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Everyone gets spam. Duh. Most of it’s naughty and a lot of it’s amusingly confusing and lame. But Wry Baby gets the best blind emails from manufacturers overseas! Oh, the potential products Wry Baby could come out with…it truly boggles the mind. I want to share some of these offerings with you, Fun Reader, to see if you think we should pull the trigger and add these to the Wry Baby line-up of funny baby clothes, unique shower gifts and funny baby shower gifts.

This one is very tempting. While the product is obviously the toppest quality, a closer look at this photo reveals so much more about the company itself. Or at least their Photoshop abilities.

1. The best place to enjoy an oily, heatless fire? Right beside an enormous real fireplace!
2. But what’s this? This fireplace has been bricked over by a clever mason/optical illusionist. Don’t stand too close or you could be sucked into another dimension.
3. Maybe it’s the wine they’re drinking, but I get woozy looking at the perspective tilt on the product on the table. And where’d the stem to the wine glass on the table go! Roofies in the wine! I have toa set doo….zzzzzzz.

All that being said, I really do like 6115. It would be great as a diaper incinerator next to the changing station. Actually, I’d love to mount 20 of these sideways on a wall or lining a hallway in my house with motion sensors hooked up to them. Very Indiana Jones, very exciting. Please let us know if Wry Baby should endeavor to add this quality, but possibly hazardous item to the Wry Baby family of cool baby gifts, won’t you?

Okay. I promise. Last one. Toontown, Aneheim. Not a single sign nearby saying it’s a hard hat area.

See Toontown car accidents from Disneyland Aneheim and Tokyo Disneyland.

He did it! I posted yesterday about my bro-hando, Josh Sopp, traveling back to the future to try to save the Back to the Future clocktower from the Universal fire only to find his flaming arrival was the cause of the blaze. Well, he told me he then went into the future to learn about fireproofing materials and codes in LA County and then went back further into the past to be hired on as the set builder on BTTF I, therefore using future technology to ensure that the set wouldn’t ignite on his first arrival to prevent the fire. A big thanks to Josh for saving the beloved clocktower!!

My brother, Josh Sopp, just called to say that he walked outside his Burbank apartment, smelled smoke and soon found that the courthouse square set from Back to the Future was on fire! Josh told me he tried to go back in time and prevent the fire, but found that his arrival was what actually caused it. Think about that for a while.

Josh is currently outside his apartment breathing as deeply as he can to absorb as much of the set into his being as he can. That, my friends, is how much we love BTTF.

We at Wry Baby hesitate to call them antique lunchboxes because we used to own some of these. You know that Wry Baby’s all about the things that make you think of those happy childhood days of yore. That’s, after all, why we try to make cool baby clothes, cool baby gifts and cool shower gifts for Mom and Dad that you’ll want to keep long after junior is all grows up and he’s all grows up. Hopefully, this Lidsville lunchbox will bring back some happy memories of  Weenie the Genie,  Charles Nelson Reilly as HooDoo the Magician and the genius of Rah-Rah the Football Helmet. We’ll post more from the Wry Baby lunchbox hall of fame when we’re not making more fun baby gifts.

The charming image below, from an old knitting magazine, got us thinkers at Wry Baby thinking, “Why aren’t these made commercially?”. Who wouldn’t buy this as a fun baby shower gift?! Let’s look at some pros and cons to adding this potentially fun baby shower gift to Wry Baby’s line-up of unique baby clothes and baby accessories.

• PROS – This simple ski mask from the past could make an excellent disciplinary tool. Make your child wear it to school instead of enacting that tired, old “time out” strategy. Or maybe knit yourself an adult version and, as a fun joke, wear it when you tuck your tyke in for the night. Good times!

• CONS – Eternal terrifying nightmares

While the Pros obviously outweigh the Cons, our gut says we should think about it a bit more. It’s all about timing in the funny baby clothing biz and maybe the world still isn’t ready for this unquestionably unique baby gift.

For far less traumatizing funny baby clothes, visit wrybaby.com. Wry Baby’s line of snapsuits, baby outfits and baby shower gifts have proven to be not only non-terrifying, but quite unique baby gifts.

My pal, the genius copywriter, Andrew Tonkin (see his work at www.wordsandrewtonkin.com), sent me these wonderful childrens records. While they are scratched up beyond belief, they are sure still pretty to look at. Not many people know that I do the art and design work for Wry Baby’s entire line of fun baby clothes and shower gifts. When I look at these records, I totally want to get into children’s music just so Wry Baby can make something like this. A set of these would be such a great baby gift. Even as wall art.

The illustrations are just fab. I can never figure out why modern kids stuff isn’t made like this anymore. It makes me want to get Wry Baby into the kids record biz.Not that there aren’t cool baby things out there now, but wouldn’t you totally buy this today? These records were released by The Record Guild of America in the late 40′s – early 50′s. They’re similar to super spendy Vogue picture discs that I’ve seen in used record stores. Andrew got these for a song (get it?) but they go for about $15 on ebay. I so wish Wry Baby made something like this today.

If you like these, you may like the retro coolness of our not-as-dusty line of baby toys, games for Mom and Dad and cool baby books at www.wrybaby.com