BERTIE BASSETT
For any non-UK readers (puzzled by my reference in the post below), here's some pics of Bertie Bassett, The Liquorice Allsorts Man who haunted the candy-induced nightmares of many a Brit child...
You may be surprised to find that he even featured (kinda) in a vintage episode of Dr. Who (so that's Doppelganger's next Who-related essay sorted out then! - like the cybermen, his earlier (eyeless/noseless) incarnation is more sinister I reckon...and also has a sort of Residents feel to it...)
In Finnish: "Englannin lakritsi" or Englannin laku" - "English Liquorice" lol.
posted by I am not Kek-w @ 10:37 PM
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anthropomorphisized liquorice-based confectionary....
it doesn't get more sinister...
Flesh glistening like coal or cold cresote. Speckled with cobalt blue carmelised sprinkles. A tube of dark candy for a top-hat.
and'll wreck yer teeth faster than Dan Decay... maybe that's why people have all those dreams about their teeth falling out...
Teeth-falling-out dreams are usually all about loss of virility...yeah?
I remember him! Always wanted him to have some sort of secret affair with the Michelin Man... (To kids, the Michelin Man looks like he's made of marshmallows)
Bertie Bassett and the Michelin Man had an affair and the result was the Pilsbury Dough Boy.
No, waitaminute, they're both guys!!! Does gender exist with corporate brand-avatars?
Yes, and I'd like to watch. ;)
(If Arnie could be a pregnant man, so could they... lucky Dough Boy! :D They'd probably fill up his room with All Sorts... of toys)
I forgot that Arnie could get pregnant. I wish he'd got pregnant in one of the 'Terminator' films.
He should've given birth to John Connors. That would have taken the franchaise off in some interesting directions.
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