Off topic humor.
Did some cleaning and found a page saved from the Wall Street Journal, March 24, 1995. Letters to the editor.
Domestic Saboteurs Favor the Barbie Bomb
In regard to Sue Shellenbarger's Feb. 27 Work and Family column on "Naked" Barbie Dolls: Kellee Harris's experience with stripped Barbies (as well as other disintegrated materials) in the back seat of her vehicle are not unique. To wit, I have found our seven-year-old daughter Sophie's Barbie Dolls (or the remainder of those parts still intact) shoved headfirst into our $2,000 VCR machine; I have watched Barbie Doll body parts erupt from the automatic pig as my wife, Kitty, stared in slack-jawed wonder as a fountain of shredded plastic pieces decorated the kitchen's walls; I have performed Olympic back-flips down a darkened stair well at 2 a.m. because, while attempting to let out the cat, I slipped on Ken's naked body, which Sophie had strategically placed on the top step as part of her "Mr. Yummy Cupcake" display. The smiling men from Roto-Rooter have become members of the family as they cleared out bathtub drains clogged with Barbie's hair; I have been obliged to replace my car's gas tank because a Barbie had been hammered into the thing during a "play date," and I even once discovered a bevy of Barbie beauties all tied together with rubber bands, floating in our septic system, the cover for which weighs more than 100 pounds.
All parents of young children will nod their heads appreciatively when I say that I never once witnessed how such things came to pass; I am only around to deal with the consequences, like the time I entered our bathroom to discover 300 feet of toilet paper taped from wall to wall, like a gigantic spider web. And suspended in the middle like a miniature acrobat? You guessed it -- a naked Barbie covered with Elmer's glue and Rice Krispies.
Fred Galacar, Essex, Mass.
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