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AIBU in wondering how Mr Men and Little Misses...

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TiggyD · 10/12/2015 21:24

...Breed? It not the apparent lack of any genitalia so much as the shapes of them and genetics. If Mr Tickle was to have children with Little Miss Tiny, would the children be tiny with huge arms? Slightly smallish with quite long arms? Could the tickle/tiny genes be totally dominant so that all children will be tiny or long armed? Or even worse, both tiny AND long armed?

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LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 11/12/2015 19:44

Okay so this needs to be nominated for classics - if only for the link to the fan fiction - I love reading and writing fan fiction but that is fucking terrifying Grin

lorelei9 · 11/12/2015 20:24

Mavis - Page 3?!

Merly - Mr Strong must have changed his gym routine to change shape, surely. What was he at the end then, swimmer's physique - is there a Mr Triangle?

lorelei9 · 11/12/2015 20:27

btw I don't seem to have been affected as much by the fan fiction as some have been.

Bettercallsaul1 · 11/12/2015 21:13

I am extremely concerned at this news about Mr Strong! He has always been my favourite and he MUST STAY EXACTLY THE SAME as in his book ie red, square and with a green hat. No variation on this will be tolerated!

florentina1 · 12/12/2015 09:06

Thank you Lorelei9. I had a bit of a wobble there, but reassured by the true believers.

I am still traumatised by the goblins in Noddy. I can't turn for help to,Mr Plod in case he treats me as dismissively as he treats Noddy.

Bupcake · 12/12/2015 09:19

Didn't they all start out as humans, but over time, as they developed personalities, they evolved into Mr Men? So Mr Happy started out as a regular human baby, but just got happier and happier and sunnier and sunnier until he became the man we know today. Although, that doesn't explain why you never see a half-evolved Mr Man...

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TiggyD · 12/12/2015 10:43

So I might turn into a Mr Tickle if I go round tickling strangers? That's an experiment. Could be a reason why a certain celebrity is turning orange. He's halfway through transformation to Mr Really Loves His Children.

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Bettercallsaul1 · 12/12/2015 13:46

No no, Bupcake - Mr Happy is happy because he lives in Happyland! Everyone is happy in that idylic place, including the birds, insects and flowers! Just like everyone is loud and shouty in Loudland, the exception being poor little Mr Quiet, who had to escape for his sanity...

Bupcake · 12/12/2015 18:27

Do they not all live in Happy land? I haven't read the books in a while.

Bettercallsaul1 · 12/12/2015 19:13

No - Mr Miserable has to travel to Happyland with Mr Happy to metamorphose gradually into a happy person! There is also Loudland inhabited by people who shout constantly at each other. As far as I know, other lands are not mentioned - I think we should be supplied with a Mr Men map!

TudorTrace · 12/12/2015 19:41

😂😂😂😂 at the fan fiction!

DrDreReturns · 12/12/2015 20:24

The Little Miss Twins live in Twoland. Everone says the last word in a sentence twice twice.

Bettercallsaul1 · 12/12/2015 20:36

Grin I haven't read that one one.

HildaOgdensCoffeeTable · 12/12/2015 23:19

Maybe they are humans & their appearance is how they feel / are inside.
For example if I was a little miss, I'd be kind of fuzzy looking right now because I have partaken in alcohol consumption, but tomorrow, say i feel purposeful, I might have a more defined shape.

HildaOgdensCoffeeTable · 12/12/2015 23:21

Like benign versions of portraits by Francis Bacon

NeededANameChangeAnyway · 12/12/2015 23:33

Its the bad attitude in Thomas the Tank which I hate. They are all so rude to each other, don't talk to new engines and don't seem to see being locked up in a tunnel for months as being a cruel and unusual punishment.

JenniferYellowHat1980 · 12/12/2015 23:36

My personal favourite is Little Miss Scatterbrain and her two pounds of sausages. I accidentally called the bank manager Mr Sausage the night before last, which had DD phsl.

Little Miss Scatterbrain is on the spectrum, I'd imagine: of course the packet of sausages doesn't look like snow.

ps - I actually dressed up as Mr Greedy at 38 weeks pregant, wearing a pink swimsuit customised with little arms and legs Grin

Bettercallsaul1 · 13/12/2015 01:10

I hope no-one force-fed you giant sausages, peas and potatoes, Jennifer!

NowSissyThatWalk · 13/12/2015 07:49

No ones even touched on the psychological consequences of mixing their genes.
What if Mr Grumpy and Little Miss Giggles had a baby? That's just a bipolar episode waiting to happen.

lorelei9 · 13/12/2015 11:59

the idea of them having been baby humans is depressing

I think they arrived in the world, fully formed, as they are

I'll ask the postman

there always seems to be postman in these books

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · 13/12/2015 12:39

YY re postman - Frank from Bod was a nosey fecker

AIBU in wondering how Mr Men and Little Misses...
originalmavis · 13/12/2015 14:39

I liked miffi.

MERLYPUSSEDOFF · 14/12/2015 21:59

Apparently Mr Strong eats eggs. Maybe the high protein diet made him from a square (love handles) to a triangle. That and the weight lifting belt done up too tight.

Or perhaps he has been taken over by aliens. He's not the same Mr Man he was and that's a damn shame.

TheCunnyFunt · 14/12/2015 22:45

Sorry if it's been said already but Smurfs don't breed. They are made using a spell by Papa Smurf.

Hygge · 14/12/2015 23:15

They don't breed, and they don't revert to type after being cured of their issues.

They are like phoenixes. When one dies, an identical one rises from the ashes and the whole thing starts again. That's why there's never more than one with the same name and traits.