18: Making cosplay worthwhile
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Did J.M. Barry Add Fairy Dust to the Book?
J.M. Barry was constantly updating the story and when he found out that children were injuring themselves by jumping off beds, he added fairy dust to try and stop it. I think there's more of an idea of these days. It's kind of the just television disclaimer of the Victorian era. Or maybe they could make people fly, but it created dust. Like as the person flew across the stage, they were just kind of knocking plasterboard out of the ceiling. And that's very, very dust.
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