BS: Would you buy this toy?

Subject: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Nancy King
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:10 AM

This article appeared on the front page, no less, of the Washington Post on Dec. 22. I can't imagine buying this thing. Would you?

Nancy

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:16 AM

There was a version of this years ago. If I remember right, the food was not completely eliminated from the doll and eventually stunk. LOL
No, I wouldn't buy it unless as a joke for Jacqui.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:52 AM

Thinking from the perspective of me from 6 to 10 years old - ewwww gross.

Why can't I have the big yellow Tonka dump truck, bulldozer and crane or the pogo stick that Kevin got? Or the big race track, or the telescope or the Thingmaker Santa brought to Scott? Boys get all the best toys.

I didn't even get the Radio Flyer sled(the one thing I asked for). Only another stupid baby doll or Barbie or friend, some doll clothes, a toy electric iron and ironing board (what were they thinking) and a cheap plastic circular sled (so I can vomit all over the snow if I manage to get the thing to go swirling down the hill - I want speed and control not nausea dammit). It's just not fair.

Sigh! At least the Spirograph, Etch a Sketch and ViewMaster are good and since everyone got one, no one will be snatching mine. At least not until Kevin inevitably breaks his Etch A Sketch and ViewMaster (it's traditional) to see what makes them work and loses the Spirograph pieces using them as ammo in a makeshift slingshot.

Ouch! I'm telling!

Whew! That was a nice little memory purge. Back to being an adult. I have (egods) ironing to do.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:58 AM

LOL,VT! That was fun to read!

Nancy...NO! I would not...how ridiculous and unbelievable.*shaking head*

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 11:04 AM

I knew I had seen this years ago:
Baby Alive.
http://www.hasbro.com/babyalive/

I have a great idea for a new toy - Kitty Poop and Scoop. He comes with his own litter box and a fake bottle of Nature's Miracle.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 11:30 AM

Looking back at my post.... I realise now my parents were only preparing for adulthood, specifically motherhood - morning sickness included.

Now I am really depressed.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 11:33 AM

Always hated dollies. Never played with the stupid big blue-eyed blond haired pinky plastic things. And though little girls *might* want to play with them (?), I really rather dislike the imprinting that stereotypical gender 'role play' toys are imposing. Play is after all natures way of helping infant animals learn how to become adult animals. And I find these kinds of toys really unimpressive for aiding infant humans to do the same. I was a bit more of a tom boy when a kiddy, probably still am really. So Lego, Etch a Sketch, coloured pencils, marbles, Scalectrix, Snakes and Ladders were all good. But especially my big box of hand me down Lego, where I could create the strangest things with one window, one wheel, a couple of doors and a little man with funny brown seventies hair.

Now I think Kitty or Puppy Poop and Scoop, is a really funny idea! I think kids would love it.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 11:39 AM

Erk, my post VTam was not a comment on your own last there, just a poorly timed and unfortunate sounding coincidence!

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 11:59 AM

no problems Rosie dear. Just depressed that I eventually bought it all.
Now trying to think did I inflict same on my own children. They got mostly creative stuff, craft and art and science kits. Educational stuff map puzzles, globes, science, numeracy and literacy workbooks - they hated. Some stereotypical stuff so they wouldn't feel weird by comparison to friends.

re poopy cat toy. Better to have live animals. Kids learn responsibility, how to give and receive affection and how to cope with aggravation and grief.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 02:28 PM

There could be a Teddy Bear version for boys who are frightened of being seen with dolls. "Let's take Teddy for a walk in the woods so he can do what bears do in the woods..."

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 02:45 PM

I had a Betsy Wetsy when I was a child. I vaguely remember my brothers sticking things up her bum. Typical.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Amos
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 02:59 PM

I would not, could not buy this toy!
Not for a girl! Not for a boy!
I'd rather buy a dress that fits!
A training bra for blooming tits!
A nurse's or a doctor's kit!
But not a stupid doll that shits!
Oh, no, not that! It is not fit
To buy a girl a doll that shits!
I would not buy it for a boy!
Enough!! I will not buy this toy!!

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 02:59 PM

oh no.... getting a very wrong teddy bears picnic scenario forming in my head.

BTW... re Barbies and my younger daughter. A couple of her creations - she used to present them in TV ad format.

Doll dressed in lovely 18th century french gown. Barbie's head held on only by some ketchup.

"This is the new Marie Antoinette Barbie" (whereupon my daughter would flick the head off) "Guillotine sold seperately"

and

"Bungie Accident Barbie" (doll comes flying over the loft wall attached to a broken elastic string and lands on living room floor)

When I picked it up, I found my daughter had put a slab of silly putty over the doll's face to give it that realistic face meets pavement look.

and

one year she did a halloween door decoration at her school. Barbie wrapped up in white wool (yarn) placed in spider web with giant spider.

one halloween she made a little gruesome graveyard of Barbie limbs next to the front porch.

My own little Wednesday Addams. I am so proud.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 03:09 PM

Lovely! Reminds me of the kind of fun I used to have at Christmas as a child, first carefully hand-crafting little Nativity scenes - babby Jesus and all. And then destroying them in bizzare Biblical stylee apocalyptic scenes, invariably involving drunken fights between the Angels.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: MartinRyan
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 03:14 PM

And then there's the Catalans, who put a little, gnome-creature in the back of the nativity crib - sitting there shitting!

Happy New Year!

Regards

Click here for details

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Nancy King
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 03:50 PM

LOL,Amos!

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Melissa
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 05:45 PM

My sister loved dolls. She had Baby Alive, one with diaper rash, and an anatomical boy. Baby Alive was disgusting..food was little packets that you added water to. Her mouth made a grinding noise and the rest of her made a little surprise. If she wasn't given a bottle with a lot of water, she got constipated and moldy.
I don't remember diaper rash baby's name..we called it 'pimple-butt'. She had bumps and some kind of stuff you rubbed on them to make them change from red to pink.
The boy didn't do anything but pee and you had to squish his belly to get him to do that much.

My wild forays into gadgety dolls was one called Baby Grow-a-Tooth. She had a special spoon. To get her tooth to grow, you stuck the handle of the spoon down her throat..to get it to go away, you fed her with the spoon.

In this generation, my sister's daughter loves dolls. They're much creepier than they used to be--especially the ones that 'learn' and have more realistic-like skin. Light/sound activated, some of the creepy things turn their head and look at you..or tell you what to do.
Isn't it bad enough that regular dolls run around the house at night while you're not looking?! I am not a fan of dolls that do things on their own (especially turning their heads and moving!)
Funny how the article makes it seem like a pooping doll is a breakthrough product..

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 05:53 PM

Brilliant Melissa. Spot on about the article.

Re the things one had to do to get the gadgety dolls to work. What does that teach kids about real babies? "Just because I told you that your baby brother is teething, does not mean you should shove a spoon down his throat, darling." "No, you cannot feed our little Dakota the same food you give to your dollie."

Just does not bear thinking about.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Melissa
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 06:05 PM

I was fascinated by the mechanical part of grow-a-tooth (she never did get a name..I was not a doll-namer) and spent a lot of time trying to figure out how that mechanism worked. For that, she was an excellent toy for me to have.

It seems like the evolution of dolls might be:
child says: "Let's pretend our dolls want to go to the store!"
child says: "Let's send our dolls to the store!"
doll says: "I'm going to the store.."

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 06:08 PM

Shopping doll - credit card included. ~Shudder!   What if wifi PC was installed and shopping search engines? Can you imagine?

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Melissa
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 06:19 PM

My family has a neat doll story..

When my mother was very young, she had a boydoll.
His name turned out to be the same as the man she married.

My sister had a boydoll.
She married a guy of the same name.

I had a boydoll..no name.
I'm a spinster.

It'll be interesting to see if this follows through with my nephew.
He called his doll 'Hissy'

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Melissa
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 06:27 PM

this is probably the best sentence in the article:

"Baby Alive dolls, which debuted in 1973 and were retooled and reintroduced to the market a couple of years ago after a decade-long hiatus, are the No. 2 seller."

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 06:54 PM

I suspect that there are quite a lot of small boys who would rather like to have a bear that could crap.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 07:02 PM

no.

My doll Susie is sitting in one of my display cabinets wearing a dress copied from a portrait c1720. How could she have been a different person if she had come in a box with batteries/computer & a program that gave her only one story?

How about these dolls?

Bogus baby boom: Women who collect lifelike dolls

No, I don't want them, either.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 10:49 PM

I think its cute......"Little Baby Take-A-Dump".........very sweet.

As the old saying goes, "You really need two. One to shit on and one to cover it up." In this case, maybe three...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 08 - 11:27 PM

All I wanted one year was Tiny Tears and I don't know how I knew about her because I was quite young and we did not have a tv. Must've seen her in a store or had a friend with one or something. But, I also wanted my yearly cowboy boots, marbles, etc. and played with my brother's Erector Set, even one won a red ribbon in a science fair using his set.

Amos, well done on the channelling!**bg**

Sandra, thanks for the links...not sure I understand the women who play with such realistic dolls, but I guess it doesn't matter if I do or not.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 01:00 AM

Kat, I have a small doll collection (mainly smallish & unusual dolls!) & have never been appreciative of dolls as substitute babies. Mine are dolls & get admired & sit in cabinets, but I've known collectors whose dolls were their babies because their children were a disappointment.

I do have one life-like baby, but it's about 2" long!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: CarolC
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 01:56 AM

This was my doll when I was about ten years old. I'm very glad he didn't poop.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 03:18 AM

Johnny West would never drop a load Carol! Its not the cowboy way. LOL.......I can't believe you had a JW doll......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 05:09 AM

VTam - are you sure we're not sharing the same child here? Limpit has many of the ghoulish qualities that you are admiring in your daughter... could they have been separated at birth?

She had a couple of 'Baby Born' dolls which did many of the same things - feed her her special food (potato starch with, for some strange reason, apricot flavouring) or give her a bottle of water and she excreted the residue from two disturbing holes in her underside when pressed into her potty or lain on her back. The dolls were rather lifelike - so much so that I found myself wanting to expose them on a hillside or leave them in an orphanage in little baskets. Thank the deities she's grown out of them and the anatomically correct baby boy doll (he didn't pee or anything but he was black and starred as Jesus for several years in the church Crib service every Christmas Eve, much to the disgust of our racist ex-verger and the confusion of the palest, blondest child who was always chosen to be Mary because she was the palest, blondest child... go figure!), although there are several limbs and body parts still secreted about the house...

Sometimes I worry about my child.. I really do!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 05:39 AM

I suspect that there are quite a lot of small boys who would rather like to have a bear that could crap.

Only if you could hold it under your arm, squeeze hard and fire shit at other small boys...

:D (eG)

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 06:23 AM

So they're pushing the envelope, are they? Ha! (a snort of derision on my part) Well, they haven't got a doll out that vomits yet, do they? Nosiree! I will not be satisfied until I can buy little 6 year old Angelica a baby doll that upchucks its recently downed dinner like a circus cannon shooting the human cannonball across the arena. Baby Barf, it could be called...or perhaps Penelope Puke or Veronica Vomit or something else charming like that.

I'm amazed Walmart doesn't have such an enticing item on sale yet, and I can hardly wait until they do. (extreme sarcasm) What is WRONG with those toy designers that they have dropped the ball so badly on this one??? Dolls with realistic bodily functions, man! That's what we need to bring our kids up right!

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 07:29 AM

Liz I love the whole black baby jesus and blonde child scene. Fact is so much funnier than fiction.

I suspect that there are quite a lot of small boys who would rather like to have a bear that could crap.

Only if you could hold it under your arm, squeeze hard and fire shit at other small boys...

Now I undestand why males are so taken with monkeys. They can fling their poo at anyone and no one thinks the worse of them for it.

Little Hawk - you have inspired me.

I could design a whole new line for the boys to satisfy their "eww gross" tendancies.

Snotty Scotty with real slime (various colours from clear to infected green to red playground fight bloodied) coming from his nose.
Dandruff Daniel just brush their hair and watch the flakes fall.
Ringworm Rodney, Warty Walter, Cheesy Feet Charlie,

The possiblities are endless.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:31 AM

Hey, Tam, why give all these new inventions male names? Just because we like to throw poo at each other it doesn't mean...

Oh, yea, thinking about little boys I suppose it does:-D

Cheers

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:32 AM

PS - Love Snotty Scotty. Where can I get one?

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:43 AM

The only toy I ever got was a stick. It was all we could afford, and usually we had to burn them before New Year's Day so that we could stay warm. My brothers and I all got boy sticks and my sister got a girl stick. Sometimes we'd get used underwear, but not very often.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 08:51 AM

it was cold living in shoebox ...

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 10:08 AM

Rapaire -

As you have started the Yorkshiremen skit -

Sticks ta mak fire? Tha had fire? When I was a lad there was no fire for we.   Oh no, teh get warm on Christmas we would offer teh sweep chimneys for toffs lak yeh, din't we? T'was either that or hiddy (hide) the youngest neath the assnook (firegrate) for eldin (kindling).

Next

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 11:20 AM

(Not wanting to break in, but i don't know the next part. Sandra, just wanted you to know I understand and never thought of you as one of those women who plays with real-life-like babbies. Your dolls and their costumes are gorgeous and no way creepy!:-)

LH, didn't Mattel make an Exorcist doll that vomited?

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Amos
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 11:31 AM

Little Suzie Sweat-Stain!! Eliza Leg-Hair!! Amanda Armpit!! Marcie Monthly!! And for the over fifty crowd, how about Art Thritic? Tara Toothless? Sammy Senile, who says over 45 absent-minded things when you pull a string somewhere? And don't forget the Senior Barbies--Impotent Ike and Daisy Indifferent...



A

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Becca72
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 03:27 PM

I had the original "Baby Alive" that came out in the 70s. She ate but did NOT poop. I think that would have been a deal breaker for this little girl. Ended up having to throw her out, though, because all that baby food just sat in her gut and rotted. Bleck.

My favorite doll, incidentally, was one to whom you fed water and she did the ole "pee" trick BUT you could also press her belly and she'd a-a-a-a-CHOOOOOO sneeze the water out her nose. LOVED that doll but I can't for the life of me remember what she was called.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 03:43 PM

Bekka, looks as though she might've been a Bless you, Baby Tender!

goldarnit, Amos! 50 is the NEW 30 and not all of us are old and decrepit, yet! Keep yer over 50 for the over 80 crowd, okay?!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 03:51 PM

Melissa - respectfully, you are not a 'spinster'.

You are 'one of nature's unclaimed treasures'.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Becca72
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 03:53 PM

Yup, Kat, that looks like her except mine had auburn hair!

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 05:16 PM

Ha! You're on a roll, Amos. Impotent Ike and Daisy Indifferent...what a pair! Even more underwhelming than the anatomically challenged Ken and Barbie...she of the giant, but sadly nipple-less bust and the shockingly tiny waist. Wouldn't Ken make a fabulous Mormon missionary-around-town, though, if he was dressed up right in the regulation black suit and cape?

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Melissa
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 05:27 PM

Seamus,
Does that mean I ought to leave maps lying around in case somebody wants to dig me up?!


Wasn't there a string of Garbage Pail Kids that were of the 'Snotty Scotty' type? The stickers have come back, so maybe all our dreams will come true..and they'll reissue some of the dolls soon.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 05:41 PM

We had fire but we had to steal it from rich people who could afford the oxygen it needed to burn. And it was only at Christmas time. The rest of the year we shivered to keep warm, the goosebumps and dirt providing needed insulation. I remember one winter it was so cold my brother froze solid and we all snuggled up to him to keep warm. Every word we said froze and dropped to the ground before it could be heard and when Spring came the babble was unbelievable, consisting mostly of things like "Hoy Mother Of God but I'm COD!" (all L's froze out of words).

Ah, the Good Old Days....

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Becca72
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 05:43 PM

Melissa,
I don't recall the Garbage Pail Kids ever being dolls. They were only stickers and collectible cards to my knowledge...at least in my neck of the woods.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Amos
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 06:01 PM

Garbage Pail Kid trading cards and a movie from 1987...alas, the trail of our tears.



A

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 08 - 10:26 PM

We had to forage through the garbage to find our food, whenever we could find garbage to forage through. Everybody was poor. We were The Garbage Pail Town, only nobody could afford garbage.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: open mike
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 02:20 AM

also : http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakker

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Amos
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 10:43 AM

Oh, Rapaire, that explains so much!!!



A

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:12 PM

According to Shane, you are garbage...

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Dec 08 - 12:46 PM

As fish would not recognize water, Shame could not recognize garbage.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 07:37 AM

Ah, the Good Old Days....

Don't you mean the Good od days?

Huh! Goosebumps and dirt!?!? Goosebumps and dirt!?!? Pure luxury. In usz ginnel (alley) weren't no dirt. All hauled away wi' teh slek (coal dust) weren't it? Neighbors nicked our goosebumps, frozen brother an all. Tried to moither (harrass) sister to tak turn at freezin but she is a mardy (stubborn) lass.

We'ould hugger up (crowd together), all croodled (bent double) in front our Da and beg him to bray (beat) usz wi' leather gallasses (braces) to warm usz up. But o' course he had already guzzled (eaten greedily) 'em. Used to play with the rusty buckles. Hours of fun to be had playin wi' buckle. Got a tetanus once but family anent (next) usz nicked that as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 11:47 AM

We tried to get tetanus or especially typhoid. We were so happy when we did...the fever kept us and the entire family warm. We'd put the feverish in what would have been the fireplace if we'd had a house and all would be nice and toasty until the feverish either got well or died. Of course, if they died we'd cremate them and be warm for while longer so we did our best to keep them sick, sicker, sickest, and all the while we pretended we had a roof to keep off the rain, sleet, snow, hail, and tornadoes that plagued us every day. Of course, the rain, sleet, snow and hail were all highly acidic and radioactive from the nearby atom bomb factory, but that was great because we didn't need lights to read whatever the acid hadn't dissolved before we went to sleep at night. The rest was good, even though we had to get up almost immediately and go back to picking chaff in the pile of radioactive waste behind the bomb plant for another twenty-six hour shift every day.

But our cheeks were glowing and we were content because we knew that in the future things would only get worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 12:36 PM

Picking chaff from radioactive waste! Tha be chuffed. Weren't tha a lucky lad then to addle the day? Tha had summat to do everyday and for 26 hours. We allus 'ould dream about real work. Instead we had to tew on cmputer and trawl Mudcat day and night for 11 years.

Read and read the radioactive waste. But never own it. No! The' were only teh virtual green glow for usz and the incessant soom o' t'laptop as we all fratch and hugger up... wishing we had a real job, a real life.

This is fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 02:06 PM

We were very grateful for the soft glow of the radioactivity because my parents had been forced to sell both the light and the gravity before I was born just so they could afford the rent on the hovel they then dwelt in (the landlord finally evicted them during the Great Sewer Clearances in the 1920s). We had to hang onto each other to keep from drifting away, although in the Springtime we would sometimes tie a string to my sister and use her as a kite, if we had any string left after my birthday dinner in February. Usually we just ate it if we had any to eat. Yes, growing up without gravity or light made us appreciate the little things everyone now takes for granted.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 02:15 PM

Well, sure--but have you ever considered how painful it can be to grow up with too MUCH gravity and light? It isn't all peaches and cream, pal. Especially if you pater is a self-made man. And all he thinks he need do to solve any problem is add more gravity and light.

Everything happens for a reason, remember.



A

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 02:40 PM

STRING? You never did own it. Can't eat something that only exists in theory.

Anyone got a spare fable? I am famished.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 04:18 PM

Well, after they sold the gravity and the light lots and lots of string appeared because apparently the theory had holes in it. Selling the light allowed the otherwise black holes to shine and selling the gravity forced dark matter through the shining black holes, creating string, which they ate. Or at least that's the way Grammaw explained it to me and she should know.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 06:22 PM

I yield.

Uncle uncle uncle UNCLE UUUUNNNCCLLE

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Jan 09 - 08:01 PM

Never try to out-talk a son or daughter of Mark Twain Country. A River runs through us....

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:24 AM

Pure luxury.

We didn't even have bodies. We were nothing but programs being sent over the internet by thirteen year old hackers from their parents' basements.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Joybell
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:42 AM

Sixty years ago the high-tech doll was the one that walked if you held her hand and pushed her forward. Just behind her in modern design was the one you could pour water down her throat and it came out the other end. I used dolls as patients in my hospital. She was a wonderful sick person because I discovered that if you poured the water in the wrong end she vomited.
Ahh! the olden days!
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 05:31 AM

Rapaire, what a sparkling stream of inanity! You should go into the silly Radio4 play business.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 05:58 AM

Mark Twain in deed. See below.

Hey Rosie...

Rapaire had incessant niggling from me. What would he be if I weren't there to turn the crank to keep him going.

Huh!

Thank you CarolC for staying in the spirit of the Yorkshiremen play.

We should start a BS Thread of Mudcatters outdoing each other in the Yorkshiremen style.

But then it would be all about Rapaire. Sigh. Just kidding Rap. If ya got it, flaunt it.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Sleepy Rosie
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 06:19 AM

Sorry VTam, I suspect my approval was aided and abetted by a two day hangover and the various over the counter chemicals needed to continue to legally alter my currently uncertain psychological condition. Having only recently landed, all support for my current numinosity is appreciated and applauded >cut to small audience of elderly ladies clapping politely<

Including of course, your own most kindly thought out and generous offerings! Most charitable of you.

A *Mind* with which to compose surreal nonsense over the internet located in your thirteen year old hackers basement...!!? Luxury! (etcetras and etceteras)

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 07:21 AM

no worries Rosie

I myself am not on form. Currently playing -

THE RETURN OF THE FLU

This Post Nasal piece features a cavalcade of stars

Sinus Headache

Sir Hacking Cough

Dame Drowsiness

And cameo appearances by the ever popular

Sneezy and Wheezy

now playing at a tamara near you

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 10:44 AM

Speaking of useless toys...how come no one has yet marketed an action figure of "The Creeping Terror"?

(for explanation, see "The Best Worst Films" thread.)

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 01:22 PM

Surreal nonsense? We wished we had surreal nonsense! All we had was silly 13 year old git nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 11:51 PM

I would only if it vibrates~

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: CarolC
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:43 AM

Vibrating toys?

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 05:30 AM

carol - that is just so wrong

Subject: RE: BS: Would you buy this toy?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:25 PM

You might have warned me!! Almost needed a new lap top and my kids may need counselling lol