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Reply to "Just Toys?"

We usually think of toys as thing made for children to play with, despite the phrase "men and their toys". I think that phrase crosses over into metaphor. We start to call things that bring grown men pleasure "toys", like boats, cars, and motorcycles. It's funny, unless you were very rich, the idea that a working man could have expensive things that had no useful purpose would have been unimaginable even a few generations ago. We are really a very wealthy society with disposable income undreamed of in the past.

I have inexpensive o gauge prewar tinplate. These were made as toys and and remain toys. Modern one thousand dollar model trains are only toys in the sense that sports cars are toys- metaphorically.

Well that is only my opinion, but it seems like a good definition. Made for children to play with- toys. Made for adults to play with- "toys".

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