all I want for christmas is COLD WAR UNICORNS

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My 5 year old and I were in a shop on Thayer St where he spotted COLD WAR UNICORNS which is a pair of toy unicorns one being red white and blue and t'other being red with a hammer and sickle on its hindshank and the two BATTLING FOR DOMINATION and he loved them and wants them for Xmas and that's that. Not only is this one of the most bizarre Xmas requests ever, it led to this exchange:

E4: Dad, what does cold war mean?
E3: Well, you know what war is?
E4: I forget.
E3: It's when countries aren't getting along and they fight with guns.
E4: Okay.
E3: A cold war is when they don't fight but they're mean to each other.
E4: But the unicorns were fighting.
E3: ...
E3: (racks brain for suitable explanation of abstract symbolism, gives up)
E3: Did they have guns?
E4: No.
E3: Then that's why they're cold war unicorns.

I know, I know, a crap job of explaining. But you explain this:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/coldwarunicorns.jpg

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

*jaw drops*

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I can't find the pic of the two gloves, so here's this:

http://www.chez.com/cinemediafilm/rocky12.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

awesome.

― latebloomer: Veteran of the Mai Tai Massacre (latebloomer), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Cold War *and* New York Dolls = E3/E4 fell through a TIMEWARP

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit! Supersuckers and Chesterfield Kings tickets are on sale.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Should I go see the Dolls?

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Cold War *and* New York Dolls = E3/E4 fell through a TIMEWARP

Haha - forgot to mention all this happened in 1974! Thanks to wormhole magic today my son is one year older than I am.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

What do cold war rainbows look like?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

i want those!! where did you get them? I dont understand what a thayer street is.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Thayer Street is a street. In Providence. In the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In the USA. Where we value our freedoms. And our unicorns.

What do cold war rainbows look like?

They're on the back of the box!

Bonus ironing: Made In China

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

rhode island is a state now?

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

It only recently was upgraded from 'county'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mcphee.com/items/11674.html

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

rhode island is a state now?

Since 1790. These wormholes are a bitch.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Why do all Soviet cold war unicorns have the same geometric dyed-blonde hairdos?

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Archie McPhee sells out of Cold War Unicorns in 5... 4... 3...

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mcphee.com/items/11554.html

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Rep My Little Pony D-RI

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Where are the War On Terror Unicorns?

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

LOL "unicorns & ninjas"

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Cold War Ninjas = Stormshadow & Snake-eyes?

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Rep Little Train That Could R-RI

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Where are the War On Terror Unicorns?

Manufacturer could not affix turbans to horns.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

aww...

http://www.mcphee.com/pixlarge/11554.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Can the Communist Unicorn’s horn of classless social structure hold up against the Freedom Unicorn’s hooves of capitalist opportunity?

Tune in tomorrow on The Unicorn that Came in from the Cold.

― g00blar (gooblar), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

i hope you have gone back to the store and bought these by the time you read this, srsly. it is important.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

I know - the free world's fate hangs in the balance!

That pic was taken in my car, so rest assured Cold War Unicorns will assume their place of glory 'neath the tree this year.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

:D
yaay for 5-yr-olds

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

oh man, these are SO AWESOME. I want some too!

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Ian, you probably know the store I got them from - Shades Plus.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I'ma hit Thayer Street today and grab me some unicorns!

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

someone get me these for xmas, plz

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

TMX Elmo better watch his back...

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

War on terror unicorns written about somewhere in our president's daily briefings.

― Fleischhutliebe! (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

lol I bought these for my wife when we were dating. did i originally read about them here? probably.

― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 23:00 (thirteen years ago)

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