Xander ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fisher Price's website lists the new TMX Elmo doll for $40. Someone is listing it here on Craigslist for $150. What is wrong with people?
Oh god, not another run on the Elmos? I thought I heard a news promo about death threats and Elmo the other night, but I figured I'd conflated two different stories due to the Elmo freakouts of a few years back.
TMX Elmo doll
Brain reads "TMI Elmo".
Brain runs screaming.
My sister bought Owen a "E-L-M-O" Elmo doll and it's complete shit. It catches and its arms always screw up when it's supposed to form the letters to his name. It's close to one of the worst toys I've ever seen. I can't imagine this one.
Owen's favorite is a small, stuffed Elmo that he sleeps with. It doesn't do anything but cuddle (which I am thankful for).
People are craxy.
As, apparently, are all my extra apostrophes.
Oh I heard a news snippet yesterday that some guy in Florida (??) pulled a gun on another guy over the last new Elmo. All I could think was LORD it's only September!! How much worse will it be in December. Plus? The new Elmo is at least a thousand times more annoying than the last because you've got that creepy laugh and it rolls around..*shudder* When we saw it on GMA, my mom and I said at exactly the same moment "the batteries would be out of that in 10 minutes".
From the New Hampshire Fish and Game Departments:
By Robert S. Fawcett, Hatchery Supervisor
On Wednesday, September 6, 2006, a TEDDY BEAR released by person or persons unknown stopped the flow of water to a circular pool at Milford Hatchery, killing 2,500 rainbow trout. WATER FLOW in hatcheries IS LIFE SUPPORT TO THE FISH! Stop that flow, which delivers the dissolved oxygen required for fish respiration, and the fish suffocate and die. RELEASE OF ANY TEDDY BEARS into fish hatchery water IS NOT PERMITTED. Please think before you act. If a teddy bear is dropped accidentally, find a fish culturist and tell them quickly, so they might save your teddy bear, and keep it from becoming a killer. Thank you.
In grad school I had a tickle me Elmo that I hung from a noose in my office. You could come in and punch him three times and he'd go into death throes.
the new TMX Elmo doll
I read that as TMX Emo doll, which kind of cracked me up. Not sure I really get all the nuance of what emo means, but enough that a doll of same would be highly amusing.
Way better than the Elmo? The Tumbling Tigger! Still a little annoying, but doesn't sing all the time, and it does flips!
The Sleep and Snore Ernie disturbed me. It looked more like The Morning Wood Ernie.
I love my Original Tickle Me Elmo! I got him years and years ago and he still makes me smile. Of course, most of that is picturing the big black guy in a studio recording the giggle, but, still. I love my Elmo. Though it's still the Stuffed Cthulhu I took to the hospital with me last year.