September 4, 2002

6:57 PM

"Even my daughter's friends enjoy playing with this fun toy. I was surprised at how long they can just sit in her room and play with this magic broomstick!" Oh my god. What were the Harry Potter folks smoking when they came up with this?
posted by Tin Man (28 comments total)

My lord. How many of these have been deleted?
posted by adampsyche at 6:59 PM on September 4, 2002

Fuck me, I'm drubk.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:00 PM on September 4, 2002

For how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull
out the mote out of thine eye, and behold, a beam is in thine own?
posted by dhartung at 7:02 PM on September 4, 2002

I saw this link on someone's weblog abour four days ago, and submitted my own review.. it has not been published yet :-)
posted by wackybrit at 7:04 PM on September 4, 2002

I think we have landed in some weird, alternative universe and I, for one, welcome our new HP vibrating broomstick overlords....I mean REALLY welcome!
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 7:04 PM on September 4, 2002

What on earth ... look, this is funny and all, but all this reposting of the link isn't. I suppose the last post the last time this went up (I forget who it was) was right - perhaps this is a meme of epic proportions, so much so that even the most peripatetic metafilter readers are rushing to the site to post it. Not having realized that it's already been posted - and deleted - what, three times already?
posted by risenc at 7:08 PM on September 4, 2002

yup-the third time, but you know...it's still funny! and getting funnier each time it's posted!
posted by amberglow at 7:10 PM on September 4, 2002

this really wants to be on metafilter, I see.
posted by delmoi at 7:11 PM on September 4, 2002

Hey, I know this link has been deleted 4 times now, but I actually got a good chuckle out of it.
There must be a site out there devoted to "accidental" sex toys. I know I've heard people talking about those squiggle-writer pens, or that bumble-ball thing that jerks around on the floor in surprising ways... my point: maybe there's a post in this somewhere, somehow. If only it was a little more, uh, fleshed out.T
posted by bonheur at 7:11 PM on September 4, 2002

Probably because the threads are posted and deleted so quickly, and lacking a search feature for deleted posts, most are unaware of its existence. Once again, I suggest leaving this post so people will have search results instead of deleting it.

But just for the hell of it, let's start a pool. I say 8 total duplicate posts on this over the next week.
posted by Stan Chin at 7:11 PM on September 4, 2002

Where's that alien cyclops diva I Will Survive video when you need it or the startled kitty jumping into the wall? Who put the bong in bongo brains? Anybody want to make a beer run?
posted by y2karl at 7:12 PM on September 4, 2002

.....uhhh....does it come with instructions....for the fourth time.
posted by Dr_Octavius at 7:14 PM on September 4, 2002

I'm scared..
Administrator, please hope me!
posted by dash_slot- at 7:15 PM on September 4, 2002

Just three words: magic vibrating broomsticks.
posted by octobersurprise at 7:16 PM on September 4, 2002

Dr_Octavius, I have to give you credit for sticking with it.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:16 PM on September 4, 2002

Yeah, Doc--stick it where the sun don't shine! ;)

Feel better now, kalessin?
posted by y2karl at 7:16 PM on September 4, 2002

ohh yeah...instructions.
posted by Dr_Octavius at 7:17 PM on September 4, 2002

not to get all serious and address the post in question, but is it really so bad if kids play with toys that give them pleasant sensations? They're allowed to ride ponies after all...

(I for one never saw any of the other times this was posted, so cluelessness of poster is understandable)
posted by mdn at 7:22 PM on September 4, 2002

Now, if iconomy could patch in a seedy Good Vibrations MIDI we could break on through to the other side!
posted by y2karl at 7:23 PM on September 4, 2002

I want a pony.
posted by Stan Chin at 7:23 PM on September 4, 2002

Huh! My memories of saddle soreness are not all that pleasant. Maybe I rode my pony a little too hard.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 7:28 PM on September 4, 2002

to summarize:

aybabtu

i kiss you

dancing baby.

this one does get funnier with each post, imho.
posted by elsar at 7:32 PM on September 4, 2002

Sadly, I must toddle off to bed now....when I wake up I suppose this will all be just a dream.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 7:43 PM on September 4, 2002

Wow...I've never seen a post that's reappeared this many times...truly, truly amazing.

And now...here's Matt's reason for why he deleted it the other 3-4 times.

That being said...who wants some delicious home drawn pancakes?
posted by dejah420 at 7:53 PM on September 4, 2002

Well, I, for one, am putting all the links inside so I can email all the deleted threads to my friends!
posted by y2karl at 7:57 PM on September 4, 2002

those have to be fake comments at amazon....did one of you write them?
posted by amberglow at 8:14 PM on September 4, 2002

I hope so. Otherwise. A toy enthusiast from NJ is one sick puppy. And that's where this meme began, imho.
posted by y2karl at 8:26 PM on September 4, 2002

Are you saying that /every/ thread to do this with this has been deleted? If so, why was the first thread deleted? It seems a perfectly good MeFi link to me.
posted by wackybrit at 8:32 PM on September 4, 2002