tea or cogs?

[sergebroom]

I just heard an interesting ad on the radio.

There's this store in Santa Fé that specializes in Christmas and Easter stuff, and their ad reminded us that kids find the latter almost as important as the former. That was true for my wife when she was a kid because that meant Ben Hur being shown on TV. But I digress. The ad kind of dropped the ball when it asked us to imagine how boys would be excited upon receiving a wind-up bunny, and the girls a tiny tea set. What if the boy wanted the tea set, and the girl the wind-up bunny?

Mind you, a very young Agatha Heterodyne would probably have built her own wind-up tea set.

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

With or without chimpanzees?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

No chimpanzees, but there'd be a talking cat to sample her mechanical tea.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Ah. Now talking cats would be the very devil.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I heard that!

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Well, now, and aren't you the very divvle?

[tania-c.livejournal.com]

I associate Easter with The Ten Commandments, but that could just be my local TV programming.

I'd be all over a wind-up tea set.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I think that Ten (the Commandments movie, not Bo Derek's) was more the tradition in Québec too. As for Ben Hur, I think it's one of the first movies I ever saw on the big screen, at the tender age of 9. I prefer it to the big de Mille epic myself, and I even have it on DVD.

By the way, welcome back. I was beginning to worry about your absence from your usual blogosphere haunts.

[tania-c.livejournal.com]

I've been missing you too! I've been buried by work, homework, and having adventures working around the nannyware on the work network. Grad school can not be over soon enough.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Grad school can not be over soon enough.

Look at it this way. The kids feel the same way.

I NEVER wanted a tea set ...

[susankrinard.livejournal.com]

I'd much rather have had a wind-up bunny, though even that sounds a little boring. A set of dinosaurs would have been more my line, or model horses. '

And yes, I must confess <> that Charlton Heston was my pin-up when I was a kid and teenager. Weird, huh?

Re: I NEVER wanted a tea set ...

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

You have to act more like a proper girl otherwise you'll wind up marrying some weirdo. Oh Wait.