Originally Posted By DisDream Walties is interesting. My cousin works at WDW and says that in California there is "the cult of Walt". So, I guess that's similar. I came up with a name for the pro-Disneyland set, the type who promote Disneyland and put down WDW on their Web sites. I call them the Disneyland Mafia - JOKINGLY - (please nobody get made at this.)
Originally Posted By danyoung Here's a line from the original post, jon - >This is the true face of a company that people think is betraying them. It is a company that laughs at their most ardent fans, and holds nothing but contempt for them.< While you never said that every single manager uses the term, you do indeed paint a picture of a company who as a whole does use the term. You have no knowledge as to how widespread the term is, but you tar the entire company with the same brush. It's hyperbole like this that tends to make us online Disney dweebs look like koolaid-drinking freaks.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Yeah, well, I got news fer them goomers! We's been lookin' down our own noses right back at 'em.<< LOL!
Originally Posted By jonvn "While you never said that every single manager uses the term" I'm not arguing semantics with you.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd >>>I thought we were called foamers.<<< LOL, my husband works for Union Pacific and that's what they call train buffs. I can never let him know that I am a Disney foamer. I get a hard enough time from him as it is.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub The Walt Standards that we worry about...I do not see any evidence of the guests at Disneyland upholding themselves to Walt's standards. Just stay seated after any parade, Fantasmic, or Fireworks. Think anybody remembers Walts one request to help keep the park clean???
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Walt never requested that the guests keep the park clean. Walt wanted a park that is clean -- so he made sure that he had a big custodial staff keep the place clean.
Originally Posted By Zwitek And yet the animals still do their best to trash the joint. I feel horrible if I drop a toothpick on the ground, and I immediately pick it up. Unfortunately, not everyone does this.
Originally Posted By dshyates While I do agree that the place does get messy occasionally. I think they do a good job at keeping the place clean. I also think that attitudes like yours helps. I also don't trash the place up. Partly because I always use the trash cans everywhere I go. But also because the place is so pretty and clean, I would hate to muck it up.
Originally Posted By Zwitek I operate under the feeling that somewhere, somehow, Walt is watching. Always watching. I'd be aghast if he knew I didn't pick up my litter.
Originally Posted By knoxvelour not to mention with all the trash cans everywhere, you'd have to be one lazy slob not to walk the 3 steps to throw something away
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Some nasty ninnies out there actualy enjoy messing up something that's beautiful. It's as if they're possessed with demons who take control over them for the sole purpose of destroying everything around them. ORGOCH: Oh, an Zwitek up there! I think ya went 'n missed one a them tooth picka a yers! I ended up pickin' it up fer ya--in my FOOT!! Thought it as a splinter from my dang broom stick, at first! Now I knows better!!
Originally Posted By Rsey103 >>I was thrilled to be working 'alongside' Marty Sklar, Eddie Soto, Chris Crump, Bob Weis, and walking the halls where old-timers like Marc Davis and Herb Ryman and Blaine Gibson had walked -- to see the actual room where Walt Disney filmed the 'EPCOT' pitch -- was a dream come true.<< That was at WDI? I don't know why I always assumed it was at the studio. What's in that room today?
Originally Posted By Zwitek <<< ORGOCH: Oh, an Zwitek up there! I think ya went 'n missed one a them tooth picka a yers! I ended up pickin' it up fer ya--in my FOOT!! Thought it as a splinter from my dang broom stick, at first! Now I knows better!! >>> My most sincere apologies, I know I dropped it, but in the crush of the crowd headed into the park from DCA so that they could catch the fireworks, I just couldn't find it.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: You don't have to apologize to such a nasty old biddy like Orgoch, Zwitek, duckling. I mean, considering the fact she's always walking around barefooted everywhere she goes, it's her OWN fault if she steps on or in something! Just be grateful you aren't embarrassed by anybody in YOUR family like I always am. I'll bet none of your folks go around barefooted at a theme park!
