Notice the vampire bat on the end of Lio’s pencil. I wonder if the skull is destined to be a toy for Cybil (who probably can get all the skulls she LIKES…….)
runar, I used to have a really nice life-like (so to speak) replica skull, but it got lost somewhere in the last 25 years. I’ve been looking for a replacement, but all I can find are Halloween props (fangs, stains, glow-in-the-dark, etc.) or medical models (springs, modules, and TOO clean). I haven’t found one that looks like it could serve as a believable Yorick in a good production of “Hamlet” (actually, for the graveyard scene you really need SEVERAL skulls).
I don’t know if it’s possible to get actual human dead people skulls anymore unless you ARE a medical student or something, but I don’t think I’d really want one anyway. Hamlet’s speech about the anonymous skulls he contemplates before being given Yorick’s hits too close to home: “That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once.” I don’t get freaked out by death in the general, nor even my own eventual return to “base uses.” But the idea that I would be using as a knick-knack that which was once someone else’s living head would freak me out. I’ve got a coyote skull on a shelf in my bedroom, which serves well enough as a memento mori, and I like the look on people’s faces when they ask where I got it and I tell them I had the vet save it for me when I had my dog put to sleep.
A tourist to Vienna is aproached by a man selling curios, and buys the skull of Mozart for $10,000. The peddlar then offers him a second skull, about half the size.
“For another $5,000, you can have this and complete the set.”
“What do you mean, ‘complete the set’? Who was this?”
“Well, you already have Mozart’s skull from when he died. This was his skull when he was a child!”
Fritzoid, a friend of my sister’s went to med school and now is a successful surgeon. She told me that if I ever wanted a real skull, she would get me one. I haven’t taken her up on it.
margueritem over 14 years ago
Death had a few spares laying around, so…..
carmy over 14 years ago
How sweet!
ladywolf17 over 14 years ago
Interesting!
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
That’ll be the death of me!
Sisyphos over 14 years ago
Lio is a very courteous and polite boy, is he not? –Writing a thank-you note with no pressure from Dad at all!
guitarmutt over 14 years ago
How sweet of Death. Is it Lio’s birthday? Or some other special occassion?
guitarmutt over 14 years ago
Oh yeah! I love the fact that Lio actually has Death’s address.
Yukoneric over 14 years ago
Buenos modales………
dyankee23 over 14 years ago
Looking at the chair and the lamp, I suspect that this isn’t the first time Death and Lio have exchanged gifts.
Steve Parmelee Premium Member over 14 years ago
So … paperweight or object de art?
bubujin_2 Premium Member over 14 years ago
How thoughtful–Death helps Lio get a head in life!
Simon_Jester over 14 years ago
Candle-holder!
lewisbower over 14 years ago
I thought I was going to hear Shakespeare, then I remembered, Lio doesn’t talk.
ferreter over 14 years ago
Lio knows all the best people!
LarryNelson over 14 years ago
He has endeared himself further to me… warped AND with good manners!
runar over 14 years ago
I have a skull on top of one of my bookcases. Unfortunately, it’s plastic, not real.
Godfreydaniel over 14 years ago
Notice the vampire bat on the end of Lio’s pencil. I wonder if the skull is destined to be a toy for Cybil (who probably can get all the skulls she LIKES…….)
Godfreydaniel over 14 years ago
PS: With the Dr. Seuss talk yesterday, I hope everybody saw today’s “Pearls Before Swine”.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
runar, I used to have a really nice life-like (so to speak) replica skull, but it got lost somewhere in the last 25 years. I’ve been looking for a replacement, but all I can find are Halloween props (fangs, stains, glow-in-the-dark, etc.) or medical models (springs, modules, and TOO clean). I haven’t found one that looks like it could serve as a believable Yorick in a good production of “Hamlet” (actually, for the graveyard scene you really need SEVERAL skulls).
I don’t know if it’s possible to get actual human dead people skulls anymore unless you ARE a medical student or something, but I don’t think I’d really want one anyway. Hamlet’s speech about the anonymous skulls he contemplates before being given Yorick’s hits too close to home: “That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once.” I don’t get freaked out by death in the general, nor even my own eventual return to “base uses.” But the idea that I would be using as a knick-knack that which was once someone else’s living head would freak me out. I’ve got a coyote skull on a shelf in my bedroom, which serves well enough as a memento mori, and I like the look on people’s faces when they ask where I got it and I tell them I had the vet save it for me when I had my dog put to sleep.
mancocapac over 14 years ago
Nice lamp
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
This reminds me of an old joke.
A tourist to Vienna is aproached by a man selling curios, and buys the skull of Mozart for $10,000. The peddlar then offers him a second skull, about half the size.
“For another $5,000, you can have this and complete the set.”
“What do you mean, ‘complete the set’? Who was this?”
“Well, you already have Mozart’s skull from when he died. This was his skull when he was a child!”
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Skullduggery?
dragonfreak365 over 14 years ago
I wonder what his dad has to say about this little affair…
Jonathan Bridge Premium Member over 14 years ago
“Alas, poor Calvin. I knew him, Grim Reaper.”
Shikamoo Premium Member over 14 years ago
LOLDoc! Good one.
runar over 14 years ago
Fritzoid, a friend of my sister’s went to med school and now is a successful surgeon. She told me that if I ever wanted a real skull, she would get me one. I haven’t taken her up on it.
Ooops! Premium Member over 14 years ago
Gosh! Lio is so thoughtful.
I hope no one had to die to deliver his card.
Sherlock Watson over 14 years ago
Some people give gifts from the heart, but ol’ GR shoots for a higher goal.
jestrfyl over 14 years ago
I’m not sure Yoruq was quite finished with that yet. Now his head is all flabby and his hat hangs over his shoulders.
Coyoty Premium Member over 14 years ago
All GR’s mail is sent to the dead letter office.
Destiny23 over 14 years ago
That mailman really DOES have the route from (or to) Hell!
comixmaster1000 over 14 years ago
Awww, how thoughtful of Lio!
Swag4 over 6 years ago
lio’s lamp is so weird
sunchaunzo over 3 years ago
He sure is a well-mannered little boy.