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Message no. 1
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 02:18:06 -0500
Hey... Does anyone have a Tickle Me Elmos Doll?

<just joking>

For those of you who don't know what I'm babbling about because you don't
live in the states, the Tickle Me Elmo is the newest kiddie craze here...
It's a $30.00 plush red doll based on a Sesame Street Muppet that giggles
maniaclly and vibrates violently when you push its stomach or sides...

Anywaysm, the doll has been IMPOSSIBLE to find in the stores for the last
couple months, and they are being sold outside of the stores for close to
$1000.00 now...

I work in a Video Store, and we get very desperate people asking us if we
carry these things... Yeah, right...

I HATE Elmo... almost as bad a Barney...

Bull

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Message no. 2
From: "James Meiers (Specter)" <james@***.UNM.EDU>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 00:39:45 -0700
> couple months, and they are being sold outside of the stores for close to
> $1000.00 now...
Actually, try $7000+ and $4000+. (NO, I am not kidding, folks.) Someone
here in Albuquerque bought one for around $2600.

James, who is bored out of his mind, and has nothing better to do.

"If I go down, you're breaking my fall!"- Mayor Quimby "The Simpsons"
James Meiers: http://www.arc.unm.edu/~james
Message no. 3
From: Donald G Bixler <mudgb4@***.ECN.BGU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:51:39 -0600
> > couple months, and they are being sold outside of the stores for close to
> > $1000.00 now...
> Actually, try $7000+ and $4000+. (NO, I am not kidding, folks.) Someone
> here in Albuquerque bought one for around $2600.

*shakes head* We've got some damn silly people around... Of
ocurse, I want the Tickle-Me Dunkie! ;'}

> James, who is bored out of his mind, and has nothing better to do.

Opos da "Same here" Ogre
Message no. 4
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 02:18:38 -0800
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Bull wrote:

> Hey... Does anyone have a Tickle Me Elmos Doll?
>
> <just joking>
>
> For those of you who don't know what I'm babbling about because you don't
> live in the states, the Tickle Me Elmo is the newest kiddie craze here...
> It's a $30.00 plush red doll based on a Sesame Street Muppet that giggles
> maniaclly and vibrates violently when you push its stomach or sides...
>
> Anywaysm, the doll has been IMPOSSIBLE to find in the stores for the last
> couple months, and they are being sold outside of the stores for close to
> $1000.00 now...

I heard some slag paid about $7500 for one...

I remember somebody posting about an "Elmo" type job for some non-runner
SR players...why not the latest "Neil the Ork Barbarian" action fig?

>
> I work in a Video Store, and we get very desperate people asking us if we
> carry these things... Yeah, right...
>
> I HATE Elmo... almost as bad a Barney...

Oh, Oh, for all those Werewolf fans out there, a little snippet from a
news group:

"I taint you,
you taint me,
Lets all become fomorii!"

-Sung by a large, Wyrm tainted Mokole.

>
> Bull
>

~Tim
Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:36:36 +0100
Bull said on 2:18/23 Dec 96...

> For those of you who don't know what I'm babbling about because you don't
> live in the states, the Tickle Me Elmo is the newest kiddie craze here...
> It's a $30.00 plush red doll based on a Sesame Street Muppet that giggles
> maniaclly and vibrates violently when you push its stomach or sides...

It was on CNN last week, together with a report about a similar craze in
the UK, but with Buzz Lightyear dolls. Some woman paid US$6000 for a TME
doll, they said...

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Message no. 6
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 14:07:04 +0000
|
|Hey... Does anyone have a Tickle Me Elmos Doll?

AAAAARGH!!!!!

Stopitstopitstopit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

|<just joking>

Not funny....
Apart from the fact that I've no idea what one is, that thread has been
plaguing usenet now for a couple of weeks......

|For those of you who don't know what I'm babbling about because you don't
|live in the states, the Tickle Me Elmo is the newest kiddie craze here...
|It's a $30.00 plush red doll based on a Sesame Street Muppet that giggles
|maniaclly and vibrates violently when you push its stomach or sides...
|
|Anywaysm, the doll has been IMPOSSIBLE to find in the stores for the last
|couple months, and they are being sold outside of the stores for close to
|$1000.00 now...

Over here, it's apparently Buzz Lightyear that's impossible to get.....
Fortunately.... I don't have any kiddie relatives.....

At least, none that I've ever met.....

|I work in a Video Store, and we get very desperate people asking us if we
|carry these things... Yeah, right...
|
|I HATE Elmo... almost as bad a Barney...

NOTHING, apart from maybe Wesley Crusher, is as bad as barney.....
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Message no. 7
From: "James Meiers (Specter)" <james@***.UNM.EDU>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 08:27:44 -0700
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Donald G Bixler wrote:

> *shakes head* We've got some damn silly people around... Of
> ocurse, I want the Tickle-Me Dunkie! ;'}
I could see that. An 8 inch (20.32 cm) blue plush dragon that looks like
it's sitting up with outstreched plush wind that roars when you press
on it.

James Meiers (Specter)| http://www.arc.unm.edu/~james
"And in conclusion, I hate you all."- "Dilbert"
Message no. 8
From: Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 07:28:53 PST
Yeah Yeah... Me too! _I_ want a Tickle-Me Dunkie! (Far more loveable
than... say... a Tickle-Me Lofwyr....)

--Autumn
Message no. 9
From: The Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 09:59:44 +1100
> Yeah Yeah... Me too! _I_ want a Tickle-Me Dunkie! (Far more loveable
> than... say... a Tickle-Me Lofwyr....)

Or, heaven forfend, a Tickle-Me Hestaby... how about a Tickle-Me
Perianwyr? :)

Lady Jestyr

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Message no. 10
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:10:30 +0000
|
|> Yeah Yeah... Me too! _I_ want a Tickle-Me Dunkie! (Far more loveable
|> than... say... a Tickle-Me Lofwyr....)
|
|Or, heaven forfend, a Tickle-Me Hestaby... how about a Tickle-Me
|Perianwyr? :)

Anyone want to go into business???

A whole range of "tickle me" great dragon cuddly toys....

Available ready for next xmas...?

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|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 11
From: Skye Comstock <bilbo@****.NWLINK.COM>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 15:18:44 -0800
>Anyone want to go into business???
>
>A whole range of "tickle me" great dragon cuddly toys....

Can I be the mascot? I can dress up in dragon costumes and terrorize
elves and ... ground through quickenings! Ooo, how about this, 1 in every
1000 tickle me draggies will blow up and leave a void in space!

>Available ready for next xmas...?

I say you market it for Valentine's day and supply the dragons with
a cheerful pink flaming nostril.;)

Skye, who is way too bored.
Message no. 12
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:21:44 +0000
|Skye, who is way too bored.
|

I know the feeling.....
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|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
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Message no. 13
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 21:49:16 -0500
At 07:28 AM 12/16/96 PST, you wrote:
> Yeah Yeah... Me too! _I_ want a Tickle-Me Dunkie! (Far more loveable
>than... say... a Tickle-Me Lofwyr....)
>
A tickle me Kid Stealth would be cool, except for two things...

1) The only time Kid Stealth ever laughs is right before he kills you....

and

2) All the sharp pointy bits...

Bull
Message no. 14
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 22:11:20 -0500
At 09:59 AM 12/24/96 +1100, you wrote:
>> Yeah Yeah... Me too! _I_ want a Tickle-Me Dunkie! (Far more loveable
>> than... say... a Tickle-Me Lofwyr....)
>
>Or, heaven forfend, a Tickle-Me Hestaby... how about a Tickle-Me
>Perianwyr? :)
>
>Lady Jestyr
>
My dear Lady J, I can tell you from experience that Perry's not ticklish...
He does, however, love a good Cherry Cheesecake...:):):)

But KM is definately ticklish...

Bull
Message no. 15
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 22:21:56 -0500
At 03:18 PM 12/23/96 -0800, you wrote:
>>Anyone want to go into business???
>>
>>A whole range of "tickle me" great dragon cuddly toys....
>
> Can I be the mascot? I can dress up in dragon costumes and terrorize
>elves and ... ground through quickenings! Ooo, how about this, 1 in every
>1000 tickle me draggies will blow up and leave a void in space!
>
But only if they were the special "Presidential" Dragon...

Bull-the-silly
Message no. 16
From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 01:07:33 -0500
> A tickle me Kid Stealth would be cool, except for two things...
>
> 1) The only time Kid Stealth ever laughs is right before he kills
you....
>
> and
>
> 2) All the sharp pointy bits...

Hey Bull, how about a TM - KM?

ROFLOL!!!!!

Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://www.ncweb.com./users/bluewizard
Message no. 17
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 17:25:10 -0800
On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Bull wrote:

> At 07:28 AM 12/16/96 PST, you wrote:
> > Yeah Yeah... Me too! _I_ want a Tickle-Me Dunkie! (Far more loveable
> >than... say... a Tickle-Me Lofwyr....)
> >
> A tickle me Kid Stealth would be cool, except for two things...
>
> 1) The only time Kid Stealth ever laughs is right before he kills you....
>
> and
>
> 2) All the sharp pointy bits...
>
> Bull
>

Ohhh...Yeah!

<<Warning this product contains many razor sharp parts and is not
suitable for children without dermal plating>>

Also includes: 10 nuyen coupon for a Doc Wagon contract

~Tim (LOL)
Message no. 18
From: Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 17:00:27 PST
> I say you market it for Valentine's day and supply the dragons
>with
>a cheerful pink flaming nostril.;)
>
>Skye, who is way too bored.
>

And next year we can branch out! [gleeful, fiendish grin] We can have
Tickle-Me Ghoulies, and Tickle-Me Horrors, and Tickle-Me Hivelings....

--Autumn
Who has spent WAY too much time with her kid brother....
Message no. 19
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 07:40:38 -0700
Autumn / Shatterglass wrote:
|
|> I say you market it for Valentine's day and supply the dragons
|>with
|>a cheerful pink flaming nostril.;)
|>
|>Skye, who is way too bored.
|>
|
|And next year we can branch out! [gleeful, fiendish grin] We can have
|Tickle-Me Ghoulies, and Tickle-Me Horrors, and Tickle-Me Hivelings....

Tickle-Me Harlequin :)

-David

/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\ dbuehrer@****.org /^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\/^\
"His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking
alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free."
~~~http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm~~~~
Message no. 20
From: Peter Coxon <coxoff@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 13:14:58 UT
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From: Shadowrun Discussion on behalf of Spike
Sent: Monday, December 23, 1996 2:07 PM
To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)

<SNIP>
>NOTHING, apart from maybe Wesley Crusher, is as bad as barney.....
If anyone wants a copy I have a Doom II Wad where the barons of hell are
barney :) what fun fun I had blowing the crap outa them :).
Message no. 21
From: Autumn / Shatterglass <laughingcrow@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Silly questions...:)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 14:22:55 PST
OH YEAH!!

Peter... I would love a copy of that Doom2... [laughs] But this account
won't take attatchments. If you want to try sending it... Send it to
Deva. His will, and I have a feeling he'd get a kick out of it too!
Heheh! BARNEY DIES!!

--Autumn
(Find Deva at ToddM@***.com)

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