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  2. 2.

    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.

  3. 3.

    Just One More Canuck

    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

    @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

    @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

    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

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    Just One More Canuck

    @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)

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    Gex-mobile

    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

    @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.

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    donnah

    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. :-)

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    djork

    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.

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    muddy

    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.

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    Uncle Cosmo

    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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    gex

    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?

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    LanceThruster

    @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

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    James E. Powell

    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.

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