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Sorry to the science buffs out there. I thought this toy was really cute (on another site)and then I found out what it was:
http://www.amazon.com/Giant-Microbes-coli-...h/dp/B000O22V4C Maybe I won't get that for my friend's new baby. It could be worse - they do a syphilis one! http://www.giantmicrobes.com/au/products/pox.html |
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I think they're great - we got a bookworm given to us when DS was born, that's a bit more appropriate than one of the venereals though!
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I like the sperm
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I love them (but yeah, maybe not the most appropriate gift for a new baby unless it has geeky parents
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Ok, the bookworm passes muster. It's kinda cute actually.
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I have given them to people/baby people (they have the full range in the awesome toy store in my tiny town)..... is that a bad, bad thing?
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Awesome!!!
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I think they are great. I bought the bookworm one for a friend trying to write the Great American Novel. He loved it.
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I was so close to buying a herpies one. It looks like a cute sun for our baby daughter. Then I realised that at some point she would take it to school and then we'd get a phone call fom the teacher who would not share our sense of humour. It'd all end badly.
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The herpes looks so happy!
I think they are georgeous. The fat cell is SO cute... so is the neuron... the bookworm is georgeous too... |
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