Joke article
Joke articles serve to scare people and to enjoy their reaction.
Joke articles are mainly used at celebrations and events such as Carnival , Halloween , April Fools ' jokes , birthdays and other less formal gatherings. But joke articles are also used in everyday life, especially with school children or among work colleagues.
Joke articles often have their origin in costume, horror (e.g. Dracula ) or slapstick films. In addition, everyday objects can also be used as joke articles through misappropriation or manipulation.
history
Joke articles are very old. Already Xenophanes ( 570 - .. 480 BC ) described this jokes. Other old roots can also be found in Halloween . Today's joke articles have been around for at least 100 years.
Various joke articles
- Excrement: piles of feces (various types and sizes, also with a shoe print ), full diaper, vomit , snot drops (to attach in the nose)
- Artificial body parts: artificial arm, foot, fingers (e.g. to attach under a car), artificial penis, large feet, loose eyes (individually or on glasses)
- Macabre: nail through finger or head, knife in head, finger in box devil
- Animals: mice, rats, snakes, spiders, cockroaches, worms
- Disguises: noses, glasses, beards, masks , teeth (including Dracula teeth, monster teeth, yellow teeth)
- Smoking articles: burning dummy cigarettes, bang matches, bang inserts, burn mark stickers, splashing cigarette, lighters (with electric shock, splashing or with a bang)
- Liquids: artificial blood , magic ink (disappears after a short time), stink bomb , broken egg with shell (liquid made of rubber), nail polish with vials, slime (mostly green slime, also with worms or maggots)
- Bloopers: whoopee cushion , Furzspray, Lachsack , sneezing powder , itching powder , sharp chewing gum
- Everyday objects: soot soap (turns the hands black), bitter candy (or, for example, with a garlic flavor), melted plastic popsicle, gypsum golf ball (disintegrates when hit), foam hammer, beer glass with trapped liquid, water bombs , chewing gum with stripes that cause a slight electric shock when pulled
Joke articles in literature
Non-fiction
- Catalog about cotillonart ball articles joke articles (1911), reprint 1999 ISBN 3-487-08409-0
- Patents Ideas (CD) (Build joke articles yourself) ISBN 3-9809363-4-1
Occurs in novels
Joke articles in films
Further examples
nail polish
Joke leg
Whoopee pillow
literature
- Food chemical society, specialist group in the GDCh (ed.): Toys and joke articles: Composition and investigation , Hamburg: Behr-Verlag 1990, ISBN 3-925673-74-1 .
