Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Dapper Cadaver: for all your execution needs.

a phone call made last week at work:

BJ: "Dapper Cadaver, this is BJ. How can I help?"
WC: "I wonder if you have any guillotines to rent?"
BJ: "Yes, we do!"
WC: "Tell me more!"
[pricing, custom building, etc, discussed]
WC: "oh, you also have stocks?"
BJ: "Yes! Stocks run $50. But if you're interested in any of the torture and execution items we have here in our warehouse, let me tell you - we have an electric chair for $75, gallows & nooses, a gibbet (these were used for pirate executions back in the day - man-sized steel cage that allows you to kill a person by starving them or irritating them. can be set on the floor or hung from a sturdy cable), a cross with a skeleton on it. Oh, i forgot to tell you, the gibbet comes with a skeleton inside. [list continues, wendy starts to laugh...]. Well, yeah, that's a pretty good summary of our torture and execution devices. Just let me know!"

I had a good reason for making the phone call. Saturday was Bastille Day, and also the day of our annual film festival, which took a French revolutionary theme this year. It was desired that there be a dark corner with a guillotine in order to behead the creator of the festival's worst film - so, I went searching. And Friday afternoon, I made a long trek to Hollywood to see BJ at the Dapper Cadaver - while he did not have a guillotine available (we managed to construct one ourselves on Saturday nevertheless!), he did have stocks, and so much else. It was one of the weirder excursions I've made in the last month.
This, for instance, is the severed body parts area. One bin for severed arms, another for severed legs....
And these are the stocks. With a Wendy in them.

2 comments:

$ara said...

why is that picture...sexy?

boxpilot said...

duh, as if you have to ask . ..