Comments on: It’s a larger world, after all http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:14:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: cqkgjytmwg http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-573957 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:56:23 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-573957 cqkgjytmwg cqkgjytmwg cqkgjytmwgcqkgjytmwg cqkgjytmwgcqkgjytmwgcqkgjytmwg cqkgjytmwg cqkgjytmwg cqkgjytmwg cqkgjytmwgcqkgjytmwg
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]]> by: ~chris http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-526050 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:38:28 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-526050 Corn syrup is used so much in the U.S. because sugar prices are artificially high. You can rightly blame the U.S. government for that too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup#In_the_United_States). I worked at Disneyland in my teen years (it’s practically a requirement for Orange County natives), and <i>It’s a Small World</i> is the only ride that frightens me. ~chris Corn syrup is used so much in the U.S. because sugar prices are artificially high. You can rightly blame the U.S. government for that too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup#In_the_United_States).

I worked at Disneyland in my teen years (it’s practically a requirement for Orange County natives), and It’s a Small World is the only ride that frightens me.

~chris

]]> by: Susie http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-524770 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:16:07 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-524770 I second the high fructose corn syrup. It's ebil and it's in everything. Even corn itself is now sweeter, a byproduct of breeding for a longer shelf life. I've moved back to LA three years ago and still haven't been to Disneyland yet. I hear it's really not the same anymore (in a bad way). I second the high fructose corn syrup. It’s ebil and it’s in everything.

Even corn itself is now sweeter, a byproduct of breeding for a longer shelf life.

I’ve moved back to LA three years ago and still haven’t been to Disneyland yet. I hear it’s really not the same anymore (in a bad way).

]]> by: Elayne Riggs http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-523633 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:01:05 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-523633 The correlation between healthy eating and being fat isn't that cut and dried. Lots of thin people are eating incredibly unhealthy stuff as well nowadays. How efficient your metabolism is (fat people have hyper-efficient metabolisms, thin people have inefficient ones) also has to do with exercise, genetics, whether or not you've ever put your body through a diet plan (most of which not only don't work but introduce starvation mode into the equation, which screws with metabolism to the point where one actually winds up gaining back more weight in the long run), as well as all the crap which goes into most foods in the US like high-fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners. The correlation between healthy eating and being fat isn’t that cut and dried. Lots of thin people are eating incredibly unhealthy stuff as well nowadays. How efficient your metabolism is (fat people have hyper-efficient metabolisms, thin people have inefficient ones) also has to do with exercise, genetics, whether or not you’ve ever put your body through a diet plan (most of which not only don’t work but introduce starvation mode into the equation, which screws with metabolism to the point where one actually winds up gaining back more weight in the long run), as well as all the crap which goes into most foods in the US like high-fructose corn syrup and artificial sweeteners.

]]> by: Nat Gertler http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-523295 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:36:03 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/11/11/its-a-larger-world-after-all/#comment-523295 People should actually click through to the article and see the Disney explanation for the boat problem, which seems logical and is not the reason the outsider claims (which is not a statement that one is true or false). --Nat (who just rode the "It's A Small World" ride yesterday, taking my just-turned-three year old on it hoping that she would then get the joke about The Phantom Of The Opera not now being able to get the "It's a Small World" song out of his head -- a joke told in former comics artist Adam Rex's fine, fine children's book Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. But alas, they've already started running the Christmas version, in which the standard song is mixed in with "Jingle Bells", thus limiting the drilled-it-into-your-head effect.) People should actually click through to the article and see the Disney explanation for the boat problem, which seems logical and is not the reason the outsider claims (which is not a statement that one is true or false).
–Nat (who just rode the “It’s A Small World” ride yesterday, taking my just-turned-three year old on it hoping that she would then get the joke about The Phantom Of The Opera not now being able to get the “It’s a Small World” song out of his head — a joke told in former comics artist Adam Rex’s fine, fine children’s book Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich. But alas, they’ve already started running the Christmas version, in which the standard song is mixed in with “Jingle Bells”, thus limiting the drilled-it-into-your-head effect.)

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