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To: SofaSpud who wrote (305)	2/21/2000 3:01:00 PM
From: HG	Respond to of 1309

Thats a beautiful story Sofaspud.....thanx for sharing it with us.....I am responsible for a similar accident....but for my 10 year old and her furby....and my guilt trip lasted for a few hours only.... The gremlin drove me crazy...she/he/it was everywhere we went...in the car, on the dinner table, under the bed, between the sheets, it giggled while watching TV, it swore while we entertained our guests, it yelled "Wake up and play with me...." in the middle of the night.....the thing talked and growled and giggled and snored....the vocabulary just grew and grew and grew....and if you've had the misfortune of having one of those in your house, you'll know that there isn't any switch to turn it off.......you have to put it to bed softly and gently and after a lot of TLC if you're lucky (ie if you know the technique and are very patient) it starts snoring and you desperately hope it stays quiet... After about a month, that particular day I was feeling very low...I was pregnant and you must know how that affects the moods....and this "thing" was in a giggly mood...and the slow grinding tone and the stupid talk really got to me.... I had had enough, so yes, I hurled it across the room and the blow gave it total, complete amnesia......"it" forgot the entire vocabulary and just made newborn noises......which was no relief but at least I didn't have to be mortified everytime it sneered "Weirdo !" at our guests !!! Almost a year since that happened and the furby is still recovering - albeit in the daughter's room......for I had made it clear that if it chose to annoy me again, it'd be soon homeless and eating out of the garbage bin....... Her/his/its speech is still slurred and the vocabulary seems underdeveloped for someone so old.......and my daughter often reminds me of my cruelty.....BUT it was either me or her.......<grin>

To: SofaSpud who wrote (305)	3/10/2000 10:37:00 PM
From: Doppler	Respond to of 1309

I have a very similar story. My kids loved a dancing Santa this year that did the exact same thing. And very loudly I might add. One day around Christmas my dad was trying to talk to me and Santa kept up the incessant racket so that we couldn't even converse. I couldn't find the off switch, so I put him in the oven and closed the door so we could talk. The next day my wife turned the oven on, to preheat it for pizza, and after a while noticed a wierd smell. When she opened the oven, Santa had melted and was burnt. To this day my 2 year old will get a terribly pained look on her face and ask me why I burned her Santa, and can I fix him.