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Offline bijou

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The scariest-looking toy you've ever seen
« on: September 02, 2010, 04:57:01 PM »


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This image was sent to me by Jody Handley, a loyal The Poop reader who blogs at rocketcitydigs.com, about her family's attempts to make the most of living in their tight San Francisco apartment. She's a good writer, and there's a heavy dose of pop culture, so please pretend like our blogroll is not stuck in the year 2005 and we've linked to her on the right side of The Poop home page.

This message from Jody: I thought of The Poop while I was on vacation at my mother-in-law's house. This toy appeared one day among my daughter's playthings. I nearly shrieked. ... When would this toy EVER have been fun?

More on Jody's clown and other childhood toy finds in her blog post, where she has two very funny horror film-inspired paragraphs about this toy.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=70925#ixzz0yPabiGa8
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Not all of my toy discoveries were as pleasant as li’l Joan’s castoff. I wandered into my mother-in-law’s living room one morning, kicked aside some of RocketBaby’s toys, and saw THIS staring at me. I don’t know where it came from. I don’t know who put it with my daughter’s things. All I know is, my mother-in-law said it “used to be hers,” and I’m not calling her a liar, but I think maybe she was under some kind of mild demon possession. Perhaps an Imperius curse?


I made light of it at first. I scoffed at its knowing eyes, its patient smile. Then I stashed it in the bottom of a basket and spent the next hour imagining it making secret, evil, evilly secret plans about handing my baby girl a straight razor and gesturing at my Achilles’ tendon with its pointy hat. So after some thought, I resurfaced it, put it on the dining room table–far out of her reach–and then turned its sinister smile to the wall. Better that we all keep our clown enemies close.
http://www.rocketcitydigs.com/2010/08/25/the-toys-of-our-youth/



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Re: The scariest-looking toy you've ever seen
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2010, 08:13:13 PM »
Hold me I'm scared!!!!! Yikes I hate clowns.
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Re: The scariest-looking toy you've ever seen
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 01:27:37 AM »
Hold me I'm scared!!!!! Yikes I hate clowns.
Pretty horrific isn't it? I blame the evil grandma.  :-)



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Re: The scariest-looking toy you've ever seen
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2010, 02:36:24 AM »
Hold me I'm scared!!!!! Yikes I hate clowns.

Me too.  :(
Just hand over the chocolate...back away slowly...far away....and you won't get hurt....

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Re: The scariest-looking toy you've ever seen
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2010, 08:07:53 AM »
Hold me I'm scared!!!!! Yikes I hate clowns.
Meeeeee toooo:

As much as I hate them Ptarmy birds...



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Re: The scariest-looking toy you've ever seen
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2010, 03:49:05 PM »
Oh man, that is horrific!  Got an invite to the company picnic for later this month.  Said there'd be fun stuff for the kids......and I quote
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....."Including a Clown!!!!!!!!"
  I hastily checked "would not attend." 

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Re: The scariest-looking toy you've ever seen
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2010, 08:11:01 PM »
Hold me I'm scared!!!!! Yikes I hate clowns.

I hate ****ing clowns! ALL CLOWNS MUST DIE!!!!!!!! :bird:
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Re: The scariest-looking toy you've ever seen
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2010, 08:11:36 PM »
Meeeeee toooo:

As much as I hate them Ptarmy birds...



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