Wednesday, February 02, 2005 07:58:05 AM
TOYS
GI Joe Abduction
Unfortunately, the abduction of a GI Joe doll in Iraq this week is only the most recent in a long line of unseemly wartime acts involving children's toys.
Here are just a few of the more tragic examples to have befallen action figures and other playthings throughout history.
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326 B.C.
After intense fighting, Egyptian rebels capture and vow to behead Alexander the Great's gay Elton doll.
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1540 French soldiers promise to throw porcelain replica of Henry VIII into the Seine unless England surrenders 40,000 tons of garlic to France.
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1776 British forces threaten to chop off the limbs of a George Washington Barbie unless revolutionary troops surrender.
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1952 Betty Boob doll is sadistically dismembered by the North Korean army.
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1999 Serbs break with the Geneva Convention after playing Barry Manilow music to Barry Manilow bobblehead doll.
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