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I'd like it in the form of a toad, please.

julen — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:29:55 -0800

Sometimes walls, windows, door and a roof just isn't enough. Why be boxed in by four walls when you can make your home or business look just like your favorite critter? Here's a collection of animal-shaped buildings from around the world, including the trailblazing Lucy the Elephant whose creator got a patent in the 1880s giving him exclusive rights to make animal-shaped buildings up until the turn of the century. My favorite isn't included in that list: The Toed In (on Shorpy). There's lot more out there: The Duck House at the Shanghai Expo. A cat-shaped kindergarden and simpler cat-shaped buildings on Cat Island in Japan. A fabulous set of snake-shaped homes in Mexico. America has several pig stands and pig-shaped hot dog stands. Some pigstands serve people at the mouth of the pig. There is a bulldog cafe. Strange and Unusual Buildings offers up: a goose-shaped home & Mother Goose Cafe & a shark-fronted building. The Japanese Tsunami destroyed a crab-shaped public toilet. Belgium gives us a Trojan Horse-shaped B&B. There are buildings shaped like dinosaurs in CA, FL, and FL again. An Indian Fisheries building is shaped like a fish. An Octopus in China is a bit abstract. An ice cream-mongering owl includes a pun. If animals don't work for you, may I suggest buildings that look like the food they serve?

I for one welcome our ...ah forget it.

arse_hat — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:43:04 -0800

John Cerney makes giant plywood people. 5 minute interview.

Mmmm .... catfish.

monju_bosatsu — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:49:33 -0800

Damn, I likes me some catfish! The Giant Mekong Catfish isn't the only big fish to be found, though. Sadly, the behemoth is facing extinction, largely due to overfishing. Fortunately, some are working on saving the fish. Of course, fish aren't only found in the water.

Isn't a miniature version of a large ball of twine just a ball of twine?

jon_kill — Wed, 26 May 2004 18:44:01 -0800

World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest Things. If you need that explained, you're in luck. Consider it the ying to this thread's yang.

Road Cheese Hypertour: WI-MN-IA-IL.

hijinx — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:38:41 -0800

Road Cheese Hypertour: WI-MN-IA-IL. One of my favorite Olde Tyme Webe links. Not just because the piece of art I reference in my profile is featured, oh no. We're talking Spam Museum, baby! Anyone seen these things in person? Are they just as frightening, or worse?