is for Jack-in-the-Box.
Who's the sadistic freak who thought that a severed head popping out of a box would make a great kids' toy?
Creepy.
A Clay Baboons Alphablog: 26 Things That Annoy Me, Confuse Me, Creep Me Out, or Otherwise Make My Life More Difficult.
Hahahah you made an awesome jack! And yes, they are creepy.
ReplyDeleteObviously a really Warped mind!!
ReplyDeleteEverybody in my house is terrified of them.
ReplyDeleteOr the fact that the tune to which the severed head makes its grand entrance is "Pop! Goes the Weasel?" That kid's song is just as bad.
ReplyDelete-Barb the French Bean
you are so right!!!
ReplyDeletei remember cringing ahead of time, just waiting for ol' jack to pop out of his box.
and i have definitely seen kids (when babysitting, or my cousins or my nieces) cry at the jack in the box!
very good clay jack in the box - at least you made him look as friendly as possible, stephanie!
Thinking outside the box today then HA HAHAH Hah ah ha hah hah hah ha hah a
ReplyDeleteSame people who think clowns are funny. And tickling. Not. Funny.
ReplyDeleteAn afterthought...
DeletePop goes the weasel.
Exploding rodents are definitely NOT funny. I mean, who's gonna have to clean that up??
Very true. I'm nodding sagely over here.
DeleteI never understood that one either...although I liked the things when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteyeesh... no kidding. Especially a severed CLOWN's head...
ReplyDeleteterrifying.
So with ya on this one.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. Just the music makes me shudder.
ReplyDeleteThis was a perfect "J" post. Those things creep me out too! :D
ReplyDeleteYou reminded me of the scene in 'Elf' where he's testing the jack-in-the-boxes.
ReplyDeleteI used to torture my baby brother with one. He probably needs therapy, thanks to me.
Love that scene! Ha!
DeleteHahahaha. Please save this guy and use him again in a future post. So much potential! (Potential energy, maybe?) Jack in the boxes ARE creepy. It makes me really hate the "round and round the mulberry bush" song.
ReplyDeleteso true........
ReplyDeletebest,
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(put a monkey in the box? not much better)
Happy to finally learn I'm not the only one who thought Jack was creepy.
ReplyDeleteThen you'd love (hate) the one that my kids have- a hand-me-down bugs bunny one that is also missing his ears and some of his face. ooo zombie jack in the box!
ReplyDeleteI might actually buy a zombie-in-the-box...
Deleteall I can say is that I love yeahwrite even more than usual b/c it introduced your blog to me. have just read all the letters and am wishing we lived in like, china or something, so you would have to illustrate what is it, like 48 characters? Or you could tackle arabic next--all those squiggles would be fun in clay - and arabic is 28 letters, plus vowels (which don't really count as letters) plus diacritical marks (aka the squiggles above and below the word that radically change pronounciation and make the whole goddamn thing just ridiculously difficult). But anyway - am delighted to have met you, however virtually, and thank you for the wonderful, wonderful writing!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazingly nice comment! Thank you so much! :) And 26 is MORE than enough letters, thank you very much. I'm looking forward to going back to my regular storytelling.
DeleteTotally creepy. The person who invented them was probably much like the character in Edgar Allen Poe's "Cask of Amontillado." Both things creeped me out as a young person.
ReplyDeleteOooh...that one really IS creepy.
DeleteAWESOME.. you are so clever.. where do you find the time?
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I don't. This challenge is really tough for me! Ha!
DeleteLOVE! Another wonderfully creative post.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter was seriously creeped out by the jack-in-the-box she got for Christmas one year. :-o
Yikes! The kids are traumatized, not entertained by this unexpected thinggiemajiggie that pops out of nowhere...
ReplyDeletelol, so true. Bahaha severed head!
ReplyDeleteSome how yours doesn't look that creepy at all. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteI agree! 3001% agree. When I was a kid I had a jack-in-the-box out of which a scary clown (picture Pennywise from It... at least in my mind) would pop.
ReplyDeleteAnd guess what I'm scared of. Yeah, clowns. Sigh.
I think the sensibilities of older generations are pretty widely divided away from those of the current. Heck, they'd probably sell this thing today with a warning sticker and a prescription for anxiety meds.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of a jack-in-the-box as being scary for little kids, actually I never really think about jack-in-the-box's at all.
ReplyDeleteYou have a very entertaining blog and I love your clay figures
First, WOW. All that clay is made by you? WOW
ReplyDeleteSecond, I'm not a fan of clowns or moving heads, needless to say moving clown heads.
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Creepy yes, but my nephew would go ballistically crazy (happy) for me to turn that crank a million times in a row and be "surprised!" I, on the other hand, had nightmares about it--and the music it played)!
ReplyDeleteI think it's mainly the winding and music build up that makes Jack in the Boxes creepy.
ReplyDeleteJack in the Box fast food is good I hear. Although it's across the country from me so I wouldn't know.
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