Nancy2 wrote:
> 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.

Ah yes. The fairy tales have been watered down a lot.

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Jean B.