Just heard that the stick was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame! Exciting stuff!
Now it seems that something called "the cardboard box" was inducted some years ago. Anybody have plans for one of these? Measured drawrings? A writeup? A picture? Anything? Dang! I betcha my grandkids would love one of these things.
hopefully waiting, jo4hn
Shirley you meant a hockey stick. ;-)
And yes I did call you Shirley.
Actually, in real life I remember several instances of my children who were very, very young enjoying their Christmas toys in this manner. They would empty the contents of the cardboard box which might contain a toy truck, climb into the box and have fun with the box for an hour or more. I appreciate the hours watching my children with their cardboard boxes, having fun, imagining they were driving cars or rocket ships. Those cardboard boxes deserve to be in a Hall of Fame.
jo4hn wrote in news:d5KdnXmgN_BmaYvUnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@supernews.com:
They're big things, fun for both kids and adults. They measure about
40"x40"x72", and are available at your local appliance store.Puckdropper
Surprisingly, they're not. Seems that appliances come in bubble wrap these days. Paperback carrels, though, do still come in cardboard boxes that big.
Australopithecus scobis wrote in news:huangpo_ snipped-for-privacy@us.Usenet-News.net:
Bubble wrap's worth inclusion in the national toy HOF itself, you know. :-)
Puckdropper
I thought he meant a pointy stick.
Oh no. Not again...
Cats like them too.
Two heating pads, one sheepskin cat bed, one lovingly hand-built carpeted cat tree.... Where does my cat sleep? On top of an old, dirty, cardboard box that's bursting at the seams.
"Upscale" wrote
I know.
The missus made a very comfortable and pretty cat bed and put it under the end table for her. She used it about three times and immediately lost interest.
Her current bed is a corner of a storage rack, on a cardboard box, in a closet in my office. It is dark and does not have any humans close by.
"Lee Michaels" wrote in news:002c19eb$0$21222$ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:
Cats know how much you've paid for a toy/bed/whatever, and usually follow an inverse relationship between price and their ranking of it. The more you paid, the less they like it. ;-)
Puckdropper
That's why I always got a kick out of people buying cat toys for actual money.
Mine love the paper bag after the groceries are removed, an ice cube in the water bowl, or the curled section of an old bass string. And I can reuse the bag when the cats are done!
Toilet paper tubes are blast, too!
"B A R R Y" wrote
... or your underwear, when it's around your ankles and they open the bathroom door and saunter in to see what the hell it is you're up to.
Whenever anybody mentions cat toys I think of this table:
One of ours has recently taken to rubber bands. He's built quite a collection and at least now we know where to find one.
In the quarter bath I get the paw under the door going for bare feet. Jeez, that can be messy!
My cat has always liked rubber bands. She keeps finding them even though I grab what she's got and lock them up in the pencil drawer. I don't know where she gets them from, yet more always appear.
"Upscale" wrote in news:cc301$492cc49d$cef88bc5$ snipped-for-privacy@TEKSAVVY.COM:
Perhaps she's a smart cat and has made a trap door in your pencil drawer. Ever see her out in your shop eyeing your saws? :-)
Puckdropper
I have one that fancies herself the great hunter, brings in worms all the time.
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