Pluto's "Dog Days of Summer" Exercise Challenge

[RugbyTigger]

30 mins yesterday
25 mins today

390/800

 

[verleniahall]

321 minutes for yesterday

 

[courtneybeth]

Minutes: 465/2000
Percentage: 23%

Monday 45 minutes Tuesday 45 minutes

 

[kathleen27]

28 minute walk tonight

286/800

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

8/10 45 minutes

730/1395

 

[PollyannaMom]

Good Morning, Exercisers!!!

Just a 10-minute walk for me yesterday, for 205/620.

But the team is over 7,000 minutes, and we have our second team member at purple! -
Congrats to Twilight Sparkle!!!


Our theme post today is the great Pluto/Goofy Mystery:

There is a scene in 80s film, “Stand By Me” where the boys begin to discuss the theory of Pluto and Goofy. Will Wheaton’s character asks, “Mickey’s a mouse, Donald’s a duck, Pluto’s a dog. What’s Goofy?” The question implies that because Goofy can walk and talk he may or not be a dog. True Disney fans agree that Goofy is a dog but that still doesn’t explain why he has advantages over Pluto. Before we can delve into the theories we must first take a quick history lesson into both characters past.

History:
Goofy makes his first screen appearance in Mickey’s Revue (1932), but he was an anonymous character. Over the next two years his name changes to Dippy Dawg, Dippy the Goof, and Mr. Geef before finally becoming Goofy in Orphan’s Benefit (1934).

Meanwhile, Pluto first appears in Walt Disney’s short The Chain Gang (1930) but has no name. In 1930 in The Picnic the dog is named Rover. In The Moose Hunt (1931) his name is called Pluto the Pup. This last name change to Pluto the pup makes it pretty obvious that Pluto is in fact a dog. So if we can agree they are both dogs, the question still begs, why are they so different?

Theory #1: Evolution – Some say that Goofy has evolved from a dog, while Pluto has failed to for whatever reason. Perhaps Pluto’s time as a dog is due to the fact that he has an owner (Mickey) and has been unable to evolve while Goofy may have never had an owner.

Theory #2: Disney animators rule – When Disney animators create anything they are the ruler of that thing. Theory #2 suggests that they wanted to showcase their power with the creation of one talking, walking dog and one that was just a pet. The creation of Goofy forced every Disney fan to question the natural law of things.

Theory #3: The Smart one and the Dumb one – Another interesting notion is that Goofy because he walk on two legs is the clumsy foolish character, and Pluto is the smart dog that walks on all fours like he’s supposed be doing.

Theory #4: Goofy isn’t an animal at all – As was the opinion of Carl Barks and the main characters in his stories, some of these characters just look like animals but are actually human in their behavior. They represent humanity. This could be true of Goofy, being a dawg, which is an anthropomorphized version of a dog, while Pluto remains the real dog.

.............from: http://www.bestoforlando.com/articles/goofy-pluto-debate-both-dogs-but-different/

What do you think??

 

[Tasha228]

251/500

 

[verleniahall]

363 minutes for yesterday!

 

[Stephanator]

20 minute walk to/from the baseball game last night. Our local team is called the Portland Pickles which I think Pluto would approve of! Here's a selfie of me and our mascot Dillon.

200/800 = 25%

 

[kathleen27]

34 minute walk &
8 minutes arms tonight

328/800

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

8/11 60 minutes

790/1395

 

[verleniahall]

467 For Yesterday!

 

[PollyannaMom]

Happy Friday!!

No new minutes for me (simply too hot to move here - My A/C is being repaired Monday.) But the team is doing great!! We have three new color changes:

Stephanator,
Tasha228, and

verleniahall (blowing right by pink, straight to red!)


Our Pluto this morning is another of my favorites from the internet:

 

[Saphire5742]

45 min yesterday
32 min today

623/1240!

As per the Pluto/Goofy debate, those are interesting theories. Have never given the question much thought though. I just accept them as two different dogs just as there are different types of people.

 

[courtneybeth]

Minutes: 555/2000
Percentage: 27.5%

Wednesday 45 minutes ; Thursday 45 minutes

Time to step it up to meet goal. Yikes.

 

[PollyannaMom]

And we have made it to another weekend!!

Two color changes this morning! Congrats to:

courtneybeth
and
Saphire5742!

Since one of those changes is a purple, I'll take this chance to explain the 'Pluto Purple" color. I actually had a hard time coming up with the color names this month, but this cartoon helped. Apparently, Minnie actually turned Pluto purple once! -

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...A82563D3864853DC137FA8256&fsscr=0&FORM=VDFSRV

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

I forgot to update yesterday. 60 minutes to add.

850/1395

 

[courtneybeth]

Minutes: 635/2000
Percentage: 32%

Friday: 80 minutes

We're heading to Disneyland tonight to watch Paint the Night and catch Pokemon. that'll get me up on time for sure

 

[Stephanator]

Went to the early yoga class since it's going to be 95 in Portland, OR today! Found this pic on the internet of Pluto doing a squat, or malasana in yoga terms.
260/800 = 32%

 

[Tasha228]

311/500