[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-sea-monkeys-and-a-bowlfull-of-happiness":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I was browsing through the 1970's comics I mentioned yesterday, and was tickled pink to find this advert. I used to see it all the time in American comics and it totally fascinated me. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/seamonkeys2_lg.jpg\">\u003Ci>(click to enlarge)\u003C/i>\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/seamonkeys2_lg.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seamonkeys2_sm-07830da660.jpg\" />\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nI'd always loved the idea of little underwater people, but with eight-year-old scepticism, I thought the figures in the ad didn't look anything like monkeys and the company probably wasn't going to send me little people for a dollar. (It'd cost a few thousand dollars to get little people, \u003Ci>at least\u003C/i>. What a scam!) But the ad ran for years and years, and as a little American kid, I thought, well, they'd be sued if it was false advertising and it's gone on for so long... \u003Ci>maybe they're real!\u003C/i> Someone once said they thought they were little shrimp, not sea-monkeys, but I instantly wrote that off as unbearably boring, and anyway, the advert said \u003Ci>they can even be trained\u003C/i> and any ol' silly person knows you can't train shrimp. \\r\n\\r\nI never did send in my dollar, but the question stuck with me for a long time, and sometimes when I went swimming in the sea, I wondered if I might get caught up in a shoal of sea-monkeys. I couldn't decide if this would be a marvellous thing - maybe they'd be cuddly, furry monkeys and be my friends and I could visit their underwater houses (the advert said they're \u003Ci>so eager to please\u003C/i>) - but maybe it'd be a bit too much and I woulnd't be able to get them off of me.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seamonkeys-05b54f396c.gif\">","2009-05-08T06:33:00.000Z","sea-monkeys-and-a-bowlfull-of-happiness",[],"sea-monkeys and a bowlfull of happiness",1776628732288]