The $350 Mascot

[Laffo]

Actually the second one is the before picture. It's a work in de-construction.

I'll put a bow on your stunt teeth.

If you ask my friends and relations I have an entire dialect of stuff like "Stunt Teeth."

I often get a, "What?"
But more often, people understand it completely. Usually it concerns one sense describing another, kinda. I am not a Lexical-gustatory.

Examples:
"This Tamale smells like a Cowboy Hat."
"The color of that blouse looks like a Baby's fart."
"It looked like he cleaned his ear with a Cheeto."
"This fun fur and foam sewed like bad soft serve ice cream."

Of course this takes a whole different tack when it concerns Adult themes as you can imagine.

Laffo.

 

[cayman shen]

I think the word for "one sense describing another" is synesthesia, but I'm too lazy to look it up...

 

[Laffo]

See my previous post:

Lexical → gustatory synesthesia
Main article: Lexical-gustatory synesthesia

In a rare form of synesthesia, lexical → gustatory synesthesia, individual words and phonemes of spoken language evoke the sensations of taste in the mouth.

Whenever I hear, read, or articulate (inner speech) words or word sounds, I experience an immediate and involuntary taste sensation on my tongue. These very specific taste associations never change and have remained the same for as long as I can remember.

– James Wannerton

Jamie Ward and Julia Simner have extensively studied this form of synesthesia, and have found that the synesthetic associations are constrained by early food experiences.[32][33] For example, James Wannerton has no synesthetic experiences of coffee or curry, even though he consumes them regularly as an adult. Conversely, he tastes certain breakfast cereals and candies that are no longer sold.

Additionally, these early food experiences are often paired with tastes based on the phonemes in the name of the word (e.g., /I/, /n/ and /s/ trigger James Wannerton’s taste of mince) although others have less obvious roots (e.g., /f/ triggers sherbet). To show that phonemes, rather than graphemes are the critical triggers of tastes, Ward and Simner showed that, for James Wannerton, the taste of egg is associated to the phoneme /k/, whether spelled with a "c" (e.g., accept), "k" (e.g., York), "ck" (e.g., chuck) or "x" (e.g., fax). Another source of tastes comes from semantic influences, so that food names tend to taste of the food they match, and the word "blue" tastes "inky."

He's tasting Kaboom and Smurf Berry Crunch every time someone says "Magnitude." I'm more of a Verbal Irritable Bowel Syndrome Practitioner. Nerd out.
Laffo.

 

[jonny5]

I really like how all the ostritch feather hair (or what ever it is) that you've added makes the little rectangular eye screen view port almost completely invisible.

 

[Laffo]

That sir is what is know in the Business as "Weave Hair." Real Human hair sir.
Laffo.

 

[jonny5]

Real Human Hair?
I didn't know they grew 'em in those colors!

'Stunt Teeth' the shark from Jaws had stunt teeth.
True story.

They had these shiny hard plastic ones for some 'beauty' shots but if there was supposed to be a person in its mouth (Quint or the red rowboat guy) they had another set of rubber teeth they'd swap in.

Problem was that all the thrashing about the shark did often knocked a few loose during each take and the continuity folks were hard pressed to replace them as they were made in California. As production wore on they did a few shots where 'most of the teeth' were stunt teeth and the rest were hard plastic.

After one take someone noticed a tiny trickle of blood running down the stuntman's leg at which point he was heard to say something like:

"Well look at that, the shark BIT me!"