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Those little ugly toys that were all the rage...I never liked em when I was a kid.

I have a cheap one that says random phrases, doesn't learn. It is currently in sleep mode, under a bowl in the deepest corner under my sister's bed so that it never wakes up again, that thing was so freaking annoying.

Those little ugly toys that were all the rage...I never liked em when I was a kid.
BLASHPHEMY! NEVER MENTION THOSE HELL-SENT FLEAS EVER AGAIN!

DoD guidelines prevented them from being brought into secure areas of the Pentagon, for fear they'd repeat secret information.

I remember Tamogochi (Sp).

I remember that there was a large table of them stacked at K-Mart one day, I said something and they all picked it up, then they copied each other saying it and with every new level of repitition it grew more and more distorted until it was just electronic noise and it went on for a minute or two. Heh heh heh, anyway I felt sorry for parents who wasted money buying that plastic crap.

Omg..I was obsessed with them when I was little. Thinking back..man..everyone else in my house MUST have been getting so annoyed always hearing me playing with the dumb things.

I tried to murder my tamogachi... in the sink with the water in the bathroom. It didn't work...and that made me sad...and pissed...

Patra, if you were describing furbies then that sounds impossible, unless they'd all been hacked. They can't learn things in their unaltered state, they're just programmed to release new phrases and things into use with more interaction. It is, however, possible to mess around with their workings and replace chips to make them worthwhile...

Those little ugly toys that were all the rage...I never liked em when I was a kid.

OMG YOU WERE A KID WHEN FURBIES CAME OUT.

I feel old. :(

Yeah, we had one when they came out. We only kept it around because it drove the dog nuts. It'd make a sound and he'd run away, then come back and bark at it. ten it would reply and he'd run again. It was almost as good as teasing the dog with the reflection off my watch :)

Jesus Christ I hated those. We had a couple in the back of our moving van when we were moving from Ohio to California back in 2000. They talked the whole God damned way through. >_>

Out of the entire rage of them furry critters i saw one... didnt talk much, i think it died...
mechanized plastic with fur and doesnt do nothing but waste batteries, bah.

OMG YOU WERE A KID WHEN FURBIES CAME OUT.

I feel old. :(
You ARE old! Mwahahahaha! :D

Patra, if you were describing furbies then that sounds impossible, unless they'd all been hacked. They can't learn things in their unaltered state, they're just programmed to release new phrases and things into use with more interaction. It is, however, possible to mess around with their workings and replace chips to make them worthwhile...

These are the plastic thingys that copy sounds and say them back to you right?

You're running for president in 2032? What are you, three years old? I can legally run in 2024. And I will!

DoD guidelines prevented them from being brought into secure areas of the Pentagon, for fear they'd repeat secret information.
That's hilarious. Instead of "nala wee-lo toto", it would say "3 subs based out in the gulf awaiting orders, sir".

I had 2 furbies, and the gizmo gremlin edition "furbie buddy", I hated them after awhile-they got very annoying. I taped thier mouths shut when I moved-they were talking in the boxes and annoying us, and threw them away after a while, except for gizmo, he was just rendered batteryless and kept for collecter purposes. :gundge:

These are the plastic thingys that copy sounds and say them back to you right?
No, they play prerecorded sounds in response to stimulus.

That's hilarious. Instead of "nala wee-lo toto", it would say "3 subs based out in the gulf awaiting orders, sir". Or "Eenie, meenie, miney, mo, Iraq."

Those little ugly toys that were all the rage...I never liked em when I was a kid.
OMG this one girl brought one in2 my English class a few yrs ago and it went off in class! :D ROFLCOPTER!

Went to my tuition teacher's house. She was teaching tuition, and suddenly her daughter's furby starting talking.. Was so noisy, that my teacher just dumped it out the window from the 3rd floor! Seriously!

Don't know what happened to it after that.

I remember them being fun to burn and destroy with illegal fireworks. Especially if you dumped some lamp oil on them.

I remember them being fun to burn and destroy with illegal fireworks. Especially if you dumped some lamp oil on them.
o.O

Ahh, I remember those. At the point when they were, like, THE thing to have, I remember EVERY girl in my school had one, except me, and most of the boys had evil blue furbies, too. And it was in primary school, so the last day of term they let us bring toys in, and my GOD, everyone brought in the damn furbies. We had a tiny primary school, but the furby line went RIGHT THE WAY AROUND. And then, half the furbies were the same so everyone was arguing later about which one belonged to who, and then eventually, the teacher said 'what does it matter, girls? That line you built today was very special, girls. Girls, you shared something very special. you're very special girls.' and everyone was looking up at her like 'yeah, who are you kidding, really?'

Evil...evil.... *laughs a crazy laugh* Oh god, those things were evil! I'm so glad I wasn't a kid, otehrwise my mother would have got me one...I was barely a teenager...