Benign Girl is a Barbie knockoff from Taiwan. The name must be due to a weird translation hiccup, like maybe they were looking for a synonym for "sweet" or "kind."
I was standing near the register looking at the assorted things when all of a sudden I spotted "Benign Girl" and suddenly I heard the mermaids singing. Two Latina women were looking at Benign Girl and reaching forward as if to grab it and in a flash I knew this was something extremely precious and rare and that I needed to act fast!
So I reached around the women and snatched BG. And before they knew what happened I had paid and fled the scene, adrenalining all the way.
On the side of the package were the bullet points:
*BATTERY
*OPERATED
*CREATIVE
*VARIOUS MUSICThe instructions on the package:
"Beautiful girl, press any button!"
Reader comment:
Moon Custafer says:
My local drugstore/post office has a number of odd imported toys whose packaging bears the results of too thorough a search through the translation dictionary. My favourite is the mechanical tortoise labelled "Magical Chelonian."
