shyster
n : a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods [syn: pettifogger]
Dora the Explorer is not my friend. Dora and her little buddy, Boots, are the uberpop culture for the under three crowd. Even little 20 month old Evie requests Dora by name and will sit profoundly still during an episode.
Dora and Boots have singsongy voices. Silly catchphrases. More marketing niches than The Dinosaur that Will Not be Named. They drive me a little insane.
Dora has come out with a memory game, natch. Match princess Doras, cowgirl Doras, Dora hugging Boots, etc.
One of the tangential characters on Dora is Swiper the fox. I have yet to meet a kid with any Dora experience that doesn't LOVE Swiper. There is only one Swiper match in the whole deck (versus Dora's 86 and Boot's 17). Everyone in our family competes to get the Swiper match first.
The other night, Juliette and I were playing. To my amazement she got Swiper as her first match. Second game, Juliette's first match was Swiper again.
Juliette had marked the cards.
