Asking Yahoo About Donald Duck, Grimace, Winnie-the-Pooh and Yogi Bear
Published by simon on October 6, 2005Yesterday was a slow day, so I tried exploring Ask Yahoo! I’ve had it installed for more than 6 years now, I really look forward to them answering a trivial question from netsurfers everyday.
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Anyways, the question of yesterday was,
Why does Donald Duck never wear pants?
Long answer? Its some repressive anal retentive mal-adjusted childhood phobia that originated from Donald’s traumatic experience involving a stuck fly zipper and his abusive uncle Scrooge McDuck.
Short answer? Because he’s drawn that way.
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Then I clicked on the ‘related question’ link where the question was…
What kind of creature is Grimace from McDonald’s?
Long answer? Interesting question. I’ve always wondered about the identity of this strange purple blob of sleepy eyed McToy. Is it the illegitimate offspring of a snow-woman with Barney the Purple Dinosaur? Or Shrek with Gumby the walking purple crayon? Does anyone know?
Short answer? There’s no answer. According to the people at McDonald’s, it just a creation to make us eat more Chicken McNuggets.
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OK, fine, we’ll click on the next question..
What gender is Winnie-the-Pooh?
Long answer? Is ‘it’ male? Or female? Or neither? Does anyone really care? It has a voice of an old man, but has a name of a woman. But it has no visible genitalia. Unlike a certain crazy frog we know. And in this politically correct day and age, shouldn’t he/she change his name to Winnie-the-Sh!t?
Short answer? Male. It says so in the book. He just has a girly name.
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Next one.
How did “Yogi Bear” get his name if he never practiced yoga?
Long answer? He DID practice yoga, but he grew tired of doing it alone in the Yellowstone National Park, so he changed to New Age Transcendal Meditation, later he switched Tai-Chi, then Calcutta Fitness BodyJam™. Last I heard, he was into Pilates with Madonna.
Short answer? He was named after American baseball star Yogi Berra. No, really.
OK, enough of asking Yahoo! for one day…
i think it’s proven that asking yahoo is more entertaining than asking jeeves!
ROFL! Good entertainment to kick off the weekend, hehe.
I HATE WINNIE THE POO. Hate it for it’s English, voice, story line, yellow bear, EVERYTHING!!!! I must kiss the ground that none of my kids like the POO anyway. They love Crazy Frog and it’s little birdie and that song that drives me mad.
Grimace sucks! He (or she?) makes children cries.
totoro - i neber fail to read it every morning! neber used ask jeeves, however.
pat - and its going to be a great weekend!!!
lilian - i heard they just released ANOTHER song by thar crazy frog!!! AARGH!!!
sharl612 - really? i thot hamburglar made children cry?
I’ve always wondered about Goofy and those gloves…Hyuk hyuk!
Simon,
On few birthday parties at McDonalds that I attended, Grimace came out and the kids ran crying to the parents. Hamburglar - he was bullied - some kids punched and kicked him. Weird huh?
shan - the more important question is - is goofy man or dog?
sharl612 - OMG, which McDonalds was this?!
omg…i LOVE pooh bear but he’s got an identity crisis????
poor pooh….
he’s an old bear trapped in a young cub’s body…
NNNNNOOOoooooooooooooo * fades away*
not to mention a male bear with a girl’s name…
that’s just plain mean. humph! no pot of hunny for u! blek!
no hunny for me? NO-oooooo-oooo…!!
Yeah, i hate Winnie too. Annoys the heck out of me with his girly voice (old man?). In Kingdom Hearts, I wished I could beat the crap out of him.
kingdom hearts? wow, its been a long time since i played dat game!
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