afterglide
afterglide
Disjointed rantings from the cul-de-sacs of suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Jeremy Q. Afterglide

Thrift store polo shirt kitten pirate

Goodwill is a good place to get books for advice on parenting. I don't have any kids, but I often purchase and check out books about child rearing so that I may tell people with kids what they are doing wrong. It might seem a little obnoxious, but I only do it because I care. I care that their kids are self-absorbed, ill-mannered little shits. But that is beside the point. Instead, let's discuss this book published in the early 80's that I found on Sunday in West St Paul.

Yes, this all seems quite sensible. What parent doesn't want their child to learn how to cooperate with siblings, friends, and even adults...


...but just what in the fuck is this little girl doing to her friend? Gina, the box lunch is on the table, not in little Suzy's pants. It's ok to be curious, but you're so young. Save it for the civil union or at least until your freshman year at Wellesley.



The book poses many important questions for parents to have answered, including whether a little sibling rivalry is harmful. In a word, it isn't. However, this illustration shows what happens when big brother Tommy turns his eye to his little sister and realizes he's been pimpin' out the wrong kind of pussy.


You can never start teaching problem solving skills too early. Preschool age children can pick up on subtle lessons derived from scenarios like the one shown below. Mommy wants little Jesse to let go of the teddy bear he took by force from his cousin Lisa. She could negotiate with Jesse, but she knows it's quicker to have Lisa snap the neck of Jesse's rabbit to show him what happens to aggressive, bullying little taintlickers like him.

Parents can take special measures to encourage positive behaviors in their children. Here we see that Mommy and Daddy have left Anthony and his sister Coleen in the care of their odd neighbor from across the street. "He's just a little strange," they've assured themselves. "But he seems so decent and kind." Unfortunately we showed up just in time to see odd Mr. Taggert saying, "Now Anthony, I need you to behave yourself, or I'm going to show my flaccid penis to you just like I did to Coleen back there. Do you understand?"


Almost every kid can benefit from the lessons learned from team sports. Here we see Billy and Jacob have returned from baseball practice to play with their other neighborhood friends...

...but they seem to be oblivious to their scrawny pal struggling to stop the vigorous neck fucking he's getting from a stray dog that jumped him.


On second thought, maybe team sports aren't the best way to go. This group of kids can't even decide what team to play for both euphemistically and literally.

You've got little polo shirt cat pirate here and his lithe but eternally pissed off buddy.


And there's Perv McKracken, the college sophomore giving 10 year old Kayla the yum yum eyes. "Mmm mm mmmm! Damn, girl! You hike up those shorts any higher and I'm going to be eating camel toe for breakfast tomorrow."


This little racist douchebag is about to step on Robby's nuts. Don't worry though. Robby is wise to the situation and is about to stab the kid in the eye with a juice box straw. Save the sack, kid. Save the sack.


What. The. Fuck. I mean it's nice that Mommykins came straight over to the soccer game from her job at McDonald's, but what is she doing to her daughter? "Oooh. Yeah, sweetie. Mommy likes it when you suck on her fingers. Unnnggghhhhhhhh. Ok, Mommy just came really hard, but that's our little secret, mmkay pumpkin?"


Holy shit! This little girl is beating her friend to death with a tricycle! An entire god damn tricycle!

And finally, the last, but most important lesson offered by this book is how to prepare your children for the highly likely scenario where their Raggedy Ann doll will abscond with their chinchilla and spank said chinchilla in a tree.


Ooh, that's a naughty chinchilla. Smack that furry ass, Raggedy Ann!

18 comments (leave yours):

  1. Hedy De Vine said...
     

    Those drawings cannot be for real! Seriously, girl sucking on woman's fingers is so wrong. That book is way worse than any old pervy Disney movie.

  2. Jeremy said...
     

    It's very real. I only posted maybe half the illustrations. Objects in the background always appear to be touching people in uncomfortable and/or highly inappropriate ways. Either the artist has no sense of how to draw depth, or they are a total perv. Maybe it's both.

  3. Butchieboy said...
     

    BRAVO!

  4. Jeremy said...
     

    Thank you, butchieboy. *bows*

  5. s4xton said...
     

    ROFL RFOFLFAarfarfafararfa

  6. Jeremy said...
     

    Jesus, even I still laugh out loud looking at these illustrations. Was just looking at them with a coworker and was nearly in tears. To the illustrator: WHAT THE HELL???

  7. Kristen said...
     

    That book is weird. You are far, far weirder.

  8. Jeremy said...
     

    Yes. Yes I am.

  9. Hedy De Vine said...
     

    Now I'm imagining you sitting there at work chuckling to yourself thinking about the girl sucking on the lady's fingers and having to cover up your boney with a file folder when your boss comes in to see what the heck you are laughing about.

  10. Jeremy said...
     

    Are you kidding me? I can't keep this under my hat. I sent my boss the link! *grin*

  11. Elizabeth said...
     

    You need to create a whole website for this. I've peed my couch reading this.

  12. Jeremy said...
     

    Elizabeth, the good news is you can get a whole new couch for 40 cents at the Goodwill Outlet store. But you have to get there at 4 am and punch a humpbacked lady with a mustache to get it.

  13. Aliecat said...
     

    I don't know if I should encourage this type of depravity...hehe!

  14. Jeremy said...
     

    Encourage it? You inspire and participate in it!

  15. kimmyk said...
     

    Ok, I came here from Ambers and have laughed my butt off at the past several posts.

    I don't even know what to say about this-it's completely twisted. I like it. I'll be back.

    Oh yeah, your Geek Prom? Very nice.

  16. Jeremy said...
     

    Kimmy, thanks for stopping by. There will be plenty more where this came from!

  17. Brandon said...
     

    Laughed at this until I was crying. Nicely done!

  18. Jeremy said...
     

    Brandon, now you know how I felt when I found this book. :-) Thanks, man.

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