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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy toy 'Minion' curse words might just all be in your head
NEW YORK (AP) -- McDonald's swears up and down that the little yellow "Minions" Happy Meal toy is speaking only nonsense words and not something a little more adult.
Experts say the company may be right, and the curse words many hear may be tied to how our brains are primed to find words even when they're not really there.
The world's largest hamburger chain and purveyor of Happy Meals said Friday that it doesn't plan to take the talking Happy Meal toy out of distribution, even though some customers say it sounds like it's cursing.
A toy bought by The Associated Press made a sound that could be interpreted as the phrase often abbreviated as "WTF." Another phrase sounded like it could be "Well I'll be damned." The sound quality of the toy makes it hard to say definitively who is right.
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Why toy 'Minion' curse words might just all be in your head (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Jul 2015
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elias49
(4,259 posts)1. Fargin' minions. nt
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,842 posts)7. Bastages! Dirty son-a-ma-batches!
House of Roberts
(5,177 posts)2. They're minions!
They're supposed to be teaching children how to be evil!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. How many words end with an uck sound?
So if you're predisposed to hear something bad, that is what you will hear.
Just like the things people see in a burnt tortilla.
Logical
(22,457 posts)4. I love them! Can't wait to see the movie. nt
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)9. We are going today
it's out. Can't wait
Cirque du So-What
(25,949 posts)5. Cursing little bastages!
I heard *something*!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)6. First they get in your head, then...
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)8. I'd buy em'...
TYY