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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    The Zhu Zhu Pets are a danger as old as the Betsy-Wetsy Doll:

    [dangerist.typepad.com]
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    John, I'm only hamsterdancing.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    It is clearly the next step in the total enslavement of the US by our Chinese overlords. The hamsters are obviously wiring home what they learn.
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    Image of mommy_dearest mommy_dearest
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    A pretend pet is far superior to a real pet, any day. I would get this for my youngin' if she insisted on a pet (although I will not stand in line for one). I did get Sea Monkeys for her because I thought she would like them, but turns out they are really dull, and none of them wear actual crowns like in the picture. They ended up released to the sea, which I don't feel too bad about since they were just entering the food chain where they probably belong, rather than on my kitchen counter.
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    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    11/22/09

    @mommy_dearest: My kiddo is getting one but I got it at a normal price in the store. My child is forgetful and loves letting our dogs upstairs to her room - I'm afraid one of our dogs would make a quick snack of a real hamster when my daughter lets the dog and hamster play, then wanders off.

    This way, no death, no food, no smell.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/22/09

    @Charlotte Rae's Web: yeah, mixing pets. A whole 'nuther episode. Thanks for thinking this through.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    As for Richard Gere I always heard it was a gerbil. A much different animal altogether.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    Clearly this is the Chinese version of the 70's arms race that bankrupted the Soviet Union.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    And aren't they the cheapest, most horrible-looking things? Like repurposed material for cheap slippers from some toxic Chinese factory? I refuse to believe this is really a trend for the pre-drinking set.

    While we're at it, I'm not crazy about actual smelly hamsters, or rodents generally, up to and including kangaroos.

    Speaking of vermin, I walked on the wild side in Madison Square Park for lunch the other day; a delicious lamb gyro and orange juice from a friendly street-meat vendor. It came to $4.50, thank God he could break a hundred, graciously.

    ANYway, as I fancied myself daring for eating lunch on a park bench without cutlery, I watched 700 idiots line up to get theirs from that Shake Shack. I'd swear that line scarcely moved. The entire time. But apparently the sort of morons who'd stand an hour and a half on line for that place are also the sorts feeding the aggressive, obese squirrels in that park.

    Daytime rats with fluffy tails, these squirrels were seriously out of breath after gamboling between the legs of texting trendies who voluntary chose a Kafkaesque queue to stand in for an hour. To get a hamburger, as if it were the Saigon airlift.

    An obese tourist pointed out to his uh, Rubenesque wife- "Look how Faaat that squirrel is!" Between the fat squirrels and the Shake Shack line and the fact that I don't ever usually eat lunch, it was a nightmarish scene of human/animal urban dysfunction.

    My point was: rodents deserve death, and I heartily encourage releasing handsome predators in all NYC parks. Owls, falcons, snow leopards . Bengal tigers who know whom to maim selectively. No hamsters, except for that secret ingredient that makes Shake Shack burgers so irresistible. Them and fattened squirrels. It's all true and it's a scandal.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @Baroness: you just haven't met the right hamster, Baroness. One day, maybe. He'll put his little paws around your heart and you won't know what hit you.

    [Making the most of being in a Gawker hamster thread on a Saturday night.]
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/21/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: I know, I feel the pathos of it too. Writing about hamsters and fat squirrels on a Saturday night, sigh. But the Copacabana doesn't open 'til midnight, so time to put those cucumber slices on my eyes in my gracious drawing-room. The cucumber absorbs the tears, sob!
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @Baroness: make sure your girl slices them evenly and correctly. Symmetry equals beauty, you must know...
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/21/09

    @Baroness: My only experience with reading a women't magazine as a child: I read that cucumber slices were good for the eyes, and then suggested to grandmama that she try this, which she did, only to arise 15 minutes later with huge puffy eyes from a previously unknown allergy.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/21/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Keep young and beautiful if you want to be loved....
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/21/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: What about putting a raw steak on your eye back at stately Wayne Manor after a rock'em sock'em brawl with underworld henchmen?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/21/09

    @Baroness: Will that buy me the dispensation to say "grandmama" again?

    #tips
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/09

    @Baroness: Squirells = rats who can accesorize, it's true.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/21/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Well, not to me dear, I'd surely slap you. I'm thirty..whatsit! And have never given birth that I know of. Then you'd light my cigarette and we'd forget all about it, and you can call the other ladies at the party "grandmama" all you like. Especially the young ones whose outfits Tim Gunn would call "matronly". I'd enjoy that.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/21/09

    @Baroness: Oh no, I just liked having said it once, and wanted to do it again. In any case, laissez les bons temps rouler!

    #tips
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    11/21/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: In the 1930's movie of my dreams, you'd be my beau escort. We'd have a laugh at little Ronnie Reagan at the bar, I'd throw cash at the crowd before fainting. You'll catch me there. Then I'll learn I have some terrible brain thing. A moment of melodrama, I kill the doctor with a ladylike pistol, you're waiting in the DeSoto with the engine running, the hedonistic madness continues. Nite clubs galore!

    You forge a new will naming yourself as beneficiary, I don't give a damn. As long as the Champagne keeps flowing! I die a beautiful death in the ladies' room after you've slapped me around, and you ditch my body somewhere in Far Rockaway, in an impeccably tailored suit. We're beautifully filmed throughout in platinum black- and white.

    I won't give away the ending to this movie, but the jury will acquit you after the dramatic trial. Because they'd want to kill the wanton bitch, too.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/22/09

    @Baroness: That's quite a yarn, sugar, but here's what's really going to happen. See, little Ronnie's always got an ace up his sleeve, and the name of that ace is Doria Palmieri. He's dizzy with this dame, a shrink with a pair of drumsticks that could tickle the skin off of Meyer Lansky. Doria's loaded. She blew into town a few months back with a couple of pachucos and she's had Ronnie pickled in gin ever since. You mess with him, you mess with her. So here's the long and short of it: That thing in your head? It's a tumor that starts with the letter "L". The only doctor you're going to plug is Dr. Me.

    Sure I'll forge a new will, but there's room for two if we write real small. Doria's taking the wrap for this one. I don't make trips for biscuits. Awright let's get outta here before we both come down with lead poisoning.

    #tips
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    Image of meechybee meechybee
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    The long-term interest you child will show for the mechanical hamster versus a real one is about even.

    And at least when the battery dies, you don't have to bury it in the backyard.
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    Image of autoclavicle autoclavicle
    11/21/09

    @meechybee: Or have to stash it in the freezer until the ground thaws...
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/21/09

    @autoclavicle: But then you'll have to put off that talk about death for when the dog or cat dies!
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    Image of Cytochromeo Cytochromeo
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    Isnt it probably cheaper to buy a real god damned hamster?
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @Cytochromeo: not with food, filtered water, fresh shavings, tiny sweaters if it's cold, vet bills and wheel repair, no.
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    Image of meechybee meechybee
    11/21/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: You take your hamsters to the VET? I thought they were disposable.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @meechybee: now, now. Stop that.

    Once that little life is your responsibility, you'd be amazed what you're capable of doing.
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    Image of Cytochromeo Cytochromeo
    11/21/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Well that could be true. Most of our hamsters were not long for this earth once in our home...
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @Cytochromeo: this is sadly sometimes true, although I have friends with young school-age children who had a very long and successful run with two guinea pigs. It was all about the parental leadership, and help from a guinea pig foster family when they traveled--yep, one sure thing to love about this country of ours.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/21/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Guinea pigs are much more hardy than hamsters. They are almost guaranteed to live about 2 years unless you drop them or something.

    We actually had a hamster that we found in our garden at our apartment. She was a fully grown adult hamster and she lived for another 18 months. She finally died of bladder cancer. Talk about survival of the fittest!!
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    Image of esmemurphy esmemurphy
    11/21/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: My friends got into a car accident because they were driving like maniacs trying to get their hamster to a vet. And then it died and they were devastated. True story.
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    Image of Six and a Quarter Six and a Quarter
    11/21/09

    @Tart of Darkness: Is there such a thing as feral hamsters? I had no idea. Outside of a pet store, I find most unlabeled rodents indistinguishable from one another. I would have assumed it was a golden mouse. And gotten really excited at my Nat Geo-worthy discovery.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/21/09

    @esmemurphy: ridiculous, I say. [Sweating a little, nervously laughs.]

    *OK, I wouldn't crash a car for christ sakes but I get it.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/21/09

    @Six and a Quarter: Well, no. At least I've never seen another one. How she got there and how she survived until the pizza delivery guy pointed her out to us, we'll never know.

    We put up "Found" signs in the laundry rooms of the complex and no one ever contacted us.
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    11/21/09

    @esmemurphy: I believe this because I once took one of my hamsters to the vet only to have it die in the receptionist's hands.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/21/09

    @Six and a Quarter: There was an episode of Animal Vet ER or whatever it's called where a woman had a pet rat with cancer and even the caring, rumpled, loving, kind Animal Vet ER doctors were kind of, uh, rat? cancer? rat with cancer?
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    11/21/09

    @Six and a Quarter: I think a golden mouse will bring you a lifetime of good luck.
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    Image of Cytochromeo Cytochromeo
    11/21/09

    @Tart of Darkness: I like that the pizza delivery guy pointed it out to you. I would like to think that Speedy had such a nice life after escaping, but the reality is he was probably cat food.

    #tips
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    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    11/22/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: and someone to pet sit it, etc.
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    Image of FireFlyFarm FireFlyFarm
    11/22/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Yep- rats are very prone to cancer. We've had 3, and they have all gotten horrific tumors. We did take one to the vet, too.
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    11/22/09

    @FireFlyFarm: I think they are bred to have cancer, you know?

    #tips
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    11/22/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: If you did a scientific dietary study on our 3 rats, you'd determine that sunflower seeds, fresh spinach, carrots, and apples cause cancer. They're so inbred, they develop tumors easily. We also had 7 pet (store) mice, and they all got cancer too, but the wild deer mice we catch every winter, and keep in an aquarium until the spring, never do.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/22/09

    @FireFlyFarm: That is awesome. A log of dogs get cancer; unclear if it is the inbreeding or the dog food.

    #tips
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    Image of VioletViolet VioletViolet
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    For those working in retail that morning, I suggest that 5 hour energy shot drink. It's more like a 3 hour energy shot, but that's the only thing that got me through Black Friday at Sears.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/21/09

    @VioletViolet: My advice from long ago is make sure they put you on a register and don't take breaks. There's no point in trying to push through the mob to the bathroom. Keep a pee bottle behind the counter.
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    Image of VioletViolet VioletViolet
    11/21/09

    @Tart of Darkness: Heh, I wish my advice was from long ago.
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    11/21/09

    In reply to And the Bony, Terrifying Hand of Black Friday Beckons
    Curses! The hamster link caused a QuickTime upgrade and almost made my Firefox go boom in the
    midst of a hypnotic spinning hourglass.

    Given the choice between the sounds I just heard and an ear infection, I'd consider choosing the latter.

    Last year I started a challenge with myself: to see if I could do all of my holiday shopping online without once having to set foot in a store. I almost made it. It will probably be even easier this year...

    Have you ever played Flight of the Hamster? Smashing good fun!
    [www.i-am-bored.com]
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    Image of b4nt4 b4nt4
    11/07/09

    In reply to Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
    jane aldridge: teenage fashion blogger turned vogue it-girl, turned urban outfitters designer and chanel-invitee to the crillon ball. even kanye west said he wanted to work with her. [seaofshoes.com] #wehateyourkids
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    Image of Xinnix Xinnix
    11/06/09

    In reply to Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
    Where are the girls? Where are the girl staff writers? #wehateyourkids
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    Trai_Dep promoted this comment Xinnix was starred Xinnix was unstarred
    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/06/09

    @Xinnix: Yeah. Snark aside, it's dispiriting that the score is 6-0, Boys vs Girls.
    I think it's time for the ref to buy new glasses. #wehateyourkids
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
    I'm trying to figure if the lack of Girl Wonders is because of patent sex bias on the part of the media gatekeepers, or if it's because they've got cooties and (except for Mom) are sorta yucky. #wehateyourkids
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    11/06/09

    In reply to Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
    Am I the only one praying the Dating Advice Kid's next book is How to Talk to Your New Juvie Hall Roommate? #wehateyourkids
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    11/06/09

    @Trai_Dep: Chapter One: You've Got a Pretty Mouth Isn't the Compliment You Think It Is. #wehateyourkids
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