File this one under "NEVER NEVER NEVER!!!!!"

[emeleel]

This is just SO wrong!

Amazon.com: Barbie Forever Barbie Doll with Tanner the Dog: Toys & Games

Product Features

• Tanner is soft and fuzzy and her mouth, ears, head and tail really move
• You can open Tanner's mouth and feed her dog biscuits
• Comes with dog bone and chew toy that Tanner can hold in her mouth
• When Tanner has to go to the bathroom Barbie cleans up with the magnetic scooper

[pippadaisy[$]]

Did you see Nancy's review of it?

[hadassahchana[$]]

OMG, linky thing, please???

Melanie, too funny!


Of course, a voice inside me is saying"I wonder if GI Joe would like a wife who is a dog lover?"

[emeleel]

I can't get Amazon links to work properly here any more. Just copy/paste the middle part without the "URL" bits attached.

[pippadaisy[$]]

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Forever Barbie and Tanner the Dog at Epinions.com

[lynnzop[$]]

I see that if you like that item, you can also buy the Barbie Forever horse too. I wonder if that one comes with a magnetic scooper for when the horse has to go to the bathroom.

OMG, I'm still laughing. Dan didn't find it quite so amusing as I did though.

[lynnzop[$]]

pippadaisy said

Did you see Nancy's review of it?

YOU MUST READ IT. :happy 1094

Oh dear god I think I just peed my pants. Seriously. I woke up Jeremy I was laughing so hard.

[hadassahchana[$]]

WEll, then I will wait till I am back home. It doesn't seem like a good day for me to cackle loudly at the office.

[lynnzop[$]]

I am going to buy one of these for when we have "one of those days" at work. I think it will be the most popular toy in the office.

[amykhar]

I ordered one for the girls. I couldn't resist.

[MiracleMax]

Another new "Barbie."

New kid on the block: Arab's answer to Barbie

[pippadaisy[$]]

Beanie got Barbie & Tanner for her birthday party. It's going back. Her response when I asked her if she wanted me to unbox it? "I'm really not into the Circle of Poop."



The CIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRCLE of POOOOOOOOOOOOOP,
It's a wheel of eating...

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

South Park did that as a song for one of their Christmas specials. Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo's son was upset about being a Poo, so his dad sang him the song about how poo goes on to make all living things possible in the Circle of Poo.

[lynnzop[$]]

Bummer....we have Barbie and Tanner at work and now they are deemed unsafe. But I guess we never put the poops in our mouths....although Tanner's looking a little green around the gills.

I started laughing incessantly when I opened up CNN.COM this a.m. and found Barbie and Tanner were the hot story, with the BIG picture on the left.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

Everything that lives on earth poos in some way
And that's how the cycle happens, each and every day
Just look at the green green grass and the birds up in the sky
It's all here because of poo, and now I'll tell you why
Cos it's eaten by cattle, which is eaten by women and men
It fuses with their bodies and becomes poo again
And that poo goes through the sewer
Where it's dumped into the sea
And it's eaten by the plankton, and becomes the fishes' meal
And then that bigger fish with the poo still inside
Swims up near the shore and gets eaten alive
By the grizzly bear that poos on a dead piece of sand
So it can spring to life and become food for the land
It's the poo of the antelope, the poo of the giraffe
It falls onto the earth and becomes the blades of grass
The grass is eaten by the cattle
Which comes out the other end
To make food for the humans and start all over again

I'm the poo of the antelope, that flows down to the ground


Becomes the grass of tomorrow
Which the grazers turn around


So I'm the leg of a leopard and the wings of a hen
Which becomes dinner for the human
And turns back to poo again
That's the Circle, the Circle of Poo!

[emeleel]

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

Well, it does.

Out of curiosity, didn't magnets exist when I was a kid? I seem to remeber HAVING some. How come I never heard about kids dying from magnets until two years ago?

[pippadaisy[$]]

Because if you put unsafe stuff in your mouth back then, your mother clocked you upside the head with her shoe. You didn't do it again after that, generally.

[theworm[$]]

my mom just used an open palm.

[jgibson2[$]]

mjfrombuffalo said

Well, it does.

Out of curiosity, didn't magnets exist when I was a kid? I seem to remember HAVING some. How come I never heard about kids dying from magnets until two years ago?

These aren't the kind of ordinary magnets we played with as kids. These are extra strong magnets which also happen to be small enough for even the smallest kid or pet to swallow. The magnets have to be small enough to stick really tightly together through 2 layers of intestine plus the tissues in between. That takes a really powerful magnet. Those were available before, but mostly only used by scientists. Rare earth magnets are that strong. Typical household magnets aren't.

The magnets get swallowed - and you also have to swallow them at intervals, or at least they can't leave the stomach together or they'll just stick to each other and pass on through. You need an interval of 30 minutes or more - but less than the typical transit time of a small child's intestine. They stick together through the layers and the intestine twists around them, cuts off its own circulation in the loop and dies. This leads to peritonitis. Nasty way to go.

Most parents will just think little Johnny has some kind of GI bug until the kid is way close to death. Unfortunately, pediatricians can make the same mistake.

[emeleel]

Of course, back when we were kids, I don't think they made things that were so teensy tiny with magnets, either. Here's one story about the Polly Pockets:

Girl, 7, got serious infection after swallowing Mattel magnets in 2005 - CNN.com

With the tiny toys craze has come tiny magnets. All the magnet things I can remember as a child usually had good sized magnets, except maybe those magnetic letters we all played with.