That's what it's all about

[khaosworks]

Eyyyy, Macarena!

During my New York Thanksgiving sojourn, we (swisscheesed, hippodrome and I) took a trip to Ikea in Elizabeth, NJ - we also stopped by the Toys R Us Kids World that faced Ikea from across a parking lot the size of Rohan.

It occurred to me that I still haven't gotten around to doing that short film I envisioned some years ago - of fat, middle-aged balding men in their thirties dressed in over-tight cartoon T-shirts, preferably stained... you know, the kind you increasingly see in gaming shops scaring the kids playing Yu-Gi-Oh by extolling the virtues of White Box D&D rules... but I digress. Anyway, these guys are standing in front of various Toys R Uses and, cut together, singing in a melancholy off-key way, the "I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys R Us kid..." song and then bursting into tears at the end.

It also occurred to me that the state of toy technology has gotten really out of hand. When I was a kid, Legos were just bricks. Nowadays, you can clip a custom-made lever to a Lego figure and do frickin' extreme sports with them. We also have, new for this season, the Hokey-Pokey Elmo, who when his left hand is pressed does the (wait for it) Hokey Pokey, vibrating like one of those milkshake cups in the mixer before it explodes when he gets to the part about shaking "it all about".

Dude, if I saw that when I was a kid, I'd have thought it was possessed. I and my sister still felt the urge to grab sticks and smash at it screaming, "Die, spawn of Satan!"

And speaking of spawn of Satan, we segue nicely back to the President...

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[dietbubba.livejournal.com]

Suddenly the president was possessed by the spirts of both Gerald Ford and Boris Yeltsin....

[camwyn]

Every time I see this picture, my initial reaction is that the Chief Master Sergeant there is either giving the President the Heimlich, or forcibly restraining him. Honestly, the President looks like he's got an invisible fist in his abdomen, and the arm is flying back from the impact or something.