This post has grown over the last 72 hours
from what might have been a couple of collages to a fuller round-up of
characters and caricatures real and imagined, most behaving badly! All the
images - with the exception of a return from The Work's Trumpton - courtasy of
Mr. Berke in New York, but sent at various times from 2016, through to the
other day, so many thanks to Brian.
Possibly the two most famous reprobates in
modern English-speaking culture, both pretty hopeless, both fans of a beer or two
and both would be less than nothing without the efforts of the long-suffering
womenfolk in their lives! I say 'less than nothing' as neither has amounted to
much in the course of events as it is!
The figure on the left - for those of you
who have been in a coma since the die mauer came down - is none other than Homer Simpson, but many of you may need to be told that the figure on the
right is Andy Capp, but, not the Germans, where I belive he is a well know (and
re-named?) import.
Seen before, so a quick reprise and sadly
nothing fictional about this international joke, it's the pooping, preening-pratt
President himself! Carried by The Works
over here about a year ago, however it appears that great minds think alike, as
retailers over the pond . . .
. . . are offering this variation - he
appears to be evacuating solids! Euwe! The store Ollie's could be the source - if you're looking for a late
stocking-filler idea - but Jiahua Trading
Inc., are claiming for it and - like the UK one - it's also in the form of
a key-ring.
However, and returning to fictional characters
and their love of beer . . . Mecki's drunk as a skunk (not sure how close
hedgehogs are to skunks anyway?) and courting a lamp-post! But if you will
elect to have a night-out with the other two, it's a foregone conclusion you'll
be in trouble!
This was shot in an NY gift shop a couple
of years ago, and they managed to get Trumps G7 Summit conference-pose - I'm going to cross my arms and stare past you all while doing la-la-la's in my head - some months
before he did it . . . acting like a petulant child in front of the worlds 6-other main leaders, their number 2's and their entourages!
It's a hell of a line-up! Cheers again
Brian!
I just like the thought that starting a
side-collection of pants-down, pooping, presidents is a very real 'thing', with
at least two key-rings and probably some of those Spanish terracotta 'crappers'!
