The Oldest Toymaker Still Lives

Hi Fans.I'm Hoboclown.Flash Mc Cool and I are in his warm cave watching and studying the holiday toy season. For centuries as a hoboclown detective ,Flash Mc Cool has been trying to identify and locate the oldest Toymaker in the world.Flash has just told me that he has just cracked this cold case and has proof.Here's what Flash had to say, " My great, nimble and superior simplistic mind has tracked down and found the oldest Toymaker in the world! I will offer proof momentarily.While many toys are being sold for profit at sky-high prices, more of the best toys are still being made by the oldest Toymaker in the world ! The oldest Toymaker has been making the toys for free for ages long before your ancestors and mine.Yet, the Toymaker continues to make the toys today and gives them away for free as I speak. The great Toymaker was and is existing in all parts of the world- mysteriously at the same time.How can this be you ask? Well, today I watched a squirrel and his actions and play revealed the Toymaker's identity to me.Ahhaaaah ! Like a dyslexic child who sometimes confuses the letters P and b, I sometimes get my trees confused. Anyway, I stood under this big Elder or Maple tree while a squirrel was some 20 feet atop it eating. As the squirrel ate,quivered and shaked-so did the tree branches to dislodge winged seeds that spiraled down to the ground.One by one( through twenty or thirty )winged seeds were dislodged by the squirrel and spiraled gently in the wind to the ground around my feet. Some I caught on the fly as they spiraled in front of me, around my head or off to my side. I found myself foolishly playing with the winged seeds that some people call Helicopters or Whirlybirds. Some trees use this dispersal method of ,riding the wind and air currents around the world. These trees have been doing this for ages.For instance, the tropical Asian climbing gourd has a measured wingspan of 5 inches and glides through the air of the rain forest in wide circles.There is evidence that this seed inspired the design of early aircraft and gliders and even kites! Some say that the modern Stealth Bomber resembles the shape of the flying wing seed .A scientific expert by the name of Peter Loewer has written a guide in 1995 about such seeds.Some of the seeds have been described as having papery,membraneous wings.What I saw falling around me today looked like seeds with one papery wing, resembling a bird's feather. Very fascinating because it was a plant and not a bird. Other clues kept me hot on the trail of the oldest toymaker.I also found out about a parachute of western salsify, that can be hit by a gust of wind and sail across valleys and over mountain tops.Then, I recalled what we all have played with at one time or another,the western salsify or goatsbeard that we used to call santa clauses.You place them to your mouth and blow and numerous clusters of white parachute seeds become airborne.Dandelion seeds also have such a crown of white parachute-like hairs.L Watson and M.J. Dallwitz, 1992 also illustrated the families of flowering plants and many have been illustrated by W.P.Armstrong.The seeds of the hopseed bush has been said to extend from Arizona to South America.Waynesword.palomar.edu described fuzzy brown cattail spike containing a million tiny seeds with each seed with a tuft of silky white hairs small enough to pass through the eye of an ordinary sewing needle. Now that's what I call a mass producing toy factory .As you can see from this sizable body of evidence,it can only be concluded that the oldest and currently still living Toymaker is Mother Nature, who does it all for free in every corner of the globe." ___________Well, fans there you have it! Flash Mc Cool has solved the case of the oldest and still living toymaker.Find some free toys for some kids this holiday and do like Mother Nature-give them away for free ! Love, Hoboclown Copyright, 2006 . Give The FUN of Flash Mc Cool:Something's Fishy Here-a DVD by Norman Johnson, available at eBay,Amazon.com ; www.CreateSpace.com/206825 or telephone 1(888)304-0043 .