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Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy

A strange thing to find in a prison...

I usually don't like selective coloring, but everything else was so ugly... I tried to spruce it up a little.
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freaky.
AngelWolf
Fri 10-14-2005
Totally bizarre.

Em, that disgusting stuff sitting on the cart actually looks like decrepit cotton candy. Is it?
Lynne
Fri 10-14-2005
it sure does lynne. Or some massive hair balls, either way, ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
anna
Fri 10-14-2005
Motts, I think that selective colouring was the perfect idea for this shot.It's really quite...I don't know. I like it, a lot.
Kassie
Sat 10-15-2005
Cotton candy... of DESPAIR!
derelict sensation
Sat 10-15-2005
Not a very cheerful face to be painted on a candy floss cart, eh? And I'll bet none of us will look at cotton candy the same way again. Dust bunnies on a stick. yeccchhh.
Twug
Sat 10-15-2005
was that in the isolation ward??
Grifspop
Sat 10-15-2005
Sorry for my ignorance but what is cotton candy ? I think its what we call 'Candy Floss' in England, am i right ??
Matt Lunn
Sat 10-15-2005
The classic-rock band Jethro Tull had a lyric in a song using the terms "candy floss" and "jam sarnies". I found an on-line *British-slang-to- American-English* dictionary that they were cotton candy and jelly sandwiches.
Radical Ed
Sat 10-15-2005
Hello fellow Brit, Matt Lunn, as Radical Ed pointed out, Cotton Candy is indeed what we call Floss!
BritChcik
Sun 10-16-2005
Yes, hairballs on a stick, methinks. Yech.
Jude
Sun 10-16-2005
But the face on it rocks!
Orchid Lunar
Mon 10-17-2005
How did it get there? Did they really sell cotton candy in prison for 50 cents (marked down from $2.00)? You're right "the face rocks".
Recon
Mon 10-17-2005
This thing seems asout of place in a jail as possible.If I was in some big bleak prison and I saw something like this I think I would get a little sad.I mean this would remind me of amusement parks,holding hands with a lover on a ferris wheel,and all those things that were taken from my life that I might not experience again for many years.
Orchid Lunar
Mon 10-17-2005
It looks like it may have been used in a play... did this prison have a theatre or anything?
rich_edwards79
Mon 10-17-2005
I agree with the comment posed by rich_edwards79, it does seem to have once been part of a theatrical production, long since over
lewis
Mon 10-17-2005
I don't know what it was used for but I know I might not have been able to resist the temptation to take it home if I were Motts.
Orchid Lunar
Mon 10-17-2005
I get this wierd vision of that one inmate on Con Air who had to wear dress, pushing this cart around! Ugh! Just wrong!
gelliebean
Wed 10-19-2005
FREAKY
Sandy
Thu 10-20-2005
I think the selective coloring is great here. I noticed the face on the cart as well and thought it was kind of ironic, Tragedy. My husband is British. We have had some confusion on occassion from the differences in American and British English. As others have pointed out Candy floss and cotton candy are one and the same.
Amanda's Mom
Fri 10-21-2005
I'm English and my girlfriend is American... and the light-hearted 'to-may-to / to-mah-to' banter still tickles us lol! Not to mention the occasional confusion over vocabulary (especially regarding food items for some reason!?!) Well, as the old saying goes, we are two nations 'divided by a common language'. It's quite interesting to find out about the origins of the subtle differences in our speech and cultures...
rich_edwards79
Fri 10-21-2005
I was also wondering about this being for a theater production, but if so they wouldn't have the candy itself.

Interesting and great usage of selective coloring
StareGirl
Mon 11-07-2005
Maybe just the angle, but are those roses on it? If it was used in a play, that would make sense...
Sketch
Mon 12-12-2005
I always wondered if those were roses but no one else seemed to notice it so I never asked in fear of looking an idiot.
Orchid Lunar
Mon 12-12-2005
I thought it was roses too.. and the dust bunny cottoncandy flavored looks distusting! But hey woudln't anyone clean that up after a theatere? there wouldn't be a play going on one night then after the play, abandon the place. odd.
Dani
Fri 12-16-2005
Just like cotton candy, a sweetheart's love can be so sweet.
Lamar Cole
Sun 01-29-2006
It could have been used when families where visiting the inmates. to raise money for something what I don't know.
kim
Wed 02-22-2006
They probably wheeled it into the casino room. That is where the money was
Joe
Fri 03-03-2006
ITS FOR THE FAIR OF DESPAIR
MATTHEW
Fri 03-03-2006
Candy for the canned..how ironic and odd!!!
VP
Sun 03-12-2006
From the looks of the brown mass on a stick, I still think 50 cents is overpriced.
Danny Being Manny
Wed 03-22-2006
LOVE the CRYING face on the PRISON cart! Singing the blues while you eat your candy huh? I guess so!
autoguy
Wed 03-29-2006
well...thats uh.. random

haha VP " Candy for the Cannd" i like that lol
Jackie
Tue 04-18-2006
LOL, that was funny VP.

Motts, I can honestly say that i love what you have done with this picture. It just pop's out at you.

Also, i didn't see if it was mentioned but the stuff on top of the cart are most likely silk roses. My grandmother has silk flowers all over her house and as soon as i looked at them, i knew what they were. The way they are colored are wierd though. The green part are the leaves and the pink would be the flowering part.
Buckykatt317
Wed 05-10-2006
Usually there are two masks used for representing the arts. Happy and sad.
Any idea if there was a happy face on the other side of the cart?
Ladyhawke04008
Sun 06-25-2006
Freaky but i love it
kelly
Mon 12-18-2006
spooky
Klax
Sun 02-25-2007
Whoever put the "mask of the Greek tragedy" on this pink colored cotton candy machine knew exactly what they were doing.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.
Joseph
Sun 03-04-2007
On the next episode of Prison Brake.... Hide in the Cotton Candy Cart!!! LOL
Canada
Fri 03-23-2007
There are a lot of odd items in this prison. Could a bad "B" movie have been filmed here?
FRank-pgh
Fri 04-20-2007
The Contrast is the greatest.
Nevermore
Fri 06-08-2007
*CUPS HANDS OVER MOUTH*
COTTTTTTONNNNNNNNN CANDY FOR SALLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEE 10 CENTS

COTTTTTTONNNNNNNNN CANDY FOR SALLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEE 10 CENTS

GET EM WHILE THERE HEREEEEEEEE!
Isaac
Fri 11-09-2007
AS Homer would say:"ummm,-floss....."

I think that cart needs to be turned around so we can see the laughing drama mask.
Guitorman
Thu 01-03-2008
looks DELICIOUS!

:D
Angela
Mon 03-03-2008
Didn't anybody know a friend who had an uncle or cousin who pushed a cotton candy cart in the big house? No? I got nothing then. Surreal shot.
E
Sun 04-27-2008
that's the strangest thing i've ever seen!!
Trish
Tue 09-09-2008
^.^
mrsloureed
Fri 12-05-2008
What is that doing here!
Jacob
Thu 04-09-2009
rotten candy, get your rotten candy here!!
BFloyd
Thu 08-27-2009
ha ha BFloyd! good one!
serenityjane
Thu 09-17-2009
looks like the store.
Horror_child
Thu 10-29-2009
Nasty!!!
ilovehorseyrides
Sat 02-20-2010
Bizarre on several levels.
Ŗivẹt
Sun 11-07-2010
I did a double take on that one
VanessaF.
Mon 04-04-2011

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