The Sugarberry thing was a seller listing variant Sugarberries using images that had been edited in Photoshop

Was there a second Sugarberry photoshop incident at some point because as I remember it, there wasn't any intention to sell or financially scam someone. It was just a prank that went on way too long.

I use to do this when I still lived with my mum. Every time a new pony arrived I would ask her what she thought it's name was. As a result she can immediately identify G3 Minty and Pinkie Pie.

I can vouch for the non-permanent teaching position in Australia.  My brother did eight years of just substitute teaching before he landed a MOSTLY permanent position this year.  When he was lucky he would get a whole 3 month term contract; when he wasn't he would go weeks without a single day of work.  To his credit, being a male teacher with a high tolerance for teenagers being jerks, a lot of his placements were at the high schools notorious for rough, dodgy students, simply because he was one of only a handful of teachers who hadn't refused to work there.  Now he is doing very long days and coming home stressed just to do some more work before tomorrow's lesson.  If he hadn't been offered a position this year, he probably would have chucked it in entirely.

As for me, I was selected by the universe to have chronic pain and so I'm no longer able to work.  The strangest was a temp job doing Santa photography in a mall.  The psychically hardest was a pet sitter, doing 7 - 20 houses a day.  I couldn't work more than 4 days in a row it was so exhausting.  This was before GPS was affordable so every night I would have to get out the street directory and write out my route and directions.  I had a lot of weird and funny experiences doing it and met some really lovely pets but it was so much harder than I imagined it would be.

Does anyone know how much the PJ plushes go for these days?  I've searched ebay for sold prices and nothing recent is coming up for me.  These are the large plush ponies sold exclusively at Myer in Australia with a zipper down the back.

I would try googling your questions or using the search function to see if they have been brought up before.  There is a ton of information readily available online these days as opposed to the early online days where it was hard to find information on things.  It's very likely that your questions have been asked and answered before somewhere.

Taffeta, one of my dearest friends (who also collects MLP) was born in Scotland but moved to Australia as a child. She always says it's very strange that Australians eat our national animal, the kangaroo. Every time she says it, I follow it up with "well I suspect the Scots ate all of their national animal, the unicorn, hence why there are none left!"

You know how their are religious fanatics who want to ban Harry Potter for it's use of magic and wizardry? Well in the 90's there was a similar period where people were anti-unicorn because of the same magic argument. Some people would throw away their kids' toy unicorns or cut the horns off to be normal horses. If you find a pony who is meant to be a unicorn but has the horn removed, it is possible that it is a anti-magic survivor. It's really very sad.

On top of that, I've seen many Powders with loose horns or no horn at all. I've found one myself and it doesn't feel as strong as it should be. I suspect this could be due to not enough vinyl plastic coating the horn part of the mould or a thinner consistency being used as I don't recall ever seeing a Sky Flier with the same problem even though Sky Flier and Powder are the first two ponies in that pose and in the same set. It doesn't affect all Powders but I don't know of any other pony so frequently having this problem.