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Quite a read.
I remember when I first heard about it at the time. I went out to the Amazon reviews page for that toy, and there were quite a few clueless, naive reviews that had me pretty much crying with laughter. After a few weeks Amazon removed so the best ones. I'm glad some of them got captured for posterity.
They have to be playing dumb, surely. Especially the 17-year-old one…