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JZ - Feb 16, 2005 4:21:18 pm PST #8351 of 10002

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

And I gotta say, they're freaking MAGIC. There was a toddler out in the hall yesterday, frustrated and miserable after being cooped up all morning long in the waiting room outside the ICU where his sibling was, weeping and doing that "uh-uh-uh melting down any second now" howling, mere inches from hysterics in the hallway, and I grabbed a spinner and started spinning it in his face. He snapped his mouth shut in mid-howl, stared, and then broke out into a huge tear-stained smile.

Anyplace that has to deal with toddlers should have boxes of these things. And now we're actually down one, since I let him keep that one (it was hugely obvious that any attempt to get it back would just lead to an even bigger meltdown and it was worth the loss of a spinner to not have him exploding outside our offices, but still, down one).

And they're unfindable. Did someone manage to lose a finger or put out an eye with one of the sparks and get them banned or something?

JZ - Feb 16, 2005 4:22:13 pm PST #8352 of 10002

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

OMTG, juliana, YES. Totally. Please! Boss and I will buy twenty.

Strix - Feb 16, 2005 4:24:15 pm PST #8353 of 10002

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Gee, you think that's a "yes"?!

;)

DXMachina - Feb 16, 2005 4:27:41 pm PST #8354 of 10002

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

And they're unfindable. Did someone manage to lose a finger or put out an eye with one of the sparks and get them banned or something?

Well, I doubt any chi-chi child development hardware center (or whatever upscale toy stores are calling themselves these days) would carry something so prosaic, but maybe a novelty shop. Archie McPhee maybe?

Betsy HP - Feb 16, 2005 4:28:51 pm PST #8355 of 10002

If I only had a brain...

I couldn't find any at Oriental Trading, my first guess.

I did find this, though: Shoot. Me. Now. [link]

JenP - Feb 16, 2005 4:30:22 pm PST #8356 of 10002

Alias: Weiss squeeing to Vaughn about Nadia is adorable and hilarious .

Betsy HP - Feb 16, 2005 4:30:27 pm PST #8357 of 10002

If I only had a brain...

It turns out it's called a "sparkler". I'm googling "sparkler toy" now.

[link]

JZ - Feb 16, 2005 4:31:14 pm PST #8358 of 10002

See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

From Betsy's link, I am especially fond of the Fruits Of The Spirit Pizza and the Please Pass the Fruit (presumably also Of The Spirit) game. And yet again I am awed at Betsy's ability to find the freakiest links in human history. All I can offer up in return is this: [link]

tommyrot - Feb 16, 2005 4:33:33 pm PST #8359 of 10002

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Do the Bacon Whores cook the bacon wearing those outfits? Because grease burns are not fun.

DXMachina - Feb 16, 2005 4:33:38 pm PST #8360 of 10002

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Try googling "friction sparkler". Otherwise you get fireworks.

Here's one, and it's a train!

[link]

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