The Thousands

So, I just tried to look up crayons on the internets. Are they really made of paraffin wax? (Yes) How many standard Crayola colours are there? (133) Why do they present such a choking hazard? (They don’t, why are you asking?) Are they racist? (Not any more – Indian Red, Prussian Blue and Flesh have all been ‘retired’) And you know what I found out? About this innocent little chunk of crafty cuteness? Google ‘crayon’, and this is what comes up in the Wikipedia entry: "A crayon is something some people have sex with."*

SAY WHAT NOW? Well, my mum got it all wrong about the birds and the bees. This puts a whole new slant on Play Hour. And it surely puts a whole new slant on these nifty little knuckle dusters coming in a range of super-poppy primary colours. As we all know, sex sells. Sex looks sexy. And sex can be dangling from a finger near you (potentially, yours) at a mere $12. Now that’s some bang for your buck.  

*Update: Wiki have since cleaned up their crayon entry. They’re onto us!