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Pete, the resident feline critic
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Lead Review · From: Play Doh
Lid Heist Fails; Squishy Ooze Earns Pete's Scorn
Our critic engineers a brilliant lid-liberation scheme only to find the plastic disc lands on carpet with a dull thuff, rendering the entire doughy enterprise a hollow victory.

My human has procured a collection of small, colorful tubs filled with some sort of primordial ooze. They call it 'Play-Doh,' and it's apparently for the small, clumsy humans to mash into grotesque shapes in a futile attempt to mimic the perfection of, say, a sleeping cat. The plastic tubs themselves, with their pop-off lids, might be worth a bat or two acr…

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Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★☆☆☆
Lid was a dud. The rest, worse.
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