I so wanted to watch 'Mirror Mirror'. Fairy tales fascinate me. Yes, even now. And Julia Roberts in the role of the evil queen would be a double treat. The evil queen looking into the Mirror and booming, Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of the all? Fairest? duh-huh evil queen! Silly you! Snow White last name is WHITE remember? She'll obviously be the fairest! Wow! this will make a nice advertisement for a fairness cream. All copyrights reserved. To use the idea, please contact me.
But then it set me thinking, Indians being obsessed with fairness is acceptable (we are uncivilized? We have so many fairness creams to sell ) But the west? Why would the already pale queen want to grow fairer? OK, 'fair' could mean pretty, but did they run out of vocabulary? Why did they have to say fairest of the all? They could have used pretty, beautiful, lovely or hazaar other words.
Whats with fairness and fairness creams anyway? And fairness creams for men! Oh no! Cant stand those advertisements on TV! They make normal people feel like a tape threatened to turn itself into a CD or it wont survive. Whatever happened to the TDH guy. The guy carved out of yummy chocolate. (No not white chocolate). They should show disclaimers for these advertisements to like the ones for tobacco/cigarette scenes on TV. We have come such a long way from just fair and lovely to a little less than a million products that promise anything and everything from getting you married to making you the next beauty queen. And now they show science, intelligent cell vita something. Oh my! even creams are becoming intelligent. Intelligence scares me. What if it evolves decides that it should make my skin like a dalmatian's one day?
I remember a few months back, junior was much darker than he was now, everyone who came to visit me would show me their sympathies. And my family would rattle off, he was born fair, had to undergo UV radiation therapy for neo-natal jaundice and thats what made him dark. Er, Excuse me, but I am perfectly ok with him being even green. I wouldn't care less.
Boring day. Well, Not boring exactly. Its raining, and cant take junior out for a walk, so made myself a nice grilled spinach sandwich and sat down to check whats on TV. Hannibal was playing on HBO. I enjoyed watching the Silence of the Lambs, though I might like this too. With endless commercials thrown in between the movie finally ended. I have to go to Wikipedia to find the part I missed though. And will someone make me a nice hot cuppa please?
send the people who say he looks dark to uncle chovi
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