And then something strikes a chord -

[kyburg]

bigbigtruck - go check elorie's journal today.

I should post the patterns for the "dammit dolls" my Aunt Dodie used to make.

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Dammit

[azuli.livejournal.com]

What is a dammit doll?

Re: Dammit

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Dodie used to collect the most *awful* pieces of scrap material - think red & black upholstery fabric, for example - some of that geometric stuff so popular back in the 70's.

Then she'd make dolls out of it - using equally ugly buttons (mismatched, of course) for the eyes, some really nasty yarn for the hair -

They were hardly recognizeable as anything human - sort of martian-half-cross kind of thing. No arms. No neck. Then there was a little ditty she would also run off on the copier that she'd pin to them -

Whenever things don't go so well...
And you want to hit the wall and yell...
Here's a little dammit doll
That you can't do without.
Just grasp it firmly by the legs
And find a place to slam it
And as you whack the stuffing out
Yell, "DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!"

You get the idea.

Re: Dammit

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Ghad, I'm a sick puppy.