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Default Creepy Antique Chocolate Mold

Jim Elbrecht wrote:
> Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
>>This is the weirdest I've seen.
>>http://www.ebay.com/itm/250994061817
>>What could the designer have been thinking?

>
> It reminds me of a character in an old book we had kicking around our
> house. Might have been one of my mother's from the 30's or her
> father's from around 1910. Pinocchio before Disney got ahold of it?
> Alice in wonderland? Both were pretty grotesque by today's
> standards.


When I looked at it I immediately thought of Alice in Wonderland.
Having seen pencil erasers in the shape of Chu'thulu I though the
rabiit/human chimera was strange but far from the weirdest I've seen.