Tuesday, August 3, 2010

America's Finest Gas Station Restroom Novelty Dispensers


So here's a souvenir of my trip to Michigan:



Near as I can tell it's supposed to be some sort of balloon. Any of you out there have any theories?

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  1. Somebody holds that patent, and I bet his mother is proud.

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  2. At the risk of standing accused of stating the obvious, I'll say that it is an early prototype for the Statue of Liberty.

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  3. It's originally the prototype "Tauntaun" udder from Kenner, based on the first draft of EMPIRE where Han Solo milks the Tauntaun so Luke wouldn't starve to death on Hoth. Alas the feature disappeared when the scene was nixed for the far more "evisceral" lightsaber scene that replaced it.

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  4. How did the word "novelty" come to have such various meaning in America -- novelty songs, novelty gag items, the pocket udder that you display here, sure to delight any collector of miniature cow parts?
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  5. See and people feel sorry for we Michigan inhabitants. The car, Motown, and now this.

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  6. Anyone called you a Mudder Udder yet? Anyway, milk it for all it's worth.

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  7. Patti, I have never felt less sorry for Michiganders than I do now. I would be heading for the filling station twice a week just to get a gander at the new latex offerings.

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  8. Can't wait to get back to Sagnasty just to hit filling stations. Might have to go all the way out to the Bridgeport truck stop to find a finger tickler though. But then I can grab an open faced turkey sandwich while I'm there.

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  9. It's a chicken disguise. You put it on your head and blow air into it (called "plumping the comb" where I come from). The package only says "finger" to throw off the cops.

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