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September reports in the New York Post and the Toronto Star, quoting parents' Web site "reviews" of the Mattel $19.99 Nimbus 2000 plastic-replica broomstick from the latest Harry Potter movie, highlighted its battery-powered special effect: vibration. Wrote a Texas mother: "I was surprised at how long (my daughter and her friends) can just sit in her room and play with this magic broomstick." Another said her daughter fights her son for it but complains that "the batteries drain too fast." A New Jersey mother, sensing a problem, said her daughter could keep playing with it, "but with the batteries removed." Still another mother, age 32, said she enjoyed it as much as her daughter. [New York Post, 9-7-02; Toronto Star, 9-7-02]

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Reminds me of the "Tickle-Me Elmo" craze of a few years ago. A friend's son was given one for Christmas, and when she invited myself and another girlfriend over for the evening and we discovered the toy, a brief struggle ensued....

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Tickle-Me Elmo

"Ha-ha-ha ha-ha-ha, it tickles!"

"Ha-ha-ha Pleeeease!"

[brrrrrrrrrrr-brrrrrrrrr]




Vibrating broomsticks, indeed. The designers clearly need to get out more.


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Vibrating broomsticks

Wait'll the religious right gets ahold of *this one.

Or either they set it up in the first place so they could weep and wail and gnash their teeth.


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Yeah, they'll have to drown the broomsticks with the witches, won't they? Still, religious nutters are nothing if not resourceful in their pursuit of what they perceive to be their goals ...



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They'll now have to ban all broomsticks for association with witchcraft and erotica, and if anybody wants to sweep they'll just have to use hand-brooms!


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That's gonna be a problem. Nature abhors a vacuum.



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Sqwaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!








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>>Nature abhors a vacuum<<

Guess that makes Nature my middle name What about brooms and dustcloths?


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Do they come batteries included, Nancy?



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