The store downstairs had two cheap versions of Monopoly, so we bought them and here is what you get for $1.62 or $2.72.
Archive for the ‘toys’ Category
Toy – Monopoly
September 26, 2009Inexplicable use of English
May 22, 2009We have a new favorite website – http://engrishfunny.com. A small warning — some of the content is not for children. It is a collection of pictures of signs and packaging with badly translated English. Very funny, especially since we see this stuff around us frequently.
Yesterday, I was in Abu Dhabi and saw a business sign “La Poupee.” We were driving by, so I didn’t see what kind of business it was, but even if it is French, it is a poor choice, I think.
Daddybird has a collection of pictures of nonsensical sayings on t-shirts. See a few of them below. I agree with Etlsac about the “slips of paper in a hat” theory related to the creation of the strange toys, but I also envision a sweatshop somewhere where the “designers” are given refrigerator poetry magnets and encouraged to arrange the words randomly to produce the slogan to be put on the t-shirts.
Roses grow wildland
Feeling plue indeed like the timre you didn’t do me
2 cool fo school
Saturday Evening Post — WORR — Unfortunately, the words at the bottom are illegible, but I am sure they didn’t make any sense.
Dream Dream — This beauty built by heart — Shining my personality — Destroy all of the culture — Bright Bright
Let’s play a fun game of Living – Non-living! Can peacocks sing? I’ve always wondered.
This is a personal favorite. Daddybird saw this and thought someone had slipped that penguin into the bear’s pants as a joke. No, the penguin was sewn to the bear. It is supposed to be a set. I’m sure there is a world of tasteless penguin in your pants jokes, but I will refrain.
Random remarks
May 22, 2009So, Linda is critiquing my use of the word “mute” (see comment on previous post). Mute refers to inability to or choice not to speak rather than choice not to write. So, what is the right word? “Illiterate” doesn’t work because it implies the inability to read as well as write, and clearly that doesn’t apply. “Dysgraphia” doesn’t work ’cause that refers to difficulty/inability in writing skills.
How about “voyeurs?” Looking on, silently. I better quit before I offend you all and you stop looking on.
Glad you have all enjoyed, or at least been astonished by, the most recent toy episode. I think that Mickey is from an alternate storyline where he accidentally got into some PCP for a “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign. Why hasn’t Disney seen the merit in the “Mickey goes berserk” concept?
A street atlas of Dubai was just published. This was a major undertaking because Dubai is a city under construction. So, this atlas includes the finished and the unfinished. It is amazingly detailed. They have marked where there are stop lights, supermarkets, banks, ATMs, gas stations, cinemas, libraries, pharmacies (only the major ones), and more. Pretty exciting to us. I’m going to suggest to the college that the new employees arriving in August be given a copy.
New Toys
May 20, 2009Here it is, finally. Sorry to make you wait, but the fancier my videos get (title screens, captions, etc.), the longer it takes to produce them. Hope it was worth the wait.
Toys
May 14, 2009Hey, there was no April toy video and, yet, there was no outrage or uprising either. Hmmm. I’ve got a couple. Wanna see ’em?
Amusing Toy, part three
March 7, 2009Here’s the March edition of amusing toys.
Superman: Dream Hope Justice Courage. (Not Truth, Justice and the American Way)
Light music, fluctuant revolving, battery operated, spining colorful
Light, music, all direction tun
So wonderful 100% and the best design new thing
Superman trample the bicycle
The ideal paradise of friends
Eye contain light
Head would or so swing
Feet ministry sport
Resulting in the wheel goes forward
Bump and go action engine
(Yes, I’ve had a hair cut. Just thought I’d get that question out of the way.)
Amusing toy, part two
February 7, 2009Okay, it’s time for another installment in Amusing Toys. I had a very hard time choosing from the amazingly odd selection downstairs. Here is this month’s winner – Happy Mouse. It is slightly more expensive than the Desert Warrior Camel and did not come with batteries!!! Unfortunately, using my laptop video camera means not being able to show you this toy in full operation. It is best used on a floor where it has lots of room to move around. If it bumps into something, it changes direction. Now, if we could just modify it to become a Roomba vacuum, that would be great! Well, except for the obnoxious music blaring out of it.
Finally!
January 18, 2009Well, video of goofy toys seems to be the trick to get you all to comment. Perhaps we will make it a regular feature. I don’t want to go broke buying ten dirham toys, so you may actually find them in your Christmas stockings. That will serve you right!
Amusing toys
January 16, 2009So, I’ve resorted to video to share some things that I thought would be better that way than through still photos, (although my video techniques leave a great deal to be desired). These are odd things we found in the store that is in the first two floors of our apartment building. We are often amused by what we see there, but we are easily amused.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzHHy4_8wmU
We nearly hurt ourselves laughing at the toys. They are all knock off of brand toys or very strange things that make little sense. We paid a whopping Dhs 10 for the Desert Warrior Camel (approx. $2.70) and you know what they say, you get what you pay for! I know that once you see it you will all want one for your very own. Don’t worry, you will all find a Desert Warrior Camel in your stocking next Christmas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctU-BpINPxQ
We also dropped a wad of $$ at Daiso, one of our favorite stores. It is all things Japanese (and cheap). I didn’t really need it, but I had to buy a blank book that had a cover showing a hedgehog, two spools of thread, three buttons and some stitches. It also said “Is preparing the sewing set. What shall I make today? I am unexpectedly good at the needlework thing.” How could I pass that up. I suppose I will need to find something to write in it about sewing, or something. I am, however, unexpectedly good at the needlework thing. Ha!
Living the Travel Channel 