Doll has bee
Andrew J. Zimolzak
-> 'Smart' doll can see and read
-> August 20, 2003
[snip everything but the bee part]
-> Cindy Smart, who "sees" via a camera located under a bee on her
-> overalls and has a computer "brain" that can recognise more than 600
-> words and objects, was launched for the first time outside the United
-> States at Myer Melbourne yesterday.
Apparently, a few U.S. news sources covered this toy after its release
here about a year ago, but nobody mentioned that it had bee. Depend
on the media in the People's United Republics of Austria to present
unbiased coverage of what has bee.
By the way, if she has her camera located under a bee, how come she
doesn't just say "Bee, Bee, Bee," all day long?
--
Andy Z.
Kevin S. Wilson
wrote:
>By the way, if she has her camera located under a bee, how come she
>doesn't just say "Bee, Bee, Bee," all day long?
Or, more accurately, "Bee butt, Bee butt, Bee butt."
--
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho
"You can safely ignore Kevin in order to
maximise life's experience." --A. Loon, in alt.religion.kibology
James Kibo Parry
>
> [Australian news story]
> ->
> -> 'Smart' doll can see and read
> -> August 20, 2003
> -> [...]
> ->
> -> Cindy Smart, who "sees" via a camera located under a bee on her
> -> overalls and has a computer "brain" that can recognise more than 600
> -> words and objects, was launched for the first time outside the United
> -> States at Myer Melbourne yesterday.
>
> Apparently, a few U.S. news sources covered this toy after its release
> here about a year ago, but nobody mentioned that it had bee. Depend
> on the media in the People's United Republics of Austria to present
> unbiased coverage of what has bee.
>
> By the way, if she has her camera located under a bee, how come she
> doesn't just say "Bee, Bee, Bee," all day long?
Also, wouldn't you have to take the overalls off to have sex with her?
Or isn't it that kind of doll-with-a-camera-in-it?
One thing that's puzzled me for a while is that women and girls are often
terrified of critters like bees, spiders, dragonflies, etc. Yet when you
look at what critters are put on women's jewelry and clothing, insects
and spiders are at least as common as kitties and doggies. My conclusion
is that 3-D bees are scary and evil but 2-D bees are cute.
Apparently bees can be cutened by just running over them with
a tiny steamroller.
Could someone please explain the rules for which insects are cute in
which dimensions? Would 1-D bees be super-cute and would 4-D bees be
so scary you'd die if you just thought about them?
-- K.
And why are some people
afraid of dragonflies?
They don't _do_ anything!
(Except when they breathe fire.)
James Kibo Parry
>
> Andrew J. Zimolzak (zimo...@msu.edu) wrote:
> >
> > By the way, if she has her camera located under a bee, how come she
> > doesn't just say "Bee, Bee, Bee," all day long?
>
> Or, more accurately, "Bee butt, Bee butt, Bee butt."
That's implying that the bee on her Oshkosh Bee-Gosh overalls is facing
outwards. Quite an assumption to make, given that the doll is made by
the Taiwanese manufacturer Manley Toy Quest -- their principal business
is making those sets of military vehicles sold at K-Mart, the giant
boxes which contain two tiny plastic Jeeps and 48 little plastic
traffic cones which are as wide as they are tall and the box usually
says "Copyright 2003 BC".
No, wait, that's Boley. Or Doley or Loley, I never can figure it out
give that weird font they used four thousand years ago when they printed
all their cardboard boxes. Manley Toy Quest is a different maker of
cheap imported toys. The doll in question is sold through the Home
Shopping Network and a variety of Web sites that only sell "As Seen On TV"
stuff. So I have no idea in what geological epoch the Cindy Smart doll
claims to have been copyrighted. Could be Triassic for all I know,
which would explain why you quoted her saying "butt" three times.
Also, Manley doesn't make any toys which are manley. Their toys are all
girley or babyey.
-- K.
I miss Manley Hubbell. What ever
happened to him? Did he leave on
a Voyage To Gravolti, the planet
where punctuation marks are plentiful?