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tabbycat31

(6,336 posts)
2. An old friend of mine took the advice of an annoying toy literally.
Fri May 18, 2012, 05:09 PM
May 2012

The toy was the Big Mouth Billy Bass, the infamous singing fish that sang "Take me to the river, dump me in the water."

She listened to it.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
4. Not my kid's toys ( hell i was at work so it didn't get to me - no idea what my wife might have done
Fri May 18, 2012, 06:05 PM
May 2012

but I've ripped a crap-load of squeakers out of my dog's squeaky toys...

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
5. I took apart my Radio Shack 30-in-1 project kit to make an R2D2 noise generator.
Fri May 18, 2012, 06:51 PM
May 2012

Somehow, at the time, I thought it would be a good idea to put it behind the back seat on my first date. Needless to say, (but I'm going to anyway) she was not amused.

surrealAmerican

(11,360 posts)
6. I mostly just buried those "furbies" under other toys.
Fri May 18, 2012, 08:14 PM
May 2012

Even my kids found them annoying pretty quickly.


We didn't have the heart to break them, though.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
7. My wife's aunt
Fri May 18, 2012, 09:17 PM
May 2012

bought the kids some Tonka Ambulance and Fire Truck toys that had sirens set at around 175 dB. If you walked past the damned things the sirens would go off. The batteries mysteriously quit working within a week or so.

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