From Ernie’s 3D Pancakes, perhaps the best holiday gift ever — the Plush Plagues Bag for Passover!
Yes, you can have soft fuzzy representations of each of the ten plagues sent by Yahweh to annoy the Egyptians into letting Moses and his people go. Types of pestilence represented include:
- A spooky eyed drop of blood
- A Frog — for frogs, of course
- A Giant Lice for lice.
- Cow for cattle disease
- Black Locust for locusts
- A white satin lump of hail
- A black cube of darkness
- An icky boil on a piece of flesh!
- A snarling lion’s head for wild beasts
- and last of all a very sad head – for death of the first born.
Descriptions taken verbatim from the vendor, who goes on to say — “The frog, lice, cow and locust wriggle and roll their eyes, quiver, buzz and move when you pull their string and are apx 4.5″ long.” With toys like this, how come Judaism isn’t the world’s most popular religion?
I mean, seriously. A black cube of darkness! With eyes. Nothing could be more awesome than that.
April 8th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
What every child needs: a black cube of darkness! Seriously, this is way better than a painted dreidl. Most children have a natural affinity for the macabre; it’s their parents who prove to be more squeamish.
April 8th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!!
April 8th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
You don’t have to be religious to enjoy those, on the contrary- if you are not religious you get to enjoy ALL of them, simultaneously…works also with religious stories (all mixed together, with a touch of Disney on top…)
April 8th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
The pentagonal dodecahedron of darkness that fit WMAP data was discredited, right? I suppose that leaves
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060408/mathtrek.asp
At least make it a tesseract of darkness, then play hacky sack. A sweet kick will get you a cross between The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe plus Heinlein’s And He Built a Crooked House.
April 8th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
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April 8th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
I want those too, but after I finish collecting all the assorted plush ailments. Next is the maladies set w/the common cold, etc. I can’t wait until my e.coli gets here! I love these.
April 8th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Louse! Louse!
April 9th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
My fiance and I saw those in our local Bed, Bath and Beyond store. We were both rather horrified/amused. I would have snatched them (or the Ten Plagues Finger Puppets) up if they had not been $20.
Being Catholic myself, I almost bought them for one of my four godchildren, but decided against it… for now…
The thing that completely puzzles me, though, is that there is no plague of wild beasts. I came home and looked it up in Exodus – it’s actually pestilance afflicting the livestock.
I thought the drop of blood and cube of darkness were really cute (in that sort of weird “that shouldn’t be cute” way) with their little smiles.
April 10th, 2006 at 2:48 am
You mean a giant louse for lice.
April 11th, 2006 at 12:16 am
They should include 10 more plushy-soft drops of blood to throw at your plate during the seder. That would make for more chaos than usual.