An Elmo Under the Tree
Elmo Knows Your Name is Coming Home for Christmas
Hi everyone. Henry here. Well, my four year old daughter came up to me today demanding an Elmo doll for Christmas. But not just any Elmo doll. This Elmo doll has to know her name. Thank God they actually make the darned thing or I’d be in a mess since my four year old doesn’t understand the concept that she can’t always get what she wants, especially when Santa’s supposed to bring it.
What’s So Special About this Elmo?
So according to my four-year-old, I’m supposed to call Santa on the phone and tell him to bring her this Elmo doll right quick. Elmo Knows Your Name it’s called. The thing knows over 100 games, phrases and stories. Even knows the names of my daughter’s friends (or will know it once I program it). What will they come up with next?
Santa’s Bringing Elmo Home
So here I am looking high and low for this Elmo Knows Your Name doll. They’re hard to find, but not impossible. I finally found mine on the Web. So yes, my daughter will be getting the coveted Elmo Knows Your Name this year. Let’s just hope she doesn’t change her mind between now and then!
If you want to get an Elmo doll for your kids for Christmas, check out these sites:
A great website that lists the hottest Elmo toys this year.
Looks like Elmo has his very own website!
This is where I finally found my daughter’s Elmo doll.
Comments
I have a very different complaint about this new "Elmo Knows Your /Name" Well here it is in a nutshell, folks: Elmo DOES NOT know your name!! My daughetrs name is Rose. I know, not that popular, I guess its more obscure than I realized. I swear, out of 15,000 names stored on this CD Rom it comes with, it doesnt have her friend Rianna's name either!!?? It ranks around 700 in the top 1000 baby names for babies born in 2004 according to the SSA (Soc. Sec. Admin.) And my kid, Rose, ranks 360 in poularity of of 1000 names given to babies born in '04 according to the SSA. So you have to wonder, where are they obtaining their names database from exactly? Elmo does include the likes of these names however in his database (I am btw very serious) Here goes:
Schwestertein, Sequita, Sestrickurhacek, Slaughter, Salmon.
OK I swear on anything worth swearing on to the validity that those actual names I listed aboveare listed in the Elmo Knows Your Name database.
And those are in the S section alone. there are many more like these, now I wouldnt put down the name of any kid. But come on, "Rose" wake up and smell a classic name, here Elmo! Oh and I checked with the SSA on some of those names above and others:
NONE of the names I listed above that Elmo includes in his selection of names to choose from in the CD Rom database are included in the top 1000 baby names from both years 2002, 2003 and 2004, the age a toddler would be now, a perfect gift for a toddler. None of those names above. Yet Elmo doesnt have the brains to inlcude the 360th most popular name out of 1000 in the nation: Rose. I just shake my head.
Ok they do have Rosie, but its not the same, we dont call her Rosie. This is the best part tho, after calling customer service regarding this, they say theres nothing they can do about it aside from send me a refund. Does anyone know where Elmo is obtaining his database of kids names from? All I can say is Elmo Does NOT Know Your name, Rose, sorry honey
Posted by: KrisG | December 12, 2005 5:18 PM
We seem to have lost the cd-rom that came with this doll. It must have been collected up with all the xmas wrap and thrown out. Doesn anyone know where I might obtain a copy of the disk?
Posted by: MikeM | January 22, 2006 3:14 PM