On Feb 17, 8:59*am, S Viemeister > wrote:
> On 2/17/2012 11:32 AM, Nancy2 wrote:
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> > On Feb 16, 6:11 am, Jim > *wrote:
> >> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:35:17 -0800, Mark >
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> >>> This is the weirdest I've seen.
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> >>>http://www.ebay.com/itm/250994061817
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> >>> What could the designer have been thinking?
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> >> 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
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> > 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.
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> Yup. The non-Disneyfied versions of the old folk-tales aren't pretty.

Exactly! I remember Bluebeard as a pretty creepy story also.