HBO @ Noon: Barbie @ 50

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  Sisyphus on February 05 at 12:07 p.m.

  “Did you play with Barbie dolls as a kid?” youbetcha. And m-80s. Sometimes together.

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  Bob on February 05 at 12:15 p.m.

  My brothers and sisters did, I played with GI Joes only.

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  DCR on February 05 at 12:28 p.m.

  GI Joe usually rescued Barbie from danger, and got to drive the jeep if Sis insisted, since it was her doll.

  BTW - the original designer of Barbie, and his wife, after whom Barbie is designed, live in Meridian, ID.

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  JeanC on February 05 at 12:30 p.m.

  I didn’t like Barbie so didn’t have one as a kid. I did however have a Julie doll, based on the character Julia from the TV show in the late 60s with Diahann Carroll. Barbie wasn’t real, but Julia was and I much preferred her over Barbie.

  I still have Julia :D

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  Bob on February 05 at 12:35 p.m.

  Well DCR, when I was a GI Joe playing dude I was in grade school and was in what Freud called the latent stage of psychosexual development. In other words, like most boys of my age, we weren’t into saving girls or anything that closely approximated a Gi Joe - Barbie game in which a manly GI Joe could pick up what we called “girl germs” from a Barbie.

  We used to play a type of tag back in the day (mid to late 60s) where we would run up to one of our buddies, poke him or slap him on the back or wherever and loudly shout GIRL GERMS NO RETURNS! and run off laughing. The girl germ victim would then chase down another boy and yell the same tag curse.

  Barbies were, unfortunately, often the target of Sisyphean type explosive or flammable abuse by latent-stage psychosexually developing young lads.

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  DCR on February 05 at 12:35 p.m.

  Whoops - editing got ahead of itself. Barbie got to drive the Jeep away from the rescue, since Joe was usually wounded. Joe got to drive Barbie’s car when I’d let her take him so Joe & Barbie could go on dates and play house.

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  Cindy_H on February 05 at 12:43 p.m.

  I love Barbies.
  I’d still have mine if I hadn’t tried to encourage gender equity and let my sons play with them. Barbie didn’t survive, and Ken got chest hair. Who cares about Ken, anyway?
  I did try to play GI Joes with my boys. I was banned when I tried to get Joe to negotiate with Cobra Commander, instead of resorting to violence.
  Plus, the boys got frustrated when I changed GI Joe’s uniforms too often and made them wait ‘til I found a holster that matched his boots.

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  Bob on February 05 at 12:46 p.m.

  JOKER germs no returns!

  (runs off snickering)

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  Cindy_H on February 05 at 12:49 p.m.

  No fair sneaking up on me.
  I’m telling.

  *Tap Tap Seat Back*

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  Joker on February 05 at 1:15 p.m.

  God Bless government employees on recess.

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  chatterbox on February 05 at 1:28 p.m.

  My sister & I played with Barbies when we were pretty young. At some point, tho, we grew tired of her and decided to cut each other’s hair. That didn’t work out too well. So our Barbies received haircuts. A few just had dots when we finished.

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  Cabbage Boy on February 05 at 1:53 p.m.

  For the more life-like representation of the barbie, see yesterday’s wildcard.

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  Liz on February 05 at 4:32 p.m.

  I had any number of Barbies. Their little legs snapped off when I tried to make them ride horses, though…

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