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You know, sometimes there are just things that push my buttons. I have sons, so I'm always looking for toys that will thrill and excite them, but will also score cool points with their daddy.
This nearly made me wet myself. It's geeky to think these are cool, I know.
But I am, and they are. Especially Darth Vader.
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Also, two non-geeky oldie-but-goodie games that I just bought for my six-year-old nephew:
Lite Brite. We loved Lite Brite when I was a kid, and I'm all for encouraging my nieces and nephews to be creative.
Clue Jr.! Who ate the missing piece of cake? We played this on his birthday, and boy, was it fun! And it's a good way to teach skills of reasoning and deduction.
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Oh! We tried playing Clue with the boys, and it was a bit tough on the wee one. I think we must try this Clue Jr.
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Lego: Exo-Force Legos are always awesome. These are great because for $15 bucks you can get a set that makes a mech-thing about 9-10 inches tall, with lots of neato pieces perfect for making spaceships, etc. True to form, you can combine two of them to make a super-ultra-mega-uber-mech-thing. And the lego men have really lame anime hair which makes me crack up everytime I see them!
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I'm not at all certain about this, but on the lightsaber page he describes the blade as, "virtually unbreakable," and, "strongly secured." So maybe you could in fact whack them around on stuff.
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quote:Originally posted by Olivet: But the giant microbes? I want to pass them around. They're so cute. And geeky.
I mean, come on. Wouldn't it be awesome to give someone mono for his or her birthday? Or, better yet, black death?
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This past Christmas, I gave Syphilis and Gonorhea to my two best male friends, purely because I knew they'd get a kick out of being able to say with absolute truth that they'd gotten the clap/the pox from me. They were delighted.
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