Originally Posted By MichaelTheM-Fan >>Never has there been a more apt thread title.<< Haha, not to sound like an idiot, but what does apt mean
Originally Posted By gadzuux Main Entry: apt Pronunciation: \ˈapt\ Function: adjective 1: unusually fitted or qualified: ready 2: suited to a purpose; especially: being to the point <an apt quotation>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <and I was wearing my "DL 55" hat. Somebody said they thought it meant that I was "on the down-low" - as if I were trying to keep a secret but wearing a hat emblazoned with it.> I don't get it. On the down low to or for what, exactly?
Originally Posted By dizkid ^^^^^"DL" could be an Acronym for "Down low." that is probably where the confusion arose. I've got a great story. So I brought some of my friends to Disneyland and while we were waiting in line one of them brightly told me that "Disneyland was Walt Disney's least favorite of all his parks." Need I say more.
Originally Posted By DlandDug This confusion has always kind of bothered me, too. But I just bear in mind that most people aren't really paying that close attention, and don't mean anything by it. When the COMPANY makes these mistakes, though, I do get annoyed. A few years ago the official album for Disneyland came out with a photo on the back of a log filled with happy guets about to make the final plunge on Splash Mountain. The guests were sitting in bench seats side by side. In Disneyland, the logs have a single center seat, in which guests are seated one behind the other. This was an official Disney product, and they didn't bother to choose the correct image to illustrate a Disneyland attraction!
Originally Posted By gadzuux >> I don't get it. On the down low to or for what, exactly? << "On The Down-Low" is an expression - mostly in the black community I believe - for a man that isn't "out". These guys are at least partially responsible for the spread of HIV within african americans, so black women are often on the lookout for them. My point is that the acronym "DL" which we all readily understand, is completely misunderstood as something far different in the south.
Originally Posted By SFH It's also annoying when Disney's own ads are misleading, like showing people standing in an elevator for Tower of Terror. As far as people saying the wrong titles or erroneous "facts", you have to pick your battles, unless you enjoy wasting your time and coming across as an obsessed nerd or a know-it-all. But it CAN be a good private chuckle, or one to share with our fellow enthusiasts. My wife will tell me how ridiculous some of the hospital scenes are in movies/TV shows. She's right, but most of the audience won't pick up on it. (There is at least one major film director who, in recent years, has tried to make things more realistic by actually using nonactors, like if a main character goes to a coffee shop, the person behind the counter is the actual coffee shop employee.) Now here's one... We were waiting for IllumiNations years ago, and and some stranger, apparently trying to impress my mother, was telling us how Space Mountain (at WDW) used to reach speeds of about 100mph, but that it was toned down.
Originally Posted By danyoung There were stories back in the 60's about how when the Haunted Mansion was first built, the elevator dropped you a free-fall speeds. But someone died of a heart attack, so they had to slow it down. I was 13 when I heard this, and I bought it totally!
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ^^^Yes, the Haunted Mansion rumors and urban legends were very common during the early 70s when it first opened. The one I would hear is that in the stretch room, the floor 'used to drop out and all the people would just fall into a net' -- supposedly like the bottom of a trapeze set-up. And yes, 'some woman' got so scared she had a heart attack.
Originally Posted By mousermerf I don't think Annette Funicello appreciated all those people constantly falling onto her, so they changed it.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal They fell into a net. Annette. A net. Annette. Uma, Oprah, Oprah, Uma.
Originally Posted By SFH The MuppetVision waiting area "net full of jello" is one of many examples of brilliance.
Originally Posted By Manfried "It cannot come from a broad." - A. Lincoln. That line gets complaints all the time.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb >>>We were waiting for IllumiNations years ago, and and some stranger, apparently trying to impress my mother, was telling us how Space Mountain (at WDW) used to reach speeds of about 100mph, but that it was toned down<<< You should have asked if they slowed it down before or after taking out the loop.
