Toy Guitars
In a recent email thread concerning a proposed GL product range which came my way at one time the subject of toys came up and
young Derek the
Zippo kid (kidd) was
foolish enough to say:-
"How about a Fisher-Price Gordon Lightfoot special edition guitar?"
My immediate response was prompted by memory of a clipping that we had saved last year from a Walmart sales flyer showing
a young lad strikingly like our Derek in his younger and less wise days.So I replied as follows:-
"AHEM I do believe young Derek the kid already has one of those!!!So sorry Eccles I just could not resist sending out this
great pic of you when you were a lad"
(Eccles for Americans was one of the pre Monty Python characters in the fabled Goon Show on BBC steam radio. of which I know
Derek is a fan) and I attached this scan of the Walmart advert:-
Yesterday our talented picture manipulator jj followed up by saying to Derek in another email:-
"btw, i was overdue to mess with a pic of yours WITHOUT your authorization whatsoever, as per usual...heh heh, young Derek
sitting on that big stool, reminds me of Lily Tomlin, Laff In
" and in turn he attached this picture:-
In between the same person had said in another email
"hey, John and Derek, btw, i was surfing and found out that the Chinese already beat us to the idea...can't believe that GL
quietly even endorsed it, agh"
and jj attached this interesting picture of the web page he had presumably found:-
I just thought everybody here would enjoy seeing these again
John Fowles
[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited December 21, 2004).]
[ May 09, 2006, 10:38: Message edited by: johnfowles ]