I dont get it!
Posted by: SB&C on: October 17, 2007
Having just finished another post for my own blog and needing something to cheer myself up….
I went searching for crochet patterns to make me feel better.
And it didnt work..
Because I found THIS:
I dont understand a number of things. (but the list is tooo long to go into all of them so we’ll confine ourselves to the picture at hand)..
Why would you want to crochet a cactus?
Even if it IS to hide a bottle of tabasco… WHY???
And then.. why would you want to crochet a little sombero?
And then…. WHY would you place the sombero in such a way to suggest that the cactus is hiding something??
EEEEEEEEK.
34 Responses to "I dont get it!"
October 17, 2007 at 7:38 am
Well that gave me a laugh at least! where do you find these things?????
Also – have you thought that a cane toad might actually be a handsome prince in disguise?
October 17, 2007 at 8:13 am
I think that’s supposed to be a little Mexican man in a pink hat sleeping against the cactus. Note the legs sticking out from under the hat.
Which of course brings to mind the questions 1. Why would the little Mexican man wear a *pink* hat? and 2. Why would the little Mexican man choose a cactus to lean up against as he slept? Surely there were other options — a wall, a large rock . . .
Or maybe he’s dead. It would explain the odd choice of sleeping place.
October 17, 2007 at 9:22 am
I thought that too about the sombrero, but it actually looks like a little guy is having a siesta there… although I don’t think Tabasco needs a cozy of its own, I think if you’re into Mexican themes, this could be a cute something. It’s certainly not as bad as some of the other things that people crochet.
October 17, 2007 at 9:34 am
LOL – it’s a little sleeping dude, but you’re right! It looks like naughty sombrero games!
I don’t get why hot sauce needs a cozy. Never mind a Siesta/Nudist Cactus one.
October 17, 2007 at 9:52 am
Well, I can’t explain the need to crochet a cactus, but these things happen to the best of us.
Fret not about what the cactus is covering, though – with the two brown stumps and colorful “scarf” suggest that the sombrero is a person slumped at the base of the cactus in siesta.
I could think of more comfortable places to prop myself for a nap, but then I happen to like the couch.
October 17, 2007 at 10:51 am
It looks like there’s a little Mexican man (the brown thing) underneath the little sombrero taking a siesta.
It also looks like Paco is wearing a scarf
October 17, 2007 at 10:54 am
Ah, but it’s not just a sombrero–it’s a sombrero with a little person sitting under it–if you look closely, you can see his legs and his little serape. You’ve seen this before–it’s that time-honored depiction of a Mexican, having a siesta under his sombrero, because you know, those guys love to put everything off until mañana.
Hey, it’s not often you see a crocheted item that combines fug, uselessness, and racial stereotypes. This is quite a find!
October 17, 2007 at 11:31 am
I think I can help out with the sombrero part. I looks to me like its supposed to be a little Mexican guy snoozing by a cactus-the brown being pants on his legs. Although why would anyone want to lean on a cactus, much less fall asleep?
Its definitely not something I would want to crochet.
October 17, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Well, I think the sombrero is on a person. See the little brown lets sticking out and the shawl/blanket thingy. But, I do agree, removing the tobasco cozie to use the tobasco is a bit odd.
October 17, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Awww, so you mean you don’t want a crazy cactus to be mingling with all your condiments? Funny.
October 17, 2007 at 6:46 pm
I think things like this are a product of boredom. Not that that is a good thing…….
October 17, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Why would you want to crochet a cactus?
I’ve crocheted a cactus before (seen here) and I’ve seen lots of other types of cacti crocheted by others too.
Although, I guess, this particularly one you posted is rather bizarre.
October 18, 2007 at 2:47 am
I think the sombrero is supposed to be on a little guy who is like sitting against the cactus to sleep. Nonetheless, the guy is poorly done and no one would lean to sleep against a cactus.
October 19, 2007 at 12:14 pm
It’s supposed to look like a little Mexican sleeping up against the cactus. It’s a very popular (if demeaning) theme in “artwork”.
October 19, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Well, living down south (not IN the south, just south, cause Texas is south) we here have lots of cactus amoung us, so crocheting a cactus is quite a normal thing!
Oh, and if you have as many tabasco bottles around as I do (i have at least one of each kind, I know the owner, yep, that’s right, THE owner of tabasco), these things are fun!
But, to each is own, if you don’t live in a region that has cactus, why crochet it?
October 19, 2007 at 9:34 pm
But why oh why should we be told that our love of hot sauce is so wrong that we must hide our addiction by crocheting little cacti over the oh-so-cute-bottles. Why!
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October 23, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Well ya’ll saw a little dude under the sombrero but sorry… My first thought was that it was a turd!
October 24, 2007 at 1:13 am
It is not only ugly, it’s insulting to Mexicans. The brown stuff under the cactus looks more like a turd than like a person. Dog droppings under a sombrero? Keep that shit away from my hot sauce!
October 25, 2007 at 2:11 am
*falls over and dies* This… is… so… funny! Some weird, perverted part of me likes it, pink sombrero, turd legs, total lack of a point and all.
*weeps*
October 25, 2007 at 1:19 pm
I think the little cactus with the flower with the little pink flower on the top is rather cute. In a certain video game there’s a certain character that’s a cactus, and look, all you have to do is crochet a cutie face and it’s L’il Cactus!
But the sombrero and whatever else it has on it makes me throw up a little.
November 10, 2007 at 11:16 am
it makes me think of a body building on steroids trying to hide his shrunken you know what
December 3, 2007 at 7:39 pm
That looked like a happy cactus with an uncircumcised penis and 2 sagging brown nut sacks.
July 5, 2008 at 8:13 am
Whoa. Yes. It looks like the cactus has a penis. Very scary to have on your table indeed.
Love this site! I only wish I still had the incredibly horrendous pattern for a, um, “hat” that made the person look like a prisoner wearing a broom….
October 30, 2008 at 6:40 pm
the reason this was made:
There is one brand of hot sauce that has this exact picture on the label. *that’s* why it made a good project. something to cover the hot sauce bottle. i’ve tried googling it but i can’t find the brand, but i know i’ve seen this little guy before.
as for execution, are his arms bleeding strings? and yes, the one leg out in front is a bit suggestive.
November 12, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Yeah, this is a pretty common theme in kitschy, thoughtlessly-racist-tinged stuff, especially stuff from the 50s. It’s still around, though. I used to work for a company that sold these sinks, and if you scroll down all the way, in the fourth-to-last row there’s one with a very similar depiction. These sinks are made in Mexico and sold in the US by a Mexican family-owned business, so that makes it a little more okay with me (i’m guessing the person who crocheted the thing above is anglo), but it’s still a little uncomfortable for me. I guess you could say it’s just a depiction of how hard life is when you are so poor and isolated that your only luxury is to spend the hottest hours of the day on the shady side of a cactus.
The cactus in question, btw, is a saguaro. The spines are far apart–there are clumps of them along the ridges, which can be pretty far apart. You could conceivably lean against it without getting poked, or you could take a pocketknife and cut off the ones that were where you wanted to lean. They’re not like smaller cactuses that have tons of little clusters of spines so wherever you touch them you get stickers in you.
November 13, 2008 at 7:23 am
I think the cactus has actually eaten the sombrero wearer a la Little Shop of Horrors.
May 17, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I love it, do you have the pattern for this guy, how cute is it? Pleanty I really would like to have a free pattern so I could make these for my friends. They would adore him .. sjl
October 17, 2007 at 3:29 am
No see, the sombero is hiding a little dude taking a nap in front of the cactus. Because that’s soo much better. (end sarcasm)