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The Dresden Dolls - "Coin Operated Boy" has been added as a related post - related requested by Zawash.

coin operated boy
sitting on the shelf he is just a toy
but i turn him on and he comes to life
automatic joy
that is why i want a coin operated boy

made of plastic and elastic
he is rugged and long-lasting
who could ever ever ask for more
love without complications galore

coin operated boy
all the other real ones that i destroy
cannot hold a candle to my new boy and i'll
never let him go and i'll never be alone
not with my coin operated boy......

this bridge was written to make you feel smittener
with my sad picture of girl getting bitterer
can you extract me from my plastic fantasy
i didnt think so but im still convinceable
will you persist even after i kiss you
goodbye for the last time
will you keep on trying to prove it?
i'm dying to lose it...
i want it
i want you
i want a coin operated boy.

and if i had a star to wish on
for my life i cant imagine
any flesh and blood could be his match
i can even take him in the bath

coin operated boy
he may not be real experienced with girls
but i know he feels like a boy should feel
isnt that the point that is why i want a
coin operated boy
with his pretty coin operated voice
saying that he loves me that hes thinking of me
straight and to the point
that is why i want
a coin operated boy.

thank you very much DEANO.

yeah yeah yeahs and this girl

SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Change

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Never Ending

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Dr Strangeluv

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Find Your Gone

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Saviorself

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Sixteen

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Care for you

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Ounce in a lifetime

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Young Folks

WHAT IS 2+2?
Hotel California

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Darkangel

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
winter lux

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Out of control ***woot***

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Love like blood

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Tear you apart

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
High and Dry

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
I will posses your heart ***woot***

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
The killing Moon ***woot***

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
I don't want to fall in love

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
These things

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
I was wrong ***perfect***

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Rain

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Linger

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Tarantas Negra

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Bannanas and Blow

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Coin Operated Boy

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
It's good to be in love

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Karma Police

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Time to get away ***woot***

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Now or Never

omg...power stones...so many lost quarters on that game...so many good times...if anyone knows where i can buy the actual arcade game, please please please please please tell me. and i mean the coin operated one. not some dreamcast crap.

>> ^ant:
Turn water off?

it was probably coin operated or something, so it would only turn off after a certain amount of time.

Where's the coin operated slot?

I totally miss pinball--but I disagree with Choggie's implication that it's just about nostagia. Now that we all have decent computers/game consoles, I figure it's coin-operated video games that are obsolete, but not so for pinball, which doesn't translate well to video. Pinball is great because it's there, physically. You can bump it, press it and feel the vibrations of the ball and bumpers. I think that's why "fusball" kept going strong before, during and after the "video-game arcade revolution". Of these, the pinball games with all of their fiddly moving parts, must be the most expensive to maintain, which is probably also a big component of their doom. Personally, I'd refuse to play a pinball game if as many as one single feature could be seen as not working (unless of course it turned out for the player's advantage--but it almost never does).

I remember when those "holographic" types of games mentioned in this video showed up (I've tried both "Mars Attacks", seen here, and "Star Wars, Episode I"--both are lame). My first thought after playing one: "this is the end of pinball". Already, new/working machines were rare and these were an obvious last-chance try at getting back into the game. Trouble is, all they are is a crappy pinball game combined with a crappy video game--i.e., crap squared.

They weren't washing machines, they were coin-operated Maytag dryers. Whenever they stopped, a roadie would go out and put quarters in them to get them going again. At the end of every show, the band would take the concert T-shirts out of the dryers and toss them into the crowd.

Geddy Lee jokingly claimed that they were there to add a "warm, dry tone" to his bass (and they are miked up as if they're amplifiers), but I think they were there just to visually balance out Alex Lifeson's Wall-Of-Amps on the other side of the stage.