Impaled Again
By Brian on Feb 19, 2011 | In Scrabble, Toys & Figures, Nostalgia, Weird Toys, Rummage sale finds
Here's an odd, old ceramic statue of some sort (it's filled with sand and wax, and possibly hand-painted) from an Orlando area estate sale. From an era when off-color gags weren't resigned to the back of Spencer's Gifts, and you could respect the public enough to expect most of them to figure out a rebus. Later on, in the '70s, this sort of thing was replaced by those Ziggy-looking statues that had to explain everything with a paragraph on the base like "Some mornings I feel like slitting my wrists" beneath a figure sitting on a toilet. No, this little guy was concise and to the point.
I should make copies of him to bring to Scrabble tournaments as a consolation prize, or to give to the biggest whiner. A quick internet search shows that at least one ceramic dealer still sells the unpainted version! Get several for all your gift-giving needs next holiday season.
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