I like to think that Snoopy is still hip.  Even though Snoopy has been around for seemingly forever – there is something timeless about him.  You know – Joe Cool and all.  If I had the chance to have a beer with any cartoon dog – Snoopy would definitely be at the top of my list.

A lot of the reason why Snoopy is still cool in my book is because he never reached the point of selling out.  At least from what I can recall back in Canada – he never reached that point of saturation where you could buy just about anything with Snoopy on it.  He wouldn’t go putting his paw of approval on just any old merchandise, now would he?

In Japan it appears to be a different story.  Makiko & I are spending a lot of time in the baby department of various stores around Tokyo – and we came across this at a local Toys ‘R Us:

At first glance – you might think: “Nice lunch container, Snoopy…” but upon closer examination you will realize why Snoopy has such a surprised look on his little dog face…

OMG – this is no lunch container – this is a snot container!

Say it ain’t so, Snoopy…

Maybe I will find a need for one of these once our child is born, but goddamn that looks disgusting now.  Makiko assures me the mother in the picture is not eating the baby’s snot – she’s just sucking it out and into the container.  (Just!)

Shudder…

This raises a lot of questions in my mind… first and foremost being: Why is that container so freakin’ big?  Surely not that much snot could possibly come out of a baby’s nose!  Next – why are they so happy?!  I would be positively miserable being in the same situation – on either end!

Suddenly diaper duty isn’t sounding so bad.  I’ll take that over snot sucking any day.

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