But you want something to look at first huh?
How cool is this? This is too cool for Panzerschule!
When I mentioned Paladone-Noki the
other day (giant Guardsman sponge/Roman arse-wipe thing) it put me in mind of
another modern Novelty company; 50-Fifty,
who had a cast metal bottle-opener in the shape of Tim Mee's crawling GI.
Now this 'putting to mind' happened as I was perambulating through
the teeming metropolis that is Fleet High Street, so I thought "Ooh, the hardware store was where I got that other
50-fifty thing" so I popped into Robert
Dyas and asked if they had the bottle opener - they didn't - they'd had a
pirate one!
But then on the way back out of 'The Glass
Menagerie' (as the main shopping centre is referred to round these parts) I
popped over the road into the British
Heart Foundation's [charity/thrift-] shop and they had this tank!
Bargain! It is actually Paladone - so some kind of synergic
happenstance there - and must have come before the Guardsman egg-cup - which
they are currently advertising - for it to have had time to get old'ish looking
(and a bit sticky - eeuw!).
Although Two things: 1) looking at the size
and shape of the cup; I think it may be better for poached eggs, and 2) E-1 while
possibly meaning Egg-one, could also be seen as Ei, or egg in German . .
. so what I think we are looking at here; ladies and gentlemen, yet to be seen
in Jane's Defence Weekly, are the
first snaffled shots from behind the kitchen curtain of that rare beast, the
Par-boil Panzer!
It comes with a soldier-maker - for
dipping! I assume it's the same mould as has been reused in red-plastic for the
current Guardsman?
1 comment:
A boxed one appeared in Help The Aged the other day, it comes with an Action man (GI Joe) sized M1 helmet to cover the hot egg!
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