Comments on: Manky Toy Monday: King Kong Vs. Dinosaur http://www.fustar.info/2007/02/05/215/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:47:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: fústar http://www.fustar.info/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52911 fústar Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:47:48 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52911 Green Ink, I think parents get seduced by quantity and not quality. Faced with a shit (but copiously-stuffed) packet of identikit plastic soldiers and a less-liberally stocked, but far superior (and campaign specific) one, they'll inevitably go for the former. It reminds me of the time the ma and pa of some friends went off (at Christmas) to buy the family a "Nintendo". Un-chaperoned they predictably chose disastrously, coming home with a generic "games system" that played 6000 games...all of them of sub-sub-Atari standard. Paul, It's a rocket, man! I'm sure of it. This is the "Eight Wonder of the World" we're talking about here, not some pissed up first year student on a night out. Green Ink,

I think parents get seduced by quantity and not quality. Faced with a shit (but copiously-stuffed) packet of identikit plastic soldiers and a less-liberally stocked, but far superior (and campaign specific) one, they’ll inevitably go for the former.

It reminds me of the time the ma and pa of some friends went off (at Christmas) to buy the family a “Nintendo”. Un-chaperoned they predictably chose disastrously, coming home with a generic “games system” that played 6000 games…all of them of sub-sub-Atari standard.

Paul,

It’s a rocket, man! I’m sure of it.

This is the “Eight Wonder of the World” we’re talking about here, not some pissed up first year student on a night out.

]]> By: paul gill http://www.fustar.info/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52874 paul gill Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:47:58 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52874 "The box clearly shows Kong (and this is a very Godzilla-esque touch) clutching a rocket" Are you sure that isn't a traffic cone? “The box clearly shows Kong (and this is a very Godzilla-esque touch) clutching a rocket”

Are you sure that isn’t a traffic cone?

]]> By: Green Ink http://www.fustar.info/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52845 Green Ink Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:29:37 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52845 Classic. Further to your first <a href="http://www.fustar.org/2007/01/22/209/" rel="nofollow">Manky toy Monday</a> post, I think the question needs to be asked: why were (and are) parents so terminally crap at spotting the difference between the cheap shit and the real thing? I would have to chaperone my mother at Christmas time and coming up to birthdays for fear she'd get the knock off crap. Don't they know that softened pvc can stop testicular development? Classic. Further to your first Manky toy Monday post, I think the question needs to be asked: why were (and are) parents so terminally crap at spotting the difference between the cheap shit and the real thing? I would have to chaperone my mother at Christmas time and coming up to birthdays for fear she’d get the knock off crap. Don’t they know that softened pvc can stop testicular development?

]]> By: fústar http://www.fustar.info/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52605 fústar Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:14:16 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52605 Simon, I trust I won't be receiving a letter from yourself claiming culpability on my part for damage to your ribs?! I can see myself in court: "Honestly, M'Lud, I had no idea I was so hilarious" It’s a dangerous game this blogging. Simon,

I trust I won’t be receiving a letter from yourself claiming culpability on my part for damage to your ribs?! I can see myself in court:

“Honestly, M’Lud, I had no idea I was so hilarious”

It’s a dangerous game this blogging.

]]> By: Simon McGarr http://www.fustar.info/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52424 Simon McGarr Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:40:26 +0000 http://www.fustar.org/2007/02/05/215/#comment-52424 Just in case there was any doubt, caused by the lack of comments, this post is so funny I injured a rib trying to stifle my laughs at my desk. Just in case there was any doubt, caused by the lack of comments, this post is so funny I injured a rib trying to stifle my laughs at my desk.

]]>