On the streets, we struck up a few casual conversations with passers-by about our newfound plaything.
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Onto the scene comes Buzz Lightyear, an astro-adventurer with a laser who doesn't even realize he's a plaything.
That's a big turnaround for a body that became a politicians' plaything after India nationalised its banks in 1969.
In reality, Donna Summer never conformed to the stereotype of disco singer as producer's plaything, despite Moroder's commanding presence.
Some see his ownership of Chelsea as a passing fad, a plaything he may soon, for want of new trophies, tire of.
Push a button, turn a crank, and your plaything played for you.
But it is tough to see the Dagestani club as anything other than a rich man's plaything bankrolled by the billionaire Suleyman Kerimov.
Liberal Democrat spokesman Simon Hughes said his party would back the Dome provided it became a people's celebration rather than "a politician's plaything".
Such software, the underlying recipe for which is created by volunteers and distributed free online, was initially dismissed as the plaything of nerdy hobbyists.
The game was hard to figure out: more puzzle than plaything.
The 1994 boat, stripped of its more adventurous features and rechristened Nariida, is the beloved plaything of Norwegian former shipping magnate Morten Bergesen, who set a Monaco-to-St.
Blue Ramsey, a design professor at England's Brunel University, cautions that the inks will remain a plaything until engineers figure out how to print batteries and speakers, too.
Parliament was not the "plaything" of government, she added.
" But perhaps the philosopher who best understood the transcendental possibilities of play was Epicurus' forbear, Plato, who wrote: "Man is made God's plaything and that is the best part of him.
In 2010 when the iPad was launched many mocked it as a plaything - but Apple, Google and even Microsoft believe the future of their industry is tablet-shaped, so getting the right offer in front of consumers is a very serious business.
Plaything for our future robot overlords? (Let's hope it's not the last one.) The success of the mission will depend on a couple things, namely: how the return trip goes (it should make it back to California's Vandenberg Air Force Base via autopilot... sometime) and whether the thing can be re-launched quickly enough.
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