80 year old wind up bear polishes his spectacles, over and over and Over
Via Dinosaurs and Robots:
D+R reader Eric points us to a video of his father's wind-up bear that wanders around a little bit while polishing his glasses and periodically holding them up to check for spots.
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Giles?
the way that winds down at the end is a bit of a tear-jerker
Why does this leave me with a sense of sadness?
His spectacles can never be clean enough
Ethancoop @#3:
Because you just know the sequel doll is a Burgess Meredith bear, whose glasses have been smashed in the postbomb deathscape, and he will never read again.
You can always count on Boing Boing comments. I was just about to say how there's something heartbreaking about watching him (and I love tin wind-ups), when I see I've been beaten to the sadness punch.
I first read the headline as: 80 year old winds up bear polishes his spectacles, over and over and Over
I thought it was going to be a truly sad post about someone with a particularly bizarre manifestation of dementia/Alzheimers.
Needless to say, I was quite alarmed for a split second when I saw it was a video post until I relized my error.
From back in the day when people laughed like hell at OCD sufferers.
@#7- obviously you did not *realize* your error.
That's what's going to happen to Skynet when it goes sentient.
Darren #1: that mechanism was used to provide tony head's performance in the first three seasons of buffy.
Apart from that... If this isn't revived and marketed as "OCD Bear", there is no justice.
"Never clean enough... never clean enough..."
Have we really come so far in eighty years?
@#1 definitely beat me to the punch, Rupert Giles was my first thought as well.
Of course, if it really was a Giles bear, it would also get knocked unconscious on a regular basis.
I agree it is quite Mr. Giles also, but my first thought was Cornelius from Achewood.