--- Here's an unusual little synchro or oddity. While changing the "links" colors to periwinkle, we discovered that only ONE link remained charcoal! Crispy dark and bubbly like an untended campfire marshmallow. Swirling over there all by it's lonesome, reminiscent of a smoky wisp of fall leaf burning. A darkest chocolada delight. A veritable paradox to the html code systematic. Look ... it's: Da Black Whole Link! An enigma wrapped up in a soul high colonic. Paradoxical enigmas have a tendency to alienate many things. Sometimes things need to be alienated before they can be put together again in a different form that better serves overall health. Mind, body, soul. Idea people and perspectives from under the radar force us to confront our failings and denials, even if/when they fail to do so themselves. Some call it Ivory Tower Narcissism. Oh yes .. the whisperers reach us too. pfft. Maybe. But, we need thinkers, philosophers, dot connectors, ivory tower seers, soul investigators, dance you around Heyokas just as much as we need Earth Salters. All provide the flavors we need to become culturally healthy societies once again.
Annie thinks that this is actually effective because in a very twisty~turny fashion ... we can relate on a level just out of fully conscious knowing. It's called a soul mirror, I believe. And it boings around from subconscious level right into a in 'yo own face, stub your toe, hop around in agony, dance of unmasking. Yes, their pain is frequently exquisite. But, the soothing that eventually comes from the comfort of soul to self touching is even more exquisite. So, rather than spend any further egg timers trying to figure this one out ... Annie leaves it as is. And enjoys the rather ironic twist of code.
Of course, on a simpler level ... Annie is still a computer doink in reality, probably full of sh*t, and may have simply but profoundly fc*ked up the html code. LOL !
SO! Onto Magnet Men and War. Yep. World War II specifically. More in a moment.
We found Willy. Yep yap yep! Remember our mention of the little magnet face guy in our previous post "Shake It Down. Shake It Down Now" ? Here he is in all his magnetic glory:
What is up, Willy, with that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer protuberance??? This has puzzled Annie for the last 2 days. I know I know ... here we go again. lol I cannot help but feel once *again* that Old Willy here is going to serve as a push off to something very important. The links and history we found surrounding the Creation of Willy is both simple and yet enormously complex. Fascinating, really.
From what Annie found in subsequent links, Willy was a direct creationary descendant post World War II. What we didn't know was how closely toy manufacturing and World War II tie together. During World War II, toy manufacturing virtually ceased. All factories and production were put into the war effort "at home." We had no idea! Products, supplies, stuff used in such production lines were also used [as in many industries] to provide supply and armament to the War Front Lines. Holy Shmokes! Read on. It's a strange story, indeed.
There was something very calming, soothing, and enchanting about that toy. The children here play with these magnet boards for long spells. What is not so enchanting is the history of what happened to toys and toy manufacturing with the advent of World War II. Annie had no idea and we'll bet a couple 'o eggs that you didn't either. First a little history on Willie --- yes! --- Willie has his very own mention on Wikipedia. Then, we found the actual Toy Company that designed and produced Wooly Willy --- in Smethport, PA. Have fun!
Wooly Willy is a toy in which metal filings are moved around a character's face, in order to make unique hairdos and facial hair.
Once the toy took off in popularity, a larger version named Dapper Dan The Magnetic Man was created. Eventually Hair-Do Harriet, Doodle Bug, Hair Bear Jr., and Whiskers the Cat were added to the line-up.
One Hollywood movie studio ordered a large order of Wooly Willys featuring the likeness of their very popular leading man and leading woman. The actress didn't approve, saying it diminished her image, and the entire run was destroyed.
Dapper Dan was also the name of a fictional "hair pomade" in the Joel Coen film O Brother Where Art Thou?.
1955: The Birthplace of Smethport's famous Wooly Willy Toy
...With the event of World War II all toy production ceased as materials were available for war use only. Smethport Specialty became R. W. Herzog, a subcontractor for Sylvania Co., Emporium PA, supplying mica insulators for radio tubes used in proximity fuses.
This device controlled the height at which a bomb would explode. The fuse was considered as one of the war's three most important weapons due to the devastation it could cause. Millions of insulators were produced on two shifts operating 48 hours per week. Eighty to 120 local women were employed for this important war effort. [feministers take note.]
After the war, mica insulator production continued but for civilian use and as material became available limited toy production returned. Eventually tran`sistors replaced radio tubes and insulator producting ceased in the mid 50's.
[mica?]
yes. mica.
n : any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity [syn: isinglass]
In 1955 James Her`zog found that dust from the magnet grinding could be used for magnetic drawing and patented the first workable Wooly Willy Magnetic Drawing set. About the same time the United States Army needed a three dimensional map which was produced by vacuum forming heated plastic. Donald Herzog suggested this process could be used to form a clear plastic to contain the magnetic drawing powder. Leonard Mackowski, a very talented Bradford artist, designed the display card. He often hid his name in the art and you will still find it on the back of the original set that has been delighting youngsters for more than 45 years.
The cost of the original Wooly Willy was 29 cents. A larger version, Dapper Dan The Magnetic Man, sold for $1.
Wild Wooly Men. We need 'em like the fish need the river. Oh yessir, my baby!
Open your eyes, look to the skies when you're lonely,
There will be stars shining for you.
Sleepers awake, it's getting late, snow is falling.
The whole wide world is wombling too.
Under the ground there is the sound of a symphony.
The lights are low, the fire is bright.
Wombling through, I'll tune into you, you tune into me.
We'll send a message into the night.
---- The Ultimate Wombles Collection ~ Merry Christmas
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