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Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: NightGliderSA on May 30, 2017, 05:51:24 AM
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Hi everyone!
In my very first pony purchase on eBay I received a very yellowed Gusty. Her symbols are faded and she is generally in a sad condition, though she doesn't look too bad in this photo...
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However, when I took her head off to clean her as well as possible I found THIS:
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Does anyone have an idea as to what this is and why it was inside my Gusty? Have any one of you come across anything similar (or equally strange?) inside one of your ponies?
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perhaps a note from the factory? wish i could help you out more, but maybe you can find out what it says.
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perhaps a note from the factory? wish i could help you out more, but maybe you can find out what it says.
I am hoping that someone on the Arena might be able to help with that at the very least: I certainly can't read it ;)
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Was the head loose? A child might have put that in it.
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I used a translating app to recognise the characters and this is what I basically got...
編號 - Numbering (Serial number)
名稱 - Name (Company name/Product name?)
数量 - Quantity
姓名 - Name (Full name)
日期 - Date
So I'd guess it was a factory slip put inside by a worker, but I was using translating apps so I've no real clue. I'm really interested though, especially to know what the hand written part means, if it's just a scribble or words? What a cool find!
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Oh what a mystery! I have no clue what the note says, but my guess is with tulips, as it is the only information as to what it says. Continue searching!
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yep that is an inspection tag. neat find!
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What's hilarious is that, before checking the Arena this morning, I was just reading a goofy article on the net about the "strangest things found inside of animals". :haha:
It's almost like a time capsule! ...Makes you wonder how many other slips of paper have secretly been hiding in ponies all these years. :blink:
yep that is an inspection tag. neat find!
Out of curiosity, what's the point of putting one inside of a pony? It wouldn't ever be seen, would it?
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I used a translating app to recognise the characters and this is what I basically got...
編號 - Numbering (Serial number)
名稱 - Name (Company name/Product name?)
数量 - Quantity
姓名 - Name (Full name)
日期 - Date
So I'd guess it was a factory slip put inside by a worker, but I was using translating apps so I've no real clue. I'm really interested though, especially to know what the hand written part means, if it's just a scribble or words? What a cool find!
I can't speak Chinese, and it's not totally the same as Japanese in its construction with kanji, but I recognise most of the characters and if they are more or less the same meaning as Japanese, then roughly I think most of Tulips' translations make sense.
With the two different name terms, in Japanese they would be slightly different so I may be wrong, but the lower one has the characters which in Japanese are used for surname and first name. That implies to me that's either the individual name of the worker/inspector/whatever or the individual name of the pony. I think the former is more likely, though.
Company name in Japanese would be 社名. I didn't know the 稱 character so I had to look it up; apparently it means brand or product, so I think that term is product name rather than company name.
More interestingly to me is the fact those labels are written in traditional script, not simplified. Characters like 號 stand out for that. Mainland China predominately uses simplified Chinese script and have since the 1950s. Hong Kong, however, I *think* use traditional script. Gusty was made in Hong Kong, so that makes sense. I wouldn't like to guess if it is Cantonese or Mandarin, though. That is beyond me ;)
The scribble looks like a character to me - the right hand part looks like the ninben radical
https://media.kanjialive.com/radical_character/ninben.svg
in handwritten script, but I can't tell you what the character is, it's too squiggly. If it's a single character, though, it might be a surname. It seems to be in the quantity box, but the numbers in Japanese and Chinese are the same, and it doesn't resemble any number character I know, even squiggly.
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I wonder if she was a factory sample? Not a prototype, but one sent to make sure it matched the prototype...
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Was the head loose? A child might have put that in it.
No, it was still glued on :)
Post Merge: May 30, 2017, 09:37:58 AM
Thank you everyone for your help and input, I really appreciate it! It would be great if we could find out what the 'scribble' means :). I put the paper back into Gusty once she was completely dry; it seemed to be the right thing to do. It is hers after all.
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
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Wow, what an amazing and unique thing to find inside a pony!
Love pkw xxx
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
ROFL! :haha:
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
:scared:
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
Nightmares for weeks. Thank you.
I want to ask more, but also I don't...
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
What? Now how did that get in there? More importantly, how are you not traumatized?!
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
NOPE! :bolt:
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
Eeeeek!!! Dare I ask... was it complete with spider? :shocked:
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
Eeeeek!!! Dare I ask... was it complete with spider? :shocked:
Worse yet... since you say "nest", was it complete with hatching egg sac? >_<
That said, I personally think spiders are adorable! X3 ...Though I would scream if I saw a very poisonous one loose in my house/yard. I tend to just let harmless ones hang out in my house, if I see them around--they catch mosquitoes.
Poor spiders... It's hard being the number 1 ranked phobia in (at least) the U.S.
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I think someone found a joint inside Munchy once. I only seem to find rust and mold inside my ponies.
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I think someone found a joint inside Munchy once. I only seem to find rust and mold inside my ponies.
I think the best/worse I've seen people say they're found so far is someone found a $5 bill, and another person had a live cockroach crawl out.
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
:shocked: :bolt: I hate spiders!
I had a dead ladybird in one of mine.
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
Eeeeek!!! Dare I ask... was it complete with spider? :shocked:
Worse yet... since you say "nest", was it complete with hatching egg sac? >_<
That said, I personally think spiders are adorable! X3 ...
I love spiders too. But I think I would rather not have them inside my ponies. And especially not if dead, because I am fine with most live minibeasts, but cannot stand any of them dead.
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I think spiders and insects are cute, but I can't stand dead things either!
I've found many a gross thing in a pony'shair before, but never on the inside. :x
I recently extracted a dead beetle from Princess Ruby's tail.
Also, my childhood Star Catcher had a dead boxelder in her mane. Eugh...
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I caught a big jumping spider a few weeks ago, fed it some crickets and now it's molting. Has nothing to do with ponies though....
I get the joke about a joint in Munchy...
I think the slip of paper found in the pony says "Help! I'm trapped in a pony factory"
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I think someone found a joint inside Munchy once. I only seem to find rust and mold inside my ponies.
I think the best/worse I've seen people say they're found so far is someone found a $5 bill, and another person had a live cockroach crawl out.
I first read that as a live cobra, and was almost thinking of never buy a pony ever again.. :shocked:
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Yes of course it is the specialty breed of cobra evolved specifically to fit into pony-size places... :silly:
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Yes of course it is the specialty breed of cobra evolved specifically to fit into pony-size places... :silly:
Oh wow thankfully I dont know any snake that small. I bet there would be more likely a chance of a poisonious spider than that. o.o
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This is really neat, thanks for sharing it.
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This is pretty cool!!! Imagine who the worker was back then in the 80s who put it there.
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How cool! Neat find! Way better than spiders too!
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I think the slip of paper found in the pony says "Help! I'm trapped in a pony factory"
:biggrin:
How cool! I agree that it's probably something like a factory inspection slip. Nice find :)
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Yes of course it is the specialty breed of cobra evolved specifically to fit into pony-size places... :silly:
Oh wow thankfully I dont know any snake that small. I bet there would be more likely a chance of a poisonious spider than that. o.o
Depends on the snake. Lots of species hatch out at only a few inches while some snakes stay super tiny their whole lives such as thread snakes.
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That is random and kinda cool! XD One person found POOP in theirs...I think it was here on the Arena a while back and they said they thought it was dog poop. Man what kind of revolting person stuffs a toy full of poop? O_o
I think someone found a joint inside Munchy once. I only seem to find rust and mold inside my ponies.
A JOINT? lmao That is so wrong.
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That is so much cooler than the spider nest I found in mine.
i would be terrified, and burn the pony- nest and all. Hopefully thousands of spiderlings didn't stream out once you popped the pony's head off. That would be something straight out a horror movie. >_<
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That is random and kinda cool! XD One person found POOP in theirs...I think it was here on the Arena a while back and they said they thought it was dog poop. Man what kind of revolting person stuffs a toy full of poop? O_o
I think someone found a joint inside Munchy once. I only seem to find rust and mold inside my ponies.
A JOINT? lmao That is so wrong.
i love that story. kestral_kitsune retold it just recently when munchy was POTD on 4/20
http://mlparena.com/index.php/topic,385844.msg1636256.html#msg1636256
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Oh good, i wasn't sure which pony content's story I was clicking into...
No I can't imagine what sort of horrible person puts excrement into a toy, or anywhere else it doesn't belong. Not just because it's an awful thing to even conceive of doing but...how disgusting it would be to carry out, apparently cackling evilly all the while in anticipation of the misery and surprise of some hapless unknown victim in the future.
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Oh good, i wasn't sure which pony content's story I was clicking into...
No I can't imagine what sort of horrible person puts excrement into a toy, or anywhere else it doesn't belong. Not just because it's an awful thing to even conceive of doing but...how disgusting it would be to carry out, apparently cackling evilly all the while in anticipation of the misery and surprise of some hapless unknown victim in the future.
If it helps any, I think it could've been placed there by a small child thinking it was funny or even wanting to hide a "little accident" or something like that. Still gross, of course, but a bit less...heinous, imo. The only issue with this theory is that a child might have trouble getting a pony's head off and then back on, but who knows?
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More interestingly to me is the fact those labels are written in traditional script, not simplified. Characters like 號 stand out for that. Mainland China predominately uses simplified Chinese script and have since the 1950s. Hong Kong, however, I *think* use traditional script. Gusty was made in Hong Kong, so that makes sense. I wouldn't like to guess if it is Cantonese or Mandarin, though. That is beyond me ;)
The scribble looks like a character to me - the right hand part looks like the ninben radical
https://media.kanjialive.com/radical_character/ninben.svg
in handwritten script, but I can't tell you what the character is, it's too squiggly. If it's a single character, though, it might be a surname. It seems to be in the quantity box, but the numbers in Japanese and Chinese are the same, and it doesn't resemble any number character I know, even squiggly.
Cantonese and Mandarin share a written language, that's part of why most Chinese cinema is subtitled in charictors since they are relatively universal for the Chinese population.
The Canto using more complicated charictors *might be related to it's extra tones (Mando has 4, Canto has 9 I think). that's just my guess however.
the note is a charictor, not a scribble. I will try to ask a family member to help read it if I remember :)
super cool find !! Has anyone else found one of these before?
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That is so cool!
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What an interesting find!
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More interestingly to me is the fact those labels are written in traditional script, not simplified. Characters like 號 stand out for that. Mainland China predominately uses simplified Chinese script and have since the 1950s. Hong Kong, however, I *think* use traditional script. Gusty was made in Hong Kong, so that makes sense. I wouldn't like to guess if it is Cantonese or Mandarin, though. That is beyond me ;)
The scribble looks like a character to me - the right hand part looks like the ninben radical
https://media.kanjialive.com/radical_character/ninben.svg
in handwritten script, but I can't tell you what the character is, it's too squiggly. If it's a single character, though, it might be a surname. It seems to be in the quantity box, but the numbers in Japanese and Chinese are the same, and it doesn't resemble any number character I know, even squiggly.
Cantonese and Mandarin share a written language, that's part of why most Chinese cinema is subtitled in charictors since they are relatively universal for the Chinese population.
The Canto using more complicated charictors *might be related to it's extra tones (Mando has 4, Canto has 9 I think). that's just my guess however.
the note is a charictor, not a scribble. I will try to ask a family member to help read it if I remember :)
super cool find !! Has anyone else found one of these before?
That would be absolutely amazing - thank you!
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I got a translation!!
It's possible that it's a name, but the symbol literly means either "fix" or "dried meat" depending on context. That is much cooler than just a standard "Joe the inspector" QC tag of you ask me!
Now if that were my pony Id be inspecting her to try to figure out what they fixed ;)
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I got a translation!!
It's possible that it's a name, but the symbol literly means either "fix" or "dried meat" depending on context. That is much cooler than just a standard "Joe the inspector" QC tag of you ask me!
Now if that were my pony Id be inspecting her to try to figure out what they fixed ;)
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! :biggrin:
I am going to go and have a really good look at her later when I get home... as you say this is way cooler than "Joe the inspector". And the note was sealed up inside her. Wow...
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I got a translation!!
It's possible that it's a name, but the symbol literly means either "fix" or "dried meat" depending on context. That is much cooler than just a standard "Joe the inspector" QC tag of you ask me!
Now if that were my pony Id be inspecting her to try to figure out what they fixed ;)
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!! :biggrin:
I am going to go and have a really good look at her later when I get home... as you say this is way cooler than "Joe the inspector". And the note was sealed up inside her. Wow...
Of course it might be more "dried meat" than "fixed", hmmmmmm.
Pony jerky anyone?
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(pause to get image of pony jerky out of head)
I did have a look at Gusty; really cannot find anything out of the ordinary about her except that her body is really yellowed and her symbols have glitter loss. There doesn't seem to be anything obviously 'repaired'. All I can think is perhaps they replaced her tail? And yet why would that occasion writing a note about it and sealing it up in her to celebrate the fact?
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(pause to get image of pony jerky out of head)
I did have a look at Gusty; really cannot find anything out of the ordinary about her except that her body is really yellowed and her symbols have glitter loss. There doesn't seem to be anything obviously 'repaired'. All I can think is perhaps they replaced her tail? And yet why would that occasion writing a note about it and sealing it up in her to celebrate the fact?
Maybe it was initially something with her head being loose or the placement off??
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Maybe, her head was in the normal position and glued in place when I received her. Perhaps it was on incorrectly? That could definitely have been possible. Though again - why seal up that darned mysterious piece of paper inside her?
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Maybe, her head was in the normal position and glued in place when I received her. Perhaps it was on incorrectly? That could definitely have been possible. Though again - why seal up that darned mysterious piece of paper inside her?
Sounds like something I would do honestly. Have the pony in two pieces already have to move somewhere else, maybe carrying a bunch of stuff and I'd totally stuff the paper in the pony so I don't lose it and then forget about it.
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Maybe, her head was in the normal position and glued in place when I received her. Perhaps it was on incorrectly? That could definitely have been possible. Though again - why seal up that darned mysterious piece of paper inside her?
Sounds like something I would do honestly. Have the pony in two pieces already have to move somewhere else, maybe carrying a bunch of stuff and I'd totally stuff the paper in the pony so I don't lose it and then forget about it.
True. I could see that happening too.
Or perhaps they were new and she was the first pony they ever fixed. And they were really proud of fixing her so put the paper inside as a sort of secret 'I did that'.
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Of course it might be more "dried meat" than "fixed", hmmmmmm.
Pony jerky anyone?
oooohhhhhhh, THATS what munchy made her hotdogs and burgers out of ;)
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Of course it might be more "dried meat" than "fixed", hmmmmmm.
Pony jerky anyone?
oooohhhhhhh, THATS what munchy made her hotdogs and burgers out of ;)
Munchy just went silence of the lambs on us there
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I would guess something on the body needed to be fixed, and the note was sticking up through her neck opening, and was supposed to have been pulled out by whoever fixed whatever it was(maybe her symbols got missed? maybe she got the wrong color tail at first? are her symbols right or are they reversed on her NDS?) Only instead of pulling it out, it got pushed inside, and not noticed when it was time to attach her head. :)
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Darn. It's clearly not a treasure map. :/
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I would guess something on the body needed to be fixed, and the note was sticking up through her neck opening, and was supposed to have been pulled out by whoever fixed whatever it was(maybe her symbols got missed? maybe she got the wrong color tail at first? are her symbols right or are they reversed on her NDS?) Only instead of pulling it out, it got pushed inside, and not noticed when it was time to attach her head. :)
I will check her symbols against my other Gusty tonight - wasn't feeling too well last night so just didn't get there. I am also seeing one of my friends tonight who also collects MLPs and will ask her if she can see anything out of the ordinary... check back with you tomorrow :)
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Firstly: apologies for the late reply... it is winter here and I have been ill.
Anyway, on to more important matters... both my friend and myself had a really REALLY good look at Gusty. We compared her to my other Gusty. We examined her from every angle. And no, we cannot find anything that might have been 'fixed' by our mystery repairer. Incidentally neither did we discover any dried meat of any description secreted away in her anywhere ;)
But, in case you would prefer to judge for yourselves, here are the promised photos:
Do not panic... here is her real tail. Daddy Sweet has stolen it on account of arriving without one of his own. Naughty Boy!
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I am thinking about rehairing her - hence the white tail. Trying out the New Look and all.
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Of course it might be more "dried meat" than "fixed", hmmmmmm.
Pony jerky anyone?
oooohhhhhhh, THATS what munchy made her hotdogs and burgers out of ;)
Munchy just went silence of the lambs on us there
Quick! Someone make a silence of the lambs poster but with munchy!
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More interestingly to me is the fact those labels are written in traditional script, not simplified. Characters like 號 stand out for that. Mainland China predominately uses simplified Chinese script and have since the 1950s. Hong Kong, however, I *think* use traditional script. Gusty was made in Hong Kong, so that makes sense. I wouldn't like to guess if it is Cantonese or Mandarin, though. That is beyond me ;)
Cantonese and Mandarin share a written language, that's part of why most Chinese cinema is subtitled in charictors since they are relatively universal for the Chinese population.
The Canto using more complicated charictors *might be related to it's extra tones (Mando has 4, Canto has 9 I think). that's just my guess however.
Sorry, that was me being confusing. The reason I didn't know which language it was was because they use the same characters. But they use traditional characters for Mandarin in Taiwan, which is why I wasn't sure.
I am thinking about rehairing her - hence the white tail. Trying out the New Look and all.
If she is factory something or other, maybe she's worth preserving as she is?
It occurred to me she might have been a test sample or something, something they tried out things on like how much the symbols rubbed or whether the hair came out. Although it is more likely it was sent as a sample somewhere and ended up in a family's hands. Maybe all such samples had paper inside. We just don't know because we don't have them to hand or haven't decapitated them yet?
Wow, how dark this thread has become, with silence of the lambs, decapitation and spider nests O.O.
There are so many weird little mysteries that we will probably never be able to resolve. I am going to assume that either the guy was hungry or that was his surname...
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What an interesting find! My best guess would be it was slipped inside of her in the factory, maybe an accident, maybe on purpose.
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I asked someone at work and he said the fields are:
Number (like maybe production number?)
Name (either "first name" or possibly the name of the pony?)
Quantity
Surname
Date
The reason we were speculating that "name" might be the pony's name is that otherwise it seems weird that they put the Quantity field between the two name fields.
And I'm going to ask someone else in the office who knows traditional chinese to doublecheck. She also may be able to decipher the actual note written in pen.
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I am thinking about rehairing her - hence the white tail. Trying out the New Look and all.
If she is factory something or other, maybe she's worth preserving as she is?
It occurred to me she might have been a test sample or something, something they tried out things on like how much the symbols rubbed or whether the hair came out. Although it is more likely it was sent as a sample somewhere and ended up in a family's hands. Maybe all such samples had paper inside. We just don't know because we don't have them to hand or haven't decapitated them yet?
Wow, how dark this thread has become, with silence of the lambs, decapitation and spider nests O.O.
There are so many weird little mysteries that we will probably never be able to resolve. I am going to assume that either the guy was hungry or that was his surname...
There is something in what you say there. I haven't done anything permanent to her. Daddy Sweet has just pinched her tail. ;)
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Maybe it's a secret spy message! No one would ever think to look inside a child's toy from the 80's for something like that!
...Except one of us. :silly:
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I do remember an SOS being smuggled out in a bunch of Halloween decorations. It turned out they were being made at a forced labor camp in China (http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/world/asia/china-labor-camp-halloween-sos/index.html). Thank god this isn't a message like that.
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Wow! What an interesting and exciting find! That's the first I've ever heard of something like this being discovered in a pony body. Years ago there was a story about someone who purchased a toy from an American store and found a note from a factory worker in China hidden inside. The factory worker was pleading for help because they were imprisoned in the factory. Sounds like an urban legend, but it was real. This is still a cool find though, even though it isn't a secret message, lol.