Photo Essay: DTSS Toy Store
A good friend of mine from college who now lives in Thailand maintains a series of photo albums on his Facebook page highlighting products he comes across with hilarious English translations. On a recent trip to the toy store in Downtown Silver Spring, I came across some good ones myself. This was a quick trip, so if you find any more, feel free to submit.
I don’t think my daughter really knows what an ironing board is, as it rarely makes an appearance at my house. Luckily, design for the children are all fangle.
I appreciate fine tailoring as much as the next person, but I’d be hard-pressed to say it gives me infinite pleasure.
“Hustling Dust” would be a great band name.
I know this is the outlier of the bunch, but I had to include it. Ken’s come a long way since his early days, especially given the hair gel and capri pants. Robot Chicken really needs to add this to a future episode.
I don’t know how long our venerable toy store will maintain operations, but 90% of the stuff in there can be filed in the “detritus” section. Once it closes down, we should have a 24-hour rave in the space before a new tenant moves in. Enjoy it while it lasts!
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What toy store? I don’t remember seeing one.
In the old Borders space.
I just noticed that the iron appears to be laser-equipped. Now THAT’s fangle.
I’m also concerned about the amount of “homemaker toys” geared toward little girls. Maybe they enjoy that, but haven’t we moved beyond perpetuating stereotypes? I mean, not like this post itself does that or anything…
You watch “Robot Chicken”? I know one of the writers for this. He’s a pretty funny guy that works with Seth Green on this.
I almost did a spit-take all over my laptop at the “hustling dust” – hilarious!
PS I’d like to know where I can rent some fangle children to clean my place up.