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- From: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott)
- Subject: Re: Lunchbox
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.164029.8928@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 16:40:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.182849.11483@u.washington.edu> starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:
- >>Well, the fulfilled and blue part I can understand, but I'm not sure that
- >>this box is capable of holding food...
- >
- >[stuff killed with forklift]
- >
- >>I mean, it's solid plastic ("So don't settle for imitations" - sorry...), no
- >>metal in the hinges or latch, no glass in the thermos. The whole thing
- >>weighs maybe 5 ounces. It's a cheap snap-close box with a plastic handle, a
- >
- >Ben, how long has it been since you've eaten out of a lunchbox? I, at the
-
- Too long, I admit.
-
- >tender age of 17, can safely say that I have NEVER eaten out of a kid's
- >lunchbox with "glass in the thermos," or metal in the hinges or latch.
-
- I was surprised to see anything being called a "thermos" which was
- all-plastic. I thought the idea was to insulate the contents... anyway, the
- plastic latch looks like it'd last about two weeks.
-
- >Well, let me qualify that last part. ALL-metal lunchboxes used to be
- >more prevalent, but they have been replaced by the ALL-PLASTIC kind, like
-
- A sign of the decay of civilization as a whole, if true. I guess I'll have
- to go to a store and look at the current crop. I know you don't have the
- neat sheet-metal ones I used to have in grade school, all of what, 15 years
- ago at most? (I'm 22 - hardly an old geezer) Come to think of it, I
- probably started using paper bags around 2nd grade.
-
- >cartoon characters on them and the like. I don't think Best Brains is
- >being terribly cheap--that
- >s how the suckers are MADE nowadays.
-
- NO! It can't be! Never!
-
- >All right, the plastic itself isn't worth $20, but the souvenir value
- >(and the fact that these are produced in limited quantities) can jack
- >the price up. Welcome to the 90's. :)
-
- Yes, as I said, it's worth it as an MST3k item, but I expected something
- nicer, for the money.
-
- >I wouldn't carry my lunch in it anyway. It's a collector's item! :)
- >I'm not entirely sure they intended for the lunchbox to be an actual
- >working model, anyway. It's just that it seems so COOL, in a juvenile,
- >look-I've-regressed-to-my-childhood, do YOU have a lunchbox this cool? kind
-
- Exactly. It's the perfect item for them to offer. Well, _a_ perfect item.
- I'd like to see the Satellite of Love Play-dough set, where you can stick
- the glop into a plastic machine and get little Tom Servos or Crows... MST3k
- shrinky-dinks... or a normal-sized Operation game with Frank.
-
- . <<<<Infinite K>>>>
-
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