Day 148: 5 Minute Freewrite: Friday-Prompt: Potatoes ~ Original Rant and Original Photography
Mr. P Gets Some Pants*
~ A Short Rant Of Sorts ~
Five Minute Freewrite ~ Prompt: Potatoes
“WHAAAT!!?”
“What?”
“PANTS! On Mr. Potato-head! What IS the world coming to?”
I was beside myself. There was me, and the imaginary me, right next door.
What WERE “They” thinking? Adding permanent pants to the ubiquitous 'build your own' spud-man.
You see, I've been doing art with Mr. P, as he's affectionately known in these quarters, for quite some time. I call it BatataDada, and it is a LOT of fun. Making scientific machines to do experiments on the plastic, add-a-part potato people. All fully protested by the S.P.C.A.C.T. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anatomically Correct Tubers
I have a lot of Mr. P's that are used in this project. They come in handy. Actually, they're crucial to this high-art form. I find them at the local Goodwill or St. Vincent DePaul store. For cheap. Evidently they're the older ones, and WITHOUT pants!
But now, “They”, whoever they may be, have gone all PC on the great, build-able spud, and added pants. Permanent pants. You can't take them off.
And it's not like he originally had a bunch of 'eyes' placed 'just so', that might be mis-construed as Tater 'privates' or 'bits'. He was pretty much a null potato in this regard. The only thing that would suggest male or female-ness was the eyes you add, or shoes and hair. Nothing else was obvious in the gender department.
But now, they've added pants. I understand, fully, being Politically Correct, when appropriate. Which is often, in today's world. But Mr. Potato-head?
What IS the world coming to? …
~ Finto ~
*This is an older Mr. P. -- Sans pants. As I like him best. Photo From: "Pressu-Fracking Mr. P To Get SpuddThane" -- Used in the creation of biologically sound fuels for internal combustion engines
Here is the link to the post about the Five Minute Freewrite, put on by @mariannewest:
Day 148: Five Minute Freewrite: Potatoes
Thanks for stopping in and viewing the next installment of the Five Minute Freewrite. If you have any thoughts about plastic toys with non-removable bottom-wear, making art out of Mr. Pototo-head, Deep Science and the protest of said-such activities, or anything else this post reminds you of, please feel free to comment away in the spaces below. I'd love to hear from you.
Please UPVOTE, COMMENT and FOLLOW if you enjoy my works.
And go to @ddschteinn -- There's a whole lot more...
Posted: 03/16/2018 @ 14:30
Excerpts From Late-Night Conversations With A Mechanical Cat
Fact Number 48
Wait, why this "nude" post don't have the NSFW on?
Oh dear, I forgot. I better amend my post. Then again, he has no 'parts', so does he really need pants? A question for the ages. Or someone...
I love your little kitty there. SO cute, how did they get that?
The keyboard of my phone have a .gif section but you can go to www.giphy.com and pick the gif you like and post it in the comments
I will look into that. I've always wanted to be a GIF'ologist on here. But haven't branched out to this part of the creative field. Onwards we go to the future. And I love Michael, was a huge "Office" fan. Especially Dwight and his cousin Mose. Used to really crack me up when he'd chase the car and all. Miss it.
You can make your own gifs with a gif maker app and then upload it with a image hosting page. You can upload gifs here with the steemit uploading thingy when you make a post, not sure if you can do the same in a comment box, i have to try that.
Sounds legit to me :)
Maybe I should get with the 'proper' program...
Hahaha, Mr. Papa's face is without pants, Mr. Papa's face is doing naked?
He DOES have a hat on. We can give him that...
The ill-bred behaviours of the earthy root growing veg can never be counted on. It is best to leave such audacious anthropomorphised food off one's supper guest list.
I feel I am so behind with you...wretched weather and more wretched loss of power.
He hee, yes, he is a sordid sort, with deeply rooted problems about his nakidity. I have missed you and Dubya A, and feel for you in all this hubbub or nastiness and the powerless world within which you've been plunged. Hope it is improving. (What is MY excuse for being so delinquent lately. I'll say very busy working,,,but not as hard as living in the deep freeze. Stay warm and happy, if possible. )
We are back with power but yesterday I got home with my new (used) car and was praising it (though I didn't even want to have to get it) and then the key wouldn't come out of the ignition, let's say after hours of lock smith, tow truck (couldnt take it because he couldnt get it into neutral had to give me a lecture about how complicated volvo's are because blah blah) only to go onto youtube myself (thank god we had power and internet) to see there is a button under the shift box that goes to manual neutral a drive to our mechanics (who is closed it is Saturday) left the rest of my day simply cursing my ill luck of late. When it rains it pours, I think some saucy girl with a brolly and a penchant for wasting salt once said that...but how are you :)
Howdy Do, I am well. Not getting enough done on here to make me happy, but otherwise, things are peachy. No nasty weather quite like yours though. Nasty McNarff from above for sure.
I will now dive headlong into my man toolbox, and say some 'fix-it' things here. You can ignore, and move on to paragraph 4.2, or read on. But I have to do it, as I'm imbued with male genes somewhere deep within my personage. Though I'm not entirely sure I'm using imbued correctly there....but then it is a Sunday morning in March, so we won't worry too much about it.
Anyway, I discovered something about the whole key in the ignition thing with the same problem. I couldn't get the key out. Ends up, the weight of the other keys, fobs, whistles, doo dads and other things on a keychain, weight down the ignition key while it's in it's place. And they swing around on the key, and end up damaging the ignition key cylinder in the column. Happened to me, and my sister. (Someone stole her car, because she just put a sweater over the key, after driving it around like that forever. Forgot the sweater one day and bango...car disappeared.) Very long rest of the sister story short, it wasn't good.
And so...I ended up having to have my lock/cylinder replaced. Then I got one of those removable thingies....you clip off your ignition key, and the rest of the key wad go in the cup on the dash thing while I drive. Resolved the issue from then on. This may NOT be what's wrong with yours, but then, it also might. And if not, it's still a good thing to do for future problem avoidance. I think I might do a post on that. Then again, that might be too useful from the Science world of Schteinn. Guess I can go out on a limb now and then (I: [Frog Smile]
Well, I hope this finds you warm and happy and doing weller than you have been. And the electric is back on so you can make some warffles today. We've all missed you on the site, so it will be nice to have life back to normal once more....though not as nice as on your end, no doubt. Man, I can TALK on a Sunday morning in March!! Keep it as real as possible...dd
Plus pants would never stay on a potato. And they have no shoulders so they couldn't wear suspenders. So wrong. For now, I'll remain neutral on your experiments. However, S.P.C.A.C.T. does have a nice ring to it.
Today's Freewrite is ready!
To indulge in a single-prompt Freewrite, click HERE!
For part 1 of the wild three-prompt Freewrite, click HERE!
Click the graphic to join the fun
Ha haaa, never thought about the suspender thing. Might have to work on that for one of my exhibits. The disadvantages of being a round spud.
The SPCACT is a powerful bunch, with a Writ of Habeus Tater Corpus signed by the honorable Judge Myron Finklemeister or other such Dignitaries of The Law.
Where is the Panted Potato? I'll believe it when I see it! Maybe you will have to go back to the original Mr. Potato Head, which didn't even provide the potato -- just the accessories. Au naturale, all the way! ; )
I shall search one out and take some photos. I hope they still make them. I'll have to go to a new store. I've only seen one at the Goodwill store. And of course, should have bought him. But it was pre-Steemit, and I never DREAMED I need a PC Mr.P, in all my days. And here...I wish I had him. Sigh, such are the trials and tribulations of life in the Deep Sciences.
I have some of those original Mr. P sets...I should do a post on that. Must get on that. Thanks for the idea, and for being a bit skeptical about potatoe pants. Keeps me sharp in this realm of the Science Arts. Have a most wondrous Sunday today.
I've never seen a Mr. P with permanent pants. It took a dirty mind to think he needed those. Ha!!
I agree, and they slimmed him up too. Not sure who had all these ideas. But I like him/her better as a fat little naked spud. Just somehow seems more normal. I have an original Mr. P set, where you put the eyes and all on a real spud. No pants, of course. I should do a post on that too. So many posts, not enough time. Have a nice day today.
I enjoyed reading your story! Good one!
I love Mr. Potato-head, really funny! I like the way you put him in the water surrounded with a lot of scientific instruments .... It's really great idea! ;)