What was That?

"That was odd." said Ruby and Daisy simultaneously as they sat in the theater. The movie was finished, and they found themselves, shocked and a little saddened by a film that they expected to be entertained by. "Why, on earth, was this movie nominated for an award?" Ruby inquired.

It was just one more example of how Ruby's life and the life touted by popular culture were like apples and elephants.

"It seems to me, that in order for a film to be recognized by its peers in any fashion, it must be depressing and disrespectful of human beings. It must glamorize the use of drugs, and alcohol, have lots of graphic sexual encounters and lack any kind of resolution at the end." said Ruby. "In many ways, the fact that a film is nominated for an Academy Award, is a good reason to avoid it!"

"Oh! How beautiful are our Emperor's new clothes! What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!" in short, no one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit for his office. Certainly, none of the Emperor's various suits, had ever made so great an impression, as these invisible ones.

"But the Emperor has nothing at all on!" said a little child.

"Listen to the voice of innocence!" exclaimed his father; and what the child had said was whispered from one to another.

"But he has nothing at all on!" at last cried out all the people. The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right; but he thought the procession must go on now! And the lords of the bedchamber took greater pains than ever, to appear holding up a train, although, in reality, there was no train to hold.