Toy story

I've heard of a tug in the bath, but this?

Picture the scene: it’s a sunny day and there is a meeting going on at Biggum’s Toy Factory, where they are brain-storming the name for their new torpedeo product.

“Great, looking product guys, but we need a name – any ideas?”

Various choices such as the Play-marine and the Joy-oscopoe are bandied until wee Micky stops dead and says: “I got it, the Toypedo.”

Silence and reverence fill the stunned room.

“That is brilliant, my God that’s going to get us noticed. Truly amazing.”

The odd thing is there must have been a meeting like this for this product, I’m guessing it wasn’t in English, but doesn’t it make you feel more competent knowing a team of people sat round and named this?

If you want to find a selection of gaudy, made in China, plastic tat in Serre Chevalier, I’d suggest the super-store down in the zone, just after the Prorel ski-lift in Briancon.