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While children spend a lot of time playing with toys which
mimic the adult world in some way (e.g. making cars,
houses,
etc. out of Lego, playing with dolls), there appear to be no
toys which mimic the world of children who, of course, play
with toys.
Sample toys would thus be: A construction
kit
for Lego people to make things out of, a doll for your doll
to
play with, educationaal software for your teddy, and so
on.
These would appeal to smug, knowingly "ironic"
parents
and cost a fortune.
Home Thermoplastic Recycler
http://www.halfbake...oplastic_20Recycler
[half, Sep 17 2002, last modified Oct 17 2004]
Acme Klein Bottles
http://www.kleinbottle.com/
Need a zero-volume bottle?
Searching for a one-sided surface?
Want the ultimate in non-orientability?
Get an ACME Klein Bottle! [StarChaser, Sep 19 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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perhaps they are called *parents* |
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How small do these things go ? Is this a recursive system ? |
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Hey kids, just buy all 58 parts, and you can build your own lego brick! |
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At the far end of the product line you get a bag of atoms and a scanning tunneling electron microscope with which to do the assembly. |
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bristolz - I suggest you post "Bag of atoms" under business:scam. "Each bag is unique..." |
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Little Lego people using the Lego people version of the "Personal Thermoplastic Recycler" to make Legos. (Possibly from their friends and relatives for you "Soylent Green" fans) |
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Make the legos from actual people? |
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Anyway, I was thinking about this the other day as I was browsing a toy aisle and all the toys were bigger dolls holding a baby doll in their arms, who in turn had a doll... and I began to wonder how that would extend out. It's kind of like nesting mummies... it's been done before. It's one of man's filosoftical questions. Give Barbie a set of barbies to store inside her Malibu Dream House. |
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I calculate that the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension of a set of infinitely nesting Barbies is approximately 2.4. |
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Sounds like Christmas chaos. |
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"Collect the complete Mandelbrot set" ? |
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...and don't forget the Julia Set for the girls! |
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A wonderful retail oportunity - just think of the merchandising. Klein bottle thermos flasks, mobius strips, Schrodinger cat boxes, Maxwell Demons, Laplace and Fourier Transformers, Nyquist Limiters, Tesseracts ........ |
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Of course, because of Heisenbergian uncertanty, you could say where the shop was, or when it was open, but not both at the same time. |
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"She makes the Koch Curve." |
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The shop runs a syndicated cartoon called 'Hilbert'. |
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"Hilbert" - yes, we like those - the ones about
the chubby mathematician who's a bit on the
Heaviside ? |
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If Barbie's clothes are a bit on the skipmy
side, you could always cover her up with
Gauss bandages. |
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To ring up this shop, do I dial Avogadro's number? |
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// That's the one thing you can be sure will remain constant // |
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Two, actually - the wooden floor is very firmly fixed (Planck's constant). |
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Yes, well done, take a bow everyone. And if Feigenbaum myself? |
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You're a Feynman, General ..... |
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//602 000 000 000 000 000 000 000//
I called and asked the operator for extension pi. She said, "hold please while I dial..." |
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It's worth holding on until they answer; I think the place is open 22/7. |
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They've just brough out a new line in firewood, too - "Natural Logs". |
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I made the mistake of calling the Self-Referential Toy Shop after hours once. They were angry...they cursed and recursed. |
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I started building a coffe table based on the Mandelbrot set, but eventually I gave up... it seemed like there was always an endless amount of detail work to do. |
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Goodness, what are you folks hawking now? |
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My life is such a Bohr, I just took the most Dirac route to the shop. |
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Sorta like those Russian dolls, eh? |
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//building a coffe table based on the Mandelbrot set// |
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In my case, I ran into problems with my MandelChisel. Apparently the manufacturers of the dedicated sharpener were having problems with their suppliers. At least, that's what they said in the shop where I bought the chisel. |
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I turned to the law, but the Third Policeman I spoke to said he couldn't go, because his bicycle had gone somewhere. "Anyway," he said, "where's the point ?". |
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