YSaC, Vol. 1649: Koala back girl
2014 January 8
RETRO KOALA PUPPET – $25
My camera couldn’t get a good focus on label; it reads: 1981 Mary Johnson The monkey merchant San Diego, California… Your Koala was handcrafted in California of all new materials. very nice, children love it- call Ray (###)###-###eight p.s. comes from a smoke and pet- free home.
If you actually wanted to be an alliterative manufacturer of koala dolls, what name could you use?
The Koala Karrier?
Kuddly Koalas?
Kiki and Kate’s Koala Korner?
Nausea inducing, but at least they work. But does the label say any of those things? No. No it does not. Why?
Because that is not.a.koala, you idiot.
Any fool can tell it’s a wallaby.
Thanks for the post, Kit!
¿Simian marsupial?
Lemon Curry, more like.
Those were the days. Now, all of our retro koala monkeys are machine-made overseas. I blame [president of your choice].
As I recall the world’s largest factory for these things is in Malaysia.
Specifically, it’s in… (Oh jeez am I really gonna make this pun? Yes, yes I am.) …Koala Lumpur!
Oh look! They’re giving you free tomatoes!
Dunno, looks a bit like Koala Lumpier–but, that’s probably personal bias.
It’s so retro, it died.
They killed Kenny!
You bastards!!!!!!!!!!
This puppet has passed on.
It is an ex-puppet!
No! No!…he’s just resting….the Norwegian Kalua…beautiful plummage,er, fur…
1981 must have gotten a contact high from being so close to the 70’s.
He’s dead, Jim.
Monkey see, monkey do.
Does this really deserve a curtain koala?
[Matt] Can’t you see how tragic this is? This poor man had to give up smoking, had to give up pets, and now he has to give up his cross-bred Koala-Monkey! Oh, the humanities! [/Matt]
Clearly, the early prototype for a Mr. Yukk! puppet was not well received.
QUICK!!!! Someone stick a hand up his ass and resuscitate him..STAT!!!!
I think Ray should have left it troed away instead of trying to retro it. The poor thing looks like it got into the rat poison.
I don’t know. It looks like someone was into necropuppeteering. I bought a cinnamon bear puppet in 1980 and it has had a wonderful life so far and has aged nicely. Sure, his fur has greyed up a bit, but then so has mine. ( my hair, not my fur) The girls still want to hold the furry little guy and still try to pull my arm out of its socket when they want to show him to someone else. If only I knew his secret to being popular with the ladies.
Necropuppeteering is [commenter]’s [name of band]/[name of another band]’s mash up band.
Well, it’s no wonder it’s dead, Nobody petted it.
Absolutely failed to thrive. 8)
In this instance?
Killed Koalas
Mummified Marsupials
I’ve seen what a kinkachu can do with a tongue like that, and it’s not pretty. I guess instead of blindness, he got death.
not.a.lirón?
SpongeBob SpiderPants.
And don’t koala me Shirley.
Actually, I want one with a voice box that plays Koala Chameleon.
Gumby’s gone moldy
When the rare “Square-bodied Koala” came out of anesthesia following his limb “re-attachment” surgery, and saw that his four legs had been replaced with those of a spider monkey, he immediately collapsed. He died on the table.
Somehow I don’t think “Mary Johnson” (if that is her real name) had all the koala-fications to make children’s toys.
So Sparky, 1981 eh? That makes it 33 years old – was it your blankie? did you puke all over it in your cot? where has it been?
You’re wanting 75c for every year of its ‘life’.
On that math I’d be worth, mmmm, mmmm, add the square root of the ginger cake and minus the cube of the nail varnish $15.
* smiles*
*hits best friend who is laughing*
Retro Koala is the name of my Midnight Oil cover band.