Re: fisher price still camera

[Jonathan Prince <jpindc@erols.com>]

But does it work???



Is this a digital camera or regular film or something else?



I'd love to see the results scanned and put online.  If you have any please

post the URL.



thanx,



jonathan

http://www.killyourtv.com



At 7:15 PM -0400 7/30/97, kyle cassidy wrote:

>while perusing the local thrift shops yesterday, i noticed that one of them

>had a fisher price 110 still camera for two dollars. it's blue, black and

>yellow, says "fisher price" on the top and front and has big yellow buttons

>for little fingers and big rubber end bumpers to guard against the

>inevitable dropping. i took a look at it, but wasn't sure that i wanted to

>spend two dollars on it. while walking past the store today, i happened to

>have two bucks in my pocket and thought "aw, what the heck", so i went in,

>said "i'll have that blue camera there," they put it in a bag, i walked down

>to the coffee shop and while sitting there, i pulled the camera out. and to

>my suprise, it didn't say "fisher price" on it anymore, the front of the

>camera was tacky where someone had pulled off the aluminum name plate, the

>top name plate was still there, apparantly fastned by some more potent

>bonding agent, but it was covered by a piece of electrical tape, upon

>peeling this off, i saw that someone had tried to scrape the words "fisher

>price" off of the metal with some sharp object, (knife? fork?).

>

>some people!

>

>kyle