by Swan » Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:19 pm
Anyone remember The Monkees TV show where they had a life sized male doll sitting in a chair? I always wanted one of those.
As to the mannequin idea - My grandmother used to run a drss shop. My job it was to dress and change the window mannequins. What - A - Pain! The arms and legs are designed to come OFF the torso if you twist them a certain way. If you weren't REAL careful, they'd come off just for the FUN of it! Usually right after you'd put a silk and lace blouse or dress on and RIP!! GRRRR and dressing them? a LOT harder than it looked. Plus, they were also fragile! AND each one seemed ONLY to go with itself, so you couldn't just "swap arms" if one broke. Then they were HeAVY! VCombersome, liable to fall apart, you had, then, to lift the dressed doll ONTO the standpole... by ramming the thing through the poor dollie's (cough! mannequin's!) CROTCH! Nearly gave me a COMPLEX it did, as a virginal teenager!
But I survived those... by FAR the CREEPIEST life sized doll was "Mrs. Chase" - our nursing school doll that we practised on. Her leg was ALWAYS falling off! Now... that wouldn't be all that BAD except for just a FEW tiny little details -
Mrs Chase had: 1. a neck hole to simulate a "tracheotomy" or breathing tube hole. 2. a "stoma" in her side where a colostomy bag would go. 3. an open mouth and teeth (TEEEEEETH!! O__O;;;) so you could tug her tongue out (it came off! AIEEEE!) and do "mouth to mouth" on her. 4. Compress her chest and she would "exhale" plasticy breath at you through mouth and nose! 5. She had veins in her arm (inner elbow) leg, hand and foot where you could stab her with a needle (she bled!) or start IV lines (she "peed" the liquid out through her crotch! You could put her on a bedpan to empty her) and the KILLER.... she was made on a framework of actual HUMAN BONES! so here and there, through the rubbery plastic (did I mention she had pubic hair? >shudder<) you could feel and sometimes SEE the bones! And when her leg came off, one of the bones protruded through!
GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
(runs screaming off into the night) Mrs. Chase HAUNTED my dreams!
That was one CREEEEEPY ass dollieh!
Swan
Still traumatized!
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)