Even creepier than Jeff from "Today's Special"

I have this mannequin in my archives. It was donated for a planned nursing alumnae gallery and was greatly appreciated because these things apparently cost a great big chunk of change. I never saw it out of the box and I have the distinct feeling that no one else did either. I put it together today for the first time and this is what I got.

First, the legs were in a rather jaunty pose, but i figured that this was in a store so was to be expected. Then I get the torso on, no problem. Next come the arms. Wait a second, I say to myself, this is just not right. As you see the arms and hands are in a rather odd position. And this is the only position they will go in (ok, i can turn the hands around in the other direction but it is no better).

What on earth would a store use this mannequin for? The attention is on the hands - would it be to sell watches? Is it supposed to be leaning against something? It looks like she is about to get hit in the face and is shielding herself with her hands.

How the hell am I supposed to use this thing? I think, and perhaps you will agree, that it would look a touch out of place with a nurses uniform on or, worse yet, a nun's habit (that is my next step - figuring out how to get a habit on this thing. more pics may follow). The only thing i thought was maybe we could get another mannequin and have this one doing CPR on it - you know pushing down on the other one's chest with its hands but that would mean its feet would have to be hung from the ceiling or something. Plainly, this won't due.

Now it is staring at me from across my office. I think I may have to turn it around or disassemble it or something 'cause it is kinda creepy.

Do you remember Today's Special? I loved that show.

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My sushi has a first name...

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If I were a piece of sushi, I would be known as "Slim Tempuraluralura," pretty rockstar, methinks. Are you jealous? Do you wish you had a rockn'roll sushi name? You can get your very own at Yamroll.com, [no direct link so go to "stuff" then "name generator", via]. This is the site for what seems to be a new(? new to me?) CBC show called The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom - after you get your sushi name check out the "short" for a brief introduction to Yam Roll, "a chop-socky superhero sushi [note: one of his super powers is to type fast - awesome!] who braves monsters, speeding cars, and maurauding network executives, all in the name of unrequited love." Click here for a preview. Check it out, leave me a note with your sushi name.
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Slim (細い)

A post. not necessarily a good one...

My first post in 18 days and this one isn't even an Out of the Archives original. Instead I am emulating (coughrippingoffcough), Goose of Veritas Lux Mea...again. But this time it is something funny rather than sobering. Very funny? And who don't like funny. Check out Married to the Sea for a daily dose of amended old-tyme illustrations. My personal favourite:
"Photographs Suck" Married to the Sea, Feb 21, 2006.
That's it. Maybe i will have a real post sometime soon. Then again maybe not.