in 1999 it was illegal for anyone in the united states national security agency to own a furby or for furbies to be present on nsa property
i wouldn’t lie about this.
this thing was thought to have the power to destroy the u.s. government from the inside out
me: oh my god please tell me it’s because they thought the furbies would learn the words they heard and spill national security secrets
me, cackling: yesssssssss
I googled how furbies “learn” english out of curiosity (it’s just what I thought–they’re programmed to speak more and more English over time and would “learn” English even in an entirely Spanish-speaking household), but this one part killed me