The stick has joined the cardboard box (and 36 objects of a more manufactured variety) in the Toy Hall of Fame.
The honor was bestowed on Thursday, with curators praising the stick's universal appeal and its versatility to become pretty much anything a child can imagine.
Would-be sword fighters, fairy wand wielders, and that quiet kid at the end of the street who pretends to be conducting an orchestra would no doubt agree.
via Wired
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You'll put your eye out. You'll put your eye out.
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You’ll only put an eye out if you’re running around a swimming pool with your shoelaces untied.
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Put down that stick! You're going to gouge out your sister's eye!
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