I asked my daughter about this. She's six and apart from in Leeds Armoury she's never seen a gun.

My eleven year old son's seen a shotgun at a country fair, and remembers seeing a French policeman with a pistol on his hip, and that's it. He's /made/ more dangerous weaponry than he's seen.

How long before Mattel get upset with them?

Ah, detox - that's for people who don't have liver or kidneys, yes?

pi:- D'yer know, Tom's recovered from Jerry dropping an anvil on him making him 2" high.
Welcome to cartoon-land.

Somewhere I have a downloaded copy of A Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, banned some time in the sixties. Splendid book, provided you're careful, and lots of stuff to learn from it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments

This reminds me of ultra-orthodox Jews who won't turn on a light but will open a little door to reveal a light already light, or who have a Sabbath goy to do the things their creed bars from from doing on a certain day.

It raises two issues with me - firstly is it right to try to con god like this, and secondly, is he that easily fooled?

Not that I belive in a god anyway. It's just another puzzling aspect of religion.

janedoh :- at a guess she picks elephant's noses.

In the current economic climate, getting people to shell out for this is going to be like pulling teeth.

Of course, we had proper Four Yorkshiremen sketches when I was a kid.

I can't see it - every time I follow the link it crashes FireFox. Probably the odious Quicktime.

lir:- Trouble is, she's deaf and I'm not. We think she's 21 this spring (she moved in 18 years ago and she wasn't box-fresh then) and is so deaf that she can't hear her own voice - she like many deaf oldies, she shouts very loud indeed.

A nice idea, but underdeveloped. There aren't enough items from which to draw a selection to hold the user's interest beyond a few goes.

Josh:- While I agree that smoking is horrid, and I know - I used to smoke, does making each smoker eat a packet of cigarettes really make sense?
Should each fattie (and I'm one of them) have to smoke a 14" pizza?

Miss Cellania:- Well, sort of. I can stop ours yelling at us in the morning by feeding her. Does that count as us controlling her or am I confusing cause and effect?

It does seem a very long way off the ground.