serious question

[Anonymous]

i'm doing investigative research about Cabbage Patch Kids' effect on today's society, i was greatly tramatized (dur) by them.

i need more info on them- like when they were invented, by whom, etc.

[Anonymous]

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1976
As a 21 year old art student, Xavier Roberts rediscovers "needle molding" a German technique for fabric sculpture from the early 1800’s. Combining his interest in sculpture with the quilting skills passed down from his mother, Xavier creates his first soft-sculptures.


Early soft-sculpture: "Face in a Hat"


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1977
While working his way through school as manager of the Unicoi Craft Shop in Helen, Georgia, Xavier develops the marketing concept of adoptable Little People® with birth certificates.



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1978
Xavier begins delivering his hand made Little People Originals and exhibiting them at arts and crafts shows in the southeast. He finds that many parents are happy to pay the $40.00 "adoption fee" for one of his hand signed Little People Originals.
Xavier wins a first place ribbon for sculpture with "Dexter" at the Osceola Art Show in Kissimmee, Florida. Returning home to Georgia, he organizes five school friends and incorporates Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. Xavier and his friends renovate the L.G. Neal Clinic, a turn of the century medical facility in Cleveland, Georgia, opening "BabyLand General® Hospital" to the public.



Dexter wins a first place ribbon for sculpture at the Osceola Art Show.


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1981
The growing success of Xavier’s hand made Little People Originals is documented by Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Weekly and many others. There are reports that earlier editions are re-adopting for as much as 100 times their initial adoption fee.







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1982
Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. signs a long term licensing agreement allowing a major toy manufacturer to produce a Toy replica of Xavier’s hand made soft sculpture Originals. These Toy versions are recognizable by their smaller size, vinyl head and adoption fees usually under $30.00. At the same time, the name Little People® is changed to the "Cabbage Patch Kids®" which is used for both the Toys and the hand made Originals.


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1983
By the end of the year almost 3 million of the Cabbage Patch Kids Toys have been adopted but demand has not been met. The Cabbage Patch Kids Toys go on record as the most successful new doll introduction in the history of the toy industry. In December, they are featured on the cover of Newsweek.






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1985
The Cabbage Patch Kids join the Young Astronaut Program and "Christopher Xavier" becomes the first Cabbage Patch Kid to journey into outer space as a passenger on the U.S. Space Shuttle.





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1990
With 65 million Cabbage Patch Kids Toys adopted to date, their continuing popularity places the Cabbage Patch Kids Brand among the top 10 best selling of the year. Meanwhile the hand made Originals, with adoption fees of $190.00 and up, remain popular with collectors.


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1992
The Cabbage Patch Kids are honored by being named the first official mascot of the U.S. Olympic Team. They travel with the athletes to Barcelona for the games and many stay behind as "Friends For Life" with patients of a local children’s hospital.





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1995
The Cabbage Patch Kids are once again honored to be named the official mascot of the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team for the summer games in Atlanta. That same year Mildred, one of the earliest Little People readopts for $20,000.



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1996
For the first time ever, limited numbers of hand made Original Cabbage Patch Kids U.S. Team mascots are offered for adoption at fees of $275.00 each. These Originals represent 12 different Olympic Sports,



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1999
A nationwide public vote selects Cabbage Patch Kids as one of 15 stamps commerating the 1980’s in the U.S. Postal Service’s Celebrate The Century stamp program.





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2000
The Cabbage Patch Kids stamp goes on sale in January of 2000.



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2001
Original hand made Cabbage Patch Kids make their debut on the world wide web. Adoption fees range from $170.00 to $255.00 for regular editions.
 
 
The Legend
 


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[Anonymous]

thanks..

And, I am wondering does anyone know if the "haysickle therapy" works? I've heard some good things about it. I was talking to another cabbage patch survivor about the hell we went through, and she told me that the haysickle therapy can really help with PTS related to exposure to cabbge patch kids products... I would like more info about this.

[Anonymous]

Ok...would this be anything like art therapy? ::roflmao::  ::roflmao::  ::roflmao::  ::roflmao::  ::roflmao::  ::roflmao::

[Anonymous]

From what I've heard it is kind of like art therapy in the sense that the patient actually creates something. With art therapy it's pictures, fingerpainting, etc, whereas with haysickle therapy it's shredded cabbage patch kids... I suppose you could call that art...

[Anonymous]

haysickle art as haysickle therapy? Is it possible?


Why yes it is...  :rofl:


This machine will do all sorts of things with hay... just watch your arms and legs... you can also substitute the hay with other items like stuffed animals and such...

In the practice of the present invention, a round bale cutter includes a horizontally oriented three sided frame which is adapted to hold a round hay bale on an elevated floor. An endless chain drives a series of longitudinally extending bars across the floor of the frame and grasping hooks arranged along each bar grasp and rotate the round bale about a longitudinal axis. At the same time, the hooks urge a portion of the bale perimeter against a sickle bar cutter arrayed just above the floor on one side of the frame. The sickle bar cutter chops the hay bale into manageable portions. The sickle bar cutter includes a conventional reciprocating cutter bar with triangularly shaped cutting teeth arranged continuously along the bar. A specially designed blade guide allows the entire cutting surfaces of the teeth to extend past the blade guide teeth as they reciprocate. This insures that no guide teeth enter the cutting area as the cutting teeth reciprocate, thus allowing the hay bale to be fed rapidly into the V shaped cutting recesses between the teeth. The sickle bar cutter is thus converted into a saw which is capable of cutting up an entire round hay bale in a period of approximately 3 minutes.

The principle objects and advantages of the present invention include: to provide an improved reciprocating blade bale cutter apparatus; to provide such an apparatus in which a round hay bale can be rapidly and efficiently chopped into manageable portions; to provide such an apparatus in which a round bale is rotated about a longitudinal axis while being urged against a sickle bar cutter; to provide such an apparatus in which the sickle bar cutter is equipped with blade guides which are designed with shortened guide teeth to permit the hay bale to be rapidly fed into the cutter surfaces with no interference from the guide teeth; to provide a method of converting a conventional sickle bar cutter to a more efficiently feed and cut hay bales by replacing the conventional guide teeth with shorter guide teeth; to provide such a method which results in the sickle bar cutter being converted into a saw; and to provide such an apparatus which is reliable, economical to manufacture, and which is particularly well suited for its intended and unintended purposes.

There, any questions?  :rofl:

[Anonymous]

Miller Newton touched my junk liberally. He strapped me in to his Straightmobile and he
couldnt keep his offensive hands off of me. He was performing many red flag touches. I couldnt believe what the fuck was going on. I told Miller Newton the city would not approve
of a millionaire touching an underage kid for free. Can you believe it? Miller Newton did all this. He picked me off the street, strapped my arms and legs down in the Straightmobile's passenger seat, and just wouldn't stop fondling my cock'n'balls.
They definately were red flag touches. The goddamn referee he had in the back seat kept on
raising up this red flag every time he touched my junk but did "Dr." Newton care? NO WAY! He
just kept on doing it. I couldn't believe what the fuck was going on, indeed. I pleaded with Miller Newton but to no avail. I told him the city would not approve of such a wealthy man
touching an underage kid like me (at the time I was 13) without at least compensating me for the trauma and the use of my body as his own personal plaything.
This got to him, worrying about his image. he continued to fondle me, all the while ignoring
the referee's red flags. Then he drove the Straightmobile to my house and ejected the seat I was in! It was amazing. But surprisingly, after I woke up the next morning, my bank account had $150k in it!!! Can you believe it??[/quote]

[Anonymous]

haysickle art as haysickle therapy? Is it possible?


Why yes it is...  :rofl:


This machine will do all sorts of things with hay... just watch your arms and legs... you can also substitute the hay with other items like stuffed animals and such...

In the practice of the present invention, a round bale cutter includes a horizontally oriented three sided frame which is adapted to hold a round hay bale on an elevated floor. An endless chain drives a series of longitudinally extending bars across the floor of the frame and grasping hooks arranged along each bar grasp and rotate the round bale about a longitudinal axis. At the same time, the hooks urge a portion of the bale perimeter against a sickle bar cutter arrayed just above the floor on one side of the frame. The sickle bar cutter chops the hay bale into manageable portions. The sickle bar cutter includes a conventional reciprocating cutter bar with triangularly shaped cutting teeth arranged continuously along the bar. A specially designed blade guide allows the entire cutting surfaces of the teeth to extend past the blade guide teeth as they reciprocate. This insures that no guide teeth enter the cutting area as the cutting teeth reciprocate, thus allowing the hay bale to be fed rapidly into the V shaped cutting recesses between the teeth. The sickle bar cutter is thus converted into a saw which is capable of cutting up an entire round hay bale in a period of approximately 3 minutes.

The principle objects and advantages of the present invention include: to provide an improved reciprocating blade bale cutter apparatus; to provide such an apparatus in which a round hay bale can be rapidly and efficiently chopped into manageable portions; to provide such an apparatus in which a round bale is rotated about a longitudinal axis while being urged against a sickle bar cutter; to provide such an apparatus in which the sickle bar cutter is equipped with blade guides which are designed with shortened guide teeth to permit the hay bale to be rapidly fed into the cutter surfaces with no interference from the guide teeth; to provide a method of converting a conventional sickle bar cutter to a more efficiently feed and cut hay bales by replacing the conventional guide teeth with shorter guide teeth; to provide such a method which results in the sickle bar cutter being converted into a saw; and to provide such an apparatus which is reliable, economical to manufacture, and which is particularly well suited for its intended and unintended purposes.

There, any questions?

Interesting, thanks!

Has haysickle therapy been proven therapeutically effective for Cabbage Patch survivors?

[Anonymous]

good question. Recently, a study was developed and implemented by a joint venture of the Smembler Co. and it's subsidiary NoTell Corp.  Survivors of Cabbage Patch related incidents/abuses and other traumatic experiences who had been undergoing intensive therapy sessions and workgroups were found to have all died in rather horrific accidents involving large earth moving equipment. Due to the deteriorated condition of the report, no further information is available at this time.  :cry:

 :rofl:  :rofl:

[Anonymous]

     :rofl:  :rofl: