Mock Turtle
Whimsy! That’s the word I’d use! I’ve got a decaying turtle foot on my cravat and I feel so fanciful! La la la la la!
Jesus, this thing is disgusting. The only way it could be worse is if there were two of them.
Whimsy! That’s the word I’d use! I’ve got a decaying turtle foot on my cravat and I feel so fanciful! La la la la la!
Jesus, this thing is disgusting. The only way it could be worse is if there were two of them.
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October 18, 2009 at 10:22 am
I like the heart shaped thing it’s resting on. Very romantic.
October 18, 2009 at 10:24 am
I think it’s carpaccio.
October 18, 2009 at 10:27 am
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17827302
Oh dear. Buffalo teeth. This is all.
October 18, 2009 at 10:27 am
Oh My..will wear it to High Tea with the Queen
October 18, 2009 at 10:42 am
ahhh 101 things to do with that turtle foot you’ve got laying around!
October 18, 2009 at 11:05 am
You can pretty it up, but it’s still road kill ;P
October 18, 2009 at 11:10 am
Oh I have no words for such things.
October 18, 2009 at 11:18 am
Maybe a wasp was eating the turtle’s dead flesh when she found it. Hence, the bee.
October 18, 2009 at 11:22 am
Do these purveyers of animal parts drive around town all day trolling for roadkill, are they serial fauna murderers, or do they happen to operate a hospice care for terminally ill wildlife? Whatever the reality, it certainly doesn’t speak well of the “artist.”
*Shudder*
October 18, 2009 at 11:30 am
I am now afraid, thanks.
October 18, 2009 at 11:43 am
Now I get where Lucky’s feet went! http://www.snotr.com/video/2999
October 18, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Clutch my pearls! That thing is horrendous.
October 18, 2009 at 12:25 pm
PussDaddy,
Maybe you should sell your pearl necklace on etsy…it’s homemade right?
October 18, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Wow, now I have something to wear with my Turtle in the Garden ring!
October 18, 2009 at 3:11 pm
oh yes, when I see a decaying animal limb the first thing I think of is putting a crown on it…
October 18, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I thought it was petrified saag paneer.
October 18, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Uttery disgusting! What in the hell is wrong with the ghouls??
October 18, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Don’t make a wish on it, whatever you do!
October 18, 2009 at 7:04 pm
I would consider buying it if it was a turtles vagina- the foot is boring…
October 18, 2009 at 9:09 pm
“Victorian inspired”?
October 18, 2009 at 9:25 pm
It’s totally Victorian. I couldn’t even begin to list all the stories I’ve heard about Victorian gentleman and their turtle appendage-encrusted jewelry.
October 18, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Aww Flo Moe, saag paneer is my favourite. Thanks for ruining it… I will never look at it the same way again
lol
October 18, 2009 at 11:34 pm
It looks like something some evil queen would wear in a bad horror/sci-fi film !! “Behold the power of the claw! (insert cackling laughter)”
October 18, 2009 at 11:39 pm
I wonder what happened to the REST of that poor turtle.
October 19, 2009 at 2:29 am
Eek! Place the royal “turtle in the garden” ring upon my royal finger so that I may poke my royal eyes out!
October 19, 2009 at 7:22 am
“Victorian inspired”
Ummm…”Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is just a fictional work.
October 19, 2009 at 7:22 am
DO. NOT. WANT.
October 19, 2009 at 7:37 am
All I can think about are all those poor turtles walking around on crutches.
October 19, 2009 at 8:40 am
Well, if you think back to Victorian times, that is when colonialism was going on- you know, British Empire crap. Anyway, far away people and animals, the whole exotic savage thing. People used to cut off elephant feet and make tables out of them and did garish things with other animals, so yes this might really be a reflection of some Victorian ornamentation. Hopefully it was a found turtle leg, like from road kill or something that was dead 50 years, and not taken off, in this day and age, off a live turtle.
October 19, 2009 at 8:56 am
I think that’s turtley awful.
Badum Tish
October 19, 2009 at 9:11 am
Somewhere, someone must be fashioning a turtle foot prosthetic. Whoever said the thing about the turtle vagina (yeah, scrolling up would have been more difficult than typing this) — bravo! and thanks for the giggles.
File this under WTF.
Holy moly.
October 19, 2009 at 10:36 am
#30 Annette Curtain…I’m sitting here at parent teacher confs…Trying not to pull my hair out with boredom…no parent ever comes to see me(art teacher extraordinaire!) soooo…not in a great mood.
UNTIL, I read yours! Good times…I’m better.
I could buy this and hot glue to a stick and make a wonderful pointer…so I can point at REAL art images for the kiddies!!
October 19, 2009 at 1:11 pm
‘The only way it could be worse is if there were two of them’……and maybe they’d be praying for deliverance……
p
x
October 19, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Glue to a gnarly tree branch and you’ve got a witch’s back-scratcher. Or evil magic wand. Maybe it can set fire to “fairy nests.”
October 19, 2009 at 2:41 pm
on a mostly serious note: if anyone is actually concerned about where animal parts like this come from, most of them are from taxidermy supply shops. Those folks usually have pretty high standards about using only found (yes, found) carcasses to take things like feet, teeth, fur and bones from. Just an FYI from someone who really digs taxidermy and such…
October 19, 2009 at 6:08 pm
The brass dangle adds a “touch of whimsy”? One would have thought wearing a dried turtle foot affixed to one’s blouse would be whimsical enough for even the most quixotic of eccentrics.
October 19, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Is anyone else concerned about the fact that the gold nonsense it the top looks like golden tinfoil?? This is leftovers folks! FANCY LEFTOVERS!
In any case, I’m glad I wasn’t invited to that dinner party. That “brass dangle” is probably someone’s lost earring.
October 19, 2009 at 8:19 pm
eww…makes me especially cringe because one of my turtles just passed away last week and we had to bury him…i hope this nut didn’t dig him up to make this horrific ‘jewelry’…LOL
November 9, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Ooh, just what I need to brighten up my Christmas tree…wonder if she takes special orders?
November 12, 2009 at 6:42 am
i wanna throw up! That is seriously so disgusting.
December 20, 2009 at 2:32 am
Royal? Hell yeah!
I totally want this for my scepter.
February 2, 2010 at 1:27 pm
This drek is about as inspirational as a spiel from a politician.Get this fartist a mortition.
February 2, 2010 at 1:28 pm
oops , make that mortitian.
March 13, 2011 at 9:53 pm
That is not a turtle foot. I am 99% sure that it is an alligator foot. I used to work in taxidermy, and I’ve seen a bazillion of those damn things.