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Posted on 10/05/2004 10:19:53 AM PDT by esryle
PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Barbie's being bad. The wholesome, if sometimes surreal, beauty of the iconic doll is taking on a different twist under the influence of photo lab owner Anne Baker. Baker has coerced Barbie and her friends to ditch the sequin gowns and pink roadsters for sexy outfits, outrageous poses and delinquent behavior.
Plastic dolls line four long shelves in Baker's store, called Annie B and the Black and White Guy.
There's a cross-dressing male doll with long hot pink hair and a tight miniskirt. A "Jailbait Barbie" stands behind bars, wearing a pink and white striped uniform and an identification number. An eight-legged black widow doll crawls up a spider web, with Ken wrapped in her webbing. "She's a man-eater," the sign says.
In a scenario that has its parallel in real life, Baker finds down-on-their-luck Barbies - at thrift stores and from friends - then introduces them to a world of sex, drugs and violence.
"I always loved Barbie," she said. "I don't know what led me to this. Barbie was too clean and she needed to be in the real world, so I put her in my world."
Baker has had jobs both in costume design and toy buying, and figures they inspired her to take up the Barbie habit three years ago. Now she sells the dolls for up to $125 each.
Sometimes they are placed in sets. One features Ken in a clay wolf mask, his tongue flopped across his chin like a dog, his long brown hair kinked sky-high. Barbie, her lips pouted around a perfect smile and head covered by a red cape, drops her basket of fruit in surprise.
Another, called "Hef and the Bunny and the Mansion," features a blue-eyed Barbie in a Playboy bunny outfit, serving drinks to Hugh Hefner (played by Ken).
Baker said children enjoy the dolls sometimes more than parents do.
"Kids actually don't even realize what they are," she said. "They just love them. It's the parents who get upset; the kids don't. "Most everyone thinks it's funny."
The problem with living in a civilized society is that we can't just kill people like this...
this is just sad
One question, WHY?
Seems Ms. Baker has too much time on her hands.
What a bonehead.
Betcha she voted for Edwards!
"The problem with living in a civilized society is that we can't just kill people like this..."
Yeah, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Oh, well, we can take comfort in knowing that we reap based on what we've sown. This woman is sowing immorality and will answer for that eventually. Ten to one says that she is a registered democrat.
Seems Ms. Baker has too much time on her hands.
What a bonehead.
Betcha she voted for Edwards!
...then introduces them to a world of sex, drugs and violence.
Yes, of course...the problem is we are all "too clean".
What the world needs now is not "love sweet love" (as the song says) it needs (to quote this waste of skin) "...sex, drugs, violence" "Kids actually don't even realize what they are," she said. "They just love them. It's the parents who get upset; the kids don't.
The first part of the statement is telling...Maybe the kids love them BECAUSE they don't realize what they are. And MAYBE the parents are the ones who get upset because the DO realize what they are.
He couldn't get fired, because it wasn't porn. (Porn is pretty much an instant ticket out) But, it was still.....wierd. It's been a running joke in the computer dept here for awhile.
There must be a point to all this, though it's not clear what it may be.
It is indeed a strange world in which we live...
Darn! There goes my "Spank-Me Barbie" get rich quick scheme... Oh well, maybe I can sell "Nigerian Oil Million Barbie"...
must say, when I was 10, our Barbies were bad. Posed for Playboy. Got it on with Ken. Not that we could dream up anything really kinky.
Thank goodness my daughter's Barbie phase only lasted from age four to six. Have a two year old and not looking forward to her Barbie phase.
If she's calling them 'Barbie,' Mattel will crush this, utterly.
Three guesses as to who is about to be served with a cease and decist letter and then sued into oblivion.
Mattel isn't going to think it's funny at all.
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The point is, she's making a lot of money from this.
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At around age 10, I had finished with my time with tonka trucks, was heavily into model rockets, had a motorcycle as well as access to my older sisters barbies.
Naturally, as 10 year old boys will do, we strapped about a dozen barbies into one of the tonka trucks, attached the biggest d-size rocket engines I could find, filled it up with gas, then ignited the rockets so the truck went down the road.
The firefighters & the utility company were not too impressed, but Officer Strahan never gave me any crap ever again. He actually peed his pants when he saw what we had done. I think it was the melted barbie dolls splatted into the power pole that did it.
I came across this article on this link also:
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/10/04/nc_woman_sells_naughty_barbie_dolls/
...and in so doing I found this even more off the wall story:
Man mistakenly cuts off genitalia, dog eats it
October 5, 2004
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A elderly Romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken's neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it, the state Rompres news agency said Monday.
It said 67 year-old Constantin Mocanu, from a village near the southeastern town of Galati, rushed out into his yard in his underwear to kill a noisy chicken keeping him awake at night.
"I confused it with the chicken's neck," Mocanu, who was admitted to the emergency hospital in Galati, was quoted as saying. "I cut it ... and the dog rushed and ate it."
Doctors said the man, who was brought in by an ambulance bleeding heavily, was now out of danger.
http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2004/10/05/man_mistakenly_cuts_off_genitalia_dog_eats_it/
I can't wait for my "Hillary" dolls to get here. I'm gonna pose her with my "DUbya" dolls (Carrier landing)...in poses not fit for daytime pics.
Hee, hee, heeee.....
Then again, remember what Eddie Murphy said about the Ken doll.
LOL I'm glad I wasn't the only one with a bad Barbie. My Barbies liked my brother's GI Joes.
Has she come out with Demo-Barbie yet??? That would be a doll with a hole in her head and a Kerry/Edwards pin on her blouse.
He, he. I used to bite the heads and arms off Barbie Dolls when I was a kid (cue Doctor Phil on my "pattern of violent behavior towards women" or some such crap).
A post like this goes a long way towards proving my notion that half of the regular Freepers I meet are funny as hell, and the other half are uptight, fossilized monks.
P.S.= Before you get into a huff over an amusing idea like these dolls, have any of you more ELDERLY Freepers ever noticed that Barbie dolls have always had sexual connotations? Her chest/waist/legs proportions were obviously intended since the very start of the doll (in 1959) to evoke the perfect model of sexual beauty in a woman.
Maybe so, maybe no. A few years back Barbie collecting was big business. Big to the point that Mattel marketed a Barbie in a pink gown with Swaroski crystals and it hit the shelves at $900. There were all kinds of Barbie conventions and contests. There are books on how to fix /reconstruct damaged Barbies or just make em look different.
Yeah but a real woman built to those proportions couldn't walk up right. OTOH, if the B was proportioned like a normal female and had to wear those tiny clothes with seams and such, she'd look like completely shapeless or worse.
Anyone remember the original bungy Barbies? I had one that talked and you (my brother) could fling her out and the cord would draw her back up. Only for a little while though.
Not gonna say it...
But I, of course, am nowhere near so constrained.
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My favorite is Divorced Barbie. She comes with all of Ken's stuff.
Two Answers:
(From Store Owner): For income!
(From Clintoon): Because I could!
Now, don't be disgusting--don't do terrible things to contaminate your good wholesome Dubya doll! His heart beats only for the Laura doll.
As for me, I'm going to order a Hillary doll and have my Ann Coulter doll beat her up.
I think Laura will forgive me.
But the poses and digicam will be fun!
She slept too late. Biker Barbie and Crack-head Ken were the rave in CA years ago.
Really. Grown men should leave the dolls alone and do something useful.
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