Can anyone tell me what these were called?  I'm trying to find some, but I can't for the life of me remember what they were called!  :-\\

http://www.jannasplace.com/files/QuickSiteImages/Pink_fuzzies_w_antenneas.jpg

Thanks!!

I don't remember them having a specific name, but you can buy them in bulk at this link:

http://www.orientaltrading.com/application?namespace=search&origin=searchMain.jsp&event=button.search&Ntt=pom+pom+sticker&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&N=0

Or if you can't open that, just go to Orientaltrading.com and type in pom pom sticker

:),
Shannon

we always called them warm fuzzies because they came with some esteem building comment attatched to them.

Omg, I remember those funny looking things on my teacher's desk when I was in kindergarten. They look like technicolor aliens!  http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/bouncered.gif

We used to have loads of them. I remember some having plastic hats and other accessories. A&W had a lot in their 80s merchandise.

We used to get those during  school fundraisers if you sold so many you get a certain one. We called the Weeples or Weebles. I can't remember which.

We used to get those during  school fundraisers if you sold so many you get a certain one. We called the Weeples or Weebles. I can't remember which.
Weebles look like this.

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/weebles1.jpg

I use to have some of these fuzzy things.  I use to make my own too.

I use to have some of these fuzzy things.  I use to make my own too.
...but what did you them?

I believe they were called "Puffballs".

we always called them warm fuzzies because they came with some esteem building comment attatched to them.

"Warm Fuzzies."

I never understood the self-esteem concept.  Here, have a cheap piece of dyed fluff.  Don't you feel like a special person now?
:D

"Warm Fuzzies."

I never understood the self-esteem concept.  Here, have a cheap piece of dyed fluff.  Don't you feel like a special person now?
:D



But it usually had the inspirational message glued to it so you would feel good about yourself!  ???  Yeah I never really got it either

http://www.bcia.org.au/images/corplogos/MaryKayWarmFuzzy.jpg

Warm Fuzzy characters

Weebles look like this.

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/weebles1.jpg


;D ;D ;D  "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down!"  ;D ;D ;D

But it usually had the inspirational message glued to it so you would feel good about yourself!  ???  Yeah I never really got it either


Check out Transactional Analysis, a behavioral model popular in the 70s.

Does it make a little more sense now?

No?  Well, then, you've got it.  It's a half-decent model.  But when a substitute teacher showed up in our just-having-discovered-puberty class reading from a book called "TA for Tots", a K-12 explanation of transactional analysis, and she explained that she could deliver us strokes that could be either warm fuzzies or cold pricklies, - wait, what?!?!?!

Hey!  I think I get it!  "I'm OK, you're a fracking lunatic!" 

(Yes, for anyone keeping score of memes, the "I'm OK, You're OK" slogan of transactional analysis is the root of the "I'm OK, Jesus thinks you're an @sshole!" meme)

I was the archetypical class nerd, as opposed to the class clown. Thanks to the efforts of the class clowns, I was laughing as hard as any of the clowns when, two days later, the clowns drove the substitute teacher from the room in tears.  We never saw her again.

The Parent-Adult-Child (PAC) model neglected to take into account a fourth category of player: Random.  The Random player plays flexibly, tenaciously, and intensely.  But utterly unpredictably.  Instead of playing within the system outlined by TA, it treats TA as a game to be palyed, and thus, as a system to be gamed.  When you recognize an opponent using it, and you know the opponent's goals, it's not hard to find loops of TA-logic that can be turned 180 degrees against the opponent.

When one player (the substitute teacher) lays her playbook in front of thirty sixth-graders, she makes her behavior utterly predictable.  It doesn't take more than about one recess and lunch hour before the thirty sixth-graders can make up a playbook of our own.  Transactional analysis leads to predictable behaviors -- but it also assumes predictable behavior on the part of an opponent.  That might work in a business setting, but it won't work in a sixth-grade classroom.  In the context of a football game, it's a mistake.  In the context of a sixth-grade classroom, it's a setup for a truly epic fail.

Reading the Wiki page brings back great memories.  As soon as she started to lose her grip on the class, we yelled out the names of the various games we had nudged her into playing.  We started with Let's You And Him Fight (it's trivially easy for any one to get a substitute teacher into a verbal argument with the ranking class clown), and she dug her own hole from there.  There was nothing she could say (and still maintain control of the class) that we couldn't immediately recognize as a TA game.  So we just called her plays back at her before she had a chance to play through the games.  She was Only Trying To Help Us.  Look How Hard She's Trying.  We Got Her Into This.  When she threw a chalkboard eraser at him (this was before the age of zero tolerance, so suing her for assault wasn't on the table, we played hardball, no lawyers!), someone chimed out "Now Look What We Made You Do", and that was about it, except for her tears, our laughs, and like I said, we never saw her again.

Comedy. Fracking. Gold.

Weebles look like this.

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/weebles1.jpg


My weebles looked like this
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/af222/WEEBLES/list_files/image008.jpg

I remember my Dad gave me with a Wendy's label on it. I think it wore a white cap...