Comments on: The Quick 10: How 10 Classic Toys Were Invented http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089 Feel Smart Again Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:13:37 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: miranda http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-350897 miranda Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:36:57 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-350897 that should say teeth. that should say teeth.

]]> By: miranda http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-350894 miranda Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:36:34 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-350894 porcelain dolls with teach-truly scary. and pull string dolls that talk-also frightening. i swore one told me "i like chocolate" which def wasn't something Matty Mattel (look that doll up to be truly horrified) was supposed to say. porcelain dolls with teach-truly scary. and pull string dolls that talk-also frightening. i swore one told me “i like chocolate” which def wasn’t something Matty Mattel (look that doll up to be truly horrified) was supposed to say.

]]> By: hepcat http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-284243 hepcat Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:31:14 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-284243 Coming to this conversation a little late, but I just saw a link. The Raggedy Ann story is a sad one -- Johnny Gruelle made up those stories to tell his daughter as she was dying a lingering death from having mistakenly been given a second smallpox vaccination. This is the story I got from a docent at the little Raggedy Ann & Andy museum in Arcola, IL (not far from the World's Only Hippie Memorial). Coming to this conversation a little late, but I just saw a link. The Raggedy Ann story is a sad one — Johnny Gruelle made up those stories to tell his daughter as she was dying a lingering death from having mistakenly been given a second smallpox vaccination. This is the story I got from a docent at the little Raggedy Ann & Andy museum in Arcola, IL (not far from the World’s Only Hippie Memorial).

]]> By: leo http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-272324 leo Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:52:57 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-272324 I loved my slinky. I found it most amusing. Miss it already when I read this article. I loved my slinky. I found it most amusing. Miss it already when I read this article.

]]> By: Linda http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-261400 Linda Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:23:02 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-261400 My sea monkeys worked, but I was most disappointed that they didn't wear their crowns...ever. My sea monkeys worked, but I was most disappointed that they didn’t wear their crowns…ever.

]]> By: Ally http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-231786 Ally Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:09:39 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-231786 "I live in Rockford,and the local history museum is trying to bring back the Sock Monkey." I don't think they have to keep trying!! Sock monkeys are everywhere these days, and are particularly big in crafty/artsy circles. “I live in Rockford,and the local history museum is trying to bring back the Sock Monkey.”

I don’t think they have to keep trying!! Sock monkeys are everywhere these days, and are particularly big in crafty/artsy circles.

]]> By: Maxmanta http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-231756 Maxmanta Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:51:47 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-231756 My father worked as a designer for a number of toy companies. When I was a kid, he was always bringing prototype games and toys home for me to play with. I didn't know it at the time, but I was functioning as a one-subject focus group. If I really liked a toy, it was taken from me and brought back to work. It may explain my inability to form lasting relationships as an adult. My father worked as a designer for a number of toy companies. When I was a kid, he was always bringing prototype games and toys home for me to play with. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was functioning as a one-subject focus group. If I really liked a toy, it was taken from me and brought back to work. It may explain my inability to form lasting relationships as an adult.

]]> By: Elly http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-224442 Elly Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:09:40 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-224442 This is either really freaky or really funny because last Thursday I read about the "most haunted" on this site and it included a couple of scary doll stories which I forwarded to my husband to read because it was really interesting. So on that Saturday we went to visit some relatives on the other side of town, during our visit my 2 year old daughter made friends with an older relative I didnt know to well but thought she was so adorable and asked me if it was ok to give her an old doll she thought she would enjoy. I didnt think much of it and agreed so before we were leaving she caught us at the door and gave my daughter this old porcelin doll it had a long white dress and curly black hair and had bright blue eyes that looked so real. Me and my husband stared at each other while my daughter was holding this life size doll she could bearly carry. I grabbed it from her and rushed to the car and placed it in the trunk (we both were kinda freaked out for a minute). By the time we got home from our two hour drive I forgot about it until I opened the trunk!! ahhh! I was freaked out all over again... So I did what any mature young woman would do... Put it in my brother's closet. Let just say I had a good morning laugh. So my dilema now is what to do with this doll? Maybe Halloween decoration. So anyway I think its crazy that a read this today and under the Ragedy Ann Doll they commented about a porcelin doll. This is either really freaky or really funny because last Thursday I read about the “most haunted” on this site and it included a couple of scary doll stories which I forwarded to my husband to read because it was really interesting. So on that Saturday we went to visit some relatives on the other side of town, during our visit my 2 year old daughter made friends with an older relative I didnt know to well but thought she was so adorable and asked me if it was ok to give her an old doll she thought she would enjoy. I didnt think much of it and agreed so before we were leaving she caught us at the door and gave my daughter this old porcelin doll it had a long white dress and curly black hair and had bright blue eyes that looked so real. Me and my husband stared at each other while my daughter was holding this life size doll she could bearly carry. I grabbed it from her and rushed to the car and placed it in the trunk (we both were kinda freaked out for a minute). By the time we got home from our two hour drive I forgot about it until I opened the trunk!! ahhh! I was freaked out all over again… So I did what any mature young woman would do… Put it in my brother’s closet. Let just say I had a good morning laugh. So my dilema now is what to do with this doll? Maybe Halloween decoration. So anyway I think its crazy that a read this today and under the Ragedy Ann Doll they commented about a porcelin doll.

]]> By: Dara http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-217361 Dara Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:06:19 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-217361 Here's how my hatred of clowns and dolls collided. When I went away to college, some relatives gave me a hand-made clown doll that creeped me out by constantly being in wierd places I didn't remember putting it. One morning, I awoke to find said doll staring at me from atop my dresser with its hand in my half-open underwear drawer. My roommate was out of town at the time so I knew it wasn't a joke. The doll went in the trash posthaste. Here’s how my hatred of clowns and dolls collided. When I went away to college, some relatives gave me a hand-made clown doll that creeped me out by constantly being in wierd places I didn’t remember putting it. One morning, I awoke to find said doll staring at me from atop my dresser with its hand in my half-open underwear drawer. My roommate was out of town at the time so I knew it wasn’t a joke. The doll went in the trash posthaste.

]]> By: Missy http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089/comment-page-1#comment-186408 Missy Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:07:07 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/24089#comment-186408 I used to have a sea monkey kit too, but they were a different kind called Triops. They actually DID hatch when they were supposed to. Once, though, one of them jumped out of the tank (it didn't die though). P.S.: I don't do horror movies. ): I used to have a sea monkey kit too, but they were a different kind called Triops. They actually DID hatch
when they were supposed to. Once, though, one of them jumped out of the tank (it didn’t die though).
P.S.: I don’t do horror movies. ):

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