A passel of Cabbage Patch Kids sit on Margaret Allen's brown leather couch in her Florence, Ala., home like they've lounged there all their life.

What's that in metric?

This movie scared me, it still scares me

wow im older than cabbage patch kids

/only by a month
//and five days

Those dolls creeped me out when I was little. I never understood what people saw in them.

Now My Little Pony, that was my little girl crack fix, right there.

``I think it is that Cabbage Patch Kids have become a part of people's families,' she said. ``When a whole family gets together to try and find a Cabbage Patch Kid for Christmas, they're all working together and sacrificing a lot. They become family history.'

Come on guys, let's go camp outside K-mart so that Timmy loves us this Christmas!

I'm not 25 yet... who wants to party!!!

Rhames: This movie scared me, it still scares me

Came here for GPK reference. Still miss them.

Its my 25th birthday today so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

/Maybe I'm a cabbage patch kid?

Perhaps the truest to life GPK?

Cabbage Patch kids had these random "First Name, Middle Name" combinations assigned to them and printed on the birth certificate that came in the box. We sold Cabbage Patch Kids in our hardware store during the craze (we carry a small toy selection) and we couldn't keep them in stock. The names were interesting, best one we ever got in stock was "Rusty Dick". I'd imagine by the time he reached puberty he either changed his name or had a lot of trouble picking up chicks.

Thank goodness I was never subjected to the horror that was Cabbage Patch Kids. My favorite toy when I was about 6 or 7 years old-
The Johnny Seven OMA:

No one takes him seriously in the boardroom.



Forced into menial jobs...



Will not be sidelined like that.

The only good thing that came from cabbage patch kids was the garbage pail kids.

G.I. Joe is farking middle aged.

the cabbage patch?

mekki: Those dolls creeped me out when I was little. I never understood what people saw in them.

Now My Little Pony, that was my little girl crack fix, right there.

This. I didnt know I shared a bday with them, til today though.. Thanks Fark..

I had the extremely unpleasant experience working as a christmas temp at a local toy superstore when these little plastic crappies first came out. You never saw such mayhem. Literally, old ladies tearing each others wigs off and screaming at each other in the aisles over particular dolls, in front of little kids. People grabbing them out of each others hands. People grabbing them out of shopping carts when the possessor turned their backs. A LOT of shoplifting attempts, even by supposidly "nice people". One armed robbery attempt, over a farkING PLASTIC DOLL. It was a nightmare. They ended up in the secure booth, where you just paid for a ticket and got the one you were presented rather than the one you wanted. That caused its own hell. People were never satisfied with what they got. There was a LOT of yelling and cussing, in a "family freindly" store full of little kids.

Humans are such assholes over the stupidest shiat.

I still have one called Esmerelda. Dressed her up good. Colored her hair black with shoe polish. Gave her a nasty metal makeover. She has a ring through her nose, and tattoos on her hands and feet. She spent the first few years hanging from a noose in my study.

The cabbage patch dolls were stupid then and are still stupid. I killed as many as I could with my collection of pet rocks. Nothing like having a rock cum when it's called after throwing it at a stupid doll thing.

Oh, and get off MY LAWN!!!!

HATED those dolls. By age 12 I was heavily into New Wave, sci fi, and makeup. I was so ready to be a teenager. So of course I got one of those stupid dolls for Easter that year.

The worst part was, everyone took those dolls so seriously, so I had to pretend I was happy with it. I was supposed to treat it like it was a real child. GAH.

snowcircle: mekki: Those dolls creeped me out when I was little. I never understood what people saw in them.

Now My Little Pony, that was my little girl crack fix, right there.

This. I didnt know I shared a bday with them, til today though.. Thanks Fark..


Remember the ones that were scratch and sniff, with a picture of a cupcake or fruit on the rump, and the basic idea was to scratch and sniff the horse's ass?

Deathfrogg: I had the extremely unpleasant experience working as a christmas temp at a local toy superstore when these little plastic crappies first came out. You never saw such mayhem. Literally, old ladies tearing each others wigs off and screaming at each other in the aisles over particular dolls, in front of little kids. People grabbing them out of each others hands. People grabbing them out of shopping carts when the possessor turned their backs. A LOT of shoplifting attempts, even by supposidly "nice people". One armed robbery attempt, over a farkING PLASTIC DOLL. It was a nightmare. They ended up in the secure booth, where you just paid for a ticket and got the one you were presented rather than the one you wanted. That caused its own hell. People were never satisfied with what they got. There was a LOT of yelling and cussing, in a "family freindly" store full of little kids.

Humans are such assholes over the stupidest shiat.

I still have one called Esmerelda. Dressed her up good. Colored her hair black with shoe polish. Gave her a nasty metal makeover. She has a ring through her nose, and tattoos on her hands and feet. She spent the first few years hanging from a noose in my study.

Aren't you "alternative".
but really, a reason I hate people. greedy. I'm not being kind anymore. A "friend" stole about $700 worth of video games, CDs and A/V equipment (small cameras) this summer. Like a week before I last saw him. He disappeared, but he doesn't know I know where he lives. from now on I live for revenge. Forgiveness just doesn't seem to work out.
/if I screw up unintentionally I still try to make things right
//no real forgiveness, only lip service
///which should be nice, but it's not what it sounds like
////so I'm done with all of that - not even one chance anymore
//but TONS of slashies

worthlessjuan: The cabbage patch dolls were stupid then and are still stupid. I killed as many as I could with my collection of pet rocks. Nothing like having a rock cum when it's called after throwing it at a stupid doll thing.

Oh, and get off MY LAWN!!!!

THat's disgusting.

Real People FTW!!!! (new window)

MonkeyVegetables: wow im older than cabbage patch kids

/only by a month
//and five days


Cabbage Patch kids are younger than McCain... but so is everything else.
Mt Rushmore is younger than McCain... Fiberglass is younger than McCain... Alaska is younger than McCain...

My sister had a bunch of the stupid things, both the originals and some knockoffs. I remember one day when we went on a family outing and my dad enforced a strict "one bloody doll" policy with her. She left 2 in the car and took one with her. It was a hellishly hot day, and when we got back the two in the car had partially melted and deformed heads. There was much screaming and crying for the rest of the day. I thought it was hilarious. They definitely would have fit in with the Garbage Pail Kids, since the garbage is where they eventually ended up.

Ariel Carlotta and Delia Adora were my Cabbage Patch kids. I loved those things soooo much. The sound the heads made when tey connected wit my sisters was priceless.

/Had a preemie too
//Penny Petra
///Her head fell off.

TheRedMonkey Quote 2008-09-07 02:16:07 PM

THat's disgusting.


One more Farking success story!!!

Oznog:
Cabbage Patch kids are younger than McCain... but so is everything else.
Mt Rushmore is younger than McCain... Fiberglass is younger than McCain... Alaska is younger than McCain...

It would be nice if the Fark Ameri-tards could leave their bloody election out of every thread.

Guess what? Some of us don't give a loose bran-infused crap about the soap opera that is your politics.

Farktastic Quote 2008-09-07 02:24:32 PM
Oznog:

It would be nice if the Fark Ameri-tards could leave their bloody election out of every thread.

Guess what? Some of us don't give a loose bran-infused crap about the soap opera that is your politics.

No shiat, well said sir/ma'am.

Came for Garbage Pail Kids

/left happy

Farktastic: Oznog:
Cabbage Patch kids are younger than McCain... but so is everything else.
Mt Rushmore is younger than McCain... Fiberglass is younger than McCain... Alaska is younger than McCain...

It would be nice if the Fark Ameri-tards could leave their bloody election out of every thread.

Guess what? Some of us don't give a loose bran-infused crap about the soap opera that is your politics.

Holy Carp, I can not believe that I am old enough to have had those dolls when I did, I can't possibly be that old. And yes, their head were dense for whipping little bully brothers into shape...

/Not 25
//couple years younger
///extra slashies for my two dolls Dorothy and Dianne

Has anybody told them they're adopted yet?

mike4688: The only good thing that came from cabbage patch kids was the garbage pail kids.

So so true.

http://carcino.gen.nz/images/index.php/00b9a680/653cf596


.... I still have my cabbage patch from when I was a kid. I wouldn't leave the house without her. Now - she is just creepy as heck.... Her beady little eyes poking out at me in the dark and her pale, bald head shines in the moonlight like some sort of bald gremlin. I shoved her in a bag, and now she sits safely up in my closet. Whew.

I had a couple Cabbage Patch kids, boy and a girl, when I was 3 or 4. I can't remember their names, though. The girl was Vanessa something (but I changed her name to Sherry because of that Steve Perry song) and I think the boy's name was Robert or something like that. Anyone remember the animal ones? I think I had the cat one.

/was more interested in playing with He-Man and Transformers

oh dear mother of god. finally a garbage pail kids thread. i've waited 23 years for this.

/teardrops

Ape Shiat Nuts:
Has anybody told them they're adopted yet?

I told mine, but when I tried scolding her for something she did wrong, she yelled, "You cannot tell me what to do! You are not my real mother!" It broke my heart.

try fect taa daa:
oh dear mother of god. finally a garbage pail kids thread. i've waited 23 years for this.

/teardrops

You know there are fan sites for the Garbage Pail Kids. One, I see, has a message board. Plus there was the Garbage Pail Kids movie and tv series, there are message boards for it on the IMDB.

I knew they'd been around a while, but not for this long. They came out the year I was born.

I wasn't much of a girly-girl as a child but still had several. I remember having a redhead with yarn hair. I think I stole some of my aunt's makeup and whore-ified my Kid. Mom was pissed that she couldn't get the makeup off.

I remember they came with the weirdest names, but I never kept them.

I still have my two Cabbage Patch Kids. One of them is blind. I was about six when one of my friends used nail polish all over Bonita Mimi's face. When my mom washed the nail polish off, she used nail polish remover and the eyes came off too. :(

mrapier
the cabbage patch?




Approves

mrapier: the cabbage patch?

That's actually the Roger Rabbit.

My parents weren't going to get ripped off buying a Cabbage Patch Doll and they definitely weren't going to stand in line like those twits who wasted 3 day in line at K-mart to get one. My mom made me one. She tried to make the face look similar, but it's really hard to made a face that ugly. Mine is really cute, plus she was the same size as the real dolls so I could still buy the clothes. My mom learned to sew to make that doll. She also made me a 'Friend' Care Bear since those were hard to find as well. I thought they were great and I still have both of them.

My mom rocked.

So how old is the cabbage patch dance?

Still have one I received as a gift 23 years ago from an ex.

/means nothing
//just couldn't bring myself to throw it away
///besides, it looks like me... albeit a much younger me

Farktastic: Oznog:
Cabbage Patch kids are younger than McCain... but so is everything else.
Mt Rushmore is younger than McCain... Fiberglass is younger than McCain... Alaska is younger than McCain...

It would be nice if the Fark Ameri-tards could leave their bloody election out of every thread.

Guess what? Some of us don't give a loose bran-infused crap about the soap opera that is your politics.

This.

/And I'm a Yank, to boot!

Even when I was a kid I though all cabbage patch kids looked like Phil Collins.

I had two of these as a kid - a standard one and a "preemie." I also ignored the names they were given by the makers and came up with my own. I named the baby Sidney, and my parents immediately started referring to it as Sid Vicious. I didn't get the joke for many years.

/family has a weird sense of humor
//Diane and Sid are packed up someplace at my parents' house

preemie CPK's were morbidly creepy to me because my two cousins were born preemature and going through tons of medical procedures and the family was sure they were going to die.

I had surgery when I was six and ended up getting one of these boring little dolls as a "coming home" present. She was blonde, with the yarn hair and wore a yellow dress with little flowers on it. I repeatedly tried to stuff my unwilling cat into that dress in the years following, and sometimes succeeded.

I saw someone mention that their Mom made them a Care Bear. Mine too! Apparently, I wanted the "Grumpy" Bear so badly and she couldn't find/afford it, so she made me one. Then, it mysteriously disappeared a couple years later. I questioned her about it a few months ago and she said "Oh, we took it away before you were old enough to realize that it wasn't the real Care Bear."

/trauma
/older than CPK's and Care Bears
/not that old