There are some WEIRD damn people in this world.

Sam · Postby **Sam** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:33 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 7118414369

Odd as it is ... I do so love the look on that cat's face.

Can't help but think the auction was written by one of TEXAS' drunk relatives.

Sandi in Florida · Postby **Sandi in Florida** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:55 pm

I hope someone will do that for me when I die! Holiday hats and all! I'd LIKE to spend eternity gently rocking while someone brushes my hair--now THAT'S Heaven!

Sam · Postby **Sam** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:17 pm

Sandi in Florida, slightly freaky, wrote:I'd LIKE to spend eternity gently rocking while someone brushes my hair

Ladies and Gentlemen ... Mrs. Bates.

:wink:

KAL · Postby **KAL** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 11:49 pm

Sam, as appalling and "sick" as the "rocking horse" is... your Mrs. Bates crack gave me a much, much needed laugh! Thanks!

By the way... I consider you to be our personal version of "Far Side"... with a Dennis Miller twist... and I mean that in a good way. Keep it up!

Sam · Postby **Sam** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:12 am

KAL wrote::lol: Sam, as appalling and "sick" as the "rocking horse" is... your Mrs. Bates crack gave me a much, much needed laugh! Thanks!

Some people watch Miracle on 34th and It's a Wonderful Life this time of year .. I watch Arsenic and Old Lace and Psycho.

shrug

I've no real opinion of taxidermy as a hobby ... oooh, cosmic loop. Norman Bates' hobby was taxidermy ... I just thought THAT was particularly odd as a final end product. Especially if the child knew the foal when it was born.

You should hear some of the birds on another list I'm on who went squawking when that link was posted. "Oh My God! That's just sick. That can't be legal. That poor girl must have been SO traumatized to see her pony die and then to be VIOLATED like that!!"

Mean time, I'm looking at that cat and can't help but hear "WHOA! That's the biggest damn toy mouse I've EVER seen."

KAL wrote:By the way... I consider you to be our personal version of "Far Side"... with a Dennis Miller twist... and I mean that in a good way. Keep it up!

I miss The Far Side. That was a great strip. It was like Gorey for the working class.

Dennis Miller? Wow, thanks.

I had someone call me a John Galt the other day. That was a bit odd. I had to look it up. I'm not quite that astute, though I must admit to being a bit chagrined I didn't get the reference almost immediately.

ZiaLand · Postby **ZiaLand** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:48 am

That's just too sad and morbid. And no bids yet at $350 minimum...um, imagine that. I was trying to figure out if that's really a horse or a donkey foal. Definitely a tragic taxidermy job...or maybe it was a do-it-yourself job. <shudder>

chiggins6 · Postby **chiggins6** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:52 am

Yuck. Looks like a bad taxidermy done on a foal that died at birth. Actually, its so bad, it looks like a cow.

madelyn · Postby **madelyn** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:07 am

echo chiggins... of course, I, or someone, ate every fish or lobster I ever caught (including the really big ones, think how far sixty pounds of swordfish or wahoo goes when you "donate" it to your hotel and they feed you free for several days because you did so), we bury the groundhogs we shoot, etc. I have NO DESIRE to have the remains of dead animals in my house (well except the packaged ones from the grocery store that are in the fridge). But, you know, something for everyone....

Sam, LOVED the Mrs Bates thing :lol:

ZiaLand · Postby **ZiaLand** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:11 am

Wow, great idea, Madelyn. Of course, I'd need to live near an ocean. Wonder if that works with Elk, too. Hmmm...

Laurie

madelyn · Postby **madelyn** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:30 am

Sorry, early in my life I was an avid diver/boater, lived on a sailboat for ten years. Travelled to some very exotic places in search of some very big fish and beautiful reefs which sometimes meant some fairly primitive accommodations, and yes, I caught big fish and took them back to the "hotel".... I was just using the taxidermy of big game fish as an example of a form of "art" that is NOT on any of MY walls...

Jenarby · Postby **Jenarby** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:44 pm

Ewww...that would freak me out having something like that in my house.
It DOES look like a newborn....whatever it really is. Of course, we here are avid deer hunters and I wouldn't have a problem having a deerhead on the wall....

I knew a lady that stuffed her little dog. She had them put a snarl on his face. It was creepy. Had the TV repaiman thinking the dog would "get" him if he tried anything funky with the old lady in the house. That poor guy thought the dog was alive. Thnk goodness they buried that dog with the owner! Creepy!

Tairaterces · Postby **Tairaterces** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:06 pm

Emailed a question and this was a stillborn of which they purport to have loved . . . . . . .if that is love . . . . . Hah

T

Sam · Postby **Sam** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:15 pm

Tairaterces wrote:Emailed a question and this was a stillborn of which they purport to have loved . . . . . . .if that is love . . . . . Hah

Reminds me of an old joke I heard about Dale Evans.

Trigger dies, Roy had him stuffed. Ranger dies, Roy has him stuffed. Getting on in age, a reporter asks Dale what she thinks about her life with Roy. "I just hope he dies first ... I really don't feel like winding up like his horse and dog."

Tairaterces · Postby **Tairaterces** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:19 pm

Bullet was the dog's name.

T

Sam · Postby **Sam** » Fri Dec 03, 2004 2:21 pm

Tairaterces wrote:Bullet was the dog's name.

heh ... okay ... who was Ranger?