"Ross Cassell -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:12314$POL_DISORDER{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>> So you never took any of your toys apart?

 RC> I was very young then, like not a teenager..

 RC> When I was a teenager, I used to have neighbors give me their broken
 RC> lawn mowers and used to disassemble the lawn mower engines, either
 RC> Briggs and Stratons or Tecumseh, and I made a working engine from 2
 RC> broken ones.

In other words, you just moved up to bigger toys. 

 RC> It never occurred to me or interested me as a teenager or adult to
 RC> take apart childrens toys.

That's because our toys when we were that age were downright primitive,
compared to more recent ones.
Even "robots" from our teen years were very primitive.

 RC> Even so, as a kid, one of 6 kids, if I wanted my toys and for them to
 RC> work, I didnt really take them apart.

Your loss.

 RC> However you are a full grown 48yo male, one would think this is
 RC> something you outgrew 35+ years ago?

One of my youngest relatives gave me the Furby.
I wanted to see what made it run.

 RS>> And guess what. The Furby after I put it back together, works.

 RC> Irrelevant...

Only since if you tried it, you'd have 6 screws left over and the gears
in backwards.

 RC> 48 yo men generally arent attracted to childrens toys.

This "children's toy" has more computing power than the landing computer
on the moon lander.

Taking the Furby apart isn't going to get me a job, or get me lots of
money.
It's just something I did, and had fun doing it.

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