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Milz wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>I was about 4 years old, when my brothers (ages
8 and 6) got a toy rubber snake as a gift (undoubtedly from some deranged
person). Anyhow, they used to hide behind corners and jump out to scare
me. They would make hissing sounds behind me then throw the snake on me.
They would hide it in my bed, under my pillow. I credit them with my dislike
of snakes.</tt></blockquote>
Yeah, mine did the same thing with a rubber eyeball. But I have a sneaking
suspicion I'd have a problem with loose eyeballs anyway.
<p>--Amanda, whose lunatic brother gave her husband one of those newer
"always facing up" eyeball balls in his Christmas stocking one year, and
whose children just *love* it, grossing her out regularly, sigh</html>