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- From: riggle@adobe.com (Kathleen Riggle)
- Subject: Re: Sesame Street toy (was Re: Fun stuff with kids)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.193947.6323@adobe.com>
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- Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
- References: <93019.153609CLH7@psuvm.psu.edu> <1ji7jpINNfka@gap.caltech.edu> <1jjqsnINNneg@early-bird.think.com>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:39:47 GMT
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- In article <1jjqsnINNneg@early-bird.think.com> ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes:
- >In article <1ji7jpINNfka@gap.caltech.edu> hough@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Susan Hough) writes:
- >>In article <93019.153609CLH7@psuvm.psu.edu> Chris Himes <CLH7@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >>>with the pull lever. And like Billy, mastered Ernie (the button) pretty
- >>>quickly thereafter. He still can't manipulate the turn switch (Cookie Monster)
- >>>but can get the other two pretty well.
- >
- >>>Let's hear it from other owners of the "poppin pals"--which was the first for
- >>>your child, the hardest?
- >
- >>Our Poppin Pals has a telephone-style dial for Grover that seems to defy
- >>anybody under the age of 30. I've always wondered if we might have gotten
- >>a slightly defective model. Or is this an archaic version of the toy?
- >
- >Ours has the same mechanism, though I think it's Oscar under that one.
- >In any case, Jordan (age 9.5 months) doesn't have much trouble with
- >it. He tangles his fingers in the dial and thrashes it soundly until
- >something happens. I think the hardest one for him is the knob with
- >the pointer -- he can't get a grip on it.
-
- Rachel didn't have Poppin Pal. She had Popup Pets, which was a lot
- harder to work. Dave called it Popup Pests. "See, there's the weevil,
- there's the budworm...."
-
- Kathie
-
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