11-09-2011, 10:30 PM
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Bah, humbug!
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
...(By the way... The 'real' Barbie [she for whom the doll was created and named] lived about 10 miles down the road from my house in Vermont. Daddy really had a vivid imagination! Barbie didn't look a bit like the doll! Not a bit!)
Stitchawl
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 Wikipedia says:
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Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.
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