I never thought Slinky was all that wonderful
I'm pretty sure the "It's fun, it's a wonderful toy" lyrics were more along the lines of "Makes a great gift." It's a tag line to get you excited about the thing
Certainly the case, but it's a poor choice of words. You look at a Slinky, and there's not all that much to wonder about it. It's a metal spring. Sure, it can walk down the stairs alone or in pairs...but you don't really wonder how it does it. It's simple physics. You can also use a Slinky to illustrates some of the more complex laws of wave physics...but again, there's not a lot of wonderment going on. It's science!
You may actually spend more time wondering why the stupid thing DOESN'T go down the stairs the way it does in the commercials. I swear, those people have some really narrow stairs or something. The more accurate lyric in the song is when they say it's a marvelous thing. You truly do marvel at how quickly people can fly off the handle when the slinky doesn't work.
Are you going to go play with your Slinky now?
Probably.
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