Lost in the mists of time is an age when civilizations were truly civil, and violence was unthought of. Confrontations were all settled with epic "tickle fights", or in more drastic cases- "tickle wars". For weeks and months at a time, laughter would echo throughout the land. Eventually, surrender would be announced by the leader of one of the armies, through the official proclamation of "Stop! I think I just peed a little!"
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I bought these figures a few weeks ago with this idea in mind, but was then hesitant. It breaks my rule of not having any pre-made figure be the star of any image. But then I remembered my other rule about creating - There shouldn't be any rules. Duh.
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After over 850 votes, the winner of the object nomination process was "Knitting Needles". We truly pushed the Blogger Poll gadget to it's limits. The knitting and crocheting communities really battled it out, and this was with "crochet hooks" somehow ending up on the same line as "salt and pepper shakers". There were a couple of glitches like that, but we all lived to tell the tale.
It was interesting to me to watch the neck and neck race of "live animal" and "bacon". You can be sure that even though there was only one official winner here, many of these objects will make their way into images down the line.
Thanks to everyone for voting!
And a Hello to the many Chinese visitors who have visited the blog lately. I know there are some of you who can read this, so I wanted to say thanks for stopping by!
15 comments:
HILARIOUS! You crack me right up, Terry, time and time again.
I think I just peed a little while laughing - yet again - at your blog...
Instead of white flags of surrender there must have been cries of "Uncle! Uncle!"
Superb, Terry. Perhaps the UN can remove all of the conventional weapons from Gaza and drop loads of outsize feathers for the guys there to fight it out with. Keep up the great work and I like the 'no rules' rule.
damn those pro-yarn ruffians!
Little known fact: the Tickle Warriors were actually a more bellicose people than their neighboring counterparts, the Slap Soldiers.
Yours is my favorite blog to visit, and boy do I get around. Thanks for making me actually laugh out loud every time I visit.
*giggles* yet another clever idea!
aw, I failed. only two votes. Darn. But it is okay.
And I love the tickle fighting.
Ha, ha, ha ... STOP! I´m totally out of breath ...
thanks all!
lol! wonderful! I did not even for a second miss the wire!
luv your stuff - great fun
Thinking of paper clips I created a fun little toy that I took a short movie of
please check it out
http://afcsoac.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-toy-tri-bristle.html
maybe you should add a small motor to some of your creations
enjoy
Nice. Years ago there was a piece in an art show at Philcon (a fall science fiction convention in Philly), entitled 'He Rushed Headlong Into a Ticklish Situation'. At first glance it was your classic pulp fantasy cover painting; the hero rushing down the stairs to where the heroine is bound on the evil priest's alter; the evil priest holding an enormous sword ready to sacrifice her to his unholy god(s).
Then you looked closer and realized that the 'sword' was a giant blue feather. The hideous mask the EP was wearing was a clown's nose, and the groteskly decorated alter was covered in smiley faces.
I still wish I had had the money to buy it. Or even to just find out now who the artist was.
oh how we all long for those times!
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