Food 24 Jun 2005 09:33 pm
cookie Rorschach
One of the things given to me when my neighbor moved to Alaska was a bag of cookie cutters. One of these cutters baffles me.
What do you think it’s supposed to be?
Food 24 Jun 2005 09:33 pm
One of the things given to me when my neighbor moved to Alaska was a bag of cookie cutters. One of these cutters baffles me.
What do you think it’s supposed to be?
on 24 Jun 2005 at 10:35 pm 1.Amnotsurly said …
It’s obviously a hippo in a tutu with a bouffant hairdo. Rotate it counterclockwise 90 degrees and it will be rightside-up.
on 24 Jun 2005 at 10:36 pm 2.Canyonwren said …
It’s an upside-down picture of a dinosaur-wheelbarrow hybrid.
That’s as close as I can come after ten minutes of contemplation.
Alternately, someone doing a vavavoom dance during a potato-sack race while waving one arm over her head.
I think this warrants a phone call to Alaska, personally.
on 24 Jun 2005 at 10:41 pm 3.oddangel said …
Alternately, someone doing a vavavoom dance during a potato-sack race while waving one arm over her head.
Hey! That was going to be my answer.
on 24 Jun 2005 at 10:44 pm 4.Adrian said …
a rollerskating pregnant hunchback
on 24 Jun 2005 at 10:45 pm 5.Joy said …
The crazy-making thing is how hauntingly familiar it looks to me - and how looking at the picture before reading the post I remember thinking ‘oh, it’s an -’ but upon finding you were trying to figure it out, all concreteness fled.
Reindeer and sleigh? Really deformed ghost? a Dali-inspired melting guitar? John the Baptist - rotate it 90 degrees clockwise and I can see a humanoid figure with one arm raised standing in a pool of water. A deformed dollar sign signifying the melt-down of our economy? Oh, not a hippo but a nuclear meltdown at a cooling tower!
Note to self - if ever taking the Rorschach test for real, try not to get nuclear armageddon worked into the story.
on 24 Jun 2005 at 10:49 pm 6.Canyonwren said …
A really ugly Christmas stocking? Rotate it 90 degrees clockwise…I was trying to see John the Baptist standing in a pool of water.
on 24 Jun 2005 at 11:22 pm 7.Cam Sculpin said …
You guys are awesome.
I traced the cookie cutter onto an index card. Josh has been tipping the card this way and that, as if the figure will pop into perspective like a Julian Beever illusion chalk drawing. So far, not so much.
on 25 Jun 2005 at 1:49 am 8.mizducky said …
I think Amnotsurly has got it: rotate it counterclockwise 90 degrees. It’s a silhouette of Father Christmas with his sack on his back. (That’s what’s throwing people off, I think–some folks are noticing it’s a figure with a sack on it’s back, but we Yanks are used to a fat and not a skinny St. Nicholas.)
(Maybe I should have waited to post this so that more folks could have gotten their speculations in. They’re a lot more fun.)
on 25 Jun 2005 at 7:49 am 9.naomi said …
I agree about rotating it 90 degrees counterclockwise. But the “boob” is throwing me off.
on 25 Jun 2005 at 8:50 am 10.Canyonwren said …
And the skirt. Rotating it that way, I see more of a female cartoon character with a really oversized head. The sack is the curve of the head. The “boob” could be a boob or an elbow. If I knew of any cartoon characters that fit, that could be it. Otherwise…it seems kinda complicated.
on 25 Jun 2005 at 9:23 am 11.Adrian said …
it almost looks like some sort of Snoopy… on roller skates
on 25 Jun 2005 at 9:57 am 12.Aim said …
Tish says it’s a rabid moose.
I say it’s a soduhefuinsdjfnds;fuhy.
on 25 Jun 2005 at 11:14 am 13.Cam Sculpin said …
I thought it might be Father Christmas, but those feet looked surprisingly stumpy to me. I think it might be Moomintroll in drag.
on 25 Jun 2005 at 12:43 pm 14.ferneyes said …
Statue of Liberty with J. Lo booty.
on 25 Jun 2005 at 3:30 pm 15.TamIAm said …
Witch on a broomstick? There is that funny sticky out bit though. Maybe it was made to use up the last of the dough. I always make a funny lump out of that
on 13 Jul 2005 at 4:13 am 16.Gail said …
I think it is a Santa with toy bag on its back. It needs to be turned with feet onthe ground
on 02 Jan 2007 at 4:34 pm 17.mantis said …
I found a picture among my “snoopy-stuff” that looks very much like your cookie cutter — it is snoopy in a chef’s hat with an apron on, turner in his hand etc. — but the feet do not seem to match the cutter — otherwise it is very much the same — shame I cannot upload the pic. So, I say it is snoopy in the backyard or kitchen cooking!
on 14 May 2007 at 11:00 pm 18.Melissa said …
Hi, I found this cookie cutter on the internet, and Ive turned it upside down from the image you have shown. I think it looks like some kind of horse drawn carriage with the top back (like a convertible top or something). The triangular part looks as if it sets down, and the two things that stick out might be where you attach it to a horse… I dunno, but thats what it looks like to me. I hope this helps! Its definately an interesting cutter!
on 02 Jul 2007 at 1:43 pm 19.Anonymous said …
it is santa with a sack i have this cookie cutter
on 22 Oct 2007 at 6:17 pm 20.Beth said …
I think it looks like Dolly Parton, with one leg in a walking cast…