Sunday, October 4, 2009

Who’s Got My Skinny Toe? Final

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Don’t pick up strange, skinny toes. What sort of germs do you think are on that thing?

“Skinny Toe” is a story off the old “Scary Spooky Stories” record and is a variation of the “Golden Arm” story that Mark Twain loved to tell. Many kids had great giggling fun speeding up the story on the record player. Courtesy of the awesome WFMU blog, I present “Skinny Toe” at scary, spooky speed.

Skinny Toe, 45 rpm
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posted by Eric at 7:02 am • Filed under: Illustrations  

6 Comments »

  1. Belle Dee Says:

    This is AWESOME! I have the Scary Spooky Stories, and the other 3 Troll Records ghost story collections. I grew up listening to these. I always thought some day I would get around to doing some illustrations for some of these because I love them so much. ‘Wait til Martin Comes” is a favorite of mine.

    I love this illustration! Thank you for sharing.

  2. art fan ako Says:

    As a children’s librarian for many years, I’m familiar with this fun story. Nice character design!

  3. stephanie dillon Says:

    I love it! Nice original approach to the theme too.

  4. E. Thompson Says:

    Nicely done. Very creative approach to the theme.

  5. Julie Patterson Says:

    Thanks for posting this!

    My sister and I loved this as kids. We still call each other and leave skinny toes messages all the time!

    Great illustration and cool idea to play the record at a faster speed. I am planning on playing the story for my daughter’s 4th grade class this year for the class party. Thinking about making skinny toe cookies!

  6. Will Says:

    I used to listen to this as a kid. Sped up, the narrator sounds like Cartman from South Park, lol

    Excelent picture by the way.

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