Coming in down to the wire for this Flashback, but that’s all right since I really don’t have a whole lot to say about this one. I hadn’t thought about this particular toy in years…and then an ImagiFriend^{TM<\/sup> from another part of my online universe posted a link to a YouTube video for Pipi-Max,<\/a> which is apparently a robotic dog that drinks water and then “pees” on people’s shoes…or heads. <\/p>\n}

Do what you will with this statement, but this toy idea is not new. <\/p>\n

True, the version that I remember from my childhood was not robotic. Instead, “My Puppy Puddles” was nothing more than a plastic dog with furry fabric ears and wheels in its paws so that it would roll behind you when you pulled it along with its leash. To get Puppy Puddles to “drink,” you had to stick its tongue into a bowl of water and squeeze the collar. It would draw water up through the hole in the bottom of the tongue and store it in whatever reservoir it had inside for its “bladder.”<\/p>\n

When it was time for Puddles to…puddle? Well…here, just watch this: <\/p>\n

[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5unAvwnOaYQ&w=640&h=480]<\/p>\n

They were far more innocent times, those plastic-loving 70s and 80s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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