A boy and his stick
Stick it
Fifteen years ago, I found a stick on the sidewalk outside the Sun Journal. It was a fine stick, freakishly straight and devoid of any large knots or flaws. A beauty, really. So I brought it inside and started poking colleagues with it and a beautiful relationship between boy and stick was born. The sucker still resides on my desk, too. It’s the envy of stick connesiuers everywhere. God, I love that stick. Later, I will post photos of my stick so that all of you might enjoy it. It really is a wonderful stick.
A plain ol’ stick was entered into the National Toy Hall of Fame yesterday. It joins the kite, Mr. Potato Head, Crayloa crayons, the Atari 2600, LEGO, and several dozen other toy greats. Also added this year are the baby doll and the skateboard. More from BoingBoing
November 7th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Lovely.
November 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I had heard that you liked playing with your stick. heh
November 7th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Slim stickings..
November 7th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Cue stick for a midget?
November 7th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Give a kid, or a severely childish man, a stick and a piece of string, possibly an old box too, and he will be amused for hours on end. The possibilities are endless.
November 7th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
A sword, a sharp lance
Poker or picker upper
Gotta love a stick
November 8th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
When is that doll ‘Chuckie’ gonna make the HOF?
November 8th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Or the dead cat at roadside? Hours of fun!
November 8th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
It wasn’t a chuckie doll, it was originally “My Buddy” and marketed for boys, because the inventor thought it wasn’t fair that girls get dolls but not boys. So he made a doll for boys to relate to, to project their feelings on, etc. He tried to stop them from from using his doll in those horror movies because it corrupted his intention for the doll, and he lost in court (first amendment) so he took the My Buddy off the market.
November 8th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Wait, Chuckie is a My Buddy doll? Funny how I never noticed that.
November 9th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Flamer, go back to your editors pics. You’ll see a My Buddy doll hanging from a flag pole!
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