Moar Dead Animals!

[tripperfunster]

Gishwhes item # 99
Taxidermy animals dressed for and playing or doing one of the following: roller derby, doubles tennis in whites, a 4-some of golfers (must be in traditionally dressed with knickers), cricket players in whites, disco dancing in 70's disco clothes, synchronized swimmning with nose clips or a karate class.





Obviously I went with golf. I thought the plaid would look cool. :D

I went to a local taxidermy place, and asked if they had any animals I could borrow. They said, "Sure!" You can have these ones here! Actually, she let me pick out of the ones that were available. They didn't even want a deposit! I picked a badger, the duck and a squirrel. The lobster is actually mine. I'd bought it ages ago at an auction. I thought it was about the most ridiculous thing I'd ever seen, and needed to own it immediately.

I went to a discount fabric store and found some plaid and argyle, then picked up some 'model magic' for the shoes.
THAT SQUIRREL WAS SO DERPY I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM!

Once I had them dressed, I took them out to a golf course, and asked the Pro if I could pose them on the course. The Pro said, "sure!" :D

Then, after posing them FOREVER, I asked a nice couple to pull their golf cart back a few feet so that it would be in the shot. When I returned the animals, the lady liked the squirrel's costume so much, that she left it on. :D

The lobster is in my store, still wearing the plaid. :D

Comments

[dragonaries.livejournal.com]

Trip, you are one of the most imaginative people I know! God it's fun reading your adventures on Gishwhes! Great pic and costumes!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you!

Honestly, I"m just following directions, but with my own twist. I seriously THRIVE on shit like that. I really need a job like this. Is there such a thing as a professional scavenger? ;)

[birdsofshore]

You had TOO much fun with this :DD

The lobster is kind of freaking me out. I love the fact all these people were so happy to do these odd things for you!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

The yes's and no's followed exactly the same pattern as last year. Post Office and Military: NO Everyone else in the world: YES! *sigh*

[facecat.livejournal.com]

Slightly disturbing. I wonder if this is what a golfer's nightmare vision would be.

I can't believe how you get people to do these things for you.

[facecat.livejournal.com]

PS: That is one flippin' huge lobster.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is HUGE lobster, hence my needing to own it. It looks especially ... odd in it's golf finery. :D

I don't even SELL it to people. I just ask and they agree!

[demicus.livejournal.com]

LOL! Fore!
Stylin' foursome. :¬) *giggle* You've made my night again!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

:D They ARE stylin'! :D

thanks hon.

[majmunka.livejournal.com]

bowing down to awesomeness. Best of all is the lobster.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, the lobster is definitely of a kind!

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I love it, especially the lobster!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

:D The lobster is cool. He looks especially dapper in his plaid still!

[sra-danvers.livejournal.com]

OMG Their clothes!!!! Cool ones!

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

:D Yes, they all look very smart!

[dickgloucester.livejournal.com]

*dies* That is so sick.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

I spent waaay too much time dressing dead animals that week!

[theficklepickle.livejournal.com]

It's like the set-up for a joke: "A badger, a duck, a squirrel and a lobster are playing golf ... "

The trouble is, I have no idea what the punchline would be.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Hee! Neither do I!

[eldriwolf.livejournal.com]

love the lobster!
...badger looks like wolverine to me..

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

You are right. He was labeled as a badger, so I just assumed it was so. But upon investigating, he IS a wolverine!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Golfing...lobster... O_O

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Yeah ..and?

[janice-lester.livejournal.com]

You bring joy like some kind of taxidermy-golfing dumpster-swimming duck-wrangling fairy godmother. Reports of your adventures make me happy. :-D

The badger doesn't really fit my impression of a badger. Hang on, do you HAVE badgers in Canada? I thought they were kind of black and white and British. But we don't have them here so I'm hardly an expert.

I think the duck is my favourite. SOmehow, the hat and vest really work with his pose. He looks like an old-fashioned gentleman having a jolly good time with the chaps of an afternoon.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

it seems that what I was told was a badger, is really a wolverine. I know we have wolverines here, and possibly badgers too. I have no idea. Neither of them are something you'd stumble upon on a regular basis, even out here in the country.

[eldriwolf.livejournal.com]

I know you have them in at least Some parts of Canada-(probably much of it)-just not the same *kind* as badgers in the UK.


They are more grey-and-white than black-and-white, lower to the ground, more solitary--
( I have never heard of North American Badgers playing leap-frog)