lunchpails

These retro USB Mickey and Minnie Mouse keychains (blue and pink respectively, natch) remind me of old-timey Howdy Doody lunchpails.

Boing Boing 2006

But young men have all grown older, and there's little color in the scene ... they are pushing into the sun, the glare strikes them squinting and grinning, bright here as the morning shift at Siemens with the centaurs struggling high on the wall, the clock without numerals, bicycles squeaking, lunchpails and lunchbags and the lowered faces of the trudging dutiful streams of men and women into the dark openings

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978