Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Nano Mania

There's this thing going on in Switzerland right now called "nano mania". One of the two largest grocery-turned everything stores in Switzerland is called Migros and has this new policy where for every 20 francs (20 dollars) that you spend, you get one nano. The point is really no point at all: the logo is "stapeln, purzeln, sammeln: die Nanos sind da" which means "stack, tumble, and collect: the nanos are here". And that's really all you can do with these one-inch tall plastic pill-shaped toys with weights in them. I suppose you can swallow them too, but a four-year-old already did that and it didn't sound like a lot of fun. And they're impossibly hard to stack; it took me a whole five minutes to get one on top of another, and I have yet to achieve a third. All I have to say is that if nano mania could be this successful, so could Grover mania. If only Grover was here...

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