![]() And so he started making all kinds of gags using this little toilet. When Fishlove looked at that toilet, he didn’t see doll-house furniture. “We’ve had combat fatigue cases that never cracked a smile for weeks until somebody handed them a gag.” Fishlove focused on toilets when, in 1924, TootsieToy started making doll-house furniture using a new injection-molding process. Well, anything to do with elimination, really. Mardi: Toilets were Irving Fishlove’s thing. Collectors Weekly: What’s with the toilets? Stan Timm: In the book “ Cheap Laffs” by Mark Newgarden, the co-creator of Garbage Pail Kids, he says gag boxes are “essentially three-dimensional greeting cards, often aggressive in tone and risqué in content.” It’s like a joke card, except it’s a box that has a three-dimensional object in it, like a tiny, little toilet-where I guess the greeting card might have a picture of a toilet. And that’s exactly what gag boxes are all about. And then when you open it, of course, it’s a gag. With a funny greeting card, you read the outside, and it entices you to open it. Mardi Timm: The whole idea of the gag box is to entice you to open it up, just like the greeting card. This toilet joke plays on the draft for World War II when it says “If You Gotta Go … You Gotta Go!” Collectors Weekly: What is a gag box exactly? Fishlove and his company called, “The King of Gag Boxes.” The Chicago couple recently took the time to explain, in their usual hilarious and charming manner, why they’ve collected more than 200 gag boxes. Or as the Timms delicately put it, “The Process of Elimination.” That’s actually a chapter title in their upcoming self-published book on Mr. Turns out, the company’s head honcho, Irving Fishlove, was obsessed with farts and poop. I couldn’t quite get my brain around why the Timms were so crazy about these old-fashioned gags, until they summed it up for me in two words: Bathroom humor. I was more interested in other Fishlove innovations- chattering teeth, beer glasses with naked pinups inside, and, of course, fake rubber vomit. Fishlove and Co., they’d tell me about gag boxes. Ever since I first encountered Mardi and Stan Timm, the foremost collectors of novelties produced by H. PS.It’s all about the toilets-thousands and thousands of tiny toilets. Its the perfect way to package any holiday gift whether you are trying to get a laugh out of your significant other, looking to embarrass a friend, or need a white elephant gift for a family get together. We hope we made you smile! Now pass that smile along with one of our gag gift boxes. We are in the joke business! And what better way to deliver a smile, and a good belly laugh than through a mildly inappropriate, but ironically on point gag gift. ![]() The Wh*re in the Drawer.Īnd an idea (and company) was inappropriately born! But like we said its not what you think. After throwing around a few crude but funny ideas we both quickly settled on the best one. That's right! After a late night discussion (and cocktail) between my wife and I over who was going to be moving our 4 year old daughter's nagging Elf on the Shelf, we jokingly began bantering about what the adult version of Elf on the Shelf would be. ![]() It's just for a laugh and a funny gag gift box! Or will folks get a chuckle out of the Wh*re in the Drawer?!īut its not what you think, no! We are not really selling cocks! What if this elf was a little naughtier this year. When after a cocktail, an idea did appear. 'Twas a few weeks before Christmas, when all in the house,Ī husband and wife were discussing the elf. The tale behind our first product, the Wh*ore in the Drawer: We are the creative, and maybe a little inappropriate minds behind the funniest gag gift packaging.
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