If Young Frankenstein had raised rats...
As August melds into September, it's time to start thinking about Halloween. Don't believe me? Just pop into your supermarket to be assaulted by plastic pumpkins, paper ghosts, and my personal favorite; rubber rats. As a collector of all things ratty, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.
Perhaps it's too far from October yet, but so far I haven't been very satisfied by the Halloween offerings. The rats I've found so far were quite ridiculous; ghoulish scrawny creatures with great bloody fangs (ah, I love when they give rats fangs), lips curled up in a fearsome snarl; and yet, you squeeze them and are rewarded with a pathetic squeak, like a well worn dog toy. All this for a whopping $12.99. I guess I'm picky about my rats. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I want them all to be cute and cuddly-- cute and cuddly is more of a mouse thing than a rat thing. I just wish they embodied a bit more sophistication. There are two general forms of evil: the mindless killing machine evil, like zombies; and the sophisticated mad scientist evil. Rats are mad scientists. (Don't kid yourselves, boys, those rats are really experimenting on you.) I may just have to do some Evil Rat Genius designs..
So, to make a point, I'm going to try to collect as many photos of rat Halloween decor as possible, and I encourage my readers to do the same. Go ahead! Post them here! Or
e-mail them to me and I'll post them in a future entry.
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posted by Sophielynette @ 11:44 AM