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This is a stuffed frog playing a wooden violin, if you can dig that.


I think this is macabre.


Mocked in death.


These are pretty well done for what they are.  I am thinking that I should burn them now that I have their pictures.  Just last week I bought an excellent boar's skull with tusks all a'grinning.  The skull is for a 6-foot shaft in my garden, facing my neighbors.
How could I go wrong?

 

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  1. Perfesser BearJuly 27, 2020 at 2:29 PM

    Might be a Cane Toad. I'm okay with that, then.

    Your hog-on-a-pike puts me in mind of Lord of the Flies. Or maybe Animal Farm. We've discussed my neighbors -- I don't think a piggy skull is going to make them take a second look.

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    1. Billy D BunnyJuly 27, 2020 at 4:17 PM

      https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2018/06/mirror.html?view=mosaic
      If I end up shooting one of the feral hogs out there, and I will, then it's the full head treatment.

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    2. Perfesser BearJuly 28, 2020 at 4:20 PM

      I hope you have something that is either large caliber or high powered. Those things are tough to kill. And that idea sounds like the roots of a horror flick to me.

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    3. Billy D BunnyJuly 28, 2020 at 6:02 PM

      I will be using a .30-06 when the time comes. Hopefully the fencing will keep them out.
      And the place is perfect for a low budget horror flick.

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  2. Perfesser BearJuly 27, 2020 at 3:10 PM

    Jeremy Bentham was the name of the first person I ever heard in connection with the term auto-con. No, I won't be leaving a link for that one.

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  3. Billy D BunnyJuly 27, 2020 at 4:19 PM

    Same here. I don't think that is the best idea now that we have photography and such.

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  4. AndibiJuly 27, 2020 at 11:02 PM

    My mom gave me one of these, but it was just a stuffed frog, no musical instrument. I keep thinking I should bury it, but the minute I do is when she will ask about it...

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    1. Perfesser BearJuly 28, 2020 at 4:13 PM

      "Andrew, whatever happened to that nice froggy I gave you?"

      And she will become so concerned when you tell her that someone broke into your home and stole just that...

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    2. Billy D BunnyJuly 28, 2020 at 6:04 PM

      Ha ha! Devil worshippers without a doubt. I sold my frogs last garage sale to a prosperous Mexican family up here on vacation. The mother was not pleased, but the kids loved them. They have gone home!

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  5. The Elfin OctopusSeptember 2, 2020 at 3:54 PM

    So...I have a whole band of these guys...my husband brought them home from a garage sale that his friend was holding to raise money to get his dog the surgery it needed. They lived on the workbench in the basement. But the work bench is next to the treadmill. When I first encountered these horrors, I was reading Duma Key by Stephen King. The frog jug band was behind me as I exercised and I could feel their beady glass eyes boring into my back. I had to lock the little bastards into a closet and put a chair up against the door.

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  6. Billy D BunnySeptember 2, 2020 at 4:21 PM

    Ha ha ha! I find them very freaky, glad to get rid of them. I should have burned them but I wanted the 4 dollars. Poor things.

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