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this is my favourite scary mannequin.  currently dressed as a santa

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it's what all the kiwi chicks are wearing

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brother edd spotted this.  it's a beauty

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what made him so popular ?  no one knows

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mostly armless

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glad to see the evil mannequin is making an effort as it's christmas

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poor thing.  he's got absolutely no control over what he looks like.  let's say no to the exploitations of mannequins in this way

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and a trolley !

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except there is a tax increase.  they're just not passing it on to consumers. 

or perhaps mannequins don't have to pay tax

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this mannequin seems rather distracted.  i fear the worst

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here's a chap carrying a head

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chairs are for sitting on not standing on

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it's a figure head (a ship's front mannequin)

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nice use of a hair net on a mannequin don't you think ?

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with prices so low, you have to wonder how much more they can take off

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i had a nice spam email today from someone selling mannequins.  Terrence (the mannequin sales men) said "All of our products are bottomly price for their excellent quality"

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it's like some bad dream

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there are a number of mannequins on the main shopping drag in downtown auckland which appear to be being garrotted by cheese wire.  shame

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they didn't seem bothered.  but then mannequins rarely do.

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this ones for all your brits enjoying ascot

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and for all you brits who aren't.

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worth losing your head over ?

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twice as unreal and a confused kezia

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here she is.  my little beauty from the shopping maul.  and her friend the head

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it's all about the label

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tremendous example of a mannequin mostly wearing wool products

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there must be a reason why there's so many nekkid mannequins at the moment - perhaps they are enjoying the late autumn sun before the long wet winter sets in.

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here's a photo that just happened.  i was trying to take a picture of the head below and this chap suddenly arrived with an umbrella and threw himself in front of the shot !  i'm quite pleased with the psychedelic outcome

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this is the freaky child mannequin from the local shopping maul which i'm stalking

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she's got a couple of friends in the next window too

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one is dressed as a snake.

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i think the snake girl killed the lion girl

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this mannequin seems very annoyed that she has to stand in a window selling massive shoes cheaply

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i've never seen one so happy

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you always need to to check out the dangerous fashion of those on the back row.

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this is what happens if you are out in the sun all day without any suncream

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these are mannequin hands on the floor next to the mannequin who owns them.  fingerless gloves for the handless man.

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the scary mannequin in our local maul has been joined by an equally scary doll.

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if you'd told me about mannequins in new zealand before we emigrated i wouldn't have believed you.  but they are absolutely fantastic and get better by the day

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this chap was selling snake oil magnetic therapy bandsand his armless cap wearing mannequin was ably demonstrating how they were to be worn.

sweet as

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this is a close up of that mannequin in the local mall (maul) which i've photed before.  she's definitely not right

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there was a nice display of air new zealand uniforms throughout the ages at wellington airport a week or so back

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i caught them just as they were being packed away

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not sure about this last uniform ...

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this is the window display in a shop near my office called "this is not a love shop"

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these two mannequins in the shop are covered in hair.  fantastic stuff.

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who knew that new zealand is the comedy mannequin capital of the world ?

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new zealand mannequins aren't letting us down at all.  here's a cheeky little mannequin in a thong looking rather sheepish in the corner of a shop window for all to (nearly) see.

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i mentioned this great mannequin which we'd found in the local shopping mall (maul?) a day or two ago.  we went back the other day and it had changed clothes again.

and now i can wait to go back to see what it's wearing next !

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i was worried we'd find no frightening kid sized mannequins in NZ.  but we did.  and here it is. hoorah.  or should i say, ooooooo.

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she's definatley had enough of standing still in window

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this mannequin was spectacularly dreadful.  i've no idea what had happened to his face, but he certainly didn't have the romantic desire described above his head.

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there's no privacy in a prison.  especially if it's a tourist attraction

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the chap below is quite fab with only half a moustache.  i think the chap next to him nicked it to use as a side burn.  do people still have sideburns ?  outrageous

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yeehar.  probably.  but no arms.

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this chap looks dapper in his boater yar ?

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i think he looks a little concerned, and the little chap over his shoulder in the picture also looks worried

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could it be because his trousers are slipping down ?

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an advert, but welcome nevertheless


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we went on an excellent backstage tour of the national gallery yesterday with our friends.  we weren't allowed to take photos, but i sneaked this one of a dust bin with a 'dead' mannequin in.  it really is a fascinating tour for all the family.  you really should go.

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if you look carefully you can see what this chap has been eating

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slightly spooky mannequin

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i felt sorry for this mannequin in pembroke dock.  she had no arms or body

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but that was more fortunate than the other mannequins who had no arms or head s

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day 10 was a town visiting day.  we were in search of the gorky's barafundle album which we eventually found in a second hand record trail.  we went to two of the most fantastic second hard record shops ever in fact, and i highly recommend them both if you find yourself in that part of town.  one of the gorky's himself pops in occasionally, so that would have been very bizarre.

anyway, bonkers is a great name for traditional ladies clothing

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it probably would have been a better name for this charity shop which had a mannequin dressed mostly in plastic bags

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of course the welsh need to keep an eye on their flags

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and you can never have enough apostrophe's

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sneaking round the side revealed a degree of undressedness.

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what is going on here ?

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this week's "guess what" mystery was of course superman

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he seems to have taken batman's place outside city hall
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which was ideal for taking pictures of superheroes punching big ben

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and here's a peek behind the magic of the lens viewers, just so you can see how the magic of funkypancake is created.

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the weather was finally nice last weekend as can be seen by this sunbathing beauties at an outside brick-a-brack stall.  batman is firmly keeping his clothes on.

the chap prefers to sunbathe alone.  with his cowboy boots on.

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i like both of these shots, though the one above with the reflection of house behind me has the edge i think.  i like how the lines lead it to her head !

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this poor chap was upset at Waterloo station when i went past early on tuesday morning.  we all have days like these.

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nice swim hat

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these mannequins were in a fancy dress shop in brussels and were the size of a young child.  just in case you wanted to dress them up all funky.

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i was very tempted to go and get a couple of costumes, but common sense got the better of me. 

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mannquin pis is a long time friend of funkypancake (i'd suggest you'd look in the categories archive, but they are rather deaded at the moment)
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as usual people gathered to photograph the spectacle of a weeing statue

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and there's a classic collection of mannequin pis related paraphenalia

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but watch out for the camera security

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i liked this picture even more when i spotted the headless ladies in the background inside the shop !

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the sad mannequin bride deep in thought

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this new girl is showing the old one up.

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plural singular.  perhaps something broke.  or it's a jigsaw.  i'm not sure if the headless mannequin will help.

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this shop in bracknell, england is quite fantastic.  all the mannequin's were bold.  except this one, which had covered up with a hat and sun glasses.  she was a lot shorter than the other mannequins too ...

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an age ago i took the girls to a military museum where they had some great military mannequins

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they also had some strange military death signage

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and a little tableau at child height to show what mass destruction looked like.  nice.

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no camera trickery - just a sunny day and a nice reflection in a shop window ! 

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i recon they've taken more than 70% off

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mannequin or insect ?  you decide

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she didn't seem to mind

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wonky photo, but nice effect

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i did this deliberately.  not sure how well it works though

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never fails to delight.


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the owner of this shop came out and asked me what i was doing.  at least i think he did.  he was very french and i'm very english.  we had a talk for a good 5 minutes though and he gave me a brief history of his shop which was in his family 5 generations if i understood him correctly.  (there's a big chance i didn't)

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a very cool mannequin on oxford street

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like other polish mannequins, this chap had a blatantly green tinge

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these mannequins really were this colour

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a chair with a telephone and glove and a dead mannequin. these are just some of things we saw on sticks in scotland

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(this was from my photo course a few weeks back)

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same woman, slightly different pose (and different light).

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these chaps (jimmy and his friend) have been living with us for a week. but they are moving out today. so we wish them all the best with their endeavours.

i've put a few more photos of them (and the setup) in my experiment flickr account here

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you HAVE to click the photo above to see the big version. it's a skeleton dressed as a doctor doing a dissection on a dummy. it's in a fantastic shop window of a medical suppliers in london

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another wig shop gone. it's a real shame. i still remember Mr Gilbert fondly

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i got this from a car boot sale for £7.50 from a lady with a mullet. it's glass so glows nicely when you shine a light up its neck !

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looks studious doesn't he ?
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but the shocking truth is revealed - he's headless !
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these are glaswegian mannequins. i did see a few people walking round with t-shirts on in the freezing drizzle, so i guess wearing nothing but a scarf is a natural progression

emperors new clothes on sale here
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in the same town (clue in the picture) where i saw this

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was head in a jar

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faceless mannequins

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pot heads

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this is a classic funkypancake photo i think - but is that leg only 5 pounds, or leg only 5 pounds ? the pricing preserved privacy of privates too

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clothed man but not woman.
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telecom john sent me this photo of a chap being transported down Euston road. he's got a very funny bottom.
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i noticed this lady when i saw a disconnected hand on the floor by this safety fence.
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a little further down the street was her other leg
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kezia spotted this body stashed under a row of work shirts in a traditional british clothing shop. she said it must be a man as it had no hair (although it did have makeup).

i pointed out that mannequins often wear wigs and both her and esther were shocked. so we spent most of the rest of the morning looking for wigged mannequins in shop windows.

not a bad way to spend a morning.

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it's the wee wee chap again.
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why is she looking so sad ?
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it's because her friend is falling apart
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it's no yoke carrying that thing around all day
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clir fog bick

when i was but a whipper-snapper i used to think that when people said they were 'ambidextrous' they were actually saying they were 'handed-extras'.

it was quite some time before i realised i was wrong. but my phrase seemed to fit better with the concept of being able to use either hand to equal effect.

anyway, i was intrigued by this mannequin which seemed to have no head, but did have hands.

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the mannequin next to it may have hands, but we can't be sure as he had adopted a slightly more formal pose. or perhaps the one with dangly hands has tied the other ones hands behind his back as he was too fidgety.

fidgety mannequins would take attention away from the clothes they would wearing. like a newsreader who becomes a news story in their own right, that would spell the end for a mannequin.

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christmas mannequin


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our good friend andrew went to Japan for two days last week (as you do) in order to take these photos of bollard related strangeness.

here we see illuminated bollards and an animated manequin thing which apparently was waiving a glowing stick.

there's are a number of adventure golf courses on the isle of wight. the theme of this one was a desert island. for some reason it had a real wrecked airplane crashing in to it, complete with a manequin pilot with matted hair and a very scarey starey face.

the neon at the bottom of the picture on the left says "family amusements"

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belgium seems to be the world capital for scraggy old mannequins.

here's a couple. the poor chap on the right was in a chemist shop who seemed to be in a very bad way:

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there also seemed to be an unhealthy interest in incontinence pants.

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i went to this cafe one night. i was full of bearded people with dreadlocks. the men were even worse (boom tish).

one of the customers had brought their pet rat along which was a nice touch. i was invited to play cards by some non-english speaking arts students but when they realised i didn't know what they were on about (and vice versa) we didn't bother.

the music they were playing was excellent - nick cave i think.

anyway, i went past it this morning on the way to the conference and spotted the dangling life-sized manequin. so here it is.

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i noticed these manequins in a clothes shop. "don't buy our clothes and you'll look like this" might be their moto.

or possibly "no-one's body really looks like this. but some of our clothes and cover yours up"

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