minneapolisgenius said:

Me too!

susannah said:

Hmm, maybe in your country they were called "Girl's World". I think they were just a giant Barbie head in the States. I actually hated most dolls, and I too only had one doll. For some reason I loved the make-up idea though.

I actually collected dead bugs as a kid. And hey, my parents couldn't have minded too much because it was cheap for them. I used to build houses for the bugs and play with them in them. I'd tuck in the bumble bees every night with their "blanket" made of Kleenex.

minneapolisgenius said:

Now thats wierd! Nah, I always hated bugs

susannah said:

I've always loved them. I wanted to be an entomologist when I was a kid. My mom made me throw out my beetles though when they started to rot and smell on my dresser. I didn't yet know how to preserve them I guess.

minneapolisgenius said:

EWWW!!

susannah said:

My mom still talks about it to this day. Smelling something in my room and tracking down the scent to an old vintage jewelry box on my dresser. She opens it and all these huge rotting June bugs spill out of it, about 7 of them. She said that's when she thought to herself, "God I have a weird kid." and then threw them all away.

susannah said:

Who ever knew minneapolisgenius was our very own Shirley Temple??!



I just asked my mate what those toys are called. She looked a bit distant, then said "'Miss Polly'??" I'm sure that's wrong.

onenitealone said:

matchbox cars lived in my dollhouse if they had tow bars they were boys!

ZombieKitten said:

ZombieKitten said:

Oh. My. God.


Midwife: "You can do it!... (shoves baby in panting mother-to-be's face) ...PUSH!"

onenitealone said:

OMG

ZombieKitten said:

When I was a kid, Sian Akers and I used to play with each other. (NOT that way, before someone says it! ) She had a Sindy/Barbie and I had Action Man. Sindy would be at home all day cooking and cleaning and my Action Man would go off to war and fight. Then he'd come home for tea.

onenitealone said:

!!!

onenitealone said:

that lady ended up sharing my room with me, and when I showed her Oscar, she goes "I believe we have already met!" and I am like wtf!! but it was true!

ZombieKitten said:

Awww...

True story (this may be crap ): two of my best friends, that I met in Uni, have known each other virtually all their lives. They were born in the same hospital, in the same ward, a day apart. Sharne's mother was in one bed and Eleanor's mother was in the bed next to her.

Anyway, they went to separate infants/junior schools but, in secondary school (aged about 11/12), they were put in the same class. They started hanging out together and, one day, both sets of parents met up and were, like, All those years later! Then they both went to the same Uni together - where I met them - and are still great friends.

Okay, back to Suri...

onenitealone said:

minneapolisgenius said:

that's pretty much it!!

Great...now the media will keep bombarding us with pics of this family. F--- Tom Cruise, his beard, and that kid. I wish they'd get kidnapped and never be seen again.

onenitealone said:

brilliant!!