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Odds and Ends

Mar. 10th, 2005 at 1:21 PM

owlfish

There's an innovative cork recycling program in Ontario run by Girl Guides. Despite knowing people involved in Girl Guides and well as many fans of wine, it took a New York-based food blogger to inform me of this program.
Playmobil's 2005 line includes a butcher shop! and a bakery! And dinosaurs, including one hatching from an egg!
For those of you who regret ever having heard of Bananaphone, there are people out there in the world busily studying how tunes get stuck in your head.
I'm impatient with editing, but I'm nearly halfway done marking up my printed-out chapters in red ink. Thus far, the sandglasses chapter is easily the best-written. It's also the second longest chapter - I hypothesize that I had the most to say on the subject because there's the least existing scholarship on the subject, compared to the other objects I've been studying. I could barely scrape together 25 pages on clocks, despite the surfeit of authoritative publications on the subject.

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rhiannon76

Mar. 10th, 2005 06:29 pm (UTC)

i can't decide if the cuteness of the baby dinosaur in the egg outweighs the strangeness of a toy that represents a dead prehistoric animal recently dug up. then again, maybe the dinosaur was just in suspended animation for millions of years and, now that it's been unearthed and thawed, can frolic and play.

i still love the playmobil hedgehog family with mushrooms. one of these days i'll order it. :)

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owlfish

Mar. 11th, 2005 04:52 am (UTC)

I love how cute Playmobil skeletons are. It's endearing to me that they make them at all.

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owlfish

Mar. 11th, 2005 04:52 am (UTC)

Re: ring ring ring ring ring

That's a wonderful version - Befanaphone makes at least as much sense as Bananaphone does.

What's "Magical Trevor"? Or is it dangerous to ask?

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