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*Originally posted by DoctorJ *
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I ran across tickets for those on Ebay a year or so ago (no, I won’t tell you how). One of the “events” planned with the Twins was a slumber party. Sadly, my finances were in temporary disarray…
[sub](Hey!..It was a Scandanavian cruise, all right? I’ve never been to Scandanavia. Sheesh…)[/sub]
Take a person, identify a few salient features, turn her into an animation, and you have something that is alien, but acceptable – even cute. A cartoon rabbit that looks and acts like Lana Turner evokes a hubba-hubba response.
But it is a one way street. If you start with an animation which by its nature is alien, and then pour it into a human format, the transformation leaves you with a human which is somehow still alien in appearance and behaviour, and that “alien-ness” can be unnerving. A person that looks and acts like a cartoon rabbit evokes a fight or flight response.
I suspect that the Olsen twins were conceived as animations but mutated in the womb into human form, emerging as something just a little bit disturbing. I suppose we won’t know for certain until either their DNA is tested, or when they have kids someday, one of their offspring pops out as a ‘toon.
I clicked.
I learned about the clothing line, the new stores, and the on-line store. It got me wondering if all the child-directed marketing had something of value at its core, or if the marketing was all there was.
And then I spotted the body-mind-soul section, and clicked into it. What should appear but the thought-of-the-day. “Now here,” I thought, “We’re getting somewhere.”
But unfortunately I was let down, for instead of a kernel of wisdom, today’s thought was “Give yourself a treat today!” Hmmmm, after sifting through all the child-directed marketing, I wonder how a child reading the body-mind-soul thought-of-the-day might interpret “Give yourself a treat today!” I think these twins are turning me cynical.
What the children of today need is sea monkeys. Lots and lots of fun and educational sea monkeys. Yup, that’s what is needed.
Come to think of it, ever notice how in the old sea monkey advertisements in the back of comic books there would always be two identical sea monkeys facing each other, nose to nose?
Oh no. Does this mean what I think it does? Are Mary-Kate and Ashley really just mutated sea monkey advertisements? Tell me it isn’t so.
Well, for something of an explanation of their magazine, click here