Don't you agree? Movies are infinitely better when there's a midget playing a major role. IMO, I think they are adorable and they go with almost any decor! I hate being short, but I'd love to be midget size.

I think they always have more fun, get free drinks and go great on a salad!






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Dude, one of my best buddies is a dwarf. We were in the same frat. Back in the day (1980), there was this HUGE air guitar contest in Dallas. My buddy's band did "Turning Japanese" by the Vapors.

They built a fake speaker and he would hide in it, and he'd jump out at the solo, wearing a karate outfit and a rising sun bandana. They never lost!

RodeoSchro said:

I'm telling you that is very rad! I was thinking a few weeks back, wouldn't it be cool to operate a job agency for midgets?

All I have to say is, THE STATION AGENT and DEATH AT A FUNERAL.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

superspaceboy said:

Let's not forget TWIN PEAKS and the show on Bravo(?) The Rolofs.

I like Wizard of Oz and Willow, but I gotta tell this story:

When I worked at a snooty grocery store in Edina, MN, there was a dwarf who shopped there quite frequently (she wore a hat AND shirt emblazoned with "REAL LIVE DWARF" on the front of each - she did NOT appreciate the term 'midget').

This woman was very short. I worked at the customer service/postal counter, which was probably four feet in height. It was a very busy counter so we had one of those stupid number/counter machines.

Well, on a particular day, I called the next number, looked into the sea of people before me, and heard "here" - yet no one approached the counter. Again, I called the number. Again, I heard "here" (a bit more stern than the previous response) yet no one appeared. A customer looked at me and casually pointed down. I peered over the edge of the counter and there, on the floor, sat the dwarf. "Can I help you?" I asked in my "I'm friendly, and here to help!" voice. "I want some stamps!" she bellowed. I showed her our 'display sleeve,' which contained a sample of our available stamps (I had to leave my post, walk around to the front of the counter to hand her the sleeve, then walk back around behind the counter. "Don't you have any feminine stamps!? I'm sending a card to my mother!" Our offerings included: the US flag, a famous artist, and a breast cancer awareness stamp. The line of customers behind her had doubled in size and I was manning the counter solo. "What if you bought a flag stamp and put it on a feminine envelope? Or addressed the card in feminine-colored ink?" I suggested. "I didn't come here for your ideas!!!" she screamed. She finally stood, bought a flag stamp, and sat back on the floor to finish her card amidst the crowd.

This woman didn't drive and called a taxi every time she bought a considerable amount of groceries (she lived within walking distance but sometimes her purchases were too heavy or bulky to carry home). The phone she used in order to call the cab company was located at the customer service counter. A typical call went something like this:

"Yeah, I'm at Byerly's on France Avenue and I need a cab. But I don't want cabbie #54 because he's an asshole. I don't want cabbie #22 because he smells. I don't want cabbie #17 because he can't carry shit. I need a strong cabbie because I live on the second floor so he's gotta carry my stuff up two flights of stairs and the last guy you sent me couldn't do it."

Every time, and this is sad, she'd wait for the cab but the cab would not show. I've a feeling that she was so rude to the drivers that they figured the four block trip wasn't worth her meanness. Our grocery store had a delivery van and a bag boy or manager would inevitably end up taking her home via the delivery van.

I haven't worked at that store for 8 years. My mom currently works there, however, and said that the dwarf still shops there. Because of overhearing so many of this angry woman's taxi calls, I know her address. Perhaps I should send her a card. With a feminine stamp on it.
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guys!!!


Midget is a derrogatory term!!!

It refers to people of very small/short disposition , whereas dwarf is a condition which people are born with disproportionately short extremities and other physical conditions.

'midgets' prefer to be called little people.



We might as well post threads saying "Check this FAG out!"

Hell yeah! I love midgets, dwarves & little people. They're HELLA COOL!

My favorites are easily...



Mini-Kiss ROCKS!!!

Check out 'In Bruges' - funniest film this year.
And as my sig says - "They're filming midgets!"

You know what's better than midgets...

Munchkin Cats!

OK Back to Midgets...this is AMAZING!



Midget Fight!!!!!
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Midget MJ!!!

Imago said:

this is where i get confused.

because you have midgets and you have dwarves, and they seem to be two different bodyshapes but i understand both "midget" and "dwarf" are considered offensive now, so we call them both "little people". but does that mean that they don't care if someone confuses dwarves and midgets?

Anxiety said:

dwarf is not a derrogatory term, so far as I know.
It actually refers to a condition.
Whereas Midget is like calling a Chinese man a chink instead of "Asian".

At least that's the gist of it I gather.
Either way, midget is something I won't say.

Imago said:

"little people pool" just doesn't have the same ring to it. neither does "i found an asian in his armor". but okay.

Anxiety said:

Hey, I don't particularly find these words terribly offensive. It's just that they DO--and isn't that good enough reason to refrain from using them?

Imago said:

i grew up in indiana. i still have to widen my worldview manually. it takes a couple of minutes, ok?
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Anxiety said:

Don't spread your consciousness ... Spread your legs.

Imago said:

That's cuz you're a pussy!

BTW Midget used to be a medical term to describe people who are proportionally sized correctly, but everything is smaller. Whereas Dwarf means non-proportional. Now both terms are considered to have gone by the way of the horrible pc-goodwilled-road called the Euphemism Treadmill.

Imago said:

Next your gonna say Lesbian is derogatory

But I am not giving up my Name for the "smaller person" in my neighborhood who is also a hmeless junkie...MiniCrack!

superspaceboy said:

actually, using the word "pussy" as a derogatory term for "coward" is considered misogynist. there's nothing cowardly about a vagina. unless you actually mean "pussy" as in "pussycat", in which case an easy argument could be made against you in terms of blatant species-ism.

i do believe "blood fart" is up for grabs, however.

superspaceboy said:

no, but Fam is.

superspaceboy said:

OMG is that real?

Anxiety said:

And if I'm afraid of the vagina...what then?

I'll leave the blood farts to Dan.

horatio said:

Yes, but we can't call them Munchkin anymore. Very Un-PC They are now called Mini-Mews.

So these two dwarves were in Las Vegas, and a couple pros had their eyes on them. The dwarves took the women to their adjoining rooms.

The first dwarf got his woman into bed, took off all his clothes and - disaster! No matter what he or the woman tried, he could not get an erection! To make matters worse, the whole night he heard his buddy next door, apparently going at it full tilt, screaming, "One, two, three - OOOOFFFFF! One, two, three - OOOOOFFFFF!" To top it off, the hooker made the first dwarf pay full price. It was the worst night of the first dwarf's life.

The next morning, the two dwarves ran into each other at breakfast. "How was it?" asked the second dwarf. "Worst night of my life," said the first dwarf. "She and I got into bed, we got naked, and I was impotent. Nothing we tried worked, AND I had to pay anyway!"

To which the second dwarf said, "At least you were able to get IN bed."

PopeLeo said:

I LOVED THIS MOVIE!!!

The dwarf on acid. Hahahahah!!!