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| Great Writers Finger Puppet Set |
Binding: Toy
Brand: The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Color: Writers
EAN: 0698887537087
Item Dimensions: 220108753772
Label: The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Manufacturer: The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 72 months
MPN: 0134
Publisher: The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Size: 4 inches
Studio: The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Features:- What would these Greats say to each other? What would they say to you? Now you can be playwright, actor, and director, putting on countless productions. Each set comes in a box that easily converts to a puppet theater. The Writers set includes Shakespeare, Woolf, Dickens and Tolstoy. They're magnetic, so when you're done, you can stick them to the fridge!
- Each puppet is about 4" tall and is magnetized so it can double as a refrigerator magnet. They come packaged in a fun puppet-theater box.
- From the Unemployed Philosophers Guild. Don't worry. We are employed, just not as philosophers. UPG is a small, Brooklyn based company specializing in gifts for the sophisticated gift giver. Click on our brand name near the product title on this page for more presents of mind.
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Brought to You by The Unemployed Philosophers Guild
The origins of the Unemployed Philosophers Guild are shrouded in mystery. Some accounts trace the Guild's birth to Athens in the latter half of the 4th century BCE. Allegedly, several lesser philosophers grew weary of the endless Socratic dialogue endemic in their trade and turned to crafting household implements and playthings. (Hence the assertions that Socrates quaffed his hemlock poison from a Guild-designed chalice, though vigorous debate surrounds the question of whether it was a "disappearing" chalice.)
Others argue that the UPG dates from the High Middle Ages, when the Philosophers Guild entered the world of commerce by selling bawdy pamphlets to pilgrims facing long lines for the restroom. Business boomed until 1211 when Pope Innocent III condemned the publications. Not surprisingly, this led to increased sales, even as half our membership was burned at the stake.
More recently, revisionist historians have pinpointed the birth of the Guild to the time it was still cool to live in New York City's Lower East Side. Two brothers turned their inner creativity and love of paying rent towards fulfilling the people's needs for finger puppets, warm slippers, coffee cups, and cracking up at stuff.
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