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	<title>Mark Samuels &#187; Toys</title>
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		<title>You never forget your first interactive giraffe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyrighters and marketing dudes love to find a sales gimmick and flog it within an inch of its life. Take the seemingly straightforward &#8216;my first&#8217; concept, which allows companies to tag products that are intrinsically linked to childhood, such as dolls and toy cars. The result should be a tug at parents&#8217; heart strings and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Copyrighters and marketing dudes love to find a sales gimmick and flog it within an inch of its life. Take the seemingly straightforward &#8216;my first&#8217; concept, which allows companies to tag products that are intrinsically linked to childhood, such as dolls and toy cars. The result should be a tug at parents&#8217; heart strings and a consequential tug on the purse strings.</p>
<p>Except it&#8217;s not always as simple as that. M&amp;S is tagging everything &#8216;my first&#8217;, from model steering wheels to polar bears. But perhaps the oddest is &#8216;My First Interactive Giraffe&#8217;:</p>
<p><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31l0RzHeNLL._SX280_SH35_.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Great, eh? I mean one thing&#8217;s for sure &#8211; you never forget your first interactive giraffe, do you? It&#8217;s like a rite of passage.</p>
<p>Sorry? What was that? You never had an interactive giraffe and, worse, you don&#8217;t even understand what an interactive giraffe is. Well, if the picture above doesn&#8217;t help, take a squizz at the description below from mydeco.com: &#8220;An exciting introduction to the world of playtime, this interactive toy will have them entertained for hours of fun&#8221;</p>
<p>Which &#8211; apart from the rubbish English and lack of clarity &#8211; explains absolutely everything. Ah, no. It doesn&#8217;t, actually. Apologies.</p>
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