Monday Teeny Poll
By Glinda
In a nice validation of my parenting from teh internets, a full eighty-two percent of you did not feel I was teaching my son to cheat by looking up a walkthrough to a video game. I have to say, it is rather tempting to look up everything on the internet, but I try not to look up answers until all of us have tried and failed.
This weekend, some of the classic holiday movies were on television, such as “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and my husband and I happily watched it again. I do know people, like my mother for example, who refuse to watch something after they’ve already seen it. And in my mother’s case, will always exasperatedly ask everyone “Haven’t you already watched that?” knowing full well what the answer is, but unable to help herself.
December 14th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
What about a choice for those of us who struggle with change and actually prefer to watch the same thing over and over? Because I enjoy it more if I know how it ends? (And yes, I am one of those people who will SKIP TO THE END OF A BOOK. Though this didn’t work so well with The Deathly Hallows.)
December 15th, 2009 at 11:07 am
Is it just me, or when you watch Rudolph as an adult, do you realize how warped it is? At the end, I felt so sorry for the Abominable Snowman. Poor guy was just looking for a meal! And now he’s got no teeth and will have to rely on the elves to feed him pablum.
And don’t even get me started on Donner proclaiming that looking for Rudolph was “man’s work”. Maybe if you hadn’t tormented your own kid like that, he wouldn’t have run off, Mister Manly Man.
Am I taking this too seriously?
December 15th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
@La Petite Acadienne:
What is amusing to me is to remember how I viewed the show as a child–the first time I watched Rudolph with my older daughter, I constantly reassured her that the only reason the Abominable Snowman was mean was because he had a toothache, and when Herbie fixed his toothache then he felt better and was nice. I was surprised to discover that I had completely made that part up as my own explanation. But I still like it. And he’s not dependent on the elves at the end; he wants a job! Perhaps he gets pablum in exchange for his work.
I think the “man’s work” part is hysterically funny–because Rudolph’s mom and Clarice roll their eyes at each other and promptly set out after Rudolph as well. Which I interpret as a subtle boost for feminism.