Posted on 07/13/2004 9:27:08 AM PDT by KMC1
NEW YORK - There was quite the toy "furor" over Barbie's end of her relationship with longtime Ken. Mattel has moved her on to her new friend Blane. But if one toymaker has their way - Barbie might be inclined to meet Bobbie.
The NY papers had the story...the "Bobbie" doll was developed by a woman who last her wrote a thesis on the pressing and most important issue of why lesbians are so "under represented in pop culture".
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"Don't ask, Don't tell" Joe?
I'll bet she doesn't watch Howard Stern.
ok...the pressing and most important issue of why butt ugly lesbians are so "under represented in pop culture". ;>
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LOL! Dont ol' Iron Matron know that!? LOL!
First there was Malibu Barbie
Now there will be either Massachusetts Barbie or San Francisco Barbie
These Barbies will come with their own spouse Bobbie doll and a miniture marriage license.
Just what every little girl needs in our permissive society(/sarcasm)
What's that whistling sound? It's Matel stock plumetting at terminal velocity.
Mattel is trading at $16.70 today - down from $17.60 as of 7/7/04.
Mattel downgraded amid 'sluggish' Barbie sales (MAT) By Tomi Kilgore
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Mattel (MAT) was downgraded to "sell" from "neutral" at Banc of America as the company's turnaround appears to be longer and more expensive than initially projected. Analyst Gary Cooper cut his price target to $13 from $18.50, and trimmed his 2004 and 2005 earnings forecasts. He sees evidence that Barbie sales are still "sluggish" and margins are expected to decline. Cooper also sees other headwinds facing the industry, such as the recent strengthening of the U.S. dollar, potential cost pressures from the floating of the Chinese yuan, high commodity costs and competition. The stock closed Tuesday down 15 cents at $17.93.
Sounds like Barbie needs to get a real man! GI Joe has been in Iraq for quite some time......
I remember the "My Buddy" dolls. Later thought they were the model for the Chucky movies.
My sister-in-law is a nurse.
Homosexuals go through a lot of antibiotics because of intestinal infections. They get them by shoving strange foreign objects up their............
You figure it out. Barbie would be a perfect object for a lesbian.
She's witnessed the removal of toy cars, pens, marbles, vegetables, unidentifiable chemicals.........It's that S&M stuff they're into.
my sis=-in-law was the only person I ever knew who was dumb/PC enough to buy these silly things.
so perhaps they were;-)
HA! LOL!
If people like this were any kind of reflection of our ancestors, there would be no industrial age, no farming communities, no ships at sea. However, everyone would know exactly and with great precision what that look from that person across the community fire really meant, whether it was a "I like you look" or "I'm kind of iffy on how you much I like you" or "You smell really bad," as they ate their dinner of fruits and berries (no meat for these folks!).
I remeber "My Buddy" he was always the victim of a mugging or two with a baseball bat in my neighbourhood...when we got bigger the poor tike was a popular archery target and eventually had a "fireworks" accident...
Yeah, we were bad, we broke, burned and blew up all our toys...
This reminds me of a joke. A boy finds his sister playing with his GI Joes and her Barbies. He says, "Why don't you play with your Ken instead, Barbie comes with him anyway." She says, "Not true, she is only faking. She wants a real man."
any gerbils?
my brother's kids just ignored them. the younger one played with his one time, IIRC.
Santa: What do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas?
Girl: A Barbie doll, and G.I. Joe.
Santa: But, I thought Barbie comes with Ken.
Girl: No. Barbie comes with G.I. Joe. She only fakes it with ken.
Could be the people don't want the human race to go extinct.
I saw an official Mattel Barbie the other day that I thought had in big letters “Call Girl Barbie”
This was not in a toy story but a supermarket…
But you had to look closer to see because of the letter fount it was really “Cali Girl Barbie” …….
I got the clear impression that the misleading letter fount/name combo was deliberate on Mattel's part to get the adult double take in the supermarket
Just damn.
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