February 12, 2008

Bunny links to this heart warming eBay listing for 2500 Mini Boglins which made me smile. I wonder when the person realised they had a problem here. 100 Boglins is okay, 500 is getting a bit much but 2500? That’s pretty serious stuff. Not knowing what a Boglin is I do the Wikipedia dance, as you do, and find a fantastic entry, the likes of which I’d thought the edit fascists had done away with by now. Its good to know some corners of Wikipedia still house this sort of insanity.

Small Boglins (Boglinus minimus) were slightly smaller than regular Boglins, resulting in reduced freedom of motion and simpler features. The varieties were Splat, Blap, Bonk, Doink, Klang, Squidge, and Squit in the UK and Squidge, Shlump, Shlurp, Sponk, Squawk and Squeel in the USA.

Now, I might not need that sort of information but, by Christ, I’m glad it has a home. And I hope those 2500 Boglins also find a home. Not mine, though, I hasten to add…

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1 bunny
Feb 17th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

there is a bid on the boglins! we can all sleep easy now knowing that “pinkbuttonz” or whoever outbids her(?) will be re – homing all 2500 of them. thought you’d like to know!
2 oli
Feb 24th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

i bought them, and i love them they worked out at less than 5p each so i got a good price
3 Pete Ashton
Feb 25th, 2008 at 12:17 am

Yes, but you now have 2500 boglins! I’m intrigued as to what you’re going to do with them all… Some kind of art project?

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