# Extremely wrong Donald Duck ride. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086 "2004-12-10T06:21:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/41 "2004-12-11T18:55:47Z")
:eek: Bad, **astro** , BAD! Now where did I put that eye-removal fork? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/42 "2004-12-11T19:10:34Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > Shouldn’t that be “And how long would it take for a mob of single women to form?” 😃 If that was in front of my Shop Rite, I would be on it _so_ fast, for my next Author’s Photo . . . ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/43 "2004-12-11T19:20:13Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > If that was in front of my Shop Rite, I would be on it _so_ fast, for my next Author’s Photo . . . For your book on the Canarda Sutra? ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/44 "2004-12-12T01:55:34Z")
Set it up in a bar, and you’ve got a money maker. Better than the mechanical bull! ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/45 "2004-12-12T02:15:37Z")
Just think how much fun the [Chicken Lady](http://www.kithfan.org/work/transcripts/five/chknhorse.html) could have with that ride! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/46 "2004-12-12T02:23:07Z")
Bwah! Perfect. I can really hear that. “Fibreglass duck, fibreglass duck, I love to ride my fibreglass duck.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/47 "2004-12-12T02:55:06Z")
I must be a total square. Other than Donald’s viewpoint, why is this attraction considered “extremely wrong”? The user, in this case a little girl, is seated nowhere near the duck’s cloaca, the home of the male duck’s sexy goodies. Can someone tell me what’s so bad about this ride? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/48 "2004-12-12T03:24:25Z")
> [@El Cid Viscoso](#): > > The user, in this case a little girl, is seated nowhere near the duck’s cloaca, the home of the male duck’s sexy goodies. Donald is anthropomorphized, though. Because he’s partly human, we fill in the blanks for his genitals fore of his legs, rather than imagining a ventral orifice on him. His physical attitude (if we project human traits onto him,) combined with the undulating motion that we expect from a coin-op kiddy-ride, is extremely sexual. Why do I feel like we’re playing “Man from Mars?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/49 "2004-12-12T03:30:59Z")
> [@El Cid Viscoso](#): > > Can someone tell me what’s so bad about this ride? Anthropomorphism Replace the duck with a human male. Most of Disney’s animals are not animals, but are representations of human qualities or types. Sure, the positions still may not quite match up, but just having a girl straddle a prone man gives rise to thoughts of possible coitus. The fact that it’s a “ride” makes it even easier to go that extra few inches in many people’s minds. And to some, it looks like she’s humping him. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/50 "2004-12-12T03:33:39Z")
Larry must have posted while I was typing. Same idea from two completely different people. So, you tell me, does it look like the little girl is fucking an anthropomorphised cartoon animal or what?. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/51 "2004-12-12T03:55:04Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Same idea from two completely different people. I think most people get that idea – it’s just odd to have to actually verbalise it. > [@](#): > > Just having a girl straddle a prone man gives rise to thoughts of possible coitus. Wee nitpick: Donald is _supine_. If he were prone, we’d have to imagine a hot pink Barbie-branded juvenile strap-on plunging deep into his cloaca. And we wouldn’t want to do _that_. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/52 "2004-12-12T03:58:09Z")
I always get prone and supine mixed up. I blame Warner Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/53 "2004-12-12T04:12:34Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I always get prone and supine mixed up. > > I blame Warner Brothers. Perhaps the only time Mae West blushed in public: She had for many years used “I am not prone to argue” in its double-entendre sense, being tame-but-risque enough to pass censorship and still titillate (as many of her great lines were). Then H.L. Mencken explained to her the difference between “prone” and “supine.” ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/54 "2004-12-12T04:57:04Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I think most people get that idea – it’s just odd to have to actually verbalise it. You know, since you’ve pointed it out, although anatomically it doesn’t make any sense at all, if that were an adult on the duck I guess I might get another idea. Irrespective of the “average” observer’s questionable anthropomorphization, I would not independently have arrived at that conclusion. Further, I don’t see young’uns as sexual things, so a little girl’s undulations mean nothing to me. Twice you paint me as “odd” for thinking innocently about children. Why? ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/55 "2004-12-12T05:17:29Z")
Laughter. Guilt. Laughter. Guilt. Laughter. Guilt . . . . ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/56 "2004-12-12T05:33:47Z")
> [@El Cid Viscoso](#): > > Twice you paint me as “odd” for thinking innocently about children. Why? No offense meant – it simply _is_ odd, in the general sense of the word. There’s no value judgement there-- it’s just that the usual reaction to seeing that picture is _“Oh my God! What the…?”_ If your semiotic processes are such that you really don’t see anything suggestive, either because you conceptualize an anthropomorphized character as though it were an actual duck, or (like, in all probability, everyone else in this thread) you don’t think about children in an erotic way, then that’s a peculiarity that is fairly well outside of most people’s general experience. When humanoid forms are arranged with certain configurations of limbs, it doesn’t matter if the humanoids in question are totally asexual – most people _will_ interpret it as a sex tableau. Intellectually, I _know_ that artists’ mannequins don’t have any sexual organs. Hell, they don’t have any sexual or even personal features at all. They just have a vaguely human form. Still, when I see [something like this](http://images.google.ca/images?q=tbn:nWd-9gsg6s4J:www.doodledraw.com/pictures/1264.png), I don’t spend a lot of time puzzling it out – and I’d be surprised if anyone else did, too. It’d be… …odd. Now, these _particular_ humanoid forms are a cartoon duck and an innocent-looking little girl – neither of which are forms that we’d ordinarily sexualize. So it’s an incongruous image. Incongruity provokes laughter. Hence, this thread, and the tee-hees therein. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/57 "2004-12-12T05:59:11Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I always get prone and supine mixed up. > > I blame Warner Brothers. The only way I remember is _supine_ on your _spine_. This was my face seeing that picture :eek: except of course not blue. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/58 "2004-12-12T15:50:27Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > The only way I remember is _supine_ on your _spine_. If I do that, I start thinking of backs. “Soupine” is the way you want to be to hold a bowl of soup. It’s also the way your hands are when holding a bowl of soup - and supinate and pronate in hands and feet are always tricky. If you had to hold a bowl of soup with your feet, you’d try to do it by turning the inner sides up and bending your knees out to the side - supinating your feet. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086/59 "2004-12-13T22:44:05Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [Not really](http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_366856.htm) :eek: :eek: :eek: Oh my. Apparently I’ve been misled about the penis thing (and no, it wouldn’t be the first time :)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extremely-wrong-donald-duck-ride/279086.md?page=2)