| 15th January 2007 08:59 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
The Sunday Times
January 14, 2007
Death in Toytown: the Saddam execution doll
BEND me, shape me, hang me. This is the Saddam Hussein execution doll, writes Maurice Chittenden.
Barbie and Ken were never like this, but a company in the United States has demonstrated its gallows humour by rushing a commemorative toy into production.
The company, Herobuilders, has previously faced threats after producing a doll of Osama Bin Laden in a pink tutu.
The Saddam doll was launched just as the deposed Iraqi dictator went to his gruesome end. It is for sale on the internet at £12.95.
Emil Vicale, who runs the company in Connecticut, said: “We jumped the gun. The action figure comes complete with a ‘Dope on a Rope’ T-shirt and a fun noose.”
The 12in figure is the latest in a series of political dolls. All have been good sellers apart from a Tony Blair action man in combat fatigues. The company was stuck with 600 of them on its shelves.
Herobuilders has made more than 100 satirical dolls, including George Bush as a superhero; a power-dressed Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, and one mocking Dick Cheney, the American vice-president, for accidentally shooting a friend while hunting.
In a world where toys can become us, it also offers to produce a figurine of anyone for £216. For no extra charge, the doll will have a chip inserted so it can talk with your voice.
As well as Saddam swinging on a noose, the firm’s latest range of political dolls includes one of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Let them eat yellow cake”, which misquotes Marie Antoinette with a reference to uranium ore.
Film of Saddam’s hanging captured on a mobile telephone and posted several times on YouTube has now been watched by more than 1m people. In Britain children have been found swapping pictures of the execution by phone with their friends.
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| 15th January 2007 09:05 PM |
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| mrhipfl |
lame. Osama in a pink dress = funny. Saddam hanging = wrong. |
| 15th January 2007 09:08 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
quote:
mrhipfl wrote:
lame. Osama in a pink dress = funny. Saddam hanging = wrong.
Oh well, some people will do anything for a buck. |
| 15th January 2007 09:41 PM |
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| pdog |
Die-eleated! |
| 15th January 2007 09:49 PM |
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| sirmoonie |
Hitchens on it.
http://www.slate.com/id/2156776/
I read it several times - with Hitchens, I always do - other than his continued and misguided love of the Kurds, it hard to find a single point to debate. That is Hitchens. |
| 16th January 2007 01:16 AM |
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| corgi37 |
Saddam got off easy. His 1/2 brother got his head ripped off! Stupid fucks. Serves 'em right. |
| 16th January 2007 01:47 AM |
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| Brainbell Jangler |
quote:
sirmoonie wrote:
Hitchens on it.
http://www.slate.com/id/2156776/
I read it several times - with Hitchens, I always do - other than his continued and misguided love of the Kurds, it hard to find a single point to debate. That is Hitchens.
What's your beef with the Kurds, moonie? They were sold out at Versailles in 1919 and remain the largest nation on earth without its own nation state. If there is any hope for the dream of a democratic beachhead in the Middle East, it's in Kurdistan. I say we liberate their homeland, make Turkish entry into the EU contingent on ceding Turkish-occupied Kurdistan, reunite the Syrian-occupied and Iranian-occupied sections, and atone for the betrayal at Versailles.
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| 16th January 2007 05:52 AM |
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| lotsajizz |
Free Kurdistan.....I said it three years ago, declare victory, divvy up the artificial state into Kurdistan, a Shiite land, and a Sunni land, and call it a win and have a victory parade.....the recent executions provide us with cover, we should implement NOW!
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| 16th January 2007 03:09 PM |
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| sirmoonie |
quote:
Brainbell Jangler wrote:
What's your beef with the Kurds, moonie? They were sold out at Versailles in 1919 and remain the largest nation on earth without its own nation state. If there is any hope for the dream of a democratic beachhead in the Middle East, it's in Kurdistan. I say we liberate their homeland, make Turkish entry into the EU contingent on ceding Turkish-occupied Kurdistan, reunite the Syrian-occupied and Iranian-occupied sections, and atone for the betrayal at Versailles.
No beefage with Kurdism. Hitchens' bizarre love of them has made him take and maintain some positions that make relatively little sense, thats all. |
| 16th January 2007 03:28 PM |
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| ComeAsYouAre |
Funny in a sick sort of way... |
