Tickle Me Elmo Turns 10!

Okay, here's a happy laughing post.

Tickle Me Elmo turns 10 this year (I can't believe it's been 10 years!), and the new Elmo is really great! More about him here, including a video, which is the funniest thing I've seen for ages. It starts off a little bit freaky, but then you just can't help laughing along with Elmo. It's so funny. I'm sitting here on my couch by myself, laughing out loud. From the article:

"T.M.X. Elmo has three tickle spots on his chin, tummy or foot. When you tickle Elmo once on any of the tickle spots, he starts to laugh and slap his leg twice, then falls down into a sitting position and rocks himself back up to standing while laughing.

When you tickle him a second time, he repeats the pattern, then sits down again and falls backwards, kicking his feet while laughing even harder. And on the third tickle, he rolls over onto his tummy, thumping his hand on the floor in laughter, and then stands back up again."

I just wish the video was downloadable, so I could keep a copy. And I want to send it to my parents and my nieces back home (but they're on dialup, so it'll be terribly slow - and they'll have to dial up every time they want to watch it or show it to someone). Guess I'll have to watch out for a low-quality, ad-free version on YouTube, which at least will be a bit faster to download.