On Feb 16, 6:11*am, Jim Elbrecht > wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:35:17 -0800, 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.
>
> Jim

Speaking of grotesque - my first-remembered book about Cinderella (a
Grimm's fair tales, if I recall correctly) had the ugly stepsisters
cutting off parts of their feet so they could wear the glass slippers.

N.