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FAO Schwarz!

Found this on Funny Times:

What New Toys Did You Get? (compiled by Phil Proctor)
Capitalism: He who dies with the most toys, wins.
Hari Krishna: He who plays with the most toys, wins.
Judaism: He who buys toys at the lowest price, wins.
Catholicism: He who denis himself the most toys, wins.
Anglican: They were our toys first.
Greek Orthodox: No, they were ours first.
Branch Davidians: He who dies playing with the biggest toys, wins.
Atheism: There is no toy maker.
Polytheism: There are many toy makers.
Evolutionism: The toys made themselves.
Church of Christ, Scientist: We are the toys.
Communism: Everyone gets the same number of toys, and you go straight to the opposite of heaven if we catch you selling yours.
B'Hai: All toys are just fine with us.
Amish: Toys with batteries are surely a sin.
Buddhism: Wanting toys causes suffering. They either break, or you outgrow them.
Taoism: The doll is as important as the dump truck.
Mormonism: Every boy may have as many toys as he wants.
Voodoo: Let me borrow that doll for a second...
Jehovah's Witnesses: He who sells the most toys door-to-door, wins.
Pentecostalism: He whose toys can talk, wins.
Existentialism: Toys are a figment of your imagination.
Confusianism: Once a toy is dipped in water, it is no longer dry.
Non-denominationalism: We don't care where the toys came from, let's just play with them.

The new FAO on 5th (well new from two years ago at least) is not as cool as the old one. I used to go down there once a month at least just to look at toys and occasionally buy some stuff...the kid in me.

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