While perusing briefly through
Hot Topic during one of my
anthropological observation excursions to the
mall, I noticed a little box on one of the shelves. Usually I'm not attracted, but repelled by cutesy
goth stuff, like the little
Death comic book dolls they sell. This one however, a
doll with an oversize
skull head and a
tiny little
body caught my
attention, not because of the way it looked, although it looked
amusing, but because of the
name: "
The thing wot squeaks." I suppose the
skull must have a squeaky thing in it like a
dog toy.
Several things about the name make it
funny to me. The
spelling of "wot" and it's use as a
relative pronoun struck me first, followed by the fact that such a
phrase implies something
menacing, such as "The
thing wot comes in the
night and gnaws on your
more sensitive parts before beginning the
main course", or "The
thing wot
slobbers and
breathes down your
neck as you walk through the
forest alone."
Squeaking just doesn't seem to
cut it. I did not buy the product since the main thing that made it
appealing to me, the
concept, was
free.
Unfortunately for my
popularity rating,
no one seems to think this nearly as
funny as I do when I tell
them about it. Maybe I should stop
preceding the story with, "This is really
fucking funny, or
laughing while I'm trying to talk and repeating the name
over and over again in an
ominous voice when they don't seem to
comprehend.
Maybe I'm just a
hopeless geek.