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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:47 PM
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Poll question: Who's your favorite mouse?
This has probably been done several times before but in honor of mouse night in the lounge this special poll has been created. I'm sorry there wasn't enough room for Minnie Mouse, Pixie and Dixie, Sniffles, Uncle Pecos, et al. But there is an "other" slot, of course.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:48 PM
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1. what about magic rat???
my vote is for him
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:50 PM
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2. Wrong species
Sorry. :-)
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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:53 PM
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3. Topo Gigio is dead! n/t
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:56 PM
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7. Oh no! I hadn't heard
Should I bump him for Uncle Pecos? There's still time.
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BringEmOn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:54 PM
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4. Mighty Mouse
also Pixie and Dixie.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:56 PM
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6. Pixie and Dixie were my favorites, as well!
For some reason, nobody seems to remember them except me! Why is that?:shrug:
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:47 AM
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52. And Mr. Jinx!
You are not alone, my friend. Pixie and Dixie live on in our hearts.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:58 PM
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9. I knew I'd forget an important one
Edited on Sat Nov-15-03 09:59 PM by nuxvomica
I'm thinking of bumping the Italian for MM.

edit: too late. Someone's voted for Topo already. I can't be Diebold here.
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:11 PM
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15. Sorry about that
If you had included Pixie and Dixie, I would have voted for them, instead!:shrug:
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mikehiggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 11:14 PM
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33. Mighty Mouse RULES!
Here I come to save the day!

Somehow, whenever I see Dennis K that song pops into my head.

America could use more heroes like Dennis.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:00 AM
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38. that always reminds me of Andy Kaufman . . .
singing along to the recording of the Mighty Mouse theme song . . . hysterical! . . . :)
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:11 AM
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39. I will never forget Andy Kaufman
on his debut on television's Saturday Night Live, where he stood nervously next to a scratchy record playing the Mighty Mouse theme, lip-syching Might Mouse's cry of "Here I come to save the day!"
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:45 AM
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51. I remember that was the first time I saw him and I didn't know...
what to make of him at first but the moment was transcendant.
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Philostopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:54 PM
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5. Dangermouse.
Edited on Sat Nov-15-03 09:56 PM by nownow
But Ignatz gets my number two vote.

Edited -- Dangermouse was a British kids' cartoon that used to show on Nickelodeon, in case anybody doesn't recognize it (some may not). He was a sort of rodential James Bond.

Second edit -- James Bond, not James Bonc. At least I didn't type 'James Bong.' Though I might have left it alone if I had.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:01 PM
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12. Are you sure you voted? I voted for Ignatz and he only has one vote
Edited on Sat Nov-15-03 10:03 PM by nuxvomica
:shrug:

edit: duh.
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Philostopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:53 PM
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31. I voted 'other'
Dangermouse is my favorite, Ignatz is my #2.
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starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:22 PM
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19. Another vote for Danger Mouse here!
My kids were the right age when it was around, so I saw a lot of it. Great stuff!
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 09:57 PM
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8. Pixie and Dixie
I hate those mieces to pieces!
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phaseolus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:00 PM
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10. Mickey Rat!!
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:28 AM
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45. Agree, Rodentia is Rodentia
here's a recent portrait of Mickey Rat by Robert Armstrong, his creator.



www.geocities.com/artandnoveltyhut/
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Waistdeep Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:01 PM
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11. Martha the Movie Mouse
a really great children's book by Arnold Lobel -- much better than his Frog and Toad stuff. Out of print. How can you not admire a cinemaphile mouse who has adventures, saves a movie theater, and whose greatest pleasure is hanging out in a theater, drinking a lemon coke with ice?

If I had to vote for one of the candidates above, I would pick Ignatz, which was my son's name until he was born.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:18 PM
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17. Poor Ignatz
He's the second choice of "other" voters. :-(
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:26 PM
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21. He's my first choice. Here's a little taste of him.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:35 PM
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24. LOL. Ignatz rules
If I were Diebold, I would switch them all to Ignatz while I can still edit. :evilgrin:
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:09 PM
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13. Mighty Mouse
Mickey Rat's not a mouse, or he would get it.
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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:35 AM
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48. Here I come to save the day!
You know the situation's well in hand! Saturday mornings, 1960s, along with Roy Rogers, Sky King and Soupy Sales. Not even close!
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HamstersFromHell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:10 PM
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14. Savior Faire
Edited on Sat Nov-15-03 10:11 PM by HamstersFromHell
is everywhere!

(on edit, I learned how to spell.)


Hammies!
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:17 PM
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16. I'll make mincemeat outta that mouse!
n/t
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sweetladybug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:22 PM
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20. Mighty Mouse has always been my favorite since I was a kid
He's my hero haha.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:21 PM
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18. Mighty Mouse
The Ralph Bakshi version.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:29 PM
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22. You forgot Speedy Gonzalez
n/t
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:37 PM
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25. Ay Carumba!
One of my favorites too. I went to a famous mice site to help with the poll and they had no Ignatz, Mighty Mouse, Speedy or Itchy. Famous mice indeed!
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glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:34 PM
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23. My computer Mouse!!!!......hehehehe
:)
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:54 PM
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32. Very funny but this is serious business
It looks like The Brain's ambitions for poll domination will be satisfied. I am sure he is a NeoCon. There may be no hope for anarchist Ignatz but the fat lady has yet to finish singing.
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glarius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 11:38 PM
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36. Whaaaattt?????
:)
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Waistdeep Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:43 PM
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26. Don't forget the Strauss opera superhero
Deflator Mouse ..........
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:48 PM
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28. Is that a joke or are you just bad at German spelling?
Please don't waste your vote on a bat. Waste it on Ignatz. :-)
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Waistdeep Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:52 PM
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30. I know it's a bat
I was reminded of some post opera vandalism at San Francisco's Opera house --- a bunch of cars had the air let out of their tires and notes put on their windshield signed "Deflator Mouse"
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Mikimouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:45 PM
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27. Let me see if I can think of one, Hmmmmmmm.....
Oh yeah! Me!:hippie:
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 10:50 PM
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29. Vanity votes are frowned upon by the electoral commission
Which is me. And I'm campaigning for Ignatz.
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Mikimouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 11:17 PM
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35. Ya big bully! Where's my brick?
You realize, of course, that voting for Ignatz dates you htoroughly, and the fact that I know the cartoon real well (from memory) dates me as well.:evilgrin:
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:18 AM
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42. We've got to stop dating each other
I have to admit that I have the cartoons on tape. They are much cruder than I remember but still funny.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 11:16 PM
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34. other: DUer Magic Rat, his threads always got me smiling when I came
in to lounge down or angry from like politics/campaigns or GD. :toast: thanks rat, youre a cool guy.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:16 AM
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40. How many times must I say this is a mouse poll, not a rat poll!
Magic Rat is a rat, not a mouse! (Jeez, what have things come to that I'm writing a sentence like that? :crazy:)
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:17 AM
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41. but in Kleeb world: Rats are mice
I thought rats and mice were the same thing. :hi: I passed biology but never learned to write in cursive.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:23 AM
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43. Well that explains everything
:silly: Kleeb, you always make me think but I'm never sure what I'm thinking about :silly:
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:28 AM
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46. lol yea
:silly: I never did learn cursive :), and once upon a time, I thought tigers and lions were one and thes ame.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-15-03 11:53 PM
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37. Definately Topo!
I grew up loving Topo Gigio. My aunt still has her plastic Topo doll that is missing an ear. The ear was cut off when she was young, by, she alledges, my mother and other aunt. They deny this to this day.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:27 AM
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44. Let's hope someday your family can come to grips with this issue
I liked Topo too. I remember we were shown movies periodically in the basement of my parochial grade school. One of them was a feature-length story about Topo in the circus. And of course we always watched him on Ed Sullivan.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:31 AM
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47. Eddie, kees me goodnight!
I hope the facts will one day come to light. As it stands now, my mother and aunt cut the ear off and threw it out the window of a moving car. This story has a serious flaw in it, however, as the hole in the doll's head where the ear is missing has dried glue on it. What really happened may never be known.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:36 AM
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49. How about a judges decision on the inclusion of Pikachu or Hamtaro?
Pikachu is to a mouse kind of what Goofy is to a dog, with lightning bolts.

And Hamtaro is almost a mouse, being a hamster, which is close. And since he would be the only member of the "Favorite Hamster Poll," perhaps we should include him here?

No, thought not. Mickey, then. Must vote for my antenna ball.
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:54 AM
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53. I am sorry, the judges are very old
The were handed a Nintendo but couldn't figure out how to use it. They've tabled the Pikachu issue but have definitely disqualified Hamtaro. My hands are tied.
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lynndew2 Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:38 AM
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50. Other
The mice from "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". They ruled..LOL
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:56 AM
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54. So was Slartibartfast ever a mouse? I don't remember
'Twould be regrettable if I could've put his name in the poll and didn't.
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lynndew2 Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 02:11 AM
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59. Nope He was never a mouse.
Earth was created by Mice. They only played a 10 minute role in the film(book).
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 01:14 AM
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55. One more mouse worthy of note: Mush Mouse
He was teamed with Punkin' Puss in Hanna-Barbera cartoons in the '60s. Had to mention him cuz he's my brother's favorite. :hi:
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RandomUser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 01:23 AM
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56. For a moment I thought we were talking about computer mices
I like the ergonomic ones :)
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 01:35 AM
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57. I like my optical mouse
But don't get me going cuz this is all about the fictional furry ones.
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RandomUser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 01:38 AM
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58. How about
a fictional furry optical computer mouse? :}
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:35 PM
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60. Before this poll hits the archives, some final words
It looks like The Brain is the clear winner.

I deeply regret the exclusion of Mighty Mouse.

I hope Scarlet_Owl's family can get past the Topo Gigio incident.

And I'd like anyone reading this to take a look at BurtWorm's post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=414023&mesg_id=414150&page=

This poll is has been dedicated to the mousechief-maker in all of us. :hi:
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 06:24 PM
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62. I don't understand how The Brain happened to win
When I worked nights, this cartoon was on very early in the morning. I tried to change the channel or shut the set off before that horrible music started. That whole show just really creeped me out!
:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:
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Abaques Donating Member (253 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-16-03 12:37 PM
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61. I prefer Logitech to Microsoft actually....
n/t
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Donating Member ( posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 06:30 PM
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63. Ignatz
Herriman (the artist) was a true subversive.
He was the first one to "break the frame" in cartoons and had several other innovations. The insanity pepper Simpsons directly homages Krazy Kat's style...
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nuxvomica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 07:03 PM
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64. Thanks for the insight. I need to see more of the print version.
My exposure to Krazy Kat has been almost entirely via the cartoons. But your and BurtWorm's posts have inspired me to get some of the collections.
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