54 Odd-ball Christmas Ornaments

1. SenorMysterioso
   December 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 pm

   fetus ornament - sort of distasteful
   fetus in commando gear ornament - sort of funny

   the little felted mario is pretty cool

2. Johnny Cat
   December 24th, 2008 at 1:39 am

   The people that would actually hang these in earnest upon their trees exist only in my future fictions, as characters unlike any the world now knows. (I wish.)

3. Evilbeagle
   December 24th, 2008 at 5:15 am

   The fetuses are plain creepy. Ew.

4. Awesome Mustache
   December 24th, 2008 at 10:21 am

   Too bad the fetuses are plastic. Marizpan and chocolate fetuses would so rock the Santa's cookie plate.

5. AnUnSi
   December 24th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

   I love the fact that you are showing these models of pre-born babies. Some of us have been using these for over twenty years -- outside abortion mills -- to help convince girls and women why they should not go inside and hire a hit-man to slaughter their little ones. Two or three commenters, above, who may not yet have come bo terms with the fact that the pre-born are persons just like the rest of us -- and innocent and defenseless -- use the term, "fetus," to avoid the word, "baby." How sad! They don't know that "fetus" is Latin for "offspring," so a human fetus is a human baby!

6. AnUnSi
   December 24th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

   PS to Jill Harness and others: There is nothing "weird" or "distasteful" or "creepy" about these baby models. They are no different from baby dolls that little girls have played with for millennia. The use of a pejorative adjective concerning them may arise from feelings of guilt (personal association with past abortions). I will pray for all of you.

7. Jill Harness
   December 24th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

   AnUnSi, I find it weird that you can't see the strangeness in a fetus holding a gun. And for the record, I've never had an abortion, but thank you for showing just how judgmental you are. Please take a moment to look inside yourself and turn yourself into a decent person before you go around hating everyone around you.

8. Jill Harness
   December 24th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

   And for the record, little girls generally play with representations of babies that have already exited the womb.
   You're the sick person who holds onto stillborns and pretends they're still alive because it's "still a baby."

9. Awesome Mustache
   December 24th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

   Hooray for rhetoric!

   Calling a fetus a "pre-born baby" is like calling a ball of raw cookie dough a "pre-baked cookie" but a cookie ain't a cookie till it's baked. Both are pretty tasty though...

   Anyone know where I can get molds to make my "pre-eaten" marzipan babies?

10. Jill Harness
    December 24th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Awesome mustache, may I suggest a regular cookie cutter in the shape of a fetus?
    http://inventorspot.com/articles/15_strange_funny_weird_bizarre_sick_g ifts_20878

11. ted
    December 24th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    Speaking of avoding the use of terms, what exactly is an "abortion mill"?

    My dictionary says a mill is "a building qwith machinery for grinding grain into flour; a building with machinery for manufacturing; a machine used especially for crushing, stamping, grinding, cutting, shaping, or polishing."

    None of those make sense when used in the context of "abortion mill". Just like "puppy mill", where, I assume, no puppies are actually being ground into flour.

    Of course, calling the doctor's office an "abortion mill" is AnUnSi's way of trying to strip away the aura of medical aspect of the abortion procedure.

12. Nicholas Dollak
    December 24th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Wow! A lot o' rushing to judgement here, and where it wasn't called for.

    As a Latin scholar, I'm well aware that "foetus" is Latin for "baby." As one who is an armchair scientist, I accept that the term "foetus" is currently used to refer to babies that have passed the embryonic stage and achieved the basic shape they'll have upon birth, but haven't been born yet. Whether a person refers to a "pre-born" baby as a "foetus" or not does not reflect ignorance of the term's etymological roots, nor does it mean the person sees said foetus as somehow less of a person.

    Foetuses are cute & precious, but, like internal organs, are ordinarily hidden out-of-sight. Despite my own scientific curiosity and fascination with the workings of the body, if I were to see a real foetus out-of-context, it would be as unsettling as finding a lung on the living-room floor. There's something surreal about using a plastic foetus as a Christmas tree ornament. I can appreciate it if the decorator is an artist doing a sort-of Dada-ist take on Christmas trees; from anyone else, though, it comes across as a didactic political agenda, and would seem in poor taste even if I agree with the person's stand on the issue.

    Whew! Anyway, I found a few of these little plastic foetoids while helping clean up my ex-fiancee's house after her parents passed away. Nobody seems to know where her Mom had acquired them.

13. liphttam1
    December 24th, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    I have nothing to say as I am speechless at the stupidity of the objects before me. Wait, yes I do. WTF.

14. Jill Harness
    December 24th, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    "Foetuses are cute & precious, but, like internal organs, are ordinarily hidden out-of-sight. Despite my own scientific curiosity and fascination with the workings of the body, if I were to see a real foetus out-of-context, it would be as unsettling as finding a lung on the living-room floor."
    Exactly

15. Arden
    December 25th, 2008 at 12:20 am

    lol @ AnUnSi

    Why do people like that always feel a need to inform us of their (dubious) intention to pray for us? How ridiculous, and if you think about it, offensive.
    This "praying" would basically be nothing more than asking that we stopped being open minded and thinking for ourselves and just switched to THEIR mentality.

16. Evilbeagle
    December 25th, 2008 at 3:27 am

    Wow. While Jill Harness pretty much covered it, I would like to add this.

    Just because you find a fetus creepy, or call it by its proper name, doesn't mean that you are guilty of anything, having abortions, or otherwise hate children and have a need to dehumanize a fetus. Quite frankly, I find most dolls creepy and never actually played with them as a kid. A fetus doll, particularly a heavily armed one, is as appealing to me as a ... actually, I can't think of anything less appealing.

    In addition, hanging unborn children on your tree seems more Hannibal Lector than it does...whatever you think it means.

    I certainly don't need your prayers, AnUnSi, since that is nothing I believe in, but if it makes you feel better, or somehow eases whatever guilt you might be carrying around, have at it, though in this, I am in agreement with Arden in that it is rather offensive to even say that, as though you, AnUnSi, are morally superior because you would decorate your house with models of things that are not supposed to be outside the womb. In fact, that just doubles the creepy factor.

17. Awesome Mustache
    December 25th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

    @Jill Thanks for the cookie link! This is just what I need to go with my "pre-eaten" santa cookies!

18. Rocky Rook
    December 27th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Cartoon network has little cartoons (shown between the show and advertisement) that look like this ... big head, small body.

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