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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Monday, February 24, 2020

T is for Two - Tops

Just a quick one, posing a couple of recent acquisitions on their stationary of choice . . . my choice not theirs!

Novelty Stationary; Novelty Toy Dinosaur; Novelty Toy Monkey; Pen Top; Pen Topper; Pencil Top Dinosaur; Pencil Top Erasers; Pencil Top Monkey; Pencil Toppers; Pencil Tops; Small Scale World; Stationary; The Works; Works Pencil Top;
We saw this the other day in a lot of something or other which came in; I've seen them in The Works, and he only fits on larger, plastic-barreled pens, he slides down traditional wooden pencils like they're greased with melted butter!

Novelty Stationary; Novelty Toy Dinosaur; Novelty Toy Monkey; Pen Top; Pen Topper; Pencil Top Dinosaur; Pencil Top Erasers; Pencil Top Monkey; Pencil Toppers; Pencil Tops; Small Scale World; Stationary; The Works; Works Pencil Top;
No maker known, marked CHINA, and hidden in one of last Friday's dino-piles, this chap has the grip for all pencils of the old style. He has slightly babyish eye's which would be vastly improved with a dab of paint to make them more slitty or snake-like.

And it got me wondering; we have - within the mammals - many monkeys and apes, the squirrels, the lemurs, sloths and other tree-dwellers, there must have been some - smaller dino's - in the same niche in the ages of the dinosaurs, and might they have looked like this chap . . . or chapess; is it based on a real find? Hunted by Archaeopteryx perhaps!

I mean something more like giant Ghekos maybe, not the opposable-thumbed chap modelled here (with his prehensile tail!).

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