[EsclavoDeCristo]

This is just creepy!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Creepy, yes. But on the other hand...do subliminal messages spoken in English work on an infant who does not speak or comprehend the language?

[FairOpinion]

There was another article about the same thing in Jan. 2003. This article at WND had a link to it.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30495

Baby toy: 'I hate you'
Family finds Christmas gift uttering 'subliminal' message

Posted: January 15, 2003

[ClintonBeGone]

Since WorldNetDaily's initial report, a half-dozen other parents across the country – from Washington state and California to Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, West Virginia and Maryland – have come forward to say they have the Wal-Mart toy and are horrified to find it spewing hate at their babies.

WND, for the stories that REALLY matter.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Hey I had a jack-in-the-box that played the first three bars of the "Horst Wessel Leid" and I turned out OK...

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The toy is fully endorsed by this gentleman, who said he had one as an infant "and it had no effect on me whatsoever".

[JustPiper]

Wal-Mart used microchip to track customers

Watch what you say about Walmart -g- We have some stockholders and heck, maybe even Mr. Walmart lurking

[TheSpottedOwl]

"As far as subliminal messages are concerned, that wouldn't be the jurisdiction of the commission," explained CPSC spokesperson Kim Dulic, "unless it was thought that the message could somehow cause physical injury or harm to the child."

Naaaah, words don't hurt.

[MinuteGal]

I'll bet Bubba has already bought one for Hillary's Christmas present.

Leni

[self_evident]

Geez... First of all the whole point of something subliminal is that you don't notice it. Sounds like this toy is "liminal". Secondly, the toy was made in a factory in CHINA. There might be one person in the marketing department that might be able to utter the words "I hate you"... maybe. It's probably some poor schmuck saying "Ihaya", which means please come and take me from the miserable country so that I can live in the land of plenty.

[Qwinn]

If it was all that self-evident and they want this story taken seriously, they should make a wav file out of it and let us hear what it sounds like for ourselves. I'm not intrinsically disposed towards dismissing the complaint - if I could hear it and it really -does- sound like "I hate you", then yeah, I'd agree it's not a good thing.

Till then, I gotta put it in the "Dungeons and Dragons causes Satan Worship" category.

Qwinn

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Perhaps the toy really says "I hate hugh", which would be much more series.

[FreePaul]

I remember people who heard the devil's messages on records played backwards. No one was ever able to demonstrate that to me. I wonder if we will ever actualy hear this "message."

[small voice in the wilderness]

When Elves Go Bad

Look, I'm as big an Elf-lover as anyone else, but they can't ALL be good. There are some sick twisted little people out there, I'm convinced...

[Rodney King]

It's not subliminal if you can hear it, and if you can hear it then it is not subliminal.

[pabianice]

"... the Kool-Aid is yummy..."

[Reaganesque]

I remember one of the Simpsons Halloween specials where Homer buys Bart a talking Crusty the Clown doll which comes to life and tries to kill Homer. Homer's life is saved when a guy from the company that made the doll picks it up, lifts the doll's shirt to reveal a small switch. He looks at it and says "here's your problem, you have the switch set on "evil". I wonder if this toy has that switch.

[Twinkie]

My steam iron hisses at me!

[GrandMoM]

bump

[NewRomeTacitus]

Chinese toy manufacturer:
"No, no. That shipment was meant for Palestine and other Muslim countries. What it's saying is "I hate Jews", not "I hate you".
All right now? Hokay, keep ignoring our undervalued currency and woefully paid sweatshops."

[isom35]

remember the twilight zone episode with kojack? that doll said "I dont like you". Kojack ended up at the bottom of the stairs.