Picture a room. In the room is a lady. All of a sudden a little mouse turns up. What happens? Well, in all movies and funny stories the lady jumps more or less graciously up onto the nearest chair and SCREAMS! Women should be, and always have been, scared of mice.
MICKEY MOUSE – the name is certainly familiar. If Mickey Mouse would be in that room with the lady, we can probably assume that no one would throw themselves up onto the nearest chair. Instead, she would probably bend down and pat the little thing. Because he is cute – even though he is a mouse. The round ears, the cute pants and the way too big shoes. That’s Mickey!
Mickey was actually born long before another veteran – Donald Duck. Mickey Mouse became a movie star as early as 1928, together with his Minnie, a cute girl mouse with a great big bow in her “hair”. Actually, she originally had a flower.
Mickey and Minnie rarely argue and Mickey is a true gentleman, who chivalrously saves Minnie from various dubious men with questionable intentions. A steady old couple, who, like Donald Duck and his Daisy, don’t live together – as yet…