OT: Bullshitting at the Barbershop

[forty_three]

those Dr Suess books are apparently going for thousands on ebay.
caveat - not sure if that the selling price or just listing price, as I didn't care enough to look.

Not to mention everyone going into the stores and buying up all the other Seuss books to take a selfie reading it for facebook.



Need to check out the wife's Kindergarten storage in the basement to see if we have those books. Maybe that's my way to make some donkey dollars.

 

[Comeds]

Just had someone try to get me to join in their righteous indignation over "cancel culture" in the toy aisle at Meijer. They had 4 Mr Potato Heads in their cart. I didn't bother because there is no sport in verbally punching someone that stupid.

But it got me thinking, there is someone in Marketing at Hasbro that is a God Damned genius. Not only did they figure out a way to save 2 cents per toy in production (stop making mustaches), they also figured out how to clear out the dead stock on shelves because, let's face it, kid's today aren't really clamoring to stick faces on tubers so the shit doesn't sell. If they had just changed it and not said anything, no one would have noticed and this dingus wouldn't have rushed out and bought four of a toy that was probably on the shelves for over a year. But now they are selling. All because some marketing guy released a statement and got mouth breathers all spun up about the status of a potatoes hypothetical penis. Brilliant.

And now when "Mr" sells out, they will release the "new" thing that is in no real way different except for the box, and all the organic free range parents are going to line up to buy it AGAIN.

My only problem is I haven't figured out how to make money off these donkeys.

Want to chip in and buy the rights to Mr. Pibb and we can say it's being changed to GN Pibb? (Gender neutral)

Want to buy the rights to the game Operation and add breasts and a penis just for fun?

 

[Comeds]

One of my childhood favorites.

 

[dare2be]

those Dr Suess books are apparently going for thousands on ebay.
caveat - not sure if that the selling price or just listing price, as I didn't care enough to look.

The demand for racism is still very high, and always will be, as long as there continues to be mouth-breathing morons.

 

[dare2be]

Want to chip in and buy the rights to Mr. Pibb and we can say it's being changed to GN Pibb? (Gender neutral)

Want to buy the rights to the game Operation and add breasts and a penis just for fun?

My Mr. Coffee is having an identity crisis. It can't make frappes, lattes, or even a cappuchino.

 

[forty_three]

Not to mention everyone going into the stores and buying up all the other Seuss books to take a selfie reading it for facebook.



Need to check out the wife's Kindergarten storage in the basement to see if we have those books. Maybe that's my way to make some donkey dollars.

Follow up: I have several copies of one of the books, as it turns out to be one of my wife's favorites. So after I teased her a bit about liking racists, she showed it to me. The "Racist" part is talking about the people the kid claims to have seen on Mulberry Street, and one of the is a Chinese man "eating with sticks". That's it. So it was an observational thing, not a "lol look at the crazy foreigner". And, as with the Potato, if they had just stopped printing the books without stating why, no one would have noticed. Because the books just didn't sell.

Long story short; I can't sell the books on eBay to stupid rednecks for thousands of dollars.

Want to chip in and buy the rights to Mr. Pibb and we can say it's being changed to GN Pibb? (Gender neutral)

Want to buy the rights to the game Operation and add breasts and a penis just for fun?

That's the kind of thinking I need.

Maybe we could buy Dr Pepper and release a statement that the "Dr" has a doctorate in education like the first lady.

Then we can release special edition cans called Dr Pepper, MD.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

My Mr. Coffee is having an identity crisis. It can't make frappes, lattes, or even a cappuchino.

Mr. Fusion sales are through the roof though!

 

[dare2be]

the is a Chinese man "eating with sticks". That's it. So it was an observational thing, not a "lol look at the crazy foreigner".

I don't know if it's the same book, but one of them has a passage "helpers who all wear their eyes as a slant", which is a little bit more than observational.

 

[thedddd]

Not to mention everyone going into the stores and buying up all the other Seuss books to take a selfie reading it for facebook.



Need to check out the wife's Kindergarten storage in the basement to see if we have those books. Maybe that's my way to make some donkey dollars.

Funny I did that search last night. We will see if they net any money.

 

[puckhead]

I don't know if it's the same book, but one of them has a passage "helpers who all wear their eyes as a slant", which is a little bit more than observational.

I think that was an older version of the same book - had been edited before because it was a bit much.

agreed its much ado about nothing.
like Disney - their old cartoons (Dumbo) have warning labels now because of some of the depictions (the crows in that one)
but you won't find Song of the South anywhere (presumably). times change, we adapt and move on. some stuff gets left behind.

 

[forty_three]

I don't know if it's the same book, but one of them has a passage "helpers who all wear their eyes as a slant", which is a little bit more than observational.

That line wasn't in the copy I read last night. That would have stood out to me.

I think that was an older version of the same book - had been edited before because it was a bit much.

agreed its much ado about nothing.
like Disney - their old cartoons (Dumbo) have warning labels now because of some of the depictions (the crows in that one)
but you won't find Song of the South anywhere (presumably). times change, we adapt and move on. some stuff gets left behind.

And that's probably why.

The book is essentially a fever dream / LSD trip of the things a kid claims he saw while walking home from school.

 

[mattola]

Miss Piggy needs to go down for her abuse history... FROGS UNITE

 

[jstewismybastardson]

The book is essentially a fever dream / LSD trip of the things a kid claims he saw while walking home from school.

Pretty much all old timey kids books are that way lol

my wife brought her “lil golden books” collection into the marriage ... some knee slappers in that collection... ie “TOOTLE” was a real hoot to read to our kids

 

[puckhead]

i recall a couple of eye-openers reading stories to my kid.
Had to change the plot on the fly.


Little Matchbook Girl - charming story of an orphan child freezing to death on Christmas.
Curious George - the fucking monkey was upset he was in trouble, so he wished he was dead. Also, the man in the big yellow hat smoked to calm down.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Also, the man in the big yellow hat smoked to calm down.

What, don't you want your kids to be cool?

 

[thedddd]

Almost 100 sick as Arby's restaurant closes for second time

An Arby’s restaurant has closed for the second time in less than a month because of an outbreak of foodborne illnesses among its customers. Health

www.foodsafetynews.com

I think the real news here is ONLY 100 were sick from eating at Arby's.

 

[puckhead]

Almost 100 sick as Arby's restaurant closes for second time

An Arby’s restaurant has closed for the second time in less than a month because of an outbreak of foodborne illnesses among its customers. Health

www.foodsafetynews.com

I think the real news here is ONLY 100 were sick from eating at Arby's.

Leave Hope Solo alone!!

 

[mattola]

Almost 100 sick as Arby's restaurant closes for second time

An Arby’s restaurant has closed for the second time in less than a month because of an outbreak of foodborne illnesses among its customers. Health

www.foodsafetynews.com

I think the real news here is ONLY 100 were sick from eating at Arby's.

Arby's still exists????

 

[Comeds]

Almost 100 sick as Arby's restaurant closes for second time

An Arby’s restaurant has closed for the second time in less than a month because of an outbreak of foodborne illnesses among its customers. Health

www.foodsafetynews.com

I think the real news here is ONLY 100 were sick from eating at Arby's.

How is that news? Business as usual.......

 

[buffhockey]