[UA] Re: Possible Burger War?

[Tim Groth]

Hm.  Given that Dave Thomas was adopted and did a lot of adoption
organization support stuff (Wendy's is still involved in several foundations
involved in adoption), that connection to fiction about children in a land
without parents may mean something.

On Nov 14, 2007 4:31 PM, James Knevitt <jknevitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Trivia: While often used as a short form of Gwendolyn and as a male
> name in the lat 19th century, the proper name "Wendy" did not exist as
> a girls name until JM Barrie devised it for Peter Pan.
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 1:25 PM, Foster Ranney <foranney at vassar.edu> wrote:
> > That's not the Wendy that gets whisked off to Oz, is
> > it?
> >
> > C.
> >
> >
> >
> ____________________________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Cooper, are you sure you're not thinking of Peter Pan? Unless there's a
> Wendy in one of the later books, it's Dorothy who goes to Oz.
> >
> > Also, that reading of LotR as an allegory for McDonalds is excellent.
> I've read it before, somewhere, but it always pulls me in. Sure, the trilogy
> was written between 1937 and 1949 - but that just makes it scarier! How did
> Tolkien KNOW? He published them RIGHT before Kroc bought up McDonalds! Was
> he trying to warn us? And, more importantly, how did he know how important
> burger joints would be, of all things! If I could predict the future, that's
> not what I'd look for.
> >
> > What a genius.
> >
> >  - FAR out
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