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Ebola Plush Toys Fly Off the Shelf for Connecticut Company
Yahoo! News ^
| October 20, 2014
| Barbara Goldberg
Posted on 10/21/2014 1:16:46 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Ebola plush toys fly off the shelf for Connecticut company
It may be the only time you will find these words in the same sentence: "Ebola" and "Add to Wishlist."
Giantmicrobes Inc., which makes a line of plush toys based on viruses and other microscopic organisms, has sold out its entire Ebola stock, including the small Ebola doll for $9.95, a Gigantic Ebola doll for $29.95 and an Ebola Petri Dish toy for $14.95, according to the company's website.
"Since its discovery in 1976, Ebola has become the T. Rex of microbes," says the Stamford, Connecticut-based maker of the "uniquely contagious toy" on its website, which promotes them as gag gifts that also have educational value.
With the latest Ebola outbreak, which already killed more than 4,500 people, mostly in West Africa, customers have snapped up the toy, which looks like half a pretzel.
"You do not want to get Ebola," warns the website. "A short incubation period of 2 to 21 days presages symptoms which include fever, aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhea, stomach pain, vomiting, and both internal and external bleeding. And then, for between 50-90 percent of victims, death."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: connecticut; ebola; napl; plushtoy; toys; virus; westafrica
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The new Ebola plush toy should come with this bumper sticker that is sure to also make people fell warm and fuzzy (sarc) ...
To: DogByte6RER
My kid would be the one asking the President to sign his toy ebola.
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:19:53 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: DogByte6RER
I don’t know. Not many toys beat the Obama Chia head, or the Tauntaun sleeping bag, or alien facehugger baby pacifier.
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:20:58 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: DCBryan1
I forgot the “crib dribbler”. I gave it to a new, firstime mom, and she was absolutely horrified. The joke worked great for everybody but her.
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:22:13 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:22:28 PM PDT
by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: DogByte6RER
Can’t wait for the mechanical Ebola toy. It sweats and vomit. Perhaps it can talk “ If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Ebola”
To: DogByte6RER
Like I said many many many times: If something is promoted enough people will buy anything, including a foreign born radical Muslim for President.
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:25:03 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
To: DogByte6RER
Did they come out with the Ebola playset yet?
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:26:11 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
To: DogByte6RER
How about that? A toy company website that gives as much Ebola information as the CDC.
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:29:45 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:31:20 PM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: DCBryan1
Tauntaun sleeping bag Dangit, I've had a cough for three days now - it *hurts* to laugh!
Ever seen the horsehead pillow over at kropserkel.com?
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:31:43 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Charles Martel
What a good little Hoth rebel trooper! Watch out for Wampas!
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:33:39 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: DogByte6RER
In many ways, as long as people are willing to spend $30 on such a piece of utter worthlessness, maybe we aren’t in the recession everyone claims.
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:33:58 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: Charles Martel
This one?
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:35:58 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: Charles Martel
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:36:37 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: Darksheare; Salamander; 50mm; Slings and Arrows
This toy, along with other holiday goodies
brought down your chimney by who else but...Cthulhu Claus
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:36:43 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:37:24 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: RightGeek
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:38:14 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: DogByte6RER
Should have made this a talking toy...pull the string, and it recites a different symptom every time!
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:38:15 PM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/21/2014 1:38:58 PM PDT
by
Brother Cracker
(You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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