Friday's New York Times that this year's must have toy for girls in the US is a hamster. Not though, the cute cuddly furry little biting and shitting hamster but instead a toy hamster. And at $7.99 they're a bargain to boot. These furry devils come in five flavours are battery run and have an off switch, unlike the real thing. Some years ago a friend's children had a hamster that ran in its wheel for hours everynight so she took to jamming the thing with a lolly stick. Stopping all excercise caused the tiny creature to put on so much weight it became too knackered to make the effort on those ocassions she removed the stick. Sumo hamster is not one of the five models currently flying off the shelves in New York. Indeed if Sumo was added to the range I think we could confidently predict it would plummet from the shelves.
Here's a clip of hamsters having an existential moment.
5 comments:
Remember wind-up toys? Why didn't they make the hamster a wind-up toy? Then...no batteries. Winding it up would make it, uh, interractive...? heh.
G,
I agree about wind up toys. A chap invented a wind up radio some years ago. He wanted it mainly to be used in Africa. Good idea though.
I think Sony now sells wind-up radios.
I saw a wind-up cell phone online.
Wind-up pooters would be good. Or maybe we can recharge 'em while we ride a bike. Or something.
Are you winding up for the hols?
I've got a wind-up disaster radio. Common item in Ca, as everyone is urged to be prepared for "The Big One."
Hayden,
A wind up disaster radio? Let's hope you will only ever use it in jest. Can you get all the channels or just the civil defence ones that warn you to paint the windows white and claim a sturdy table is all one requires to survive a 10 megaton air burst?
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