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From Russia with Love

by Betty Cracker|  August 10, 20127:24 am| 23 Comments

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Spongebob matryoshka dolls: This is a thing that exists in the world, and I have it. Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Boudica

    August 10, 2012 at 7:29 am

    Whose picture is on the 4th one? No Mr. Krabs?

  2. 2.

    MattF

    August 10, 2012 at 7:34 am

    I only rarely watch teevee–but if I really have nothing else to do and there happens to be a working teevee set in the room, I watch Spongebob.

  3. 3.

    Just One More Canuck

    August 10, 2012 at 7:43 am

    It isn’t so much that you have Spongebob matryoshka dolls, it’s that someone somewhere thought there was a market for Spongebob matryoshka dolls.

    What an age we live in

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    August 10, 2012 at 7:49 am

    @Boudica: I was surprised by the exclusion of Eugene Krabs too. WTF? I think #4 is just a random fish customer.

    @Just One More Canuck: My sister purchased the set in Moscow. She said they also had a set with Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Arafat and others. She almost bought that too but was worried about getting it through customs when she got home. What an age we live in, indeed…

  5. 5.

    Chyron HR

    August 10, 2012 at 7:59 am

    @MattF:

    I only rarely watch teevee—but if I really have nothing else to do and there happens to be a working teevee set in the room, I watch Spongebob.

    He is the Most Intersting Matt In The World.

  6. 6.

    Schlemizel

    August 10, 2012 at 8:02 am

    I was going to whine about no Mr. Crab but see others are ahead of me on this outrage!

    I think we simply must start an online petition to undo this great injustice!

    And we need to keep working on getting a “Betty” Flintstone vitamin

  7. 7.

    Just One More Canuck

    August 10, 2012 at 8:07 am

    @Betty Cracker: When I was in Florida people on the beach were selling ceramic sharks with the likenesses of Elvis, the Beatles and a buch of others. I have to admit I was tempted, but my wife said they would quickly have an unfortunate accident if I bought them (and I may have met the same fate)

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    August 10, 2012 at 8:20 am

    @Just One More Canuck: If they had sharks with frickin’ LASER beams on their heads, I would buy it.

  9. 9.

    Just One More Canuck

    August 10, 2012 at 8:36 am

    @Betty Cracker: That would be too awesome. Mega Shark would definitely kick Giant Octopus’ ass if he had lasers

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o

  10. 10.

    canuckistani

    August 10, 2012 at 9:18 am

    No Sandy, either.
    Do not want.

  11. 11.

    Gex-mobile

    August 10, 2012 at 9:54 am

    That Grand Rapids story has thrown me for a loop. I knew gays were hated. I had no real sense of the scale until that.

    The POLICE reflexively took the side of a bunch of black guys.

    I’ll let that sink in.

    The time hat black guys have the least to fear from the cops is when there are gays to be abused instead.

  12. 12.

    Gex-mobile

    August 10, 2012 at 9:57 am

    @Betty Cracker: She needs to learn real ‘merika speak then. Simply explaining that she wants to open up a few clips at the dolls will win an jackboot’s approval.

  13. 13.

    HG Hay

    August 10, 2012 at 10:05 am

    Abba matryoshka dolls are a thing as well. Still looking

  14. 14.

    donnah

    August 10, 2012 at 10:07 am

    Betty, I just opened a box of Omar-from-The-Wire’s favorite cereal, “Honeynut” and lo and behold there was a Spongebob squirter inside. I haven’t gotten a toy in my cereal in ages. Special K isn’t usually packin’.

    Let me know if you want it and I’ll send it. :-)

  15. 15.

    djork

    August 10, 2012 at 11:10 am

    When I was in Moscow, I saw matryoshka dolls for most of the major college and pro football teams. I thought that was a very clever way to part Americans from their money.

  16. 16.

    muddy

    August 10, 2012 at 11:24 am

    I have a set I got in Russia in the 60’s, it’s penguins. Did also get the traditional ones, but I don’t remember there being a wide selection back then.

  17. 17.

    Uncle Cosmo

    August 10, 2012 at 11:34 am

    A few years back one of my (former) colleagues was off to Moskva for a conference. I taught him enough of the alphabet & a few important words (not, mind you, including “yob tvoyu mat'”) to reduce the fear factor in the prospekt ;) of wandering through the town to something less than abject terror. As a gift he brought me back a Presidential matryoshka, with the Kenyan soshulist usurper on the outside.

    FWIW matryoshkas are anything but “traditional”–the first one wasn’t carved until 1890.

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    eemom

    August 10, 2012 at 11:53 am

    WHERE CAN I GET THESE???

    ETA: Just saw that about Moscow. DAMN. : (

  19. 19.

    gex

    August 10, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    Police cameras quietly capture license plates, collect data

    Our unwillingness to fund government via taxes means we just give the government incentive to spy on us to raise revenue. Bad news, right Libertarians? Oh wait, you don’t give a fuck about liberty if it taxes are required to preserve it. At least we don’t have any pesky regulations telling the cops what to do with that data. Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! C’mon, who’s with me?

  20. 20.

    LanceThruster

    August 10, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    @Boudica: The 4th figure seems to be a generic fish customer to the Krusty Krab (or crowd extra for Bikini Bottom or Goo Lagoon beach scenes).

    I was going to say how proud I was of my people (the Russians – history’s oppressed…and oppressors), and their manufacturing excellence, but you are completely right. The omission of Mr. Krabs is a glaring oversight (though they can make up for it was the usual capitalist trick of requiring multiple purchases to actually complete the set of favorite characters).

    I own the Mitt Rmoney set of cybertronic dolls meself – http://www.squidoo.com/matryoshka-robot-nesting-dolls

  21. 21.

    James E. Powell

    August 10, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    When I was walking around the Arbat in the good old CCCP, I was amazed at the wide range of matryoshka sets on display. I bought the Soviet leaders, Gorbachev down to Lenin, but I could have had anything from American presidents to the Beatles.

  22. 22.

    SRW1

    August 10, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    Purely out of curiosity: Is that nipples or measles on the second largest of the dolls?

  23. 23.

    Howlin Wolfe

    August 10, 2012 at 4:33 pm

    @Boudica: My first thought, Boudica! Mr. Krabs is my favorite character.

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