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There's an innovative cork recycling program in Ontario run by Girl Guides. Despite knowing people involved in Girl Guides and well as many fans of wine, it took a New York-based food blogger to inform me of this program.
Playmobil's 2005 line includes a butcher shop! and a bakery! And dinosaurs, including one hatching from an egg!
For those of you who regret ever having heard of Bananaphone, there are people out there in the world busily studying how tunes get stuck in your head.
I'm impatient with editing, but I'm nearly halfway done marking up my printed-out chapters in red ink. Thus far, the sandglasses chapter is easily the best-written. It's also the second longest chapter - I hypothesize that I had the most to say on the subject because there's the least existing scholarship on the subject, compared to the other objects I've been studying. I could barely scrape together 25 pages on clocks, despite the surfeit of authoritative publications on the subject.

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i can't decide if the cuteness of the baby dinosaur in the egg outweighs the strangeness of a toy that represents a dead prehistoric animal recently dug up. then again, maybe the dinosaur was just in suspended animation for millions of years and, now that it's been unearthed and thawed, can frolic and play.

i still love the playmobil hedgehog family with mushrooms. one of these days i'll order it. :)

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I love how cute Playmobil skeletons are. It's endearing to me that they make them at all.

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Not only do I intermittently get "Bananaphone" stuck in my head, but also, since your early January posts from Italy, "Befanaphone". Still not as often as "Magical Trevor", though.

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That's a wonderful version - Befanaphone makes at least as much sense as Bananaphone does.

What's "Magical Trevor"? Or is it dangerous to ask?

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It's another video by, I think, the same people.

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/37/

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*sheepish look*
Yeah, I totally did know about that and just plain haven't mentioned it ;)

Although, to be fair, we're really more of an implementer than the people running the program. We collect the corks, give 'em back to the vintners, and even get money for it in return! Coolness!

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Well, you can't mention absolutely everything, and you're in touch with a great many things and events. Still, it's a nifty idea!

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