Chapter 5: Minion Inspiration

So I was reading about the McDonald’s minion toy that supposedly said “What The F***?”

My first question to the parents is:

1) Would a public company such as McDonald’s actually stake their reputation as to let something like that slip by?

2) Would a company such as Illumination Entertainment, who has made their fortune on the happiness of younger children, and is backed by a behemoth of a publicly traded media company (NBC/Universal/Comcast), actually risk letting something like that slip by, even if just to pop adults?

Minionese is known to be a gibberish language that at times can include bits of English. Think of Spanglish or Tex-Mex, where a speaker will throw in an English word at what seems like random.

If I were a betting man, I’d say whomever had the idea for the language of the minions has toddlers. I sit down and listen to my toddler babble on as he is trying to learn to speak, and it sounds eerily similar to what I hear anytime I watch a video with minions in it.

Now for a little bit of housekeeping, it does seem like I missed two weeks writing. Technically, I missed a week and a half, because I am making up for this past Friday just now. I’ll be back next Friday once again. But the Friday before that, a chapter in what seems like the never-ending saga to get my body righted. I had surgery to release both the carpal and the ulnar nerves in my left hand and wrist. Only since they took off the surgical dressing this past Friday have I been able to think about typing with both hands. Good news is? The way it feels, I believe when all the post-surgical sensations clear up, the surgery fixed my problems. But, I may or may not need to do this to my right hand as well. That will be a problem going without my dominant hand for 7–10 days. :S

Hopefully, I will be back to my regular visits here this coming Friday.