Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for July 25, 2017

Such padding to get to 100 pieces!

8 mermaids (not pirates), 8 accordion players (arguably not pirates), and 4 “goldbrickers”!

Goldbrickers are argued to be females.

“Authentic toys”.

I think I once had a log fort with soldiers and Indians … all brightly colored plastic, of course.

Prisoners being female won?d be my favorite.

I’m particularly interested in the words Teresa underlined. 1. I’m assuming she takes exception with an adult (possibly) a parent playing favorites in the family. Does only the “favorite kid” get a pirate set? 2. Do little girls not play with little figures like this? After all, there are mermaids included. 3. I find prisoner pieces odd as well. I wonder how you knew they were prisoners. Did they have evidence of torture molded into their little bodies?

Order several sets NOW to keep the kids busy… That’s right. Anything to keep the brats out of your hair. Doesn’t this family own a b/w TV for endless entertainment? (I heard from someone several years older than me explain that TVs stopped broadcasting until, say, midnight. Then a “test pattern with an Indian” (direct quote) made a non-stop and loud high-pitched sound. Is this true?

Alex, “I’ll take five dollars”.

While supplies last..

Oh, I remember these so well. http://wp.me/p2os5l-m5

.exe? Art Store Wolf?

Aaaaarrrgghhh!

I once ordered the “Hundred Little Dolls.” They were all flat and Pepto-Bismal pink, but there were one hundred of ’em.

In the Attic.

I kept looking for evidence that they all came in a convenient and distinctive treasure chest for storage, but … wasn’t to be.

And the Mermaids stand too?

Best of all? THEY ARE AUTHENTIC!!! FREE DOGSNIFF!!!

So… only order if your favorite kid is a “he” ??? What should I do if my favorite kid is a mermaid?

FREE DOGSNIFF!!!

Im still waiting for my X-Ray Glasses.

My favorite part was favorite (underlined in red).

What? No partridge in a pear tree?

We had a Civil War set in colorful plastic colors of blue and gray.

The wheels on the little cannons would turn.

Somehow the ubiquitous green plastic army men would always get into the civil war fight.

You could get a big bag of them for cheap. They were fun with fire crackers.

Put the accordion players on the front line.

I had plastic (mostly; a few were cheap molded metal) toy soldiers. Most were a larger size, around four inches tall (or a bit more) if standing, at a cost of five or ten cents apiece! But I also had a set of smaller, flatter figures, though with fine detailing, maybe an inch-and-a-half or so in height, as I recall. I also had weaponry for them, to scale, including machine guns (came with them) and tanks and helicopters, etc.

But I missed out on the plastic pirates set at only $1.25! What a bargain!

I wonder what year this ad comes from? Clearly, it was before the Age of Gender-phobic Brain Rot, back when we still had two sexes and the English language had four genders: masculine, feminine, neuter, and common. The problem arose in part from having only three pronouns to deal with those four genders; the masculine pronoun was also used for the common gender….

The premium set had the female bar wenches and wench auction stand modeled from Disneyland.