Is there a word for those carnival cutouts?
December 5, 2005 10:34 AM   Subscribe

Is there a word for those life-sized painted wooden figures (most commonly at carnivals) with the oval cut out for your head to stick through, the purpose of which is to give the impression (for the camera?) that you are a strong man with strong arms or that you are one super sexy lady?
posted by nobody to Writing & Language (8 answers total)
 
I have always called them cut outs.
posted by acoutu at 10:46 AM on December 5, 2005


I don't know what they're called but this is the strangest one I've ever seen--though I guess technically this one has no cut out.
posted by dobbs at 10:56 AM on December 5, 2005


Response by poster: Did you mean to link to this one, dobbs? It looks like they let you photograph yourself as the hostage.
posted by nobody at 11:17 AM on December 5, 2005


cut outs
posted by Kifer85 at 11:56 AM on December 5, 2005


(most commonly at carnivals)

I remember these things from the fourth of July.
posted by StickyCarpet at 1:19 PM on December 5, 2005


"comic foregrounds"?
posted by staggernation at 2:09 PM on December 5, 2005


Well, on flickr (and the above google link) where "cutout" usually refers to something else, the tag "facesinholes". "caught on" after being flickrblogged.

I sort of think if there were a term for it when they were more used, it's been a little lost to our vocabulary...and I'm having trouble googling for it.
posted by artifarce at 4:22 PM on December 5, 2005


Wow. Following staggernation's links, the supposed inventor of these is the same guy who did the paintings of dogs playing poker. Talk about contributions to Kitsch culture.
posted by vacapinta at 11:39 PM on December 5, 2005


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