. Good thing she lives in teh country, and they were able to change her house number to 424, or something like that)
Swap meet is what the flea market is called in California. Like a giant garage sale.
@ mona lisa, 420 is the police code for a drug bust.
wow. that minnie mouse is very tall. when i worked at disney world there were strict height guidelines for the character actors.
i was at universal studios once and saw rogue and storm walking around, posing for pictures. i really wanted a child because rogue didn't have gloves on. i would have told my kid, "when that lady touches you, start screaming and crying and don't stop until i give you the signal." would have been fun to see what happened.
@Zoe: "Swap meet" = car boot sale.
I love your name...do you have a sibling named Thanatos? Good names for twins.
This reminds me of the Disney small world story of the couple that get married for the first time; they were both in their 40's. It was Thanksgiving and the man was lying on the couch after dinner watching family movies with her family. On the movie he sees a little boy and a man walk through the frame and realizes it's his father and him when he was just a boy. They were at Disneyland at the same time and happen to get filmed on his wife’s family movie reel.
Hum, maybe I should check that out with Snopes or Urban Ledgins Truth or Fiction, before I repeat that story again huh.....
This is a super cute classic picture!
If this is a mini mouse, I'd hate to see a regular sized mouse.
@Geek: do you really think this kid was 4 or 5? I was thinking 3 tops.
I feel like Minnie forgot her mascara on one side...
and her eyebrow pencil...
@ Drinking in an Irish Bar:
Mice aren't creepy and neither are clowns. I draw a comic strip about a mouse, and I'm married to a professional clown. She (the wife, not the mouse) went to clown college about fifteen years ago and has been working as a children's entertainer ever since.
@ Pluto, I guess we're all thinking it now:
It's a small world, after all.
It's a small world, after all.
It's a small world, after all.
It's a small, small world.
According to 10cc, Minnie Mouse gets more fan mail than the Pope.
I've always wondered if that was true.
thanks, Kwyncee (et al)
Hey Pastor Z,
You could even put churchmice.net and your wife's website on your Found profile. (I married a clown, too, but he's not professional. Haha!)
That's a little Mickey Wayne Mousy in the making right there.
4:20 is when all the DeadHeads used to spark up their bowls and doobage in anticipation for the 5:00 start of the Sunday Show.
Minnie Mouse has her other eyelashes.
I believe the sun's glare in the photograph
makes them practically invisible. But if you look closely you can see some lashes above the eye.
I checked out churchmice.com and I think it's cool, Pastor Z. But then we Wombles look a lot like mouses ourselves. Much more than Mickey and Minnie, in my opinion.
Why do things from the 1950s and 1960s always look so much cooler than things from now? That Minnie costume is just classy.
4:20
I am so enlightened.
In everything this week (including Butthole Surfing).
I feel like I have lived in a bubble for so long.
You guys are all my new best friends.
Have to comment on vintage chick in Frontierland: I look at pictures of myself from the 60's and think, "Yuck." Not cool.
Sorry to disagree
@ Scarlett: Minnie is bound to do a wonky job on her mascara and eyebrow pencil when she's dealing with such an extreme case of strabismus. Come on, Walt, spring for a trip to an opthamologist, or at least the costume shop.
WOW! For a *Minnie-Mouse*, she sure has large feet!
But the boy is as sweet as honey!