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July 19, 2006

Toys in Portugal Get the Link Leak Virus!

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:30 am

Tueday Night Was Filled with Sunsets and Toys

Open Comments Last Night was held on west coast of Portugal, complete with umbrella drinks and everyone brought their favorite toys — People showed up with legos, transformers, even slinkys. Too bad the infamous link leak virus. Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes edged its way in.

Cool links were shared.

About the Toys

Here’s a peek at the conversation.
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Douglas Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:15 pm e
Hi Liz. I brought a toy, but I honestly can’t remember what they are called. You use them to build things. There are various poles and you can put them in these wood things?

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Rick Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:15 pm e
Tinkertoys!

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Trisha Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:23 pm e
I have lots of toys - a slinky dog, tribbles, a cabbage patch doll and others all in my office

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Joe Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:25 pm e
Trisha, Where did you ever get Tribbles?
I thought you could only get them from Starbase 11

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Trisha Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:27 pm e
I found one a few years ago at a mall, then I got a couple at the Star Trek experience store at Las Vegas

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ME Strauss Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:27 pm e
I’m a slinky fan myself. It would be cool if you invent a virtual slinky that could move from blog to blog or from blog page to blog page.

I go for that.

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Rick Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:29 pm e
I loved my frisbee when I was young. Of course, my neighbor’s dog could catch better than I could.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:31 pm e
Roy - looks like an interesting blog. Nice tagline: Writing, Clear and Simple…Everybody has a story. Tell it clearly and powerfully.

Boy, do I have a story for you! So one day, I was sitting outside…in front of my house…wait, it was in front of someone else’s house. Anyway, a bird flew by. It was black. No, blue. Black and blue. Wait, that was my eye. See, my eye was black and blue cause I was standing in front of my neighbor’s house. Well, technically I wasn’t just standing, I was also…

Clearly, and simply. I’m on it!

Welcome again.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:33 pm e
Can’t go wrong with Legos or green army men, that’s true.

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Joe Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:38 pm e
Trisha,
I don’t think they have a doll or anything for the Doctor yet, (ou’d think after almost 30 years they would).
And there will be a NEW DOCTOR next season…

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Advice Librarian Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:38 pm e
Oh, so that’s where everyone went!

Transformers. Can’t wait for the movie - giant robots smashing downtown LA; it just doesn’t get cooler than that….

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Trisha Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:40 pm e
Actually they do, and you can even buy a sonic screwdriver:
http://www.alienentertainmentstore.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=A&Product_Code=DW-CO-SS&Category_Code=DW-TOYS

oh damn, its sold out! I should have ordered mine when I first saw it!

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Joe Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:41 pm e
Ok, What was the name of the Metal Construction Toy that actually had nuts and bolts and you could build buildings and Ferris Wheels and things?

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Rick Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:43 pm e
I know! I know! Erector set! (he yells loudly while waving his hand over his head). The kid across the street from me had them, along with lincoln logs. Between the two you could build a city.

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ME Strauss Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:45 pm e
That’s it Rick!!!
What was I thinking!

Give that boy a Kewpie Doll!

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Tom Vander Well Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:53 pm e
Legos! And Mattel electronic football - back when “video games” were little red blips on a 1 inch by 3 inch screen.

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Joe Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:57 pm e
Ja’evr hook a balloon to your bike wheel with a clothes pin to make it sound like a motorcycle???

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Rick Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 7:59 pm e
At least before life went electronic, you made everything out of what was laying around. We did the clothes pins. We used picket fence rails to make swords. We made parachuters out of thread, plastic, and treelimbs. Newspaper and balso for kites. Tennis ball cans, tennis balls, and lighter fluid (when we were in our younger teens) made turned into bazookas.

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Cat Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 8:05 pm e
[YAWN] !

Morning all … toys … what toys did I like … that would be my brothers stuff, whatever it was. Their guns for playing cowboys. Trucks.

A toy I absolutely HATED was a ‘Chatty Kathy’ I received one xmas. I never lived that down.

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Tom Vander Well Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 8:12 pm e
Tonight’s “history moment” has been brought to you by GI Joe with the Kung-Fu grip!

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HART (1-800-HART) Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 8:18 pm e
Hi everybody. I brought my “Booz-Barometer” toy with me tonight. So - you virtual drunks out there .. um, spend your virtual quarters here

http://papillonlvr.com/pics/boozbarometer.jpg

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ME Strauss Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 8:20 pm e
Everyone,
I’ve got Fizzies, Tang, Kool Aid, TV Dinners, Root Beer Floats, Cotton Candy, and all of the other kids stuff

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Advice Librarian Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 8:38 pm e
Well, as the Snopes entry commented: “The first time that children’s rhyme was published was in 1881. The last time the Black Plague hit London was just around the time of the Great fire in 1665 - that’s a minimum of 220 years that children were reciting the rhyme and no-one wrote it down”.

There’s far too little narrativiumin this world, so the stories that make sense aren’t neccesarily also true….

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HART (1-800-HART) Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 8:42 pm e
Cap’n Crunch! WooHoo!
Lucky Charms. WooHoo!

Tom. You understand. Somebody finally understands.

Also - don’t forget… Sugar Crisp. AlphaBits. Sugar Pops. Fruit Loops.

My wife prefers I eat stuff like Honey Nut Cheerios or Apple Cinnamon Cheerios, or Multi-Grain Cheerios or even Plain Cheerios (with lots of sugar spoonfuls) .. since it’s only 2 points per cup, if counting

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Tom Vander Well Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 8:49 pm e
ADLIB! First you dash my trust in Mr. Parks, now you tell me Cinderella is pornographic! What’s next? You’re going to tell me that drinking coke with a mouthful of pop-rocks WON’T kill me?!

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Rick Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 8:52 pm e
Tried the poprocks and pepsi. I’m still alive (except the first hour after I get up).

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Cuileann McKenzie Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 10:05 pm e
Hey, pedalling backwards to stop is a great reminder of childhood, too!

By the way, HART — I missed saying happy birthday last week! Sorry about that!

Here’s a Blackcherry Vanilla Coke and Crown Royal to make up for it.

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Roy Jacobsen Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 10:05 pm e
He’s baaaack!
I noticed someone mentioning guns…I had entirely forgotton about a Rifleman cap gun I had. It was just like the Remington rifle from the TV show, and you could fire off a roll of caps faster than lightning. I killed many a bad guy with that baby.

The conversation turned to books and mistaking gender on the Internet.

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ah Pek Says:
July 19th, 2006 at 12:15 am e
Hi everybody!! sorry i’m late. ( aren’t i always)
Still haven’t figured out what ever happened to the drunkard moose and his friend the pig. Did they made out and started a family and lived happily ever after?

I swept up the beach as best I could and put up the stools on the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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5 Comments to “Toys in Portugal Get the Link Leak Virus!”

  1. July 19th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
    whereisbasil.com » Blog Archive » Who Is Basil the Donkey? said

    […] Shortly thereafter, I got hooked on open mic night at Successful Blog where I met with a cast of crazy characters. Suddenly everyone was talking about the donkey, and we named him Basil. I told people he wrote code for me, and the silliness just went on from there. […]

  2. July 19th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
    Starbucker said

    Great stuff gang! Looking forward to rejoining the fun next week. Meantime, Liz, look forward to passing along to you the Fawlty Towers DVD. Everyone else on the “Where is Basil” list? As they say on the Price is Right, “Come on down”!

  3. July 19th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
    ME Strauss said

    HI Starbucker!
    We missed you. Still wondering what your favorite toys are and what you did when you were little.

  4. July 20th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
    Starbucker said

    Tonka Trucks and Hot Wheels cars - loved ‘em. I dreamed of being a jet pilot in the Blue Angels; I actually painted my bike in their blue and yellow colors and drove around “in formation” (yikes). Hope you are having fun on your trip.

  5. July 20th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Tonka Trucks and Hot Wheels! No one brought them up. You were one cool kid.

    I can see why you’d want to be with the Blue Angels. I saw them when I was a kid.

    I’m working hard on my trip and having fun too. :)

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