On 01/11/2017 07:54 AM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:

   On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Razer <[1]g2s@riseup.net> wrote:

    We've been pitted against each other from ethnic hatred to killing for
   'beanie babies'.

   ​I swear I cannot remember it.  'Beanie babies'?  Are you sure?  We've
   been pitted against each other because a lot  - a looooot! -  of
   things, but I didn't understand this reference.  :-/​

     10. Death by Beanie
     “In October 1999, Jeffrey White, then 29, shot security guard Harry
     Simmons, 63, at a lumberyard in Elkins, W.Va, a small town where
     people used to line up at 4 a.m. outside the Hallmark store when a
     Beanie Babies shipment was due. Police said that White, who later
     confessed to the crime, blamed Simmons for getting him fired from
     his job at the lumberyard. But the two also had a dispute over $150
     and several hundred dollars' worth of Beanie Babies that Simmons
     lent White, purportedly to start a trading business.”
     —The Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2004

   Read about children getting trampled at shopping malls and the toys
   ripped from their tender little fingers, and divorce settlements
   revolving around who got which stuffed toy ...
   [2]http://mentalfloss.com/article/66006/12-media-accounts-beanie-babies
   -hysteria-circa-1990s
   Also see Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir... What Would Jesus
   Buy?
   5 minute intro sequence, link to full movie:
   [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m_5qoeO4D8
   Rr

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