If you’re like me and constantly checking out Halloween stuff, then you would have witnessed a progression over the years in which fucking Jeff Dunham’s terribly unfunny “Achmed the Dead Terrorist” become explosively popular in various other countries for a while.
…Which lead to a saturation of both licensed and bootlegged – MOSTLY bootlegged – Achmed the Dead Terrorist toys, t-shirts and novelties.
…Which then lead to only loosely similar skeleton characters getting sold as “dead terrorists” to grab those clicks.
….Which over many years has now evolved into a linguistic misunderstanding in which many international markets, such as sellers on alibaba.com, are fully under the impression that the word “terrorist” means either “skeleton” or “scary monster” in general.
Who would have thought that exactly one (1) funny thing would ever be associated with Jeff Dunham, even if this phenomenon is more “hm, odd I guess” funny than “ha ha” funny.
Since a terrorist is someone who invokes the emotion of terror, could you not technically argue that all scary monsters are, in fact, terrorists?
well, the technical definition holds that a terrorist invokes terror in the name of a political cause, and to date, we still don’t know what if any politics are endorsed by dead skeletons.
In 1930, Helene Adelaide Shelby patented an apparatus for obtaining
criminal confessions. The police put the suspect into a darkened
chamber where they are confronted by a human skeleton with glowing red
eyes that questions them with a voice transmitted from the interrogator
behind it, through a megaphone in its mouth. A camera concealed in the
skull was to record the confessions
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