# Your childhood favorite **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 3, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049 "2011-02-03T17:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049/21 "2011-02-04T00:38:10Z")
I have a stuffed Snoopy that I got when I was three, and an old-fashioned looking black and white teddy bear that I don’t even remember getting - I suspect I got him when I was a baby. I’m 44 - my 41 year old Snoopy is kind of thread-bare (and missing his flying goggles and original nose and eyes), but he doesn’t look **too** bad. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049/22 "2011-02-04T03:21:23Z")
I had a little cloth doll named Suzy. She was my best friend and I held her until I was embarrassingly old. I lost her at some point in my teen years only to see her in my best friend’s little girl’s toy chest, half torn to bits. Poor Suzy. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049/23 "2011-02-04T05:24:47Z")
I had a Cabbage Patch doll. They came with names. Mine was named Eldric, I believe, but I changed it to Eric. My brother had a redheaded one named Mickey. Two boys and their dolls. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049/24 "2011-02-04T06:06:47Z")
I had a HUGE stuffed lying down tiger named Stripes. She was beautiful! I spent many hours using her as a pillow to watch TV and in bed, I always felt so safe when I was with Stripes. I don’t remember what happened to her; I suspect my mom tossed her. Sure wish I still had her tho. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049/25 "2011-02-04T09:38:31Z")
I had (and still have) a small grey bear called Salty, so named because he was wearing a peaked sailor hat. He was more of an overseer bear, looking after me from a distance rather than sleeping in the bed. He’s now in the cabinet of classy stuff in my flat. I vaguely remember having an owl, and I think I wore the washing label off by stroking it so my mum replaced it. That might be a false memory, though. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9de0a6/32.png) [@Electric\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049/26 "2011-02-04T11:15:13Z")
I had a stuffed orca, who was called Orca. He was smallish and a bit ragged, but always much-loved. I lost him in transit between my mom and dad’s house when I was 8. My dad ‘found’ him, i.e. got a new one, and though I knew it wasn’t the real Orca I pretended that it was. For my birthday that year I also got a massive stuffed orca, called Willy (after the Free one), but for some reason I thought that he was a bit of a bully. Maybe because he was bigger than all my other toys? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049/27 "2011-02-04T14:16:24Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Hold up. Are you saying your mom successfully passed off a Mickey as a monkey? :eek: Yes. And when I found out, my reactions were 😕:eek::mad:😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049/28 "2011-02-04T14:23:21Z")
That is a riot! ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049/29 "2011-02-04T18:23:02Z")
I had a plethora of animals as a kid, all with names, a few home-made, and they all protected me from the monsters under the bed (I even had a monster one who was a ‘defector’ and would tell us about the upcoming monster plans. Yes, I had a rich fantasy life.). My parents pretty much coerced me into giving them all up to my little cousin when he was born. I wasn’t pleased with the idea. Currently, I have (sitting around my computer) a plush baby gryphon (from warcraft), a small blue bunny that says ‘somebody loves you!’ and makes mock carrot-crunching noises when squeezed, a penguin whose origins I cannot remember, a manatee named Hugh (so I can say ‘Oh, hugh the manatee!’ when I see him), and a bunny with a pancake on it’s head- made for me by a friend and her daughter (they even made a spare pancake… For whatever reason.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-childhood-favorite/570049.md?page=1)