OH YES, it's that time again when I share with you the strange old crap I find on my thrift excursions! As long as there are people, there will be these things, and as long as there is me, I will keep showing them to you. Click on the photos to enlarge, and please to enjoy!
Surely this children's activity must've coincided with the popular TV appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show of Señor Wences, but honestly. "hours of play and fun?" We weren't THAT bored.
Do you wonder what "Stim-U-Lax Senior" looked like?
Very Angry Duck does not wish to be disturbed by your food ideas.
Well, that sums up America, eh?
Psychos.
I don't know how I feel about this, but it isn't positive.
Low-Energy Drumming Dog has no thumps left to give.
What I always wonder about with candle figurines is what they will look like once you start burning them. The answer is always "horrific."
Poorly-Painted Dog only hopes for a visit to the veterinary opthamologist.
Yeah, yeah, kid. Come back when you are 13 and it's all "I HATE MY MOTHER" with some pouty scowl.
Borden's Elsie the Cow is delighted a f.
I've had some time to think about this. What was the artist trying to say about Frank Sinatra's mugshot and the highly, highly confused man next to him? Is it Frank, battling inner demons? Or is it just a complete art failure and he or she framed it anyway? I'll never know.
I don't know why, but I never warmed to Jiminy Cricket. Maybe I just don't like the word "jiminy."
I also was never a Raggedy Ann fan, because she wasn't mod enough for me.
Absolutely also never an "Annie" fan, and this thing won't exactly change my mind.
Acid.
Spiderman rejects the clown, as do I.
There goes America again, with its inexplicable racist advertising!
Boy band member attempts to talk down Waddling Duck from coke binge.
She seems to have already sustained a quite damaging skating accident. Damn.
This GIANT mural is in Monroe, WA. and features a giant, possibly legless cat, floating over a Coast To Coast hardware store. Go get it.
AHAHAHAH! COME ON.
Grandad seems unhappy about sitting for his portrait, and perhaps also about wearing a hat that is several sizes too large.
And finally, possibly the single greatest thing I have ever found: The GORILLA CLOCK WITH GORILLA BABY ENCASED IN ACRYLIC BUBBLE! You please now work out in your mind how and why this exists because I haven't been able to do it and I NEED REST. Also, one of you people with probably be getting this as a birthday present sometime, HA HA.
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