Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Object of the Day, Caption Contest: Morning Glory

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So, she’s small enough to wear a morning glory as a hat, but she’s large enough that birds can sit on her shoulder. Presumably, if she was enough of a Lilliputian to adorn herself with blossoms, you’d imagine that she’d be the size of a bird-snack. Birds would eat her. They’d be giant to her! But, for some reason, she’s still human-sized, and, I assume living in some universe where flowers are enormous. Or…is she? Maybe in whatever reality she inhabits, she’s still small, but birds are even smaller. It’s…it’s…

Okay, it’s a trade card. This has the feeling of 1904 to me. It may be earlier, but it feels very Edwardian to me and has a whole whacky Music Hall thing going on. Since the card was never used and is not printed with any business’ information, let’s have another caption contest. What’s happening here? Who would use this for their company’s advertising? What would the product be? The company’s slogan? Post your ideas in the comments. Yay!

22 comments:

Carolyn said...

Flopsy was named as correspondent in fourteen Munchkin divorces in 1939.

Joseph Crisalli said...

When you name your child Flopsy, she pretty much has no choice.

April said...

Tired of catching birds the old-fashioned way? We have harnessed the power of the rare Whore Flower to create Belle's Bird Bait. Belle's Bird Bait. Chomp Dem Birds!

Joseph Crisalli said...

Chomp dem birds! Our motto for the day!

Sam P said...

This is bizarre. Look at her shoes! What the hell?

I think it's an ad for a "gentleman's magazine" for elves. The headline would be titled "Elvish Flower Girls Show you Their Nectar."

Joseph Crisalli said...

You seem to know a lot about mythical skin mags, Sam.

Gene said...

I think its an ad for tarts.

Joseph Crisalli said...

Oh, Gene. You're funny!

Matt said...

Before she met Brad, Angelina had a way with the birds.

Joseph Crisalli said...

I have no doubt.

Darcy said...

Little Miss Morning Glory

Lookout Thumbelina, out of the way Hooter Girls, you've been served Twin Peaks Ladies.

The new Girl in town is Little Miss Morning Glory.
She's got it all, flowers, birds and ATTITUDE!

Joseph Crisalli said...

I love that this first sentence contains the words "Thumbelina" and You've been served."

Flowers, birds and ATTITUDE! Very funny!

She DOES look like a little stripper, doesn't she?

Well done!

Kathy said...

Susie's Seeds Grow, Grow, Grow. Put a wife in your life in two easy steps.

Joseph Crisalli said...

Ah! I'm sure that would be a big seller.

Angelo said...

Looks like some of girls I wnt to school with.

Joseph Crisalli said...

You went to school in Oz?

Barb said...

She does look a little, um, trampy.

Joseph Crisalli said...

Just a little.

Book Gurl said...

After her arrest for public lewdness, Thumbelina was never the same.

Joseph Crisalli said...

She was the Belle Watling of Fairy Land.

Dashwood said...

She's the girl that pirates dream about after months at sea.

That's why they're pirates. And don't mind being at sea.

Joseph Crisalli said...

The face that launched a thousand ships.