On a recent drive up to Sydney and back I had plenty of time to think, and mentally amuse myself... here are two thoughts I enjoyed playing with:
Kangaroos Are Not Cuddly.
I thought about the Aussi mascot 'Boxing Kangaroo soft toy' and that real kangaroos have bitey teeth, scrawny scratchy arms, kicking legs, a tail that whacks you and they probably smell very bad. While it is made into a soft toy for children to cuddle in bed at night, it should feel wrong somehow, but does not... So I have thought of other things that if they were made into soft toys, they would actually invoke some strange feeling of wrongness.
Imagine cuddling up to these 'soft toy' items at night:
Butcher's Knife
Atomic Bomb
Adolf Hitler Doll
Severed Head
Syringe
Wall Powerpoint Socket
Lung Cancer
Dead Cat
Grim Reaper
A Fist giving 'the finger'
The Cat In The Hat.
I wondered what other 'similar' titles I could think up that might make interesting children stories...
The Pea in the Sea
The Frog in the Log
The Bear in the Chair
And for adults only:
The Asshole in the Castle
The Man in the Van
The Sump in the Rump (copyright Royal Australian Navy)
3 comments:
Have a look at this and this. Do you reckon a child would find them unsettling? Surely it's only our own associations and projections that would make them creepy? Maybe I should experiment? :-)
Oh, and I'd like to place an order for 'Lung Cancer' and 'A Fist Giving the Finger'. Brilliant.
Yes, innocence and curiosity are a barrier to creepyness and fear... I enjoyed those links :)
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