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10/03/2006: McMonopoly, Bat Organs and MLP.

Someone bought-and-brought McDonald’s in for lunch at work today, and her cup marked a special day: The return of the McDonald’s Monopoly game, which I will never ever win but will continue to play anyway, for all of time! I’m pretty sure everyone in the country knows someone who knows someone who swears they found “Boardwalk” and lost it under suspicious circumstances; me, I’m happy just putting little avenue piece stickers on a paper Monopoly board and hoping for an instant win free sundae piece that I will never actually cash in.

There are forty-thousand McDonald’s restaurants within walking distance from my office, and another two or three at home. People shouldn’t eat Big Macs every night, but there’s nothing stopping me from making sure every ounce of soda I drink for the next few weeks comes from a Monopoly-laden McDonald’s cup.

I’ve talked about the constant dread I experience in regard to the woman asking me to take her to…the craft store. It’s a little easier around the holidays, because craft stores know the holidays. I’m actually finding a lot of cool stuff at ‘em this year. Previously, it was all about stupid scarecrow door wreaths and pumpkin-themed scrapbook kits, but this year, I’m finding stuff like “Bat Organs” party favors. BAT ORGANS!

The packaging is kind of boring and kind of sucks, but since it includes the term “BAT ORGANS” in large text, I’m not sure I need anything else. The set consists of four gooey “bat brains,” which are such unbelievably perfect little gooey brains that I am now 100% positive that my destiny is to create a homemade Krang and write up a DIY guide afterwards. These things are just awesome, and CHEAP! Even more amazing is that the so-called “bat brains” are clearly too large to be the brains of any existing bat. They’re bigger than most bat heads. I love them!

New on the Halloween Countdown: My Little Pony.

PS, think I can sue McD’s if they give me two Baltic Avenues on one Coke?

BAT ORGANS?!
That means more than one, like…imagine chewy bat eyes, or gummy bat teeth or dismembered rubber bat wings.
I think I’ve seen those before…

Are you sure there not candy? Eat one just to be sure, and even if that one isn’t good, eat another one just to be sure.

Awesome! You have inclued all my loves tonight! Mcds Bats and My Little Pony! How do you do it? Can you read my mind?

Bat Organs should just be called Bat Brains. I don’t see any spleens or kidneys or anything.. Such false advertising.

I only saw two packages of them, and some jerk squished all of the plastic bubbles in so the brains were smooshed. Therefore, I didn’t get any, cause who wants a package of smooshed brains? Surely not I!

I know! I’m trying to figure out if “BAT ORGANS” refers to a larger line — like, maybe there’s packages full of bat kidneys, as you say. I hold out hope.

Wait, the package says Bat Organs, With Bat Brains. How does that make any sense? I’m confused.

I had the feeling that it was a pretty limited production line. Brains hold more ground than almost any other organ in the desirability area. I know I’d rather have a brain than a stomach/kidney, etc. A heart though would be pretty cool.. If I ever go to a craft store before Halloween again (which is unlikely, I have almost the same aversion you do), I’ll check for different varieties.

The brains in your pictures do look kind of edible, like gummies, and I’m not just saying that ’cause I’m a zombie. =) Perhaps you’re just particularly skilled at photographing things in an alluring manner?

I never did like those little ponies, but seeing that I could indeed stick an orange pony to my refrigerator, I may just have to buy one. It’s so strange that it intrigues me.

You can sue McD’s for two Baltic Avenues, but only if you’ve also spilled the contents of the cup on your crotch.

There’s a slightly different version of the “Bat Organs” at some of the Spirit Halloween stores. The packages have only two brains, but also two hearts.

Two obviously HUMAN hearts. Which either means these are just “human” organs cynically repackaged as “bat” organs in order to fool Halloween shoppers into buying the same stuff twice, or these organs were taken from a vampire just as it was midway between transforming into a bat.

Personally I like the second explanation better. It’s nastier, it explains why the organs are too large for a normal bat, and vampire bat organs are unquestionably millions of times cooler than just any old run-of-the-mill flying rat filling. The only drawback to that explanation is that it shows what a major nerd I am for even bothering to dream it up in the first place.

I have a pony with a magnet in it’s hoof. It hangs on the metal reading lamp clipped on my bed.

I used to play My Little Ponies all the time with my neighbor in Allentown when I was little. I’m sorry to say, I don’t recall the premise of most of the pony scenarios, so I can’t enlighten you as to what they may have been. It was probably a lot of practicing for the pony ballet and trying to get them to wear doll clothes.

SJ - The Spirit store I went to seriously dissapointed me, but you’ve totally made my night by mentioning a brain/heart package!

Your theory is extremely awesome. But why not package them as such? They would draw much more attention as vampire-bat organs. hmm. That would of course tip off the other vampires that their organs are being harvested, and of course this has to be a covert operation..

I looked at Target for the Halloween Ponies last time I was there, but alas, I didn’t even see a PLACE For them.

I was sad. Still am… But I’m glad I finally get to see what they look like. I kept forgetting to do a search.

There’s a Halloween Barbie out (the one last year was way cooler) and Stacey and Kelly and whoever the little kids are all dressed up. But again, I’m not digging them as much as I did last year, although the Mummy one isn’t bad.

Do you think GI Joe could have been even mroe successful if they had told you that Duke’s favorite gem was amethyst?

Much love for the girly toy article Matt! Now that I’ve seen them, I have to get Pumpkin Tart. I played ponies all the time, but those clothes were next to impossible to get on them. The shoes were satisfying and simple, but everything else - forget it.
My Little Ponies - as in the original cartoon - stands up more than I thought it would. I had no idea just how much it was about selling me toys until I heard one of the characters refer to a group of ponies as “The First Tooth Ponies” which would normally be fine except that the character had no previous contact with the pony world. Hello, marketing. It worked.

Is it sad that out of all these GREAT Halloween articles so far I had the most fun reading about My Little Pony? Give up?? The answer is yes.

whoah 3 articles for the price of 1! awesome deal. and yeah spirit stores are pretty weak. most of their merchandise is old and overpriced. party city and party pig usually get in the new halloween tech every year.

Matt, only you could write about something I find so ridiculously boring and droll and turn it into an exciting trip the surreal.

There’s a Strawberry Shortcake movie coming out soon. Went to the theater over the weekend and saw one of those huge cardboard standouts/posters advertising it. So I would have to give the edge to Strawberry over MLP.

Bought a AWESOME glow-in-the-dark shirt today that has a skelton’s skull and front on one side, and his spine on the back. Can’t wait to wear it.

I was almost ready to skip the My Little Pony article (bleh), until I read the title. “This Little Pony Went to Hell!”.
Truely awesome title.

Christine - If vampire organs were being harvested, who would be doing the dirty deed and why? Van Helsing, Blade or Buffy wouldn’t do it… they certainly sliced and diced their share of Dracula and kin, but they never kept souvenirs.

So I ask again: Who would be ghoulish enough to carve up other ghouls? (Aside from Matt, of course. And us. And Rob Zombie. And the Hormel company. Someone who isn’t so blatantly obvious.)

That is amazing packaging. If I saw that I’d have to buy two, one to play with the brains and one to keep pristine and put on my wall next to my box of animal crackers and “signed” picture of Joel and the Bots.

Pumpkin Tart? You can tell she lives up to the name, with her spray-on tan and false eyelashes and hair highlights… I CAN SEE YOUR DIRTY PILLOWS!

*laughs* Matt, you’re in for a horrible treat when this gets posted on a MLP message board.

And when I mean horrible, I mean you’re going to be smothered with love when it’s found out you dedicated a whole article to the MLP Halloween line. Like me!

*smothers you with love* Anyway, they have magnets in their feet because on pony playsets there are magnets built into certain things. They can interact with them, kind of. You press their hooves against the designated place and drawers open, music plays, taxes are paid . . .

These are the third generation of MLP to come out, and have been going strong since 2003. I’d tell you more but . . . then you’d go into a bored coma. VIVA LA PONIEZ!

I fucking HATE it when I get 2 Baltics with my coke! And they never make Boardwalk (or in some contests, only boardwalk), and no one ever gets the big prize. You never hear it happening!

Oh! Forgot to add: But those magnets are mainly just good for slapping them up on the fridge. I mean, come on.

I have both of these thanks to osomeone talking about them on XE (and bought them off ebay). They really are awesome ponies. Pumpkin tart is my fav though. wish I had known that Target released holiday themed ponies beforehand.. Ive really been missing out (they do Valentines, Christmas, and Easter ponies too!)

Have been watching pony Tales on youtube. never got to see it before and its actually a pretty decent cartoon. Too bad its not on DVD in R1 or I would buy it.

First of all, Welsh Rabbit, I adore you! You made me giggle with glee over the “dirty pillows” comment.

Second, Matt, when my boyfriend asks why I rushed to our BRAND NEW TARGET (it opens tomorrow!!!) and fought the crowds and madness just to buy My Little Ponies and a Mountain Dew Pitch Black Icee, I’m telling him it’s all on you. If he’d just break down and read the articles, we could save ourselves a lot of trouble (I think he thinks I’m cheating on him. haha!)

Third, I swear to you I said the exact same thing to the aforementioned boyfriend about the bat brains being far too large to be modelled after actual bat brains. Kudos to you for making me feel slightly more normal in saying that.

It’s no longer safe to let toys, cereal brands and cartoon characters celebrate Christmas. They can only celebrate “the holidays.”

Ack, can we at least wait until Dec ember before starting the “War on Christmas” crap again?

Do all of the new My Little Ponies have magnets in their feet? That’s pretty fucking cool.

I was so disappointed when I saw the new Holly Hobbie! On the other hand now that I’ve actually seen what these ponies look like I really want Abra-ca, and I’ve never been interested in this revival before.

That article made me laugh my ass off. I didn’t consistently play with many of the girlie brands growing up, but MLP was one of them. I swear, the kids these days that are getting all the new generation toys of ours…okay, I’m not going to finish that sentence…I just used the phrase “kids these days”. That makes me older than I’d like to be. I’m going go smoke and have another beer now. Just to make myself feel better.

Yes, pretty much all of the rereleased My Little Ponies have the magnet on their foot. How do I know this? Two girls under the age of 10 dude. Two!!!

I, too, wasn’t going to read the article until I saw “This Little Pony Went to Hell”. So I found myself reading it.

Then I found myself laughing and trying not to draw the attention of co-workers who would wonder why in the Great Pumpkin’s name I was reading an article about My Little Pony.

Now I’m gonna go find myself slapping me in the face…then maybe grab some food or something…

A friend of mine actually won a computer playing McMonopoly. I myself cannot stomach any fast food. It’s like poison to me.

I fully remember in 2nd grade some kid raising his hand in class to let everyone know he had found Boardwalk. Our teacher told him that it wasn’t time to talk about Monopoly.
I never got into playing MLPs, but I think I remember a cartoon. I think. Was there one?

I never got into playing MLPs, but I think I remember a cartoon. I think. Was there one?

Ponies in Halloween costumes…i mean i’m thrilled to see yet another contribution to the great season, but i can’t help but worry that out there, at least one little kid in the world will get the impression that like the kids household pets do every halloween, ponies ALSO like to don costumes, and then go attempt to do it, resulting in pony back-kick. But that’s just me.

Either way dunno about anyone else but this Halloween season is coming into play quite well, something seems a little bigger this year as opposed to last, not sure what, but so far i have a good haul of Halloween releated products all saving up for the special time, i still can’t decide though whether i should share all the cool stuff i bought with people at my party on the 28th, or hide it until halloween and enjoy it myself, if anyones reading this what would you do lol.

MissJess I am 18 and regularly use the phrase “kids these days” and have been for at least two years (probably partially due to this site, which I officially can’t remember not being in my internet life, though it must have been).

And I was going to reinforce super_dex’s wish to see Madd Matt, but I just realized I don’t think he’s been around since the summer of ‘03… and Matt regularly ignores mentions of him. So never mind. They must’ve had a falling out.

Picked up “The one and only original vanilla cappuccino broom”, has anyone seen these? The whole place smells like a Starbucks, it’s wonderful. I might have to be a vanilla scented witch for Halloween now.

I ate McDonald’s breakfast the other day (*hangs head in shame) the first day of the Monopoly contest…in my breakfast I got Reading Railroad TWICE and Pennsylvania Ave TWICE. Geez, they aren’t even TRYING to hide the fact that YOU CANNOT WIN. Still, it is addictive to try and fill up that little Monopoly board…now I might have to go back for more disgusting-makes-me-feel-guilty-when-I-eat-it breakfast.

They DO make male ponies. I dont know if the current batch of ponies include them but ‘back in the day’ they had quite a few. Their molds were different, looked like a Clydesdale horse. I had a few but the one thats most distinct in the memory banks was a blue MLP with a football helmet (I luvs me some footsball). they also made male ponies in the UK based off of the guy horses from the My Little Pony Tales cartoon - but am not sure if they made it to the US or not.

I actually didn’t notice the tiny ears until I was writing the article, and in the factoid went.

When I was younger, some of my Ponys were made of a furry, velvet like material. Now they all seem to be plastic. Also, I think some of mine had fragrances- do they still have smells today? Like lavender and vanilla…

I horse-laughed when I saw the ponies on the refrigerator. I about these for my little girl until I realized that they would soon be at the bottom of her toy chest, just like every other new toy I’ve bought her in the past 6 months. As for the Monopoly, screw the big item stuff. Like I have a chance. Instead, give me those freakin’ Best Buy bucks. A friend collected $100 in those a few years ago, he had his family eat McDonalds daily for that. I’d be happy with a couple bucks, it would give me a good excuse to buy DVD.

SJ - You have a good point there… But someone has to be doing it. The fact that we can’t figure out who it is just means they’re doing a very good job at being discreet. =)

Matt, I think you need to add a picture of the tiny ears just for the two people who are actually curious. Maybe three; I bet tiny pony ears would be pretty cute!

Your mentioning of frangranced ponies reminded me of something, Muppet Baby. I don’t think I ever had a scented pony, but I had something that was a doll and turned into a cupcake and was scented.. Maybe you’re familiar with them? I think they’re simply called cupcake dolls, but wow, they are so scary looking. I just looked them up & I don’t remember them ever looking that creepy with a giant frosting-hat..

I would say that I need a picture of the tiny ears, but I’m going to go buy that Pony and see them for myself. I’ve wanted to get a Pony since the line came back but I don’t like the way they look now. Compared to the originals, they look anorexic. Which I guess is their updating. But I can put up with that for the Halloween theme. And so I can stick them on my fridge. It’s a good thing my car has no exterior metal parts. Or maybe it’s not. Having a herd of My Little Ponies on the roof would be much cheaper than getting the thing painted.

My sisters and I had tons and tons of My Little Ponies when we were little, including fuzzy ones and a few of the male ones. Mine was Barnacles; he was bright blue with an orange-red mane and tail and usually had to be rescued by the girl ponies. Boy dolls and action figures, whether Ponies, Luke Skywalker, Ken, or Lion-O, always had to be rescued by the girls. It was was mandatory. We were a mostly female family (even Dad wasn’t around much) and didn’t even have many male action figures.

I have really, REALLY got to get to Target before the end of the Halloween season and buy myself a Pumpkin Tart. She’s too awesome. I love her mane; always did like the Ponies with multi-colored manes. I’m highly disappointed with both the Rainbow Brite and Holly Hobbie revivals, especially considering that the Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake revivals aren’t horrible. (I’ve actually seen a couple of the recent Strawberry Shortcake cartoons, and while not classics or much like the originals, they’re still fun if you like very girly stuff.)

The 2 Baltic Ave. thing is not that uncommon. I work at McDonalds so naturally I eat there alot. (50% discount!) Anyway, I got 2 large fries 2 days in a row and they both were double-Baltics. Also, I once had both Board Walk and Park Place but they were from different years. I had a current Park Place and I found a feral Boardwalk from 2 years earlier living in the bottom of the safe.

I just bought Mc D’s breakfast this morning. My drink gave me a free medium fry, and my has brown gave me a free sundae. I love this game.

On the subject of My Little Pony, I absolutely hate those things. My sister had like a million of them circa 1986-ish. The damned things EACH came with an unusually hard comb of some sort. The million combs were strewn throughout our house and became feet magnets. The IS NO PAIN like stepping barefooted directly onto a My Little Pony comb. I hate you ponies. You made my feet throb.

I used to play the McDonald’s Monopoly game a lot, but then I gave up. “Stupid ass railroad” and “twenty duplicates of two out of three of the same colour” were the reasons. I was lucky to even get Park Place. I believe I knew somebody who actually got Boardwalk (unless I’m dreaming, I saw him actually peel it away from the drink cup), but he just kept it instead of, you know, trying to win stuff. I prefer the Disney Trivia McDonald’s game from many years ago myself, because at least I won free food almost every time.

I have no shame in admitting I’d probably get those My Little Ponies… if only there was Target in Canada.

Just to further disagree, my PB ICEE cup has been cleaned out and is not sticky at all. There’s a tiny purple ring of dried dye-product-stuff-whatever, but that’s about it.

Though, it does indeed make my Cabinet of Awesomeness look even more awesome, if that is in fact possible. Hard to top my custom FF and Xenogears stickers. Ooh, I need to make a KH one now. Sweeeet.

I got 2 Baltic Ave’s on my drink today too!!!!
I went on the website to punch in the code thingys & I won free photos on Snapfish or something….Im awaiting my confirmation email.

Matt, we were OBSESSED with the McDonald’s Monopoly game in college. The on campus humor magazine I did artwork for got the gameboard, put it up in our office and we would add the properties we gained each time one of us trekked to McD’s. And like you said we had EVERY OTHER thing on the board EXCEPT Boardwalk. we were seriously discussing splitting the money so many ways too if we won..of course it never happened though.

Yup, in the eighties there were a lot more varieties of ponies, but then, this new generation has only been around for three years, they haven’t got to the ‘must make novelty ponies to keep the toy line going’ phase.

The soft ones were called, aptly, ‘So Soft Ponies’, they made around 30-40 ponies like this, so it seems most girls had one or two or ten.

The boys were ‘Big Brother’ ponies that all had a male theme, coming with hats like a pirate hat (Barnacle, my peronal favorite), a contruction worker’s hard hat, etc. I hear they won’t be making any boys with this generation, but we’ll see. I can only assume they didn’t sell too well back in the day!

And they *do* have fragranced ponies right now! Coconut, apple, blah blah blah . . . I never liked the ones that smelled, they give me a headache.

Man, I loved me some McDonalds Monopoly as a kid. Now I only wish it were in conjuction with some other fast food place as opposed to disgusting gut-rotting McDonalds. But, it just wouldn’t be the same I guess.

Maybe that should have been McDonalds new campaign for Halloween. Eat at McDonalds! It’s gross and scary and rots your intestines! Maybe not.

I remember my sister playing with the original My Little Ponies. Now her daughters play with the new ones.

Anybody else think the Purple Pie Man toy from Strawberry Shortcake was cool? No? Uhh…yeah, me either.

Christ, I’m trying so damned hard to ignore the MLP revival and Matt splashes them all over here. I hate MLP. I hated them as a child. I liked horses, and wanted those life-like looking horse models but my mother decided I needed My Little Ponies. In vast quantities. So I started pulling their tails off, thinking that would get the message across. It didn’t. She merely replaced the ponies. She wouldn’t stop buying them. I was still getting them in the 6th grade. There is still a bin of ponies somewhere in the crawl space of my parents’ house, no dout tailless and mouldering.

I used to hate McDonald’s, but have recently gained a new appreciation for them since the closest one is two blocks from the house. I’ve never partaken of the Monopoly game, as I tend to leave things in my pockets and send them through the wash.

Christine -
Cherry Mary Muffin? My little sister had the one called Chocolatie…I don’t know how you spell it, I have the commercial somwhere. Gotta start digging.

Any fans of Terry Gilliam? Do you live in or around New York? Well he’s going to be walking around talking with people and handing out flyers for his new movie today. So go hunt him down!

I just had to drop in and say I got a Mountain Dew Pitch Black freeze today at Target. I think it got accidentally mixed with the LiveWire flavor beside it, because it was an orangy-purply-brown color instead of the anatomically correct purple color. Tasted pretty good anyways, but I’ll have to go back and get an untainted one sometime.

The My Little Ponies are too cute. I have two of the ‘Holiday’ ones but didn’t know they made ones Halloween.

Lemurcat: If you still have those old ponies, sell them on Ebay. You can probably make a nice chunk of change if they’re in decent condition.

I’ve seen the other brought back lines and I agree with the MLPs and Care bears. The Strawberry Shortcake Bandai releases were a huge disappointment to me since I’ve always loved all things vintage Shortcake(hence my name:D). The Playmates ones are a bit of an improvement but still not good. I still stick with ebay for the Vintage ones.

I only saw Rainbow Brite once or twice in stores but since they didn’t bother with any characters other than like 3 of them, I didn’t waste my money on it. If they’d done the full line, I would’ve gotten the ones I never was able to find as a kid.

An addition:
Justin- I actually thought that Sour Grapes rocked with her boa constrictor Dregs. But Purpey was cool too. Unfortunately his doll was forbidden in my house because he freaked out my youngest sister.

Jessica Marie, those aren’t them. I guess they’re just called Cupcakes..

Their skirt is this rubbery, scented, crimped stuff, and you can flip it up inside out around the doll & put their ‘hat’ on top as frosting. I just realized that means they have no legs! Creepy. Now I wish I still had mine.

Christine - I remember those now, in all of their legless glory. The hat would get lost too easily though, and you’d just have a bunch of immodest little dolls with their skirts up.

Thanks, Christine and Jessica Marie! I forgot all about those cupcake girls. STILL though, I swear my My Little Ponys smelled good…I know Strawberry Shortcake USED to be cool as well- this new one they got going on sucks. She is too kid-ish or something. Oh well- at least they tried. Care Bears, thankfully, are still rocking.

In the early 90s they released perfume ponies. They smelled nice but I was so allergic to them! I had a few anyway.

There is a good reason for the My Little Pony ponies to have magnets. All of the playsets that go with them have doors that will open, or things that spin, or play music if the mechanism is tripped by a magnet. Now all My Little Ponies have magnets.

I’m having a vision of a cruel world where ponies with magnets in their feet go around erasing people’s credit cards and hard drives…the horror, the horror!

Hey– did anyone else run out and buy ‘The Little Mermaid’ when it came out on Tuesday?? I sure did! Plus, I almost caved and bought a 3 pack of all the TMNT movies for 20 bucks, but I figured the $24 on The Little Mermaid was enough for one day…

Oh yeah, right after work yesterday… Little Mermaid (did you buy a special edition? mine was $15, then X-Men 3, then McOpoly. I already have a free Small McFlurry and a free small drink. What I’m loving the most this year is the online play. I’m so addicted, I just want to buy like a billion Cokes just to enter the codes online, roll the dice, and watch my little car go around.

I almost bit, but I decided not to snag it. I may be obsessed with KH but I’m not quite at the point where I feel the need to own all of the movies represented therein.

I might get Nightmare Before Christmas though. Yes, I admit it, I have never seen it.

Could that be Canadian dollars perhaps? I’m super eager to pick up the Mermaid DVD…Ariel/Alice/Tinkerbell are probably my biggest girlie weaknesses, though I was also into Ponies and Strawberry and Rainbow B way back.

You know, it’s scary that I know enough about Disney to be pissed out of my mind that they screwed up the Disney Princesses line-up.

Aurora, Snow White, Belle, Jasmin, and Cinderella are correct. Ariel is also correct, as she is the daughter of a King, and was not included in the original line-up only because she was a playable character–and a damn good one to boot.

Alice is not included, and she is one. But what I can’t excuse is not having Kairi. That irks me to no end. Show a little love for the Square created characters outside the bounds of the games.

Please note that this information is based soley on KH and not Chain of Memories or II. Mulan and Pocahontas may very well be in II, I dunno yet, but they make sense. My only point is Kairi is one of them and deserves more love than she is currently getting.

Yeah, I got the special edition for $23.99 Canadian and it came with an extra DVD of Music videos ‘inspired by the Little Mermaid’- so it’s got all the classic Mermaid songs and some new ones as well, but I haven’t watched it yet.

I ALMOST bought X3 as well- I think I will have to go back for the special edition of it actually. I expected it to just be a normal edition without any features, and then have a bigger edition released just before Xmas to make me regret having bought it now, but I saw that they actually released the Special Edition at the same time as the regular one for once!

And the pets now are too..normal. Vanilla icing the lamb. That says it all. Vanilla.

Lets face it, Vintage Strawberry was all about Souffle the purple skunk and Marzipanda as the pets. Way more imaginative.

As for the Disney Princesses, as much as I love Disney movies, its getting to be overkill. I’m looking forward to seeing what they’re going to do with Tinkerbell though. Especially since she’s a supporting character normally.

Ha ha, I love the refridgerator picture, that has to be the only reason for them to have magnets. Are they going to stay on the fridge for the remainder of October?

I always thought it was a stretch to call Belle a princess, but I guess she did marry into it.

My day sucked cold, slimy onions from a glass of curdled milk until I read the Pony article. Now my world is strawberry-scented and I’m dizzy from twirling and giggling..and twirling and giggling. Thanks Matt.

Everything else has been said above, but let me say word-the-hell-up about the annoying use of “Holidays” instread of Christmas. It’s weird how about 7 years ago every store in the country simultaneuously decided to throw out everything with the dreaded C-word.

I used to have about 20 Ponies, mostly rescues, but this summer I sent them to a little girl I know for her birthday. She loved them! :) I kept three for myself, one ’cause she was my first one, and two because they kept managing to jump or fall out of the box as I was trying to seal it up. Figured that was a sign I should keep ‘em. ;) Or maybe they were just possessed.

It’s so they can ASSAULT YOU WITH SHARP OBJECTS!
I’m not kidding… I had one of these ponies sitting out on my computer desk (don’t ask…) and it was getting in my way so I picked it up. That’s when I noticed the thing was weilding a pair of nail clippers! With the pointy-nail-filing-thing that they don’t allow on planes pointing straight at me! Scary…

Apparently the kids in this article (http://www.wpxi.com/news/10028989/detail.html?subid=22105244&qs=1;bp=t) didn’t read your blog about how it’s gonna be some little old lady in po-dunk town who’s gonna win…

Oddly enough I actually started biting my fingernail just before I got to line about NOT BITING YOUR FINGERNAILS!

Anyway, Abra-Ca-Dabra is a bit confused (as are MANY people) in that BLACK and/or WHITE are NOT COLORS!

Whenever someone tells me that “Black is my favorite color” I have to quell the urge to beat them over the head to show them that while BLACK may not be a color, BLUE sure IS!

Anyway, for all of those Black & White color fans out there, I’ll hip you to the real info.

OTHERS can also consist of any subsequent colors that can be made by the MIXING of any 2 or more rainbow colors.

Take Red, Yellow & Blue (those are your PRIMARIES).
Those are the ONLY 3 “prime” colors.
Colors that can’t be made by blending with anything else.

To add BLACK to a color is to change it’s SHADE.
To add WHITE to a color is to change it’s HUE.

Ponies, maaan. I just dug our old ones out of the basement not long ago and looked up what each one was. Nothing rare, of course, heh. I wish they were in better shape since I want to get rid of them, but alas, they aren’t…

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