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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Looking for a word to describe...
I was looking for a word to describe those boards with cartoon people painted on them, the faces of the cartoon characters being cut out to let people stand behind the board and allow pictures to be taken of them; could anyone help me by any chance?
That last sentence was probably totally incomprehensible, but believe it or not I'm actually a student at Cambridge, I've asked around, and no one knows. I've even tried the Onelook reverse dictionary feature. Can anyone help... please? Thanks in advance!
Loren
That last sentence was probably totally incomprehensible, but believe it or not I'm actually a student at Cambridge, I've asked around, and no one knows. I've even tried the Onelook reverse dictionary feature. Can anyone help... please? Thanks in advance!
Loren
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Hi Loren, I don't think everything has a word that fits it. I'd probably just improvise something like 'Let me take your picture, go and stand behind one of those faceless cartoon figures over there'. Notice that I didn't take the low road for a cheap laugh and call it'a typical Cambridge undergraduate'.
- Hi Loren, I don't think everything has a word that fits it.
- I'd probably just improvise something like 'Let me take your picture, go and stand behind one of those faceless cartoon figures over there'.
- Notice that I didn't take the low road for a cheap laugh and call it'a typical Cambridge undergraduate'.
- Your dark blue colleague, Clive
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Hi Loren,
I don't think everything has a word that fits it. I'd probably just improvise something like 'Let me take your picture, go and stand behind one of those faceless cartoon figures over there'.
Notice that I didn't take the low road for a cheap laugh and call it'a typical Cambridge undergraduate'.
I don't think everything has a word that fits it. I'd probably just improvise something like 'Let me take your picture, go and stand behind one of those faceless cartoon figures over there'.
Notice that I didn't take the low road for a cheap laugh and call it'a typical Cambridge undergraduate'.
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I agree with Clive. No-one could help you as there isn't a word for them.
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I don't think there is a word for these objects. I've seen them described as "cardboard cutouts of ........with the face(s) cut out."
One quote is..
"Do you remember those seaside boards you used to get, of the big fat lady or whatever but where her face would be was cut out, so you could stick your head through and have an oh-so-funny photo taken?"
One quote is..
"Do you remember those seaside boards you used to get, of the big fat lady or whatever but where her face would be was cut out, so you could stick your head through and have an oh-so-funny photo taken?"
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I know for a fact that they actually have a name but I cannot remember it. My parents once had a picture taken in such settings, and the photographer told my mother nearly everything about his job including what the name of such a board was. But it was in Danish, and perhaps such a word does not exist in English.
Jay. - I will ask my mother and see whether she can remember it
Jay. - I will ask my mother and see whether she can remember it
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I found this:
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge was born in upstate New York in 1844 to abolitionist Quaker farmers who named him after statesman Henry Clay's brother, Cassius Marcellus Clay. An accomplished cartoonist, he is also credited with creating the familiar life-size Boardwalk cutouts, which he called Comic Foregrounds, into which one's head was placed so as to be
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge was born in upstate New York in 1844 to abolitionist Quaker farmers who named him after statesman Henry Clay's brother, Cassius Marcellus Clay. An accomplished cartoonist, he is also credited with creating the familiar life-size Boardwalk cutouts, which he called Comic Foregrounds, into which one's head was placed so as to be
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