Is anyone else creeped out by that guy pictured above?

He reminds me of one of the dead guys from the Shining.

Or perhaps from some Lovecraft story. "Read LTHForum... or I'll feed you to Cthulhu."

While I see your point, I remain uncreeped. Though I think if I simply stared at him for while, and let my imagination percolate, I might start to get a bit anxious.

Because someday nobody will know what you are talking about:

Oh great. Now Sarah is going to have another anxiety attack.

I've never seen The Shining (perhaps fortunately), so I only see the picture as being a very earnest looking young man, perhaps in white to suggest a doctor ("this is good for you"), but otherwise a rosy-cheeked innocent who would have been an ideal of the time period in which this was produced. Definitely dated, but not scary.

I'm not creeped out exactly, but I definitely will not miss him. I think it's rude to point and stare.

Cynthia wrote:I've never seen The Shining (perhaps fortunately), so I only see the picture as being a very earnest looking young man, perhaps in white to suggest a doctor ("this is good for you"), but otherwise a rosy-cheeked innocent who would have been an ideal of the time period in which this was produced. Definitely dated, but not scary.

Then why does this rosy-cheeked innocent have the Siouxsie Sioux eye make-up? He is clearly up to no good.

Once upon a time (before I got my paws on this), the little red box suggested/urged that you drink Moxie. Don't know if people back in those days were creeped out or otherwise found his pointing in bad taste, but he seemed too forceful a fellow to leave unamended in some way.

He does look like a doctor--perhaps the one who in the 30's told one of my clients, who was then pregnant with her first child, that she should take up smoking to calm her nerves. Perhaps because I'm a non-smoker, he frightens me a little too.

If (often faulty) memory serves, didn't the soda jerks back in the day wear little jackets precisely like that? Whether the jackets were to sucker you into thinking that they were professionals (or the pharmacist was pulling double-duty ), I do believe that they were de rigueur. (If you look closely, you can see the "M" on his tie.)

Looks a lot like a certain type of santeria priest, too, down to the rouge.

He looks more like a man who is having a hard time finding his profession.
Like a cross between a priest(with the neck collar) a butcher or dentist(over coat)a Dick Tracy villian(yellow under shirt) and a tranny(heavy make-up). And what is that pin on his collar supposed to be?

I just finished reading Pope Brock's "Charlatan". I believe the gentleman above is none other than Dr.John R.Brinkley extolling the rejuvinating powers of goat.

figjustin wrote:And what is that pin on his collar supposed to be?

Um. Moxie. Hello? Moxie! (Refer to post four posts up)

The pin on his coat is a side view of someone with a beverage glass drinking (I presume) Moxie.

On the other hand, perhaps it has nothing to do with Moxie and is an impossible-to-make-out sign of an obscure religious group popularized by a pulp thriller written by someone with an impossibly common name that's probably an anagram from something vaguely (or not-so-vaguely) ominous...like, like..."own brand"!

(or something else seemingly innocuous)

Okay -- I looked it up -- Moxie was invented by a doctor and was originally marketed as a patent medicine. It was called "Moxie Nerve Food." So the "doctor's orders" look is intentional.

Also, apparently the term "moxie" came into the language from the drink, rather than the other way around.

More, if you're interested:
http://www.jphs.org/20thcentury/moxie-s ... -cola.html

Gypsy Boy wrote:

figjustin wrote:And what is that pin on his collar supposed to be?

Um. Moxie. Hello? Moxie! (Refer to post four posts up)

The pin on his coat is a side view of someone with a beverage glass drinking (I presume) Moxie.

Looks like an 'N' to me. Nehi?

I like the picture, but I do note that nowhere on the picture or the home page does it say "Chicago-based culinary-chat site."

Also, who ever has access to recent logos might want to post them to the Gallery thread, which only covers through last June.

LAZ wrote:Also, who ever has access to recent logos might want to post them to the Gallery thread, which only covers through last June.

The last four LTHForum logos may be found here

His obvious use of red lipstick disturbs me the most. I have no idea why, but it's creepy.

Kim

AngrySarah wrote:Then why does this rosy-cheeked innocent have the Siouxsie Sioux eye make-up? He is clearly up to no good.

For those of you who don't remember Siouxsie from the '80s, here is a picture. And I agree that they both share the same eye make-up.

P.S. Unfortunately, our creepy friend is no more, I see.

Looks like a spex-less Charlie Trotter to me.

yep...he was a bit creepy in a deranged, makeover-ish, authoritarian way

as for Siouxsie: she enjoyed something of a revival in the late 90's in Boystown...apparently visiting Spin quite a bit...

well...to each her own...

sigh

certainly not the Siouxsie of my teen years(there are more bearable *no pun intended* gay bars in Chicago, right...um...maybe not...sigh...Chicago is a wasteland when it comes to cool gay bars)

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Siouxsie'd either eat that LTH icon for lunch...

or marry him...

He looks like a fascist to me.