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From: Derek Janssen on 22 Dec 2007 05:34
Charlie Foxtrot wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:23:57 GMT, disneyfannyc <noreply(a)verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm fascinated as to why people make up/post strange stories like this....
>
> Actually, what's really twisted is that this same story, complete with
> the "Mackay Mouse" spelling/pronunciation was told on RADP a few years
> back. I've got to go look it up and see if it's word for word.

You could assemble any such Disney Urban Legend out of spare parts of
other Disney Urban Legends--

Disney tends to attract a perfect storm of Urban Legend #3: "Twisted
Secrets of Your Childhood Favorites" with Urban Legend #6: "Other Kids'
Uncaring/Indulgent Parents" (when not using Urban Legend #2: "Really
Cool Death or Dismemberment")...But it was the 90's Eisner Era that
added that kicker dose of Urban Legend #5, "Soulless Predatory
Mega-Corporations".
It was only the Howie-fan hobbies of the individual poster that
embellished the "fat retarded kid" aspect into the story--Embellishments
aren't as interesting when they can be traced, they end up showing the
author's hand.

Derek Janssen (y'know, when there's only six or seven of them floating
around, there's just not much suspense anymore)
ejanss1(a)verizon.net
From: Daniel on 22 Dec 2007 08:20
yumhuyk <Wostyntje(a)gmail.com> wrote:

HORSE HOCKEY

> I went recently on a trip to WDW and had a very negative experience.
> It wasn't how my family and I were treated, but how the employees
> there (which I have heard called "cast members" here) were treated.
>
> But first, some background. I am a 36, and my only child and the
> light of my life, Tad, has down syndrome. He is ten years old and
> weighs around 250 lbs. When my husband, Tad, and I were visiting
> EPCOT when my son wanted to meat "Mickay Mouse". So I found one of
> those people who walk around in a Mickay Mouse costume and pointed him
> out to Tad. Tad got a little over-excited and ran toward him and
> collided with him, knocking him down. Tad tends to do this, he
> doesn't know his own strength! My husband tried to stop him, but he
> wasn't too effectual, he has MS and CP. Anywho, Mickay Mouse was on
> the floor and then Tad somehow managed to pull off the head of the
> costume revealing the human being underneath. This mad Tad very
> upset, and then he ran off crying and soiling his pants, which he
> usually does when he is upset.
>
> After I cleaned him up, I met up with my hubby and he told me that the
> guy in the costume was fired! On the spot! It turns out that if a
> employee in a costume takes off his head in public, he is fired
> automatically! I think that is very unfair, and it really made the
> rest of the trip very gloomy. It wasn't his fault my son is
> retarded.
>
> yours in Christ,
> Isamu

From: Sandi Femino on 22 Dec 2007 10:32
In article <Lh%aj.22548$Mu4.2579(a)bignews7.bellsouth.net>,
"Chambers" <someone(a)somewhere.com> wrote:

> BS
Yes.

I remember this being posted here before, and I think more than once in
my 15 years on RADP.

Guess school's out for Winter Break?

--


Sandi
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