mickey mouse.....

[Frank Bubacz]

>From: "timo ronkainen"

>>calling anyone or anything "a mickey mouse -----------" means that it has 
>>no
>>great value....
>>     not a slang expression you hear much these days though....
>
>Huh? I wonder how this expression was born, since I have conception that 
>Mickey Mouse-animations were considered to be first-rate productions quite 
>early.
>Could it be those very first Mickey Mouse watches if they were low quality?

Well, at least in musical terms I can understand the negative meaning.
For example, John Fogerty once said the music he did before founding 
Creedence Clearwater Revival was nothing but ultra-white Mickey Mouse music!

Frank


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